The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-12-15

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In ls4s, VIZ tie Oregon bill was before th,
United sssass zsaa,e. Calhoun insisted on tn,
right Of the slaSshctders to take their slayes I,
the Tessitesiss and hold them there by virtue o
the Consultation. ssz "a ~ io9 SIS rs,
Daniel Webster said il reply: 'sseaeitsetts
am mot going into metaphysics, for therein
abOeld encounter the honorable member from
South Carolina, and We should wander in tend
lees ma1es lost" until after the time for the ad
journmsnt of Congress- The Southern State,
have peculiar laws, and by these laws there i,
property in slaves Tia Is pwraiy local The
real meaning, then, Of Southern gentlemen ii
making this, complaint. is, that they cannot e
into the Territories Of the United States, carry
ing with them their own peculiar local law-s
Law which creates property in persona This
according TO their own statement 10 all the
ground o.. complaint they have. Nov, here
just they are, others viii judge-generations that
will come after us will Judge. II will mot be
contended that this sort Of personal slavery ex.
lists by general law. Itexists only BY local law.
l do not mean to deny the validity Of that local
law where it is established; but say it is. after
all, nothing but local law. It y nothing more.
And wherever THAT local law does not extend.
property in persons does NOT exist,
Well, cir, what is now the demand on the mart
Of our Southern friends, They say: tWe Win
carry our local Law with US wherever We 90
We insist that Congress does 10 injustice unless
it establishes in the Territory in which we wish
to 60, our own local law. 11ss de,sa.d I. for
ose, resist and saaH resist IS. -
Coming 70 the inequality and injustice plea,
NJ. Webster ventilated it as follows: aaaa .
Now, our friends seem TO think that an ine-
quality arises from restraining them from geing
into the Territories, unless there be q law pro
vided, which shall protect their ownership in
persona The assertion 70 that We create an
inequality. IL there nothing TO be said on the
other side in relation to inequalitye Sir, from
the date of this Constitution, and IN the coun.
ellis that formed and established this Constitu.
ton, and suppose in al mems judgments since,
il is received, a. settled truth that slave labor
and free labor do rot exist well together. I
have before me declaration Of Mr.. Mason, in
the convention that formed the Consultation. TO
that effect He says that the objection to slave
labor H. that Il puts free white labor n tisrepute
that it makes labor to be regarded 40 deroxatory
to the character Of the free white man, and that
he despises to work-to use his oppression
where slaves are employed. This Il matter Of
10 great eEtentit certainly iaAat wherever slave
abor prevails, free white labor u exclpded or
agree that slave labor does mot
exclude FREQ labor totally. There ID
Re- white Dor IN Virginia, Tennessee and other
3tatea; buAh necessarily loses some Of It's re.
'pectabilfty by the side of, and when associated
nth, slave labor Whenever labor is mainly
,effofse BY slaves Il 10 regarded q degrading
o free men. The fIee men of Tie North, there.