Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-02-06

T w might we'll under this grant prescribe
I VIZ ssssem OF land sales the modes Of en-
-, snT registration Of titles The nrofee.
l,; - t .Ss rom waste the selection of sites for
6c There 80, sne establishment Of post-ofces,
| - - ~ Wo9d oe appropriate rules and regula-
Mons Tor tne sale of the territorv ;.h = -
organization as State. but,yho vgoid 49, - -
ca INA. 9nuer tnis simple grant in reference 10 the
puOnc properly that the States intandoJ - -: g.,
gress the power to exclude from 20 give Con
| that description OF property which a,-,s.S :; 49,
| State. except Maine, and which w. ~ ~ every
protected IN the same instruments ss nro -.'s
when tney allowed 70 be imported for ,v-.Dt
4 years. Who them could have sSIpposa5 .. se.,y
grant to make "rules and regulationsi -s s.s
the territories. could be used TO restrict sla !.
given limits, with view to compel densels, a.y,,S
States to emancipate and colonze the slayesg would
Virginia have agreed to insert in the Constitrti
/ power which would enable Congress to Afriean;ze
that Stated Can we 60 upon the sHpposition that
the delegates In that Convention did not know that If
not of the 270000 slaves. then in Virginia or
their descendants, could ever be removed from the
State Of Virginia, that would result in the estab-
'shment of black supremacy 1t is apparent to the
duest understanding thatif all the slaves and their
descendants which have been removed from the
county OF Davidson in the last twenty-five years to
the states Of Alabama, Mississippi. Louisiana, Mis-
| souri, and Texas were brought back to the
county of Davidson, that the cheapness and
/ superabundance of slave labor would drive
\ every free white labOrer out of the county and
| overrun 1t with an Improbable vicious and
wretched slave population While all experience
proves that an unrestricted competition between
Tree white and slave labor with profitable outlet
FOR the slave labor, the white laborer In any climate
or any employment at which the white man can en-
gage, will expel the slave. The restriction of the
slave TO existing limits reverses the order in the
laws Of trade ana uses the slave as an instrument to
impOyerish the white labOrer and drive him from
| the country.
This is one of the measures now proposed bv
abolitonIsts at the head Of the government 20 ef
feet the ultimate extinguishment of slavery and the
| equality Of the races.
Thirty years. according TO natural increase gives
S,O00OOO Of slaves and sixty years give I6 600 OOO
| and 4SO00O00 of whites IL not driven out by the
slave population.
It is well known that a slave population REQUIRES
great extent of country for successful industry.
But how the South stand system which
brings about such result IN the life time of persons
in being?
But worse than this, when public opinion be-
comes established that slavery is doomed by the
irrevOcable decree of the Government the work of
depreciation of slave property and inhumamty to
the slave, instantly begins and see before US q
wretehed population, broken down trade, and i'm
poverished country.
The exposure Of such an unhallowed scheme
would then have met with the reprobation it now
deserves. 1t would be sufficient to say upon this
subject that the Supreme Court of the United States
have declared that the States in giving Congress the
power to make 'needful rules and regulations res
pectng the territory intended to give that body no
power to shut out slave property from the terri
tories. but that they intended to leave the terrific
rles open to this description of property expressly
sanctioned by the Constitution.
This Government goes into all its acquired terri
tories restricted and limited by the Constitution as
to its powers over persons and property. When we
acquire territory with inhabitants capable of be-
coming citizens of the United States they are en-
titled to every right, to every liberty and to every
privilege of every other citizen of the United States
We tolerate no inequalities in the States or in tbs
citizens. When Bonaparte transferred Louisiana t
the United States be stipulated by treaty that the
inhabstants transferred should have all the rights
liberties and privileges of all other citizens. He
did not seem to know that the Constitution of the
United States permitted this Government to hold no
colonies, no provinces no dependencies or subiuga-
ted States. member of the Convention Cover
neur Morris) wished Congress to have power 70
hold colonies, but found such an idea would not be
tolerated for moment. It will hardly be asserted
that this Government can purchase Cuba and hold
1t as Great Britain holds the East or tie West Indies
giving or refusing at her option the rights of British
subjects. 1t viii hardly be asserted that we can
purchase Cuba and appoint dictator with all
power, legislative, judicial and executive m his
hands. 1t will hardly be insisted that we could mr.
chase Cuba and deprive its inhabitants of the right
trial by jury in criminal eases, as secured by the
Constitution Of the United States; and it must be
equally apparent that the inhabitants of Cuba ewn
ing slaves property guaranteed citizens of IF
teen States by the Constitution could not be forced
INTO surrender of that property as a condition to
their sdmittance into the Union much less deprived
on 1t after the territory had assumed the position of
a coequal State.
We now see, after the slaves have increased to
four millions in pamber and are usefully employed
IN htteen Stsses of the Union, dominant sectional
majority, claiming to the powers of Congress to
snoleet these Statee to worse than colonial cOndi-
tea as absolutely essential to the permanent exist
ence Of the Union itself
undertake to say that this COnfederacy cannot
be reconstructed until such al idea is c0mplet ely
abandoned, the party having such views dsbanded
and guarantees against revolutionary designs con
summated. W. II. HUNPHREYs