Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-04

''itntion' be does 90. In regard to appOrlionmsnt
he says
THE APPoRTIoNMENT CLAUSE.
Representatives and direct toxe, shall h. a.
portioned among the several States which NAV b.
included within this Unto n, according N ,ho;, ,o..
pec'ive numbers, which shall DO determined b,
adding to the whole number Of free person, in.
GLIDING those bound to service for a term of Years.
and excluding Indians not taxed, three 6f.bs of
all other PerSons.' Art. !, Sect. H., Clause 3.
This provision speaks only Of 'persons.' Hu.
man beings are the only persons in the United
States. Chattles, (%cattle,) horses, oxen, sheep, and
pigs are not persons Beat this elementary truth
into the heads of your thick-skulled 'Dimmscratp
or else make them feel what company such per.
sons as themselves are berding themselves with
and Oho they are, it any body, that may be held
as chattles
If, as your pro.slavery Democrats say, the Dec.
laration Of Independence does not recognize ne
sroes as men, when it says all men are orea.sd
equally theh it does not recognize them as per.
sons And then, too, the Constitution does MT
recognize them as 'persons.' And il it does not
recognize them as persons then this clause of tho
Constitution. says nothing at oil about them, and
consequently does not recognize them as Slayvs.1
80 that their own construction of the Declaration
overthrows them, at this point. Make them seq
that.
But the truth is, this clause, as it spe ks of 'osf.
sons, does include negroes, along with all per.
sons.' And, in speaking Of them as persons ID
denies that they are SlaUeS. Fur slaves DIRE held
as property, 'chattles persohal'-and 'propertyI
or 'chattels' cannot be persons
But why it may be asked, was the term 'fes'
introduced, as distin guishing some persons from
all other persons p
We answer the word free in it's legal tschnic.
al sense. as used in books Of law, and in Cons,itu.
ton and charters. at that time and previously. in
this country and in England, did not mean free;
as in distinction from slaUe, but as sisnifying
those who have the franchises of free subiects'-
free citiZens'-'freemen' in distinction from aliens.
So that the phrase all other persons in this
clause, means aliens and not slaces.-See Magma
Charta, the Charter Of Rhode Island, the Consti.
tutions of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carroll.
na, Maryland, Delaware and New York, also the
Articles of Confederation and later Constitutions
of Pennsylvania and Connecticut, in all Of which
the word 'free'-free %citsen, free inhabitant. or
freemen arc thus used. Two meetings of voters
in Connecticut, are called 'freom ems meetings.
oNg Z WIN uIo uOuNVOteTS are not slaves. 500
also Jacobs law Dictionary, &c. &c.
There may be some rules of logic by which q
mans nose may be reasoned of his face so far az
conclusions 60, yet the fact remains UNCHANGED ,
the mans nose is there, plainly seen, and felt if
need be. logic to the contrary Notwithstanding,
The logic of the anti'slavery expounders of tho
Constitution sometimes seems ut first sight to par.
take Of this character, though we fancy their chain
OF argument Is not always go complete as that
which compels u man to admit logically that hs
has no nose, when he knows he has.
The Principals remarks above quoted assume
that q slave cannot be n person. and thereupon pro.
ceeds to build an argument upon q false assump.
ZION. Webster defines 'SLAvE-a person who is
wholly subject to the will of another If Web.
ster be any authority, the Principals premises arc
ovorthrown.
The fact that a person is held Is a siaee does no.
alter the character Of the being held if he was
a person before he was a slave, then he is a person
while held as a slave. Although tho laws Of ma.
ny of the states refuse to fully recognize the per.
sonality Of the slave, yet the penalties affixed
to the co mmlssion of crime by a slave, his mods
of trial, the manner prescribed for the prosecution
OF a suit for his freedom, &C., g., Shove that he il
evidently regarded as possessing at least a degrss
of personality, although in most respects held end
used, bartered and sold as a chattel. One of tina
laws OF North Carolina providing for the punish"
ment of the murderer of a slave, characterizes n
distinction made in a previous act of assembly, az
a distinction of crimiDulity between the murder
of a white person aud one scho is equaiIy d
human creature, but merely of a different complex-
inn no hir0ronaGu1 IN b,hoo;k- ~ = g,
Carolina a law in regard to the Instruction OF
slaves CONNIE noes, That assemblies of slaves. mt.
%.attoes' mesti Toes, whether composed OF ell or any .
such description of persons Co. The city of Ss.
Vanuab, Ca, passed an ordinance Furnishing any
person that teaches any person of color, slave or
free, to read or write Co. 1t is not necessary to
multiply extracts bearing upon this point.
Now with the facts before us. patent to every
one, that Webster defines slave TO be q person in
a certain condition, and that certain laws in
the slave states refer to him as a person, we are
not able to understand how the PriEcipia can In.
Sist that the slave is not a person.
The Prtnctpia says that all other persons In
the apportionment clause means aliens. Can tho
editor OF that paper refer to a single instance
since the adoption Of the Constitution in which
the Congressional appOrtionment refused to count
aliens as free persona and classified them a.
'other persons, and the same time omitted all
count Of the slaves If an unbroken chain Of
practice on the part Of the trainers and support.
ers of the Constitution opposes the theory Of The
ITtnctpiG, which shall be received as authorize.
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THE RENDITION cLAUtE.
No person held to service or labor in one State.
under the laws thereof, escaping into another. shall
in consequence of any law or regulation therein,
be discharged from such service or labor, but shall
be delivered up, on claim of the party to whom
such service or labor may be DUE Art. ", Scot.