New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-08


property, and that the Government sal! never inter
feTe with tie night q any State 10 abolish or protect
slavery IN It's own limits We demand that a common
Government shall use Us power ia protect our properly
as well az yours. We pay as much ~ you do. Oar
pro, erty is suhject 80 taxation. We ei1m that that
tiove Hnent WI ic recognizes orr property Tor taxa
tiCn should give it the protection 1t docs TO your
p1operty. Shall il MT do u lon say Nc. You 10
he Senate saw No; the Iiouse says, No; and
throughout the length and breadth OF ycur whole CON
.Jimey against the Cons'iun"n there Is one
shO,t Of No! 1t h the p'ire of my allie
glance. Withhold it, and You don't get my obedi-
rnce There j. the philoeophy Of the armed tbit
have y rng up IN this oounsiy and had rather see
The population OF my own, my native land beneath the
,od than that they should support for ont honr snch
u Government Protection y the price OF obedience
everywhere, in all coanlies. II is the only thing that
makes Government respectable. Deny H. ana you
cannot have free subjects for citizens iou may nave
slaves. J demand third, that persons committing
crimes against slave proper, IN one state sha DC ue
hvered ny by aDoheT Stale TO which they may have
he'd. That Is another OF the demands o.
an extremist ard rbel. Mr.; Ioomhs
then referred to the Fourth Article of tie
Constitution AS supporting this demand and pro-
ceedcd But the nOn-StvehOlding States, regardless
of The ir oabs and compacis have steadily refused 90
return the men who have stClen negroes If those ne
grces were slaves. This Wa done l)ng ago in Marie.
We demonstrated and appealed for fraternity. bht
this article of the Constitution has been dead letter
to M fl ON that day TO tLis. The Senator from New
| Yok MIR. Seward also, when Governor, refused this
right TO Virginia. He said il was not against the laws
Of NewYoIk TO steal negroes, and he would mol de-
liver mp the man, and these are our cohfederatesour
sister States There If bargain ana compact ihey
SVEN, 10 IT, but Won cannot bind them by an oath.
| They have higher law. suppose you VIII under
take to whip roemen into loving such brethren AZ that
| You will have IA coed lime OF 1t, no doubt W. want
that provision of the Constitution carried oui. vi
| course YOU look out for pretoXts | never knew 20
hold periurcr that would not invent some pre'eAt.
The next demand is that fugitive slaves shall be sur
Tel deled accord TO the act 81 lo'o; ihs Ioas'
tuition has provided for this rendition lie read that
arii of the Constitution But tie Northern States
have tried ALWAYS to evade this. First they got up the
fiction that they entitled TO the ha6eas corpus
act in the States to which the fugitive had He'd lhey
did not reQuiIe tha, Cor a white man. White men
might he deliN cred up every day, but not slaves lie
then referred 10 tie speech OF the Senator from Yer,
mont Mr.. Colamer in reply TO his own ana reau
from the at of Vermont, in 1913, detliIng slaves free,
whether con ing voluntarily or Involuntary To tIe
State. go n,,
MIR. COLLAMER said he did not refer to that act at
Mr.. TOOMBS said bv mistake in reference, he
WAS made 10 refer 10 prior act and the Senator took
advantage of that mistake. 1t was adrOly or lghor-
antv done don't know which; and this II another OIL
our sisters forwlOm we are ohave so great an
uent There was clear act, but IN the course oi tne
Iilg1ims PIoQess they came 10 make tins refusal,
without any act at all. They subvert the Constl-
tution now without passing Peisona-L Liberty bills l
undertake to say here that Black Republican Legls-
laue will say it is their duty to render back
fugitive slaves. They don't intend TO do 1t. Ihey IN,
teld to Ct possession Of Til, GOy Y,a and dH
mard is, that no State shall pass any
law intended TO disturb the peace and tranquility OF
any other State. Wien the Senator from Illinois
(1lr. Douglas introduced bill here last Winter TO
| prevent INVASION Mr. Lincoln, in his speech at New
York called il d scdition bill These five provisions
We demand, and l viii iate them up ana examine
them in detail and show what they are. These thir-
| teen Colonies had no bond Of union whatever-no
more than Jamaca and Australia have to-day. They
were sci arale and independent OF each other. All
the Ill ion between them that ever was made
is in writing. Trey made two written con,
| tracts: one was known rs the old articles oi
confederation. They declared 1t should be per
| petnal-an argument very mu'h relied upon by the
| friends Of the Union now. But they saw 1t did not
W@'k T1e di6&caIfy was, that after the war there
were troubles about the regulations of Congress- but,
above all there were financial troubles. The Govern
meut bad no Of getting at the pockets OF the
people and but for that one dIhculty, the preseh,
Governrent never would have been framed, and yet
am told that the Union is cemcnted by bond OF the
blood Of the brave of the Revolution. SIR, II is
false. II has never cost drop MANY OF these men
voted against il. II carried IN the Conyen-
ton of Virginia by only five votes. The great
mass Of the people of Georgia, know, would
rather STAY in tie UHion but leve IL ia lvtrn-
melt that has never done anything for MS and mad
the opportunity should have voted with the men
who voted against it. Yet have been content to its
maintenance because while did not believe 1t was
good compact | was bound 10y my oath aud by honor
and by that common prudence wien leads men 10 hoiu
know not Of And have given J., and would nave
given it, my unqualified support aud allegiance
| All the obligations, all the chains that letter
the limbs Of my people, are nominated In
The bond. Thev acted upon that conclusion by
declaring that the powers not granted 70
the Government, or forbidden to the
States, belonged to the States respectively. Now tne
law of nature and of common justice will ray that, III a
common government, equal rights should be enjoyed.
Even desI cite governments have laid down this prin-
ciIle. There is where We stand. IT, In common JUS
1 L.. ii. SgfaE hon wa
GET them Every reserved right is constitutional
tight The Northern doctrine the same many
wears ago. They denounced Madison for the Virginia
report Of 1893. They denounced many OF tue fathers
because they presumed TO impugn the decl ms Of e
Suprme Court That was the universal Judg.
ment and declaration of every Free State OF
this Union. Very well. Come to the compact. 1t il
not in the bond to exclude from the common terri
tory. TIE Supreme Court has decided have
Iiet go there and have night TO be protected there
BIT Mr.. Lincoln says " don't care for the Supreme
Court will turn you out any how Then you must
take my construction Of the Constitution. You won
ale the Supreme Court the arbiter, or the opinions
of Mac son Jefferson or the fathers. You take nothing
but your own Judgment Your States discard the
Court and our construction, and say you VIII dye US
out. Come and do IT,. You will find us ready. Come
and do it. If this is the argument, then the sword
alone becomes the constitutional arbiler. IL may be
| secession, it may be revolution, but 1t II free
| country in arms and standing for the night
Here Is the Court and fathers for fifty years. But
the Black Republican patty says we don't care Tor yon
Consiiturion-we lave progressive policy well as
a dogrestve religion. The leaders on the floor have
said ley would change the Court, if they should de-
| eide against the power If Congress. You may make
Judges, and make a mockery Of justice. But | will
now proceed with the charges against tins organza
| lien. They have made proclamation of outlawry
against us The Constitution gives them no warrant
| for this thing. Your Chicago Platform aud
| declaration OF principles expressly declares
| very muCh like the Uni ust Judge that
YOU either fear God nor regard man. lie read from
lie Clcapo laflrm the article DENYING the legal ex