New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-21
all have detsnnnsa IN he same wsy, every decision
has been in the same direction. 10 lsssE q. 81

L., m THE FUGITIVE SLAVE Law. N,
IcsnnOt dwell upon this matter . 60 al through 70 q.
the able argument Of Justice Curts but there no ar
sunent which be does mot produce 70 support .ne pc
one That one Is this much talked Of and much vsunt
ed Fugitive Slave law. Let ask you Il undsr tne
Constitution Slavery goes into the Territory OF me
United States, what do you want Win fus1 ,~s
| Slave law Answer me that. Why woulo you nos
be protected in yonr slave property as much IN any
State Of the Union If property there and YET you
stood in Congress week affer week and montn AFTER
month, and Knight say year ser year. oon,sndd;ng
community to recover fugitive slaves. was all ao-
surdiy to quarrel about power which You assert 10
in the Constitution. You cannot prove that the Con-
stitution gives the power. IL cannot De dome. Is "a
You now talk of legislative Intervention 6y Congress
to protect Slavery in the Territories. What 90 yon
want with II If the Constitution does not give ~
What right have you TO ii therefore deny, on the
part of the Republican party, that there IS any sucn
power under the Constitution per SO to carry Slavery
into the Territories of the United States. Ihat was
net the doctrine of the Democracy Of 1872 or 1880 ana
only after the enuncaton Of the Cincinnati Platform
and the election of James Buchanan, did the supreme
Court screw themselves up to the point that they coIld
say that it was law. Two of the abest and most dis.
rpusbed Jursts declaring that IL was ober dcta, and
was no law God granifor our freedom, every mans,
white and black, that you should say IN your Eegsla
tive A.sembes and National Conventions, that it is no
| law. AS live, it IL not the law
CONSEQUENCES OF THE DEMOCRATIC CLAIM.
See where it leads. Suppose they have, under the
Constitution the right to carry Slavery into the Terri
tories have you not rglt TO carry those same slaves
into Ohio You have the right TO carry cow, or
horse coat, ateh, into Ohio, and If under the
Constitution Slavery is jutt as sacred and nvioiate as
this species Of property, how dare Gov Chase say you
sba not bring your slaves and take possession OF the
| hotels of Columbus and the farms now occupied BY
honett freemen tell you why you cannot. IL is
because the right you assume does not exist Inc
Constitution says: -,
,bs be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or
which shall be made under the authority OF the United STATES
| shall be the supreme law Of the land &c.
There is the whole substance of the matter. If the
bred decision sght then there is not one single
foot of any but Slave Territory from the Cult OF Mex
| leo TO the hs of Maine. If that be true then indeed
there conflict going on in the language OF seward
| and the Democratic party between freedom and des-
potiem, bat the conflict is ended, and you and ana
| all of US, are subject to despotic power, which is
higher than the great dica Of all the learned Juriss
that have preceded u.s. higher than the Constitutions
of the States and the sovereignty of Conventional and
last if not least higher than the Constitution Of the
United States-he alladium of liberty to u.s. II it be
So the conflict is ended and we are all slaves we are
subject to despotic. power over which we have no
| contIol-none ON Gods earth There Is no appeal 70
Popular Sovereignty States Rights; there is but one
appeal, and that is to revolution; an appeal to arms
and the God of Hosts-which God forbid. Therefore,
deny that are factiousy Purposng TO prevent the
| admission of any more Slaveholdng States.
The fourth charge is that we propose TO repeal
the Fugitive Slave Law, and practically refuse 10 o1ey
the Constitution on that subject do not deny that
in some of the States there has been an effort made OF
that kind but do utterly deny that there is any such
clause in the platform Of 1856 or the call OF 1861
Without dwelling further upon that pass 1t by, say
inc that do not care TO avOw that stand that sub
ject with Daniel Webster the man whom, OF all others
in this country, have styled the expounder OF the
opstituton-certanly upon, constitutional law the
highest authority this country or any other has ever
seen. Mr.. Webster, although he was oyerpersuaded,
attered with the idea that he would get Southern sup
port by yielding his true born opinion said what, in bus
eech of 9TH March He said that this was power
that belonged not to Congress, but to the several
States" That is my belief but the Republican party,
desirous of harmony yielded it. and struck it out OF
our platform in 1885, and do not propose TO incorporate
| O. OTHER CHARGES REFERRED TO.
Fifth. "To refuse to prevent punish, by State ac-
tion the spoliaon Of slave property but on the con-
trary to make IT criminal ofense in their citizens to
obey the laws of the Union in far they protect
property in African slayes" Gentlemen, don't we tell
you in call that go for protecting the rights OF
all the States and far from hnderng you in the re-
turn of your property, that we pledge ourselves as
party to defend you against your State or my State,
and every State or against foreign invasion In the
Territories. OF course II honest in one pur
pore, honest in the other, and we cannot be
honest in that avowal If dishonest in the first
| imputation.
Sixth. "To abolish Slavery in the District of Co
| lumbia." need not read our platform again, but
| defy any man TO find any such clause in 1t.
Seventh. To abolish il in the forts, arsenals dock
yards and other places in the South where Congress
has exclusive jursdction." There is no such clause
rs that in the platform Of 1885, the call of 1860
Eighth. "To abolish the internal and coastwise
trade" There is such clause as that In either.
| Ninth. "To limit, harass, and frown upon the IN
sttution in every mode of political action, aud 6y
every form of public opinion" We make directly
opposite avowa So far from that, we not only are
compelled by the necessity of the case, but we pro,
pose in carrying out in good faith this associated
brotherhood of confederated States not TO take Eman
cipatonists alone upon our platform, not simply to
appoint them to Offices, but we propose and invite
Shareholders TO act in conjunction with us, and to
assist in carrying out the Government, which we
shall in all probability 80 control How can this
be true How we then intend TO harass the in
stitutiOn by every mode Of political action Why,
| things and uness you have proof that we are dis
honest there is no believing that We can or desire to
monopoze all the Offices in the country This allega-
tou cannot lie against u.s. therefore falls sborn at
| our feet
While have been projecting these notes to-day
received copy Of Tie Cincinnati Gazette, OF the
leading Republican papers in the Union and probably
the foremost paper in the West, and which probably
has the largest aggregate crculaton-apdl find SAYS
| that we are willing TO go Cruenden, Botts, Bell
any other STAKEHOLDER for President ii he be the choice
of the Convention Does that look like excluding you
from the Presidency or any other office Old JohnJ,
| Crittenden, man that nave always loved and adj
mired man, who If he had been left unbiased to his
| own noble aspirations, would have stood where /
stand, where We of the Republican party standby
the old Henry Clay Wing ground, against the extern
zion of Slavery. Let here read what Henry Clay
says upon that subject, sentiment which Crttenden
doubt has indorsed throuf long life The Demo
crate have got wonderfully in love with Henry Clay Of
late. The old man they abused and slandered all his
bis life but now they come to us and cay we will de-
fend old Henry from your assaults. The man who
prosecuted for lifetime, the man who went to his
grave In sorrow under the imputatons made against