The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1861-02-06

are forbidden to pass law prohibiting his
emigration into the Teuitsries. As mere
property you might set up plausible claim
to exclude him. Ay, as mere property, there
would be color Of argument in favor OF his
exclusion; but as person, a person held to
service, man holdings personal relation 20
another, member of the household, a part
of the family. ynu have no more right to ex-
clude him from the privilege of going into
the Territories with his master than you have
to exclude wife from going into the Terri
tories with her husband. The wife, too, BY
law. owes service and labor TO the husband.
rhe relation existing between husband and
wife is the relation established by the laws
81 the States and the gentleman from OHIO
cannot say that these are the laws which are
local, and do not extend beyond the limits
OF the States where they were enacted; be-
cause the same argument would force him to
the conclusion that it is within the power OF
Congress to exclude from Territory a wife
bound to her husband under the law Of any
State, and that the husband cannot carry a
wife occupying that relation with him into
the Territories, because the law under which
that relation was established or recognized
does NOT extend beyond the territory of the
State in which it was enacted.
This, then, is the very highest position
which the South can occupy in relation to
their slaves. And permit me, sir, to say that
Il they were property, and nothing utprop-
erty, they would not be represented in Con-
sress; for there is no description Of proper
" represented in Congress as property
Their lands, nor money, nor stocks, nor any
other kind Of property. Ii they were prop
erty, and nothing but property, then we de-
priye ourselves 0f the right 81 representation
Of tAree-fifths Of the whole namber, except
upon the condition that ~ equal representa-
ton be given to property Of equal value in
other States Of the Union.
Even il there be on overthrow Of the Gov
ernment, even if there be dissolution Of the
Union, still the States might assemble them
selves in general convention; and, il they
cannot live peaceably together, let them de-
termiue peaceably 10 separate. | look upon
the waging Of war now, not merely as a vio-
lation of the Constitution, but as 4 crime a
gainst humanity. There may be war; fear
there will be war. Ii is rare that mortal
man dies, except in agOnizins thrOes and
commissions. And when a Government like
this; first class power of the earth; Re-
public of more than thirty millions; the
young giant Of the New World, when such
Government dies, in the full vigor Of its
strength, sudden and violent death, can it
be supposed that il will cxhale its breath
calmly and TRANQUILITY. Sir, my fears are
actiTe-so active that ! should, feel was
committing great crime against conscience.
agains, nv country, and. against God, IL I
could permit myself, at an exigent moment
ike this, e attempt TO add TO the excitement
now rnhappily existing, BY any word Of an
ger or passion. ! have tried to discuss the
question fairly and frankly, have tried to
present nv views, as those Of one reared in
the school of States rights politics, ready to
maintain evesy right and interest Of my
State, and believing that am maintaining
her best rights aud dearest interests when
seek 20 warn her against the calamities and
dangers which some she counts her friends
would expose her TO. have stood here re-
peiling eyerv aggression on her rights, every
invasion Of her constitutional privileges.
have surrendered nothing. have consent
ed al NJ time to any compromise or abate-
ment Of Ter JUST claims. That which be-
longs u her have insisted upon. Ii the
very first speech ii was my fortune to make
In the hall 81 the House Of Representatives
eleven years arc, | said, about this same
controversy aid the Constitution, which |
thought furnished the means by which that
controversy could be ended, that | asked
nothing which the Constitution did not Sc
cure tous; bat demanded everything which
it did. That, sir, IS nv position now; and
10 urging the propriety Of new stiprlations
IN the Constitution, | only urge, not that
there shalt be any extension Of rights, any
addition Of privileges. but that there shall
be the insertion Of plain, simple stipulations,
declaring that those rights and privileges are
what thes have been decided 10 be by DIE
Supreme Court, which The gentleman from
OHIO said Vas intended to be tribunal Tor
settling forever all disputed points Of eonsti-
/ nationality.
But sir, though nv fears are active. d
not permit myself altogether 70 despair The
Union my vet be preserved. The Union
may yet be reconstructed. II in the pow
n 81 the people d this country, by Judi.
ciols, wise, moderate course, not only "a
allay he apprehensipns of those % the slave.
holding States that still remain IN the Union
bot TO induce The return Of those who have
already Withdrawn from IL. Sir, hope they
may do .. | hgpe tina, harmony may BE-
once more restored. hope the Amefican
| people vii reeolleet the agitations Of the
| present day only a. things that were and
that the historians Of the last tines, looking
back through long age, to this period Of the
Union Of the American States, may write Of
], as the epoch when it only commenced "a
be.
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