Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-08-16
League of 1850. TO Nationalize Slavery
From the Indiana Journal.


Accidently, or by means of skillfully pre-
concerted arrangements, q very strong
league has been formed in the United States
for the purpose of raising negro slavery
from its place among the domestic affairs
Of the slaveholding States. and making it
national institution of the great model
Republic Of the world There is a remark
able degree of harmony in the views of the
several powers which constitute this great
league of modern times.
The following passages concerning slaves
and slavery are copied from the opinion of
the Supreme Court Of the United States,
as delivered by Chief Justice Taney. and
printed in Howard's Reports, vol. 10:
ut 1.-THE Constitution gave to each cit
izcn rights and privileges which he did not
before possess, and placed him in every 9TH
er State on perfect equality with its own
citizens as to the rights ofperson and rights
of property" PIP. 406. 407.
The right of property in slave is dis
tinctly and expressly affirmed in the Con-
stitution. ."--p. $50, 451.
The only two provisions which point to
them and include them. treat them as prop
erty. and make it the duty Of :he Govern
ment to protect it."-p. 425.
1t is the opinion of the Court that the
Act of Congress which prohibited citizen
from holding and owning property Of this
kind in the territory of the United States
north Of the line therein mentioned, is not
warranted by the Constitution, and is there
fore void. ."-p. 452.
1t seems. however. to be supposed that
there is a difference between property in a
slave and other property. and that different
rules may be applied to il in expound-
ing the Constitution of the United States.
And the laws and usages of nations and the
writings of eminent jurists upon the rela-
tion of master and slave and their natural
rights and duties. and the powers which
Governments may exercise over it, have
been dwelt upon in the argument. But in
considering the question before us, it must
be borne in mind that there is no law of
nations standing between the people Of the
United States and their Government and
interfering with their relation to each 9TH
."-p 451. ''.t
Mr. Justice Daniel views are expressed
in the following extracts from his opinion:
at may be assumed as postulate. that
to slave, as such. there appertains and
can appertain no relation, civil or political,
with the State or the government. He is
himself strictly property. to be used in SUBJ
serviency to the interests, the convenience,
or the will of his own."-p. ATS. 476.
1.-The introduction of that race into every
section Of this country was not as memb
of civil or political society. but as proper
ty in the strictest sense of the term. ''-p.
ATS. W ~ 0''.''...'
The only private property which the
Constitution has specifically recognized,
and has imposed it as direct obligation
both on the States and the Federal Gov
ernment to protect and enforce. is the prop
crty of the master in his slave: no other
property is placed by the Constitution on
the same high ground, nor shielded by a
similar guaranty. up. 490.
| In order to support the opinions deliver
ed in the Dred Scott case, it seems that the
Supreme Court Of the United States were
forced to repudiata the law Of patioRs.--