The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-28

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| then the Federal Government should at once
interpose and put it down."
"This resolution distinctly represents the
| marked difference between the revolutionary
efforts of the first squatters in a new Territory
| to abolish Negro Slavery, or to prevent the IN
PRODUCTION of slave property into the Territory
| by the incompetent agency of Territorial
1 Legislature, and the constitutional and quiet
exercise of the rights of sovereignty by the peO-
pie of Territory, in the formation of a State
| Constitution with or without domestic Slavery,
as they may determine. In the mean time,
the citizens Of each and every State, being in
all respects equal with each other under the
| Constitution take their various kinds Of prop
erty into the Territory with them, and while in
| a Territorial condition they and their property
are all equally protected by the Constitution of
| the United States and the bred Scott decision.
| We thus stand on the sure foundation of the
Constitution and the Law, which sternly and
justly deny the arbitrary pO'cer Of one set Of
settlers to cOnfScate the property Of another
set"
| A correspondent of the Galveston Ne1oS, saws
the New Orleans Crescent, writing from Arte
sian Springs, Mississippi, near which place
| there are sixteen Africans of one of the late
importatiOns, argues thus: M
"There are men in the South who buy Vir-
| ginia slaves every year. and yet brand as a pi
rate one who buys an African. Now, does the
lea loci make it moral or immoral, right or
wrong? If so, the laws of Virginia and Africa
are the same both recognise the right to hold
a slave and to sell him. master then, in
| Virginia, has no more right to sell me slave
than the African owner. If he has the right, the
| Virginia owner has it as well and, Uice Uers0,
if the Virginia owner has the right to sell me a
slave, so has the African owner. Now, we rec.
ognise the right to buy slave from Virginia
why not from Africa? Where is the piracy ?
If it's piracy there, it is piracy here"
AMERICAN INTEREST IN THE EUROPEAN WAR.
An intelligent and educated German, says the
Chicago Press and Tribune, who knows both
Germany and America well, said to us on Sat
urday:
You Americans are the most ferociously
warlike people that have ever known. Look
at your public journals they contain but little
else than intelligence from the scene of strife.
In your social circles and in your places of
business, in the intervals of trade, The War
is the subject of conversation of all. You have,
with your multitudes of maps and minute de-
scriptions, mastered the geography of all Italy,
and you talk of Paestro, Montebello, Varese,
Magenta, and new of Solferino, with as much
gGbness the French or even the Italians
tie throws you into spasms of delight; but you
spend your nights regretting that the loss of
life, when only 10000 are slain, was not more
severe. 1t is lucky that with your sensitiveness
and love OF strife you are not near the field;
you would, if in the place of England or Prus
STA, be mixed up in the fray in a week"
We find the following, says the MSsiSSippidn,
in an exchange paper, credited to some .Senti
NIL or othar and do Enaxu ybath
is new paragraph or An old one; but it is
quaint one
Glow DOwN SOUTH CAROLINA NEGROES
A gang of twelve outlandish negroes were in
town yesterday, said to be from the rice swamps
of South Carolina, destined for the plantation
of gentleman of one of the upper counties
They were very intelligent, and looked slick,
black, and fat but, like all the negroes from
that region of country, did not understand much
English. We learn that there are several hun
dred such near Savannah, soon to be put in the
cotton fields of Alabama, and can be bought
mighty cheap"
PROGRESS OF AMERICA.-The results of the
war of Independence are so important that his
tory presents nothing at all like them. Eighty
three years ago, the whole American colonies
had a population of about 100000. In 1850,
the population of the United States was over
Z3,UUUUUU, ana AT the next census Oh 1901 the |
United States and Great Britain will probably |
be numerically the same-say little less than
100000 each. In everything else, the
American advance has been equally great--in |
commerce, art, agriculture, science, literature
and all other things which contribute to build |
up the greatness of a nation.
ARRAIGNED FOR KIDNAPPING.-Co Abel r. |
Burks, for many years member of the Hills
hnr
animation Yesterday before his honor the Mayor,
on a charge preferred against him by citizen
of Scott county, Miss, Of kidnapping par
ties being, the only witness in the case testi-
fed of the Indian race.
The case excited great deaf Of interest, and
the court room was thronged with a crowd Of
anxious spectators pending the examination.
The accused was personated by Gov. Foote
and Col. Il. S. Martin, who ably and eloquently
plead the cause of their client in speeches Of
great force and ability.
The prosecution was theoretically and eff
GENTLY conducted by C. l.. Buck, Esq, assisted
by Mr.. Walker. The accused was held to bail
in the sum of six thousand dollars to answer
the charge alleged against him at the Warren
Circuit Court Vicksbavg San.
A Photographic artist in Western city, we
have forgotten which, was neatly victimzed the
other DAY. n gOOu- lpOkluH young man calleu |
on him for the purpose Of having his picture
taken in the finest style, he being about to
marry. He regretted that he was not now APP
propriately dressed, having on gray suit of
clothes, and it being well known that gray was
bad color for picture The artist lieut. the
customer his own coat and crayat took the
photograph, retired to his dark closet to fix the
impression, and returned to miss the nice young
man and his garments.
PROGRESS OF ROMANIsM.-Two years ago,
says the Chicago Press, the place where the
Church of the Holy Trinity stands, in Chicago,
was part Of the open prairie. Within three
manths after opening, it was found necessary,
from the crowds that attended, to add two\
wings, and now the parish has just rooted a
church which for size and beauty of design is
said to have no superior in the Western States
and the Western Banner has no hesitation in
saying that in five years time every ward in the
city will have its Catholic church. In another
part of the same paper, it is claimed that the
Catholics are one-third of the entire population.
THE TAxABLE PRoPERTY OF New YpRK.-
The taxable property of New York city, as as
sessed for the present year, reaches the enoF-
nous sum of s55l ,929, l22, of which real estate
takes S378 954 $3.50, and personal $l5S, 1876, 730;
nonresident, $l4,63l 1852. The. total increase
over last year is $20,70 1872. The first, sec.
ond, and eighteenth wards, show considerable
decrease; the fourth, slight decline; the
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