New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-24
T. n. ON PROPERTY AND PRINCIPLE

y. II. ON PROPERTY AND PRINCIPLE.
The most satisfactory of the documents yet pro-
duced in this political campaign, so fertile in
uniauities, if not niquites is the recent ratihca-
ton speech of j. b. about property in the Terrific
res 1t is not that j. B. is the last of the Presi
Dental chattels, though that is something, but
there is wealth Of logic in the speech and sug
gestiyeness of logic that is not in it, which makes
it truly classical The Ancient Public Functicnary
deals with difficulties viii ch smaller Democrats are
afraid TO touch They compound men and proper
ty and never dare demonstrate where humanity
ends and property begins. j. b. makes it all clear
as a bell. "Any set of principles" says he,
(which will deprive you of your property is
against the very essence of Republican govern.
"ment, and to that extent makes you slave"
Good ground enough had he to say that, for he had
just repeated the truism that Government was
" framed for the protection of life, liberty and
"property" He seems, according to the report,
to have uttered the word property first, but finally
repeated the three in the aboveorder.
OF course, if taking ones property tends to make
him a slave, it is doubly criminal, for Govern
ment is bound to protect liberty even before prop
erty. From this like mighty Stagirite,
J. d. marches on to take his second position that
slaves property, just as assuredly, reasonably,
and constituticnally so, as iron is property in
Pennsylvania. He not only asserts, but, as
Philadelphia lawyer, proves it, thus: " The
Supreme Court Of the United States have de-
" cided-what was known to us all to have been
the existing state of affairs for fifty years-tbat
slaves are properly" If slaves are property, of
course Government must protect them as property
as much as any other property. But one OF the
vulgar might ask J. B., Did you not just now cay
that Government must first protect liberty Fool,
a slave has no liberty, any more than corpse has
life Government was framed to protect life in
live men, not in corpses-liberty in free men, not
in slaves. A slave is mere property, like corpse
or q coffin. AL this admirable logic Is suggested
by the Presidents speech, just as Newtons Pm
cipia suggests great many mathematical steps
which the reader himself must supply. Squatter
Sovereignty III a Territory, reasons j. H., has no
more right to destroy Mr.. BreckinTdge''
property, by giving liberty 10 his slave, than it
has TO destroy James Buchanan's property
by stealing his Pennsy lyania iron. One is
as much against the essence of Republican
Government as the other. And if Squatter Sow
reigLty, with the permission of Divine Providence,
should 60 stcpiurther and destroy piece ofprop'
erty Of which DR.. SawbOnes is about to avail him
self for the Increase OF his anatomical knowledge by
restoring il 10 life, that would be a third crime.
Sauatter Soyc ,gIs cannot thus be allowed to de-
stroy property in people who have been deprived
of life and liberty till, according to the Cincinnati
Platform their number is sufficient to entite them
to be admitted as State, when, in effect, they are
allow to do so, at least far as slaves are con-
cerned, by adopting Constitution that forbids
Slavery. Squattcr Sovereignty thus acting, accord
ing TO J. b.. is no Squatter Sovereignty ut all, and
he lever Endorsed it as such
On this prir cpe Of slave property sacred IN the
Territories up TO the nascence of State Govern
ment, the philanthropic J. ID. thinks the lion and
lamb the slave. driver, and the free squatter, may
get on chArmiDgly together, and the birth Of
the new State be perfect lOye-feast. Profound,
experienced sagacious, practical statesman
Hear HIM. The passage sayors too much OF an ap-
preaching millennium not TO be stereotyped by the
National American Tract Society for universal
copoTtage:
How beautifully this plain principle Of Constitutional lsw
Corresponds with the best interests the people Under IT,
egran.s from North and the South from the East sud the
West proceed TO the Territories They carry with them that
properly which they suppose viii best promote their material
they live together In peace and harmony The qes
ton of Slavery viii conclusion before they
have ihsbSn, enough the union sste There
win then b, nc bleeding Kansas In the TerrOries they Will
then all live peace and harmony promoting the pros
priiy Of the Territories and their prosperity until the
lime shr snye when becomes necessary to frame Const
tuition Then question viii Dc decided on just now
said e conclusion foregone TO the general satisfaction
Bot upon the opposite principle vst viii yon md In the Ter
toes Why win be strife and contention all the time
One Territorial Legislature may establish Slavery and another
Territorial Legislature may abolish H. and the struggle viii be
continued throu hout the Territorial existence The people
esd OF Jevons their energies and industry to promote their
oy posperty will be state Of constant strife aud tunoi
inst a, we have witnessed Kansas Therefore there Is
po,be principle that can injurious the best interests OF
Terory as what has been called sqs!ser Sovereignty"
We wish to direct the attention OF j. u. to the
prime epoch in the territorial history Of this hap
"py family" just before the conclusion Of FREQ
or Slave State begins to be foregone, when it yet
10 be decided whether the Buiords or the Browns
shall leave the Territory-suPposing they are
abou. equal in numbers and pluck. Is slave prop.
erty peacefully to seek another market, ut
a discount for damages Of the experiment.
or is free muscle to pull up stakes, ho-
tells, schoo! houses, printng-presseS and take
10 the woods anew And if Ieither should
conclude to leave before tying little Of the Han.