New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-07

The Ab0ltionists now deny that there is such a
| thing as property in slaves. Henry j. Raymond
the editor of the New York Times, has written
long letter to show that the North will never yield
the point that there is property in slaves and that
the difficulty between that section and the South
can never be settled if the North is required to
recognize such right. So, also, last year the
Governor of Ohio refused to give up man WHO
had bePn stealing negroes in Kentucky on the
ground that no crime had been committed, because
| slaves were not property!
But, how was it i'll former times? These people
are always talking about the opinions of the
fathers of the Republic" and always referring
to Washington, Jefferson, etc., as being anti
slavery, though they owned slaves up to the day of
| their death. But the New York Express repro
! duces some of the treaties made between this
country and Great Britain, which show that England
not only recognized the right of property in Slaves
but THO same right was admitted by the Adams's,
| by John Jay, by Benjamin Franklin, and in truth
by all the sgners to these treaties of both nations
| Among the % Provisional Articles" between Great
Britain and the United States, signed at Paris Nov.
| 80, 1872, is the folowing
| Article VII. - All prisoners on both sides
| shall lie set at liberty, and His Britannia Majesty
shall, with all convenient speed and without caus-
lls any oeSlfuctOn, or carrying away any NB" h.
| GROE3 OR OTHER PROPERTY ~tE9 of the Ameri-
can inhabitants, withdraw all his armies, garrisons
and fleets from the said U. S.. and from every port
| place and harbor within the same.
| Done at Paris Nov. 80 1852.
RIdmARn OSWALD, JouN JAY
| JobN ADAMS HENRY L1UNESs
| The final treaty of peace in 1888 contained an
article almost identical:
| Article VII Il * And His Britannia Majesty
| shall, with all convenient speed, and without per
| mitins any destruction, or carrying away any
| GIy' NEGROES OR OTHER PROPERTY -JE, of
the American inhabitants, Withdraw all his armies,
| ETC., ETC., etc.
| Dated at Paris, Sept. 8, 1888,
| D.HARrLEY r. FRANKLIN,
JGIlT ADAMS, JOHN JAY,
Thp treaty of Client had also an article recognize
ing the fact that Slaves property. Here it is:
| Article l. = Shall be restored without de-
| lay, and without causing any destruction or carry
ing away any Of the artillery other public prop
erty originally captured in the said forts or places
and which shall remain therein upon The exchange
| of the ratifcations of the treaty, or any
ne SLAVES OR OTHER PRIVATE PROPERTY.
| DoIe, in tripcate, at Client, Dec. "a, 1871
GAMnlER, J. A. BAYARp,
HENRY G0ELBGRS, II. CLAY
WILLIAM ADAMS, JOSA RUSSELL,
JpIN QCtHCT ADAMS, ALBERT GAlLATIT.
Here, it will be seen is admission of the right
OF property in slaves by both old John Adams and
his son John Quincy. Also by Joha Jay, whose
grandson now raises such row in the New York
Episcopal Convention every year because they will
not let him introduce anti-savery resolutions into
| that body. So much for Abolition hypocrisy and
| mc1dacity! What becomes, now, of the authority
of the " Fathers of the Republic?n