, 1860-12-29


"Thcy arc property un1y by virtue Of ronr
"Ssa.e laws: they arc men and not clia1tels,
when beyt nd the Jurisdiction Of your bye
LAWS, your local regulations call them prop
''c.ty. l'ut ,.nc Constitution describes them rs
=. ..Ipe1sons,' aud 4 person in tile eye Of the
slaw, ia not chaffT. Hence your premises
''bci.iS had your conclusions fill to the
" ground"
AMI right here VIC find tho seat Of tue dis
c:lse; here is the centre Of the battle trtwccn
the South and North here Is the foc.s of the
whole contest It is I'LL about the construc-
tion that shall he given to the word "pr,son.'
Are ''pcrsous held tn service Or labor l.y The
laws Of 4 State" In IL. recognized us ''prnp-
crty' IL tho supreme law vi tic Union, and
placed On the kaine footing is all things IT,
.artcd as property lV thc common laws
Utterly falling it, their long and desperate
United States Constitution, the Ul.arr'ly
now demand that TIC Constitution shall
b.: amended t'y Inserting clause de-
c1aring that "rcrsons held to labor by
tic laws Of anr State" ehall be rccn.-
nizcd Us "rropcrty' in all the States all!
all constitutional anu federal relations Il a,s5
utlcr property. The penalty for II refusal Oil
the 1,art OF the Free Statcs TO incorporate this
rrori=ion, Is 4 dissolution Of thu Union and 4
Withdrawal from the contrderacy ef the slaye-
holding States.
EtnlalE III tHE FIcE %tAlcS ulIf w Htll nfit!l
their sIerry eyes aud see their real situation.
They arc full OF incrsdu&ity. The demands OF
the shareholders arc su nunatrons that Nurtf-
ezn men do not believe tlr South is i'll earnest,
that the Uli,archy do not really nle.n What
they ray. But lei the doubling Tltomascs read,
reflect and inwardly digest the Southern t:!ti
n.utun presented to the Senate Committee and
the country By the representative Inan Of tlc
Cotton States, Jefferson Davis, ard 10 cou-
vincri.
The Shareholders ere divided into two class
es: 15t. Those Of tie Srhstll C1roliua school
who desire 4 eonlplris "M4 final separation
from the free States, never to l't rc-inited.
II. Those Of the Virginia srlr:"i who desire =
reconstruction. Their 1.ia.,. tf which Brtck-
iurid:c is said to le the :u!hur, Is 10 sectAc
1rom the Cnfun, temporarily, call Il Southern
Convention, remodel the Constitution, erasin.
nil traces Of anlislavcry ideas from its pages,
mid incorporating ttosc set forth III the Davis
| resolution. Commissioners are 1hcn t" be
a1I,oiutcd to lay their reconstructed Constitu-
tiu1l before the Guyfrnurs, Le.isIat u!.s nud
people Of all the border Free States, aud solcit
| them 10 accept it, anu JUN the Southern Con
| fc,lcracy-thc six New ENGLAND States withfhe r
| dangerous hcrvsics about the rights Of man,
| With their twelve Senators aud thirty Ecprc-
scntatves will tc invited to stay out iu the
| Wet ; Michigan and Minnesota are probably to
! share their fate, unle-s they revoke their
| abonliaablc istus Of Freedom, and give bonds
for tlcir future good behavior. Western Now
York, md Northern Ohio, and Northern 1fli-
nui5 will Eayc tight squeeze tu get into The
reconstructed Enion." Some humble 1ic
will have to bc .=lten aud some penancc per
formed 10 chastcn them for last trans sgscss:uns
against the chaiu institution and its bonds and
mastcrr. Some uf the leaders in this pro-
! Eraa,nlc say they arc mt particular whether
the Cotton State; unite with their Central I:e-
public or not a. 1ifst- In fact they prefer
that they would mt, as It might have = ten
Iency to repcl such States us Pennsylvania
New jersey, Indiana aud Iowa froEl acccptius,
the rculodelcl Constitution. a1ld coming late
this reconstructed, purified Union: but aftci
!acy arc caught and chained, then the Soutl
CaFo!iua school Of States arc to be invited tt
walk in aud take se.4ts at the banquet. There
il hardly supporter Of Hrc.klnridEe in c:stl
Of the most northern Slave States, who is nc
| being stuffed with this idea Of secession ,ant
reconstruction. The leaders II, Congress, ar,
alt in its favor, and they a1e promul.atin- tht
scheme as fast and widely 10 possible. 1t &c
comedies thousands Of moderate, conservative
lncn, in tile border Slave States, to tn
Thought Of disunion, who otherwise wou1t
persist in rcpelling tie tcmpter-
The separation, they are being made 10 be
1ieve, will only he Temporary, when 4 NOR
| perfect and satisfactory Union will be formed
| in which they can never as.ain be disturbed i,
opposition or resistance to the demands q
| ElIftIY. AuS} HUu l1fUN AuE1nbtlfEa IL u
disturbed with the suggestion that the bords
free States would hceitAte for moment +
rush to their embrace, aud gladly lc above
permission to lire under their lnan-stcalin.
pro-slaycry Constitution which made elattcl
t,f human heings. Not d Bit Of it. Their n
lance Is rcpose,i III the Northern Dcmocrac,
The secession OF the bcrlcr slave States wi
30 friShtcn the people of the free Sta:ca, +
: they reason, that a tremendous rolitic rcs
tion will take place, which will throv Tic Il
) pubiicans out VI power, and By the time II
reconstructed Constitution c:n be got read
tho Democracy will be in possession OF tt
Governments Of the border free States, IN
: with open arms will receive the Commiseio
crs from 1he So'1th, anl give in ;hci: allcgian'
,, to the Southern Confcderacy. What q goe
,, time is co,ning, boys! But the best Ia
plans Of mice and men gang at aslcc," :" aud I
; trow It will be both with the Cotton Confc
l cracy and the Reconstructionistf. The .
Constitution and the old Union suit cnout
citizens to compel the reet to live under Il
! provisions of the one and tho flaS Of the otht
! CHICAGO.