Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-01-08

and is entitled TO the same protection. az
every other description Of property, that the
General Government has no power to cir
cumscribe or confne 1t within auy given
boundary; to determine where it shall, OF
shall not exist, or In any manner to impai,
It's value. And certainly it viii not be con.
tended. in this enlightened age, that any
member of the Comic drracy can exercise high.
er powers, IN this respect, beyond the Limits
OF Its own boundary than those delegated tc
the General Government
The States entered the Union uuon term;
of perfect political equality, each deIegatine
certain poners to the General Government
but neither delegating any pr wer to the Other
TO Interfere with its reserved rights or do
nestle affairs; hence, there is no power or
earth which can rightfully determine whether
slavery shall or shall not exist within the
limits of any State, except ihe people Thereof
acting In their highest stver .ign capacity.
The attempt of the Northern p ople
through the instrumentaliiy of The Federal
Goyernment-tleirS State governments, and
emigrant aid societies-to cunfine this spe
cies of property within the limits of the pres
ent Southern States-to impair its value by
constant sgitsf ion and refusal to deliver uE
the fugitive-to appropriate the whole of the
Territories, which are the common property
of all the people of all The States, to them
selves; by excluding tberefrom every South
ern man who is unwilling TO live under q
government which may by law recognize
the free negro as his equal; "aDd in fac. &c
put the gu stion where the Northern MIND
will rest ia the belief Of its ultimate extinc
tion." is justly regarded by the people o.
the Southern States as gross and palpable
violation of the spirit and obvious meaning
of the compact OF Union-an impertinenl
intermeddling with their domestic affairs, de
strucIiye of fratern4l feeling, ordinary conf
ty, and well defined rights.
AS slavery rrceded from the North, 1t was
followed by the most violent and fanatical
opposition. At first the anti-slavery cloud
which now overshadows the nation, was nc
larger than mans hand. Most of you can
remember, with vivid distiuctness, those days
of brotherhood. when throughout the whole
North, the abolitionist was justly regarded
as an enemy OF his country. Weak, diminu-
i've and contemplate as was this party in
the purer days of the Republic, it has now
grown TO colossal propo, tions, and its recent
rapid strides to power, have given ii posses
sion of the present House of Representatives,
and elected one of its leaders to the PreSl-
dency of the United States; and in the pro-
gress of events, the Senate and SUPREME
Court must also soon pass into the hands OF
this party-a party upon whose revolufiona-
~ banner is inscribed, mo more slave States.
no more slave Territory, no return of the
fugitive TO his master"-an 'irrepresslble
conflict" between the Free and Slave States;
"and whether it be long or short, peaceful or
bloody, the struggle shall go on, until the
sun shall not rise upon master or set upon
a slsVe''
Nor is this all !; it seeks to appropriate to
itself, and to exclude the STAKEHOLDER from
the Territory acquired by the common blood
and treasure of all the States.
1t has. through the fundamentally OF EN-
igrant Aid Societies. under State patronage,
flooded the Territories with its minlons, arm
ed with Sharp's rifles and bowie-kniVes,
seeking thus to accomplish, by intimidation,
violence and murder, what it could not do by
Constitutional legislation.
Il demand. and from our love of peace and
devati TO the Union, unfortunately extorted
in IsI9-'20, a concession which excluded the
South from about half the T Dry acquired
from France.
1t demanded, and again received, as a
peace Offering in 1S45, all of that part of
Texas North of sc 80 North latitude, if at
any time the interest of the people thereof
shall require division of her Territory.
1t would submit to nothing less than a
compromise in 1850, by which it dismem-
bsred that State, and remanded to Terrific
rial condition considerable portion of its
Territory South of SO 80.
1t excluded By the same Compromise, the
Southern people from California, whose min
eral wealth, fertility Of soil, and salubrity OF
climate, is not surpassed on earth by pre-
maturely forcing her into the Union under a
Constitution, conceived in fraud by a set of
Adventures. in the total absence of any law
authorizing the formation of Constitution,
fixing the qualification of voters, regulating
the time. place, or manner of electing dele
gates, or the time or place of the meeting of
such Convention. Yet all these irregular
and unauthorized proceedings were sancti-
fed By the fact that the Constitution prohib-
tied slavery. and forever CLOSED the doors of
that rich and desirable Territory against the
people. And while the Southern
mind was still burning under a h1milia'ing
sense of this wrong, il refused to admit Kan
sas into the Union upon a Constitution.
framed by authority of Congress. and by del
egates elected in conformity TO law. upon the
ground that slavery was recognized and pro-
tected.
IL claims the Constitutional right TO abolish
slavery ia The District of Columbia, the forts.
arsenaIs. dock-yards and other places ceded
TO the United States, within The limits of
States.
1t proposes a prohibition of the slave trade
slaves together and preventing their exit
South, until tEey become Improbable TO an
extent that will force the owner finally to
abandon them in Eelf-defence.
IL has by the deliberate Legislative enact
ment of a large mi Irity of the Northern
States, openly and iagrantly nulllfed that
cIanse of the Constitution which provides
that
No person held to service OF labor in one
State under the laws thereof, escaping into
another, shall, in consequence of any law or
regulation therein, be discharged from such
service or labor, but shall be delivered up on
claim of the party to whom such service or
labor may be due"
This provision of the Constitution has been
spurned and trampled under foot by these
&. higher law y nullifiers. 1t is utterly pow
eriess for good. since all attempts to enforce
he Fugitive Slave Law under it, are made
felony in some of these States, high INSIDE
meanor in others, and punishable in all by
heavy fines and imprisonment. The distem-
pered public opinion of these localities bav-
ing risen above The Constitution and all other
law, planting itsrlfupon the anarchical doc
trines of Their higher Iao," with impunty
defes the Government, tramples upon our
rights, and plumbers the Southern citizen.
1t has, through the Governor of Ono, as
Opc1i1 thoS paih os en- OouceAtniiOu
which provides that
"a person charged in any State with trea-
son, felony or other crime, who shall fee from
justice and be found in another State, shall,
on demand of the executive authority of the
State from which he fed, be delivered up, TO
be removed to the State having jurisdiction
of the crime"
In discharge of official duty. had occasion,
within the past year, TO demand of the Gov
ernor of Ohio. a person charged in the State
(of Ttznessee) Nth the crime +" of slqUe stealing
who had fed from justice and was found in
the State of Ohio. The Governor refused to
issue his warrant for the arrest and delivery
of the fugitive, and in answer TO letter of
inquiry which addressed TO him, said 1.-The
crime of negro stealing, not being known TO
either the common law or the criminal code
of Ohio it is not of that class of crimes con-
templated by the Federal Constitution. for
the commission of which am authorized. as
the Elk, cutive Of Ouio, to surrender a fugi-
tive from the justice OF sister State. and
heneo 7 decline tn issue q warrant - eic