Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-06-13
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sams character ~ other property, and "rsrts
on the same original right WI w. -
The IL putting the case atout as strongly In
favor Of the divine right of the slave holicrs,
- il 10 possible to do. We should like I, see
the process Of reasoning by which the DINO
caAr comevto lhe coneludon that one man mas
the Original right" take possession OF ano III
sr and hold him as property II we under
stand sse dsiis of the DxA caAr's remarks. the
superior race Of mankind have the right 10 re
duce oil inferior races to the condition Of prop
srty.
When tho pretensions VI slave holder to
have their property protected by the federal
government, 10 the Territories, require sLeh
arguments as these to upho d them. the sooner
these pretensions are abandoned. we thak,
the better. Such arguments by northern msu.
must. At least. sound strange to Northern care.
When va are told that every man IL not "otiy.
inalIy" the proprietor Of his own bone Ar
muscle, We call for an exhibition Of the "decd
by which that proprietorship was transferred
to another.
The above We clip from the Kcoknk
Journal, and must say that we arc some
what at loss to account for its rema ks
on former article OF ours, in regard to
the position Of slave property in the ter
ritoIies.
We had always supposed that cur
position was sound Democratic doctrine !;
that the territories being the common
property Of the Union, the STAKEHOLDER
has the same right to take his property
into thar, nc MN boyo ~ tol~o M. hn. No
and cattle. What we mean by saying
that slave property is entitled to the
same protection as other property, is
simply ths,-that the Territorial Legis-
lature have no right to make any is
elimination between slave and other
kinds of property; have no right to in
terfere with it in any way-thc rights
Of the STAKEHOLDER while in tho territory
to his property being under the consti-
tuition Of the United States as sacred as
the rights Of the people Of any other por-
ton Of the Union to their property.
In this view Of the case, no direct or
special Legislation by Congress is nee
essary for the protection Of slave pro-
perry. We have never advocated the
enactment Of a slave code, as the Kco-
kuk Journal well knows, believing
that the courts afforded our southern
brethren all the protection they required.
We arc not going to follow the Journal
AMI attempt to discuss the question
whether the STAKEHOLDER has any right
in consideration Of his feeding and cloth
ing the negro to exact from him GER
tain amount of labor as compensation
therefor. Let him read the debates in
the Constitutional Convention and the
early teachings of the Fathers of the
Republic, and he will find that the re-.
cognition Of the rights of the slave
holders to his property was guaranteed
by tho Constitution. This VIC arc dis
posed to accept as the law, aud We have
no disposition to 60 in search of any
higher law, having sufficient faith in the
patriotism, morality aud integrity of the
men of that day to believe that they
understood quite as much of the rights
Of property in the negro race as the phi
losophers Of the Journal.
When a journal protesting to be an
exponent Of Democratic principles.
gives utterance to such abolition views
as are contained in its article above, and
that too in the face of the able expo.
sition given to these questions, by the
Supreme Court-we begin to think it
high time it placed the name of the rail-
splitting Candidate at the head of its
columns.
When man asks, by what right does
the Southerner own his slaves? VIC
know that he is on the right road to
Abolitionism. Every Democ-at-cvery
intelligent, conservative American, un-
derstands the peculiar relation ofmaster
ard slave too well to 60 of at tangent
upon the vain, proftless discussion of the
distractions of the GarrisOnian Adolf.
tionists. II the editor of the Keokuk
Journal denies that slaves arc property
he is neither more nor less than a rabid
Abolitionist and has no business edit
ing aDemocratic paper.
Judge Dougl acknowledges the right
OF property in slaves as fully and unc-
qulvocally as the friends Of the Admin.
ist'ation. After every one Of the sold
thirteen" and many of the new States
after the Constitution of the United
States, hundred acts Of Congress, and
positive decisions of the Supreme Court
have recognized and secured to the own
er his right Of property in his slave, it is
altogether too late for Abolitionists to
deny that any such right exists.
When the keokuk Journal pra,tles
about Original rights" it commits the
common bluuder of all other Abolition
lists. The original rights of man, or the
rights Of man in state Of nature, when
he is completely isolated and before be
has entered Tito the social state arc one
thing the rights of man living under a