The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1860-03-23

Hon. Edward Bates on slavery.
The st. Louis Evening News, ofTues.
day publishes a long article giving the
views Of the Hon. Edward Dates on the
Slavery question. The main points are
given az follows in a special despatch 10
the Cincinnati Commercial.
Mr. Dates docs not believe that Acri-
can Slavery is a beneficial institution.
either in a social, political, or religious
sense. No, Ia political sense, because
il is productive OF discords between na-
tons that tolerate it and nations that do
not, and because il is liable 10 panics,
commotions, Instructions aud mussacrcs
and has ended often in bloody revolutions.
Not ia a religious sense, because itmakcs
the word Of God sealed book To- the
slave, aud gives his body 70 the service
.ut human master; whereas the body ol
every created being should be freely Civ
On TO The service OF God. Because Mr..
Bates does not believe that sluvcry Is a
beneficial institution, either in "a social.
political or religious q nsc, he is uualtcr-
bly, opposed % is extension into Terrific
ries already lree.
Alr Bates heartily cndlrses The scnti.
mcnt, aud holds 10 the creed of Mr.. Clay
who declared that his right arm should
drop from his shoulder before he would
vote 70 extend slavery over one foot OF
territory already free. Mr Bates docs
not believe that the Constitution carries
slavery into all the territories that may
be acquired by the United States. Tie
believes that freedom is the rule and sla.
very the exception. lie does not believe
that slavery can exist in any territory ac-
quired by the government Of United
States except by the positive law of Con.
gress. That law Mr.. Bates would not be
IN favor Of passing, because for reasons
already given. lie is opposed 20 the extern
sion OF slavery into territory already tree.
Mr. Bates donies that the exclusion oil
slave property from territory acquired by
tho common blood aud treasure of the
Union establishes an inyidious distine-
ton between the two sections Of the Un-
ion asserts that the dittnction complain.
cd ofits cooval with the govornmont,and
that the prohibition OF slavery from free
territory wus embodied in the original
compact OF the Union, for which the
Slave States were allowed in Congress
and in Presidential elections three votes
for every five slaves. lie therefore doc,
not regard the nOn-admission of slavery
into territory as establishing distinction
between property but simply as mgIntain.
ing distinction already established ant
willingly nsscnted to by the South since
the formation of the Government. II,
regards the principle Of the Nebraskt
bill as rendering the introduction of sla
very into the Territories impossible, an,
does not believe Congress will intervene
to protect slave property in the Territo
rics. He firmly udheros to the rights o
property In slaves in the Suites whtr
slavery already exists, and ilProsidenth h
would execute the Fugitive Slave Law
If the army and navy ot the Government
were equal to the task.
He would consider the Union broke
compact il these plain guarantees wcr
denied 10y the deliberate md per cvcrein
action OF any part Of the conicderacy.
Congress should legalize aud pass law
protecting slave property in Tcrritoric
previously free, Mr. Bates would exeout
these laws as promptly as any other law
Of the land. lie would not oppose IN,
admission Of State because of a pro
slavery Constitution. He would novc
countenance a National organization fol
any interference whatever with slavery
in the Statcs.
lie is glad TO see the rapid and peace.
ful extinction of slavery in Missouri
without the aid oC emancipation parties
and without the heat and ncrimony Of dc.
mestic discord, BY his own example, as
well as by precept, he has shown that he
prefers to live by hs own labor, and not
on the labor Of slaves. He advocates the
procurement Of foreign territory suitable
to the ready aud cheap colonization Of
free blacks. Tho policy already broach-
oil in some States, of selling again into
slavery the free blacks whom humane or
grateful masters have cmuncipntcd, un-
less those freed persona leave the State,
is In tho highest degree cruel. Il is
barbarous, aud Il would Disgrace the
American people Ia the face OF Christen-
dom 10 permit such policy to prevail.