East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-03-15

southern state was still a person. protected by all
the laws which punish crime in other rersonsi-
Could the Senator have failed To know that no mas
ter could take the life Of or MAIN his slave without
being held responsible under The criminal laws of
any southern State, and held 90 responsibility as
rigid "a though that negro had been white mani
How. then Is Il asserted that these not persons
In the eve of the law, not protected by the law ms
persons1 The venerable senator from Kentucky
knows very well that this is not the law in any State
Of the Union whore slaves held but that every
where they protected; that the criminal law COW
crs them perfectly rs il covers the white man
Save in the respect Of crsd5iliy as witness there
IL 10 hing
Mr. CRirvENpES. VIII the gentleman allow me
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Nc DAVIS Certainly
Mr.. CRIrrENDES. have not made any particu-
lar examination rs TO the laws of all the slave States
at believe they all coutlin the provisions for the
lroteetion Of slaves that alluded to. In my own
State of Kentucky, | am glad 10 say, they 60 much
further; and the slave there, who is cruelty treated
ny his master, may make an appeal to the court of
the county ia which he lives and upon proof Of the
cruelty with which he has been treated, the court
uay ttke him from his MASTER and sell him TO a
more merciful one. That is the law my State
Mr. DAVIS Several southern Senators around
have spoken 60 10 the effect that in each Of their
States the protection Is secured, and suit may be
instituted nj common law for assault and battery, to
protect n negro we'll white man. The con-
dition OF slavery with MS, in word Mr. President,
nOthjug hut the form of civil government instituted
Cor class uf people not ft 10 govern themselves. 1t
il exactly what in every State exists in some form
ether II il just that kind Of cotro which is extend
o in every northern State its conyicts Its luna
ties il. minors It's apprentices 1t is hut form Of
civil government for those who are not I'll to govern
themselves We recognize the fact Of the inferiorty
stmpe1 upon that race Of men by the Creator and
from the cradle to the grave, our government, a
civil institution, marks that inferiority. In their
subject AMI dependent state, they are not the objects
of cruelty they would be if left TO the commission
of crime, incarccrated in pcnitcntares and work
houses, AMI put under hired ovorsccrs having no
interest in them and no relation 20 them no ail-
alton growing out of the associations Of childhood and
the tender care Of age
Is there nothing of the balm needed in the Sem
ator's own State that he must needs go abroad to
seek objects for his charity and philanthropy What
will he sly Of those masses in New York now me-
morializng for something very like agrarian lawl
What will he say to the throngs Of bcggars who
crowd the streets of his great commercial emporium
What will he say 10 the mutitudcs collected in the
pcnitcntares and prisons of his own Statel | seek
not sir 10 inquire into the policy aud propricty OF
the institutions of other States; assume not TO Judge
Of their fitness it belongs to the community to judge
AMI know not under what difficulties they may
have been driven to what cannot approve; but
err sir in all my life, have ! seen anything that 81
appealed 10 every feeling Of humanity and manli-
the suffering Of the poor children imprisoned
I'm your juvenile acknowledgement before
they old enough to know tho nature Of crime
there held TO such punishment as we never iniic
save upon those of mature years. / arraign you moi
for this; know not what your crowded population
and increasing wants may demand; know not how
far crime follows in the footsteps of misery; know
not how far the parents have become degraded ant
how far the children have become outcast, and how
far il may have dcvoved the State TO take charg
Of thcm but thank my God that, in the state of so
ciety where | reside, have no scenes so revolving
these.
a.,
you have ut homel Why not confine your inquire
20 the remedial measures which will relieve the sui
fcring Of and stop the progress of crime among you
own people? Very intent in looking into the dis
tancc for the mote in your brothers eye, is il TO
wondered that we turn back and point to the bear
in your eyel
But il was not my purpose, Mr.. President, rs
said, to continue the discussion and yield the foo