New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-26

point. A few steps further, and he thought he woud
be able 70 shake bands with the gentleman from Oho
for that than they would occupy toe came platform
Mr.. CORWINv-I It has bee pUs fssh,oUSb c for gem
nenen IN thie as well as in the other hall OF tho Lege-
ssture TO set themselves Iisbt and to pay Sreas To-
gard Tor what was calico the 'reecro 49, 49,, &c
Sbought that 1t would be well for some ano2g suei a
there was no record Of their acts. LaGehterI Auu
IL he was 10 Re interpreted and hs acts RECORDED az
coroipg 70 those inerpieiat ops 10 wouio % wei ~
him. humble hs acts were, IT his were never W %
recorded ICorunued laugh'er IN ORDER therefore,
once for an 10 axe psef perfectly uoderstOod upon
this point be wished 10 saytlrt, as 10 "oat ne had
often asserted that he opposed TO the power be-
ir placed in the bands OF he Presd pt OF pauog bis
constyuo,ion men the laws from the fact that there
Wa the danger OF that power falling into the
1snds Of T. esident uofdendly 70 ths insttuions of
the country. Ia lSlS WREN General Taylor was
1890 10 the Presidency ths opioion Of his became
=, - an oppion very popularity entertained especially
,,th die oli Wing party Of that day. Ia consequence
~ this during the cahVass Of 1873 this opiuiol
vey universally inculc Ned by himself and his friends
I'M tie North Satee who advocated the cleo ion
af Cereal Taylor which opinion was TIA the Prss
dent oftbe ns6 States should not exercise the veto
power except 10 where the act presented for his
approval clearly uuconstisutUnal-ibst the 30
OF c0nsrI'ug the la reeed with the people and their
representatives in either branch Of the Legi,lature-
thai 1t was the right OF Congress alone elected by the
people Of al the States, TO determine the policy and
propriety Of the laws-aDd that the President was
not boUI TO attx his 1gnstnre 70 aoy Law which he
ciple carried b. an extreme; bat II vas upon
that hypothesis that very gene-aly tbs votes OF
the Wing party cast for Gen. Taylor "a Pc sdent
and for Mr. FillmOre as Wee President IL 30 hap
ptned that lie was a member of that Administration,
and the principle well understood and acted uoon,
during the whole Of that Administration that neither
the President his Cabinet the proper persons
TO put construction upon the laws but thatthe whole
people, here assembled, TO determine this ques-
ton, and not the President or his Cabinet, BE was
member of the Senate when toe Law Of 1885, for the
recapture and rendition or fugitive saye, whi'h was
. compromise OF tie law OF 1888 was introduced aud
he at that time than msnioned 10 the gentle
man who had introduced the Fugitive Save law, that
he greatly mistaken If he thought by that means
of securing 20 the people Of the South greater
facilities for recapturing tber runaway slaves
than was afforded by the haw OF 1875. Events
since then had proved that he right in his ju5g-
nen for there had been more runa way slaves recap
tured by the act of 1873 than had b4en resaptured by
the amerded act Of the law o. $780, He believed still,
ss he believed then, that il great mistake to
place the law 1898 by that OF 1850. lie did at the
present time and always had entertained doubts as to
the constutoDslty Of that part of the law relating TO
the spp JiptUent of Court Comm ssoners under the
Fugitive Slave law. He was, indeed, very much
disappointed that the lav did not provide that de
Con mis- slOneIs should be appointed by the Pest
dent with the consent of the Senate for he thought
then, as be did now, that the Com Dis5loners
acted not in Ministerial character altogether but
in come sort in judicial capacity, and the efore
the necessity that ttose parties should have been
leoted by the Pre- s6eIt vii the of the Senste
That was the doubt be bad TO the constitutioDa,y
of the law which be yielded 70 the opnons of hs coll
leagues in the Cabuei. Ueder these crcnmstau ses ne
was wine-thougb as he bad otten declared that he
did not zee the nece ssit sXyedeDcy Off, seeing hat
the Constitution itself proVid 10 soms shape or other
fer the IeoaptuIe of runaway negroes owing LABOR and
service TO masteTtbat the President should give his
ssn elton TO the bill That the Constitution did in some
way provide for the rec8pure OF runaway slaves, ne
thought none ould deny Nov, what @ould they gaio
by having written Constitution il they did not aode
by the fundamental principles of that Constitution
The fathers OF the republic as toey eaed the od men
who bequeathed TO them the Consultation, kno wing
how uncertain a thing would be tTaoitlODary Con-
sttutop, determined that the Instrument wblo6 Sc
cured to the people the rights of fee man should
be written down. and printed and transm tied TO them
the emb dimeut of the principles OF their organic law
That the great idea. Tney secured aga INST the
changes which the great charter Il the Eogsn co0s
tutioH srhsrt duripg reigns o. the Hsnr>s and
Edwar6s, the Pisutagene's, the TudOTs, sod tae
Stusrts. They knew that the tradinonary constitution
OF ENGLAND changed with every fresh reign 1st az tue
win Of the monarch desireo therefore It wac that
thew determined dat the Constitution they had formed
and which they beQuestbed 10 ne hoald be liked and
stable, and remain 80 forever Wien change becomes
necessary the constitution itsslf pToSldes now that
char ge should be effected. The men who framed
the Constitution enacted the Jaw known as the
set Of 1888 and under that law, and under snHt
constitution, they had lived aud pfospeIed Tor MY
or tixty Years. For bis own part he hunbled
himeh before these old men, tie faeers Of the Repnb
lie aud Acknowledged that Ihey koeT better tlau
he cid Whist w6e necessary Or tne iosure cover
of a GREAT country. Ana what old they say They
aaid that il q man wing labor and service TO another
shoud eeeape from the State where such labor or SET
vice was DUE he shond be returned to his Aster az
cOroing 10 the law Of the state whence no nSo; Leg
or6s are: "Tbat he shal be returned and delivered
mo- Now be thought that the provisions OF Tue Con
sttuton were s-suthcieDt to meet the wants ana oe
usbds of Southern gentlemen, without any amend
nent of the ast Of 1893 by the enactment OF the
Fugitive Slave law Of 1850. For his OGD part, II he
OWED the slave and they csc lpsd from him iato an
other State he would ask 20 other Law than that OF
1893 in his bands 70 follow his slaves into any other
State Of the Union end demand their renoi ion Every
BODY knew that by nan o0ing labor and seIylce
10 anOfbey' he meant 10 fact a cave. If that slave
fed from virginia into OaiO his master could follow
him. Law hold OF hm, aud under the Consttu'on, dc.
mard at be lie delivered Mp 10 him. and none wOntd
be found TO diepute bis right. TIE Constitution 70
this extent recognizes the msD owing service ano aoor
as propeIty--Qua'ihed property But, II man clAin
ing property 10 a slave follows him into ono whther
he may have fed, and attempts TO carry him on with
violence then he subjects himself 70 the operation OF
the common Law. But under the COngii ntlon, run-
away slave must be delivered up by tho pefson to
whom he owes tabor aod service proving bic claim 70
him and ts without any specific law such as that OF
1850 The Judge before whom tbs case would be
brought would barely pronounce the Constitution 40.
eopst tutor a. and Tefuse 70 deliver the rama way up
TIE Constitution does not cay that such man sn4l
be discs sTeed; no. but that he sos DO oevereo up
and Therefore be asserted that great mistake
in southern men suppose that the Fugitive slave
law YVES Necessary 10 the security OF their rights IN
tbis respect IL man owed service and labor, aud
be escaped from the master TO- whom tu5n llDot anu
service were due then | say the Constitution provided
for his recovery, and when ca.tured he must Do 90
pyered up to his master. That was hs oplLlon. ne
mr. hi be wrOpg hat all he bad 70 say was thai the
onftitution 60 provided ard bad the law decioe1i
spd In that respect be did not think the Constitution
was unooDst tutional lLsughttrl Now, surely, IA
the year 1860, they were not gong 0Acs, ana
to say that the several ates taopu ieg,5 oaa