The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-03-03
YAZ00 CITY, MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY MORNING. MARCH 1860

VI wv ASpNpASuH BNA VI "NN' - SANi'@NHNS'
1t is in the sixth clause of that act. 1t was
in the very section which declared that
slavery Or involuntary seryitude, except for
crime, should never exist in the Northwes
tern Territory, which was put there, in a
moment of weakness, by the old Confedera-
tion.
These bypocrites, who affect almost to as
cribe divine origin to this ordinance, under
which they have been protected and admit
ted as equals to the Government, are the
first to evade, deny, and eIude so much Of
its obligation es is not confQrmabe to their
ignorance and narrow prcjudices. They use
the liberty wherewith we have clothed them
to bring shame and reproach on themselves
and an empire of freemon. But, as have
said, this sound principle of public polity
had an older origin than the ordinance Of
.11S7. In the confederation of the New
England States, it was adopted as their
public law | will merely advert to the
authority Ny voice will not allow me- to
read it all. 1t is apparent that the act Of
1893 was almost a transcript of that agree
ment. Il certainly was its foundation; for
the similarity Of ideas and language could
not be accidental The New England sem
ators who drafted aud voted for the act Of
1898 could not have been ignorant Of their
own act Of 1913 This is that act
g 1t is also agreed that, if any servant run
away from his master into any Of these confeder.
ate jurisdictions that in such case, upon certi6-
cate of one magistrate in the jurisdiction out of
which the said servant fed or upon other due
proof, the said servant shall he delivered either
to his master or any other that pursues and
brings such certificate or proof = Hatkrop's Ne3e
England ooj. ,, PIP. 104, 10j.
The Puritan fathers required less evidence
to deliver up fugitive from labor than a
fugitive from justice by one half, For the
delivery of fugitive from justice they re.
required the certificate of two magistrates.
Who these servants were, refer You, for
further information, to that portion of the his
tory Of New England in which you will fud
that the humane Indian Intercourse law under
which they made reprisals on the Salvage"
for the wrongs they did Christians, by seiz-
ing these "salvages," (though their officers
were directed to be sparing of seizing ,comen
and chitdrcn,) exporting and changing them
for "neagcrs" These Puritans had not
studied Mott and Gliddon, or Morton, OF
Agassiz on the diversity of races, but ex.
porience had taught them the SUPERIOR.
ty of the "neager' over the Indian as an
available operative therefore, they eaporteo
the Indian and imported the African.
The act Of Congress Of 1893, to surron,
der fugitives from labor, came for adjuca
tion before the Supreme Court, and wa:
there affirmed. 1t was decided to be con.
stitutional by every State Court in the United
States, up to the passage of the act of 1850
without any exception 1t was not only
affirmed in the case of Prigg es. Penn 3ylva.
MIA, by the Supreme Court of the United
States; not only affirmed to be constitu
tional law by every judicial officer of the
Federal Government who ever sat on the
bench anywhere, at any time, from the
formation Of the Government down, but the
Judiciary of every aon-slaveholding State il
the ULion affirmed its constitutionality, a.
we'll as the Courts of the slaveholding States
The act of 1898 was adopted during tht
Administration of Washington. 1t passe(
the Senate unanimously-was introduced BY
New England men. and suppose they go
it from the source have indicated. 1t wa!
passed in the House of Representative
/ by twenty.six Northern and twenty two
Southern men nearly unanimous vote il
that House. 1t was signed by Washington
1t was not questioned until the non.slave
holding States began to act under the in
huence of Exeter Hall; their treason wa
not Indigenous These traitors now pretenC
that the act of 1850 instigated the hostility
to the rendition of fugitives from labor.
will show from the record that the pre-
tence is untrue long before that act wa
passed, they had passed numerous cunning
7 ly- -contrived and fraudulent acts to elude
/, evade, and defeat this plain constitutions
obligation. What does the act of 1850 do
1t only more effectually provides for tn
execution of the Constitution, and defeat
fraudulent State Legislation intended to elud
its provisions. The constitutionality of thi
law has been maintained, as far as knoV
or believe, by every Federal court in tn
Union, and every State court also, excep
that of Wisconsin. The decision of tha
court has recently been brought before tn
highest judicial tribunal of our couhtry.
find in the twenty first volume of Howard
1 Supreme Court Reports two cases decide,
together, Abeman gs. Booth, and the Unite
4 States rs. Booth. That decision is able
learned and eloquent. l cannot read all q
it that could wish to read. | commend
to all honest men; give enough of it t
elucidate the point l am discussing:
''In the case before the Supreme Court of Wis
: eonsin, a right was claimed under the Constitu
J ton and laws of the United States, and tn
decision was against the right claimed; and
refuses obedience to the writ of error and re
CARDS its own judgment as final 1t has not onl
reversed and aunulled the Judgment of the dis
trict Court of the United States, but it has re
versed and annulled the provisions of the Consti
tuition itself" HowarGs Reports col. q, pp 522
This is the unanimous Judgment of tn
whole court, of the Northern men and tn
Southern men on that bench; and there ar
four Northern men on it. They declare,
that the court Of Wisconsin had not onl
annulled the Judgment of the district cour
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