New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-03-02


| 7. You affirm that the g Personal Liberty Buls
were not enacted to obstruet the carrying out OF
the Fugitive Slave Law, but to protect the CHI
2ens of the several States against outraged IN so
| doing" The best comment these laws IS the
practical administration Of them where they exist.
Fugitive slaves are, by trick and legal mapenver,
technical bubble aud reckless exhibition OF force,
| run Ot from the power OF Their masters. however
YOU may interpret them, you practice etectUally
to nufy the Congressional and Constitutional
Fugitive Slave Law
You saw too, that your Liberty bills apply to
cases of actual kidnapping of free persons" Aye ).
every negro who puts his foot upon the soil OF a
free State is construed and considered to be free
mar while there, and thus Northern Casuists strive
to evade the force and legal obligation of the Con
stitutiona law. The South has never demanded
that Northern citizens should become " Slace-h0nt
eys and SIaUe catclerS.n They have, however, had
a right to demand that Northern citizens should IN
! terpose no obstacles in the way of the United
States officers in securing fugitive slaves. mat
| demand has not been aCCeeded to.
8. You deny that Lincoln 02reS his eAction to
| "ncgro suffrage | do not, nor doe3hny one,
alTlri1 ;;..hpt we DO affirm that he receed large
vote which contributed 20 his eleoton etr;nn o
| is evidence of the prevalence of the dos co in
negro equality, and that that vote may b bntiy
creased as to give the balance OF power in Snrr1o
contested election, into their hands. To MIL
voting in an American Coniederacy the South VA
not submit, as long as we have an existence d
| earth.
0. You declare that the Black Republican Dartv
tempts to push slavery into territory consecTated
! py our lalheFS forever 10 JFee td00F." Are you,
my esteemed brotAer, dealing in pOetical fiction
with sober fact? What territory in the United
States did our fathers ever consGcrate forever to
| lrce laoor mere We're thirteen States when the
ConsutuIloh was framed. Twelve of these States
as nave before remarked, were theh slavehuldlng
! states. Oniy one Oh these could then have been
cOnseCrated to free labor. Interest pecunnry
gam anu Inc laws OF poIltical economy C0nsecratod
| these OF the WE'VE when subsequently became
Fr.,,N to- fran 1D
iee STATES 10 free L""qE: 70 you mean The states
o. onp, lHu!iH' anu iiio'S' once me territory OF
! Virginia, Il slaVenoIdlhG STATE Dld Virginia con-
secrate mem 10 ire" iaooF: l'ataer ana not ncceS-
! SHY 40 II 70 you Hte"h N"llStS! IL so, included
as II was Ill lle LOUISIANA purchase neither Jclfrr
! son nor any ouief OF the ialhTrS ever spent nnch
thOu4nL upon US pGcum.Iz elhtf irte or slave.
bsSldtS, Nal'S"S IS ms sue "' thG h'<SoH Com
promise nue. ana wa" eooS'cratrd ny Henry Cay
anu HIS CuIeics IL l'l compromise 10 slave labor.
Inc ruin IS all Tie territories wore either once
part OF slave lelr'ory or parts OF slave States.
! Slrglhla Louisiana ana Texas nave furnished all
the territory now belonging to the Federal Govern
neht, except the racine REGION winch was chiefly
Onlaineu through tiie SIeNICdu war. Already the
North possesses nearly Two mIIlons hYe hundred
LnousAhu acres d 4Hha m the l"Fril"Fes while the
ADuGu mas only one hlluhn OF acres, II you make
the Missouri llne the DIVISION ilhe between the
Nnfth ana tue Soutl ana sun Inc North Is not sat
lsiied mat loot OF lhe territories shall be slave
so,, ms IS eQuIh'y VIVA vengeance
Ito. on deny the right OF secession, and affirm
that it cannot be accomplished peuceably. Why
d res the North wish any inriher connection with
slavery pTOpagahul5ts ana lnAl-stealeFS! But
Greeley x McEraths luIus tract on Poltica!
Abolition declares, Nruce I, That the States are
original, separate and independent powers in all
things " Not delegated to the United States by
the Cohsu'uuol' nor Pfoolteu hyIt to the states,
ana llese delegated ana prohhtcd powers were
not Hp0Sed by authority, but SWTeHdeTFd By cOH,-
pact, while the states were acting in the capacity
of original and independent sovcIeignties. 1t was
OF the nature OF treaty between nations as 20.
ltcal transaction, though more intimate and mvrc
solemn, having in view different and more com
prehens!Ve object, VIZ: A supreme and super
ylSng authority as 10 the powers delegated But
the polltcal rights = reserved are as independent |
and sovereign as those OF two nations are, under |
compact OF treaty IN all things not belonging to
the treaty. What does ali This imply but the right of
secession! flgnt maintained unanimously al the |
South 1t Is an undonbted historical fact that |
when III the Convention held 10 frame the Federal |
Constitution, it was proposed to give to the Enited
States Government the power to call forth The force
OF the Union against any member of the c0nfed- !
eracy failing to do its duty under the articles there
Of, men OF all parties spraNg to their feet aud de,
noun"ed it as violation OF the rights of the States
and dangerous to the liberties of the people, and
voted it down unanimously; and twice afterwards it
was voted down II, III tile lace Of such facts either
James Buchanan or Abraham Lincoln attempts
TO coerce the seeding states, (ut which by this
Tune presume mere are seYen) It Will be the most
awful calamity Which ever oelel the North. Let it
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