The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-03-23

Ths.decisaono q Jvssice Fancy, Of. sha 2apssns
Cnnrt IN the matter of the comnonwealt Of Ken
tucky aeainss che Governor of Ohio, viii strike
most people % much like that message Of Mr..
Buchanan, Of which Mr.. Seward gave 20 just and
pithy arendering. That State has no right 70
seceds, but no one has . right TO prevent u; and
that the laws Of the United States must be en-
forced but there ID no authority to enforce them.
Justice fancy says, in effect that tho Governor
Of Ohio ought to give up the fugitive, but, he
will not there IL ne authority to make hun do 90
The real point in question, however, is wheth-
er fugitive demanded by one State shall be
given up by another when his offence il no Of
fence against the laws Of the State asked to
surrender him, or against the laws of nations
The Evening Post, for instance, would be &C.
counted in South Carolina an incendiary publ
cation, and subscriber to this journal residing
IN that State would make himself liable to .
prosecution. II, however, he should fly from
South Carolina justice to New York justice,
doubtless Governor Morgan would hesitate to
give him up; and he would be sustained in his
refusal by the usual construction given TO extra.
dition laws and acts y he5siae3 asses .,.1l
/ Mr.. Douglas. who il far.seeing enough when
advantages are to be secured for his Southern
friends, seems to have forseen some such dead
lock as Justice fancy has brought about, and
did his best, in the Senate Committee of Thir-
teen, to secure what he would call ''the rights
Of the South" on this point. From the reports
of that committees proceedings it appears that
on December Gath, 1860, Mr.. Douglas submitted
series Of joint resolutions intended - his peace
Offering to the South. One Of these reads as fol
lows: ba4sJetI y31 10 J.as
"Sec. 4. The second and third clauses Of the
second section Of the fourth article of the Con-
stitution, which provides for delivering Up fugi-
tives from justice and fugitives from service and
labor, shall have power in the territories and
new States, as in the States of the Union; and
The said clause ~ respect to tagtues from justice
shaA be construed to include all crimes committed
witin and against the la'cs of the State from which
tie tMgitre ed c|tether the acts charged De criminal
or not in the State schere the fugitive scast found"
Of course Mr.. Douglas joint resolutions were
voted down; but we advise the State of Virginia,
when she comes to draw up those demands on
the State of New York which the Hon. John
Cochrane assures her will be Immediately ac-
ceded to, to engage Mr. Douglas as her legal ad-
wiser and draughtsman. So eminenty far. see
ing and all-embracing a mind as Mr.. Douglas has
here displayed is invaluable to State about to
ask for what it wants, and to receive it unques-
toned. And it seems pity to see SO subtle and
and INSCRIPTIONS an advocate and maintaner OF
slavery to go to waste in free State like Hi
nois, whose citizens will hardly choose him
again to msrepresent them or to plot against
the freedom which has placed their State among
the most wealthy, intelligent and influential in
the Union.-N. Y. Post.