Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-11-11


I to all privileges and immunites of citizens in
the sovereign States Z"
SLAVERY is NOT; PROTECTED BY THE CONSTITUTIONS
i BUT ONLY BY LOCAL LAW. - s..f
Yet we find that.citizens of of5Massachusetts
possess, and have possessed for over 1Jty gears
certain privileges in the matter Of changing
thelredonicies citizens of&Virsinia
I do not possess. One can go to Ohio,and carry
his property and keep it. The other cdnn0k2
4 And yet dehiagogucs would have Southern men
believe that no discrimination against their
lpFoPsrty ought to exist, or erer did erist, and
that to enforce such discrimination. in the sets
tlement OF. new States would be to esta53ish a
io'S!lnctSon between certain classes of property.
which the South cannot in honor, submit tol
II slavery cannot go into the Free States and
maintain itself, why should it expect to go into
FREE Territories and maintain itself-there be-
ing III neither case local laws to protect il? Is
a9A IN S29aitution of the United States. as
4 vigorous as comprehensive, and as jpst,in Ohio
las ltls IN Kansas? Does it not regard the
tPr0perty-the nestcG rights-oG ali citizens. in
All places OF the Republic, as equally sacred? If
slavery IS nHt10nGt-ifit exists in the Constitu-
ton ltselt--hOw can the Consultation hermit an
owner OF such property to be despoiled oft in
pFec State, any more than in Free Terrific.
Try! Can State be permitted to- 5nulli(y the
-IriShls oi man in property that is recognised in
the Constitution ofthe United StatesSand the
Federal Government have no powerto intcrferc7
VI course not; for the Constitution saws that
lho United States Shall guarantee to every
State Republican form of Goverlimcnt" But
such State Government deSpoiiing man Of
ms ms nght would not be Republic but Dcspotic
1t IS clear, that.if Slavery be tile rule-if it be
l"Htt0hHt-itit it crisis in the C0nStitNti0n and is
carried wherever the Constitution prevails
that 1t is as sacred in Ohio as in Kansas, and as
tlrnIty tosbc upheld in either, us on the harks
I o. o. inc Sabine Wherever the flag of the Union
heats, there every citizen is entitled to protcc
I ton IN Ntt his ri9ht$ that are. National and
Unconstitutional. Such would be the case with
regard TO slave property, II slavery is national.
THE DISCRIMINATION NWvEK THOUGHT A nAUDsu1p
| ny THIS. SOUTH. ..-r.sa.-
] GWt thtS IS not so. 1t is not claimcdsevcngby by
the South, and never has been, that slave
owner has right 10 remove with his negroes
| to Free State, and call on the United States
Government to protect him in his property
! Yet his right to to Free State is rs perfect
under the United States COnstitntion, as il is to
SO 10 a Free Territory. Was Kansas acquired
! by "thc common blood and treasure Of the
| Uuion? So Ipwa-anl what right has
| Iowa, ANY more than Kansas, to discriminate
against property so as to deprive the citizens of
any portion of the Union Of their National and
Constitutional rights This discrimination
against slave property, as regards emigration
lntO Free StatGS have thus shown, has al.
ways existed, and never by the South been
thought hardship. And why? Because, per-
haPS, the citizens OF the Slave States felt that in
the privilege 10 cote on their slrces, that species
| OF property had obtained u peculiar and trans
cGndent advantage over all other property in
the Union, that more than compensated for its
one restriction, to wit: that it should not enter
intn and establish itself in Free States
IT the South is tired Of This discrimination
against Slave property, which has; existed since
the Government was established, and desires it
abandoned, then the South should propose to
abandon, also, the privileges that such property
enjoys. Surely it is only fair that 3,yoDc1Ty
Should, in point OF fact become cQ"aI before it
! claims TO 90 us equal into the common territory
of the Union. II The South decline the one
how can it fairly claim the other?
TIE SOUTH IN HONOR HOUND TO THE ORIGINAL RES
1sTKlCrION INPoSED EY Law,
Mr.. Bates does not, therefore, regard the non
admission Of slavery Into the territories Of the
Union as cstI6ij<hing a distinction between
/ property; bat simply as maintaining 81 dist.uc>
ton already established, willingly asscnted to
f; ny tue South at the formation Of the Govern
ment, and ever since. 1t is only at the instance
OF mSchievouS dem0gogucs that the South is
n0w tempted to change its position, aud aban-
don the literal and traditional compromises, of
the Constitution. As a true and mrrisht citi-
Zen, who loves his CUuntrY'S well kept faith as
he does his own private honor, Mr. Ba!cs oppo.
ses tile attempt Of Southern fanatics to make
/. Slavery overlcap its original rights, limitations
and relations to other property Of the Union.
InaSmuch rs the entire Democratic party Of
the Free States arc as decidedly opposed ns
even the Republican party to tho extension Of
Slavery over territory previously free, it is quite
evident that Congress will never intervene to
protect Slave property in the Territories Such
being thc1act, those Southern men, whu object
to Mr. Bates a Slavery rcstrictioniSt, might
well ask themselves whether more of honor or
advantage is gained byeaskiqg what cannot be
had, and submitting to the fatal neces ;ity of de-
nial and defeat; or asking only that the present
limits privileges aud guarantees Of Slavery be
maintained, and obtaining it with the cheerful
and hearty concurrence of I ine.tenths of all
parties in the Union 81 rN8s s4s se
TUE KAnSAs-NEBRAsKA BILL RENDERING THE ms
rHoDUcT'oNl OF, SLAVERY INTO TERRITORIES M
if tie National Democracy 6ffyF: more d the
.South, we know they offer What they cannot
5Egive, and do not mean 10 try to give. The his.
tory of Kansas is too recent and too instructive
in which we saw the most violent Pro.slavcry
Democrats, as they prof.sscd themselves, after
getting men and money iromth South, by hun
dreds and by thousands tossave' Kansas to the
.South, suddenly bcca,ne Free Democrats, whom
Fthcy found success doubtful under the Pro-sIa-
very banner, and sought Office as Free Demo.