Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1860-12-19
The Rights Of the Kcrth-Mr. Hutch


The Rights Of the Kcrth-Mr. Hutch
ms.
While the ERE caters in Congress are
clustering about the rights of the South,
which means the right to hold men in bon
dase; the right to spread slavery over all
the Territories Of the United States and
oyer all that the United States may ever
acquire by treaty. purchase, conquest, or
annexation; the right to carry their slaves
into any and all of the Free States, and
hold them there at their pleasure; the right
to make slave catchers of any and every
citizen of the Free States the right to
hold two thirds Of the Offices in all the
departments Of the Federal Government;
the right Of four hundred thousand slave
holders to dictate whom three millions
Of free voters may elect as President, &c,
NE hear nothing said of the rights Of cit
liens of the Northern States Scarcely
= PAPER can be taken up in which are not
accounts of citizens of the Free States. be-
ing nobbed, whipped. beaten, kicked, tar
ned and featheied, rolled into the Missis-
Eppi. hunted Ike wild beasts, and some
hung By the mex until dead, fer no crime.
whatever. but simply for bsing citizens of
free States and for being suspected of
having voted for Lincoln. Nor is this i'll
treatment Of northern men confined to Re-
Publicans. Douglas men, Breckenridge
men. and in some instances foreigners who
have never voted in the United States at
al. have come In for their share of abuse.
Not only DO fifty or a hundred of these
diTalrons prO-slavery men band together
and attack a single unarmed nan, but they
vent their spite upon women, and more
than one m has been driven away
from the south because they were suspect
Ell Of holding opinions not precisely such
as stockholders might think orthodox
The changes are rung increasingly, about
the constitutional right of citizens of the
slave states 70 reclaim "fugitiyes from
labor" but we hear little Of the eonsti-
tutiOnal night Of citizens Of one state
free stare though it be) to all of the
rights aad immunities Of the citizens Of
any other state"
The South demand 8 settlement; lei
them have it; but when that settlement i:
made. let both sides Of the account bc
balanced. We are glad to know that Mr..
Hutchins, the member of Congress from
tkis District, has not forgotten that citizens
Of the Free States 'hare some rights which
citizens Of the Slave States are bound to
respect" OF the resolution which be intro
duced. tie o. S Journal thus speaks
Let US say a word for John Hutchins,
the only man who has demanded the rights
of the North amid the ~clatter Of rnion-
tinkeriRg at Washington.
The telegraph reports that while north
ern men in the House were proposing the
abssenent of the Free States, John Hutch
sag introduced . resolution i~nstructing
the committee to report what legislation is
necessary to give full effect to that part
of the Constitution which provides that
the citizens Of each State shall be enti-
tied to ali the privileges and immunities
of the other States and also that it is
necessary to secure to all the people. wheth-
er nesidiag In or travelling through any
State, the full benefit of that part of The
Constitution which secures them against
unreasonable searches and seizures in the
absence Of probable cause"
This is what We want now. Let US
have security for the lives and property of
our eifizens obliged to travel in the south.
Afterwards 1t viii be tine to talk of con-
cession and compromise. First Of all, now
-jzstiee sad equality for white men be-
fore the Union. No more burnings Of
nea AID hangings of women by mobs-no
lnore Interruption and insult to northern
ci6zcas By violence committees. People
should learn that q Union in which these
1hiags exist is not worth haEing-that it
Is q state of anarchy, to which bloody rev.
elsEan would be peace and prosperity.
Good for John Hutchins. the man who
remembers that the North is not 4 rro-
siDce dependant upon the sOuth-that a
CaiaR which means nothing, is netting
that panic, disaster and financial ruin are
better than base and serYile submission
&c wrODg-that human nature is a nobler
thing and more to be regarded than trade.
Good! you speak for US all when you
speak for yourself John
The Cleveland Leader says
The Representative of the Ashtabula
District viii be found in his place every
time, ready to do good battle against the
inie1itous hosts of disunionists, and the
pale faces of the North. When resslu-
EOns and propositions we're pouring in by
the score upon the House of Representa-
tives. each one proposing some further con-
ciliatiOD by the North, or soEe further
legislation for the protection of slavery.
Ioha Hutchins alone had a word to say in
behalf of &e great free North, and in op-
position to the insulting demands of the
South. With the tales of Northern citi-
Ton draen out with fire. sword, tar and
feathers. fron the South, fresh in the
minds of every, member before him, Mr..
Hutehina offered a resolution.
Mr.. Hutchins deserves the thanks Of his
constituents for his prompt aud manly
ccurse in thus calling for the enforcement
Of all constitutional obligations by the
South. as xel "a by the North.
Cosmopolitan Art Union.