Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-07-04


constitution and laws of one or more
States, determining property, on the part
OF the Federal government, by which the
stability of its social system may be en-
is plainly repugnant to the con-
ditions on which the Federal co Institution
WIS adopted, or. which that Goverement
was designed to accomplish. In deuliug
with the language of Judge Campbell, we
have the same difficulty rs in dealing with
the language of other artfnl. ADVOCATES
The acuteness of such men teaches them
to ningle some unquestiouabIc PROPOSE
tions, along with their own doubtful and
dlsPutable dictums, in hopes that the latter
may pass muster under cover of the for
mer. What remote tendency had the
eighth section of the act of the sixth of
March, 1920, commonly called the Missouri
Compromise, to endnnger the stability of
the social system of any State2 What
State was thus endangered in its social
system? Has not slavery grown and flour
ished, and extended itself ever since the
date of that act. The territory on which
it was designed to operate, was wilder
ness, without any social system except
that of the red savages. Judge Campbell
we'll knows that every influential man, we
might say every man, in the party which
he opposes, disclaims and disavows all
idea, all intention of bringing the power
of the Federal Government to disturb
or endangcr, or overthrow the social
institutions of any State. But mere
ly called Judge Campbell to the stand, as
q witness, to show that, in the opinion and
judgment of the Supreme Court of the
United States, while any State of the
Union chooses to enact and maintain slave
laws, those laws must dominate and pre-
vail in every inch of National territory,
and must exclude and ubrogate all laws Of
an opposite nature. Having fully per-
formed this duty, we dismiss him from the
stand. But in the absence of such testi-
mony, upon what other foundation could
the Dred Scott decision possibly be based?
Slavery is the creature of positive law
By the law of nature, no man is q slave
And II difference of color between the par
ties does not abrognte this law of ma
tIre. Hence, when the brown and black
men on the southern shores of the Med
iterranean, enslNved our white fellow
citizens, which, formerly, they were very
prompt TO do, whenever they were able,
we pronounced them guilty of violation
of natural law. And no wars ever wagcd
by the National Government, were so uni
versally acceptable to the National con-
science, as the wars which VIC waged with
these people in 1903 and 1915, to avenge
the euslNvement OF our fellow-citizcus
Yet the Barbary Powers were clearly JUS
tilted, os far rs difference of race and col
or could justify them in making slaves of
their fellow creatures.
But the slave laws of the slave States,
were not the only laws with which the Su-
prcme Court had to deal in the Dred Scott
decision. One State declares by its organ
~ L""s' :,l"I "eI1neF slavery nor lnVoiun-
t|!y serEltuue Snall ever De Permltteo IN
'"!S H'nte' e"CcPt ior the punishment OF
81 et.'Lc' "lte. uue ""u leeHl couF'cL'oh' Anu
"lteeh OF sixteen other states substantially
concur IN the same prlnclple IN their Or
game '""S' Anu tnese otates prooaoty
Tont"'n seventeen nllllohs OF Wnlte Popu-
i"tIon' :"tl n AhotneT 9tate makes the 1ollow-
."E l"mG'l''!e''t"l .,p ueCl"'"'iU" gu Tue SUP
yeS' T, ~ cn"ctcu oy Tue Tehe'"l AS
Se"1I!' AH.t .o PERSONS Suuli "eHcetorIn
"s o'''NeS "tt"iA ''''S No'linHo""e"it.' SA-
CePG suc1l us "Gre 30, ON tue seventh u"y
!" tue year one thous"nu sew
cn u""uIeu anu elSn'y,uHe' ana tne oe,
Scendcnts OF inc females OF them, and
sucn persons anu tnelr ocscendents ocinS
slaves as SINCE nave DSeh, or hereafter may
nc "Fo"ght INTO TINS STATE, or held therein
pursuant " l""' anu tnlrteeh OF lOur
tcS" ct"e' suites S""s''ntl"'ly concur Ill
adopting the same system OF bondage.
Ahu tn's lattcr class OF states probably
contain co,Ln. q s, wnltE Populqflon OF between
lour ana nEe we lnllIohs. IONS we nave tue teStl-
mony OF Iudge Campoeil, quoted above
tn IHat u tneSe Two systemst are ant"gonlSttG.
II ioreeu 10 encounter on tEe same so'l'
Solnsio" G ana COMBAT are almost inevitable.
NO" ~, IL WoulG DC hlghIy convenient that
the states ana people concerned IN these
DeHCcAEIe
rangement to divide the National territory
between them. Such an agreement would
conduce to spirit OF harmony, equality,
fraternity and cordiatty between the peo
PIE ana States North ana south: II such
an agreement Is possible Mt all, 1t must