Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-07-20

CAssrUs ". CLAY is laJorng in Kentucky
zeaIously for the Republican cause, and the
election Of Lincoln and HqmIn The follow
inc is an extract from late speech by him
atLouisvile
What is the pro-slavery, southern, demo-
cratic, John c. Breckenridge ground? That
is what we want to get at. Well, now, 1t Is
nothing more than this, that if every State
in this Union declares that slavery shall cease
to exist IN the borders Of all these States, and
if all these States shall 50 decide, except South
Carolina. where no man can 90 to the legis-
lature and vote for president unless he owns
so many negroes single man (Senator
Hammond, for instance, who says that the
free laborers Of the land are the ''mud-sllls OF
s1ciety'O can prevent 1t. Suppose the
whole thirty millions Of the people OF the
United States decided against slavery. what
does Breckenridge say that he can do ii
am wrong, want you to answer me to night,
and not 90 away and say am 4 damned lar.
If Brecklnridge's doctrine prevails, that the
Constitution carries slavery every where over
the United States, Gov. Hammond could sit
in his hacienda, and send a slave into each
Territory Of this Union, and there is not
power enough in these thirty millions Of
neople to say nav. What is that but the
worst kind OF depotism? What is that
but a condition worse than that colonial
vassalace where the king could say nay to
the oft-repeated wish and the imperative will
of the people? 1t is pure despotism. tputs
it in the power Of one man to annul and
make void and Of non-eitect the will Of every
other mantle will Of thirty millions Of
men-and every man that votes for John c.
Breckenridge in 1860, votes for that doctrine.
Men of Louisville, will you do it? Cries Of
.. No " and - Yes u. hope you will not.
Gentlemen, let us look little at the argu-
ment as they put it forth. They say that a
mans slave is Just as much his property as
his COW or his horse Is that SO? Cries of
yes and 'sno"I. Is there no difference
between a slave and COW or horse? lCries
Of "ves" and mol Well, now, If 4 COW
kills child-your son for instance. why not
hang the COW? Laughter and applause. !
Gentlemen, | viii tell you what the British
Government said. They said that slave
property was very different from other prop
ert7 that the right of STAKEHOLDER to his
slave must be determined by positive law
That was the decision of the British Courts.
We re-enacted that common law OF Great
Britain; we adopted it, and it has not been
repealed, believe, in single State in this
Union. On the contrary, the decisions in
the Courts where the question was before
them-in Kentucky, Mississippi, louisiana,
where it was decided-was, that the slave
was different from other property, inasmuch
as it had also the attributes of person; and
especially 1t was decided that when a man
took his slave into France and brought him
back to Louisiana, that the slave was free !;
that having taken him to free soil, the
doctrine of once free always free applied to
him. That was the. decision Of all the
Courts until these new lights shone which
Judge fancy found out, which told him that
a mans slave and his cow were the same.
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