The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-08-09

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u do NO, fsei tie cb!igafion to yseid h0re.
u Bat cur friends OF the Seu say You
deprive US OF all our rights. We have faught
for this territory ard Yen deny Us partciPa
ton in 1t Let US consider tins question as
il really is; N since the honoaaol- gentle /
man from Georgia proposes 10 leave lie ease
10 the enlightened and impartial Judgment
oil mankind. and as | agree With him that
it is case proper IN be considered by the
eniig ut. ned part OF mankind. let us see how
in ruth stands. Gentlemen who advocate |
the case, which my hanoFabie friend from 1
Georgia, with so much ability. susaaias, de
! clare that we invade their rights, that We
deprive tenn OF a participation in the en-
! 20, ment OF territories acquired by The com
/ mon ser vice and common eXertioHs of al.
Is this irue How deprise7 OF what do
We deprive them? Why, they say de-
psise them of The privilege OF carrying their
slaves as slaves. into the new territories
/ Wen. sir. hat is the amount OF t.ats--
/ They say that IN this way deprive them
oil the opportunity of going 10 this acquired
territory with ploperIy-ihsir Property
/ What do they mean by properly We
! certainly DO not deprive them CT he pflvi-
1 ege OF going into these newly acquired ter
rltories with all that in The general estimate
of human society, IN the general. and com
mon, and universal understanding OF man
kid. is esteemed property. NoJ at all.
The truth is Just this, they have, IN their
own States, peculiar laws. which create prop
erty in perscrs. They have system of
local Legislation upon sehich siorery stands.
while everybody agrees that it Is against
the natural law, or al least against the com
mon understanding which prevails among
men as 10 what Is natural law.
an, not going into metaphysics, for there
in l should encounter the honorable mem
Der from South Carolina. Mr.. Calhoun)
and We should find mo end Ii wandering
mazes lost" until after the time for the ad
journment of Congress. TIE Southern
states have peculiar laws, and by these
Jaws there Is property IN slaves. 1his as
purely local The real meaning, hen Of
Southern grnfkemen, IN making tbs coma
ltutnt, IS, that they cannot go thtto the Ter
yitortes Of The Un,ted Sites, carrying trjkt
tim thar oun peculiar focal iaae--a IaO
uhseA {, Gates property IN persons. THIS,
accordshg 10 tier 0mn statement, is al the
: ground of comfiaint they hare. Now. here,
!; lhiuk. gentlemen are unjust toward US
) How unjust they are, hers Will jud -,e;
gentlemen that " I'll come after will Judge.
1t will not be contended that til, sort OF per
sobal slavery exists by general lar. II ertsts
only By lpc0k iau. | do not mean to deny
the validity 81 that local law where il Is
tabi,shed, but | say 1t Is, after all, iocdl
lac. 1t is nothing more.
[ And whefeCer Mat iocol la,c does MT er
: tcnd. rroperfy an persons does not eriSt.-
/ Well, ST., what is now the demand on the
part Of our Sou hern friends? They say,
I'VE will carry our local laws with US wher-
, ever we go--lnsist that Congress does us
injustice unless it establishes in the Terrific
~ in which we wish TO go, our own local
, law" This demand /. tor one, resist. and
SHALL resist. 1t goes uFon the idea that
, there is no equality. unless persons under
D this local law. and holding this property
by authority OF law. can go into new terri
tory and there establish that local law 10
the exclusion of the gen er0i lac.
Mr.. President. il was a maxim Of the civil
law, that between Slavery and Freedom,
: Free dom should always be presumed, and
Slavery must always be proved. Slavery
Is an exception To the general rule. SUch,
: suppose, as tie general iot0 IF mankind.
An Individual Is to be presumed TO be free,
until a lac can he produced which creates
!, ownership III Lis person.
! Now friends seem to think that an
, inequality arises from restraining them from
going into the Territories. uniess there be q
lar Prorfdea uhtch shall protect their ouN-
ershlp IN persons. The assertion is. that We
,, creaie an inequality.
Is there nothing to be said on the other
side IN relation TO inequality? Sir. from the
date OF this Constitution, and in the Coun
sells that formed and established this Con-
stltuti'n. and suppose all men dgment
) since. II is receive d AS settled truth, st1re
, fabor and free fo5or do not er3st rel t2geM-
, I
!. Mason, in the Convention that formed the
: Constitution, TO that effect. Mr. Mason. as
is well known, was a distinguished member
), from Virginia. He say that the objection
10 slave labor. is, that it puts free labor in
disrepute; that it causes labor to be regarded
as derogatory to the chara cter OF the free
White man, and that the free white man de-
spis. TO work, to use his expression, where
Slaves are employed.
This is mailer of great interest to the
Free States. If it be true. 10 great ex-
lent II raniy is. that wherever slave labor
iree white labor is excluded dis
formed by slaves, II Il tssaRE Is nslnly per-
10 fieemen. q
1HE FREEMEN OF THE NORTH THEREFORE,
!, RAvE A DEEP INTEREST IN KEsPISG LABOR
FREE, LAcLUsIyELT FREE, Is TIE NEW IER-
; RsToiIks.
But, sir. Jet Us look further into this al
i legged inequality There is DO pretence tha,
Southern people may not 90 into territory
which shall, be subject to the Ordinance 9t
1877, The only restraint is, that thew shall
!, not carry slaves hitler and continue that
relation. They say this shuts them ou. al
together. Why. sir. there can be nothing
m're Inaccurate In point OF fact. than This
:. sta enent. l understand that one hal. the
people who settled Illinois, are people, or
desc ndsnis of people, who care from the
Southern States. And | suppose one third
q The people OF Obio are those or descen.
dsnts OF those. who enieratrd from tie
South. and venture 20 say, thai, in respect
70 those two SAFES. they are at this time.
settled by peopie OF Southern ors..;n-