St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-08-29
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The Slaves Of The South.
THEIR II IURE.

bl lllIS uGatl MS, SpliIC .ihlliI Vd-
rians have asserted, was employed as
figure drawn from the custom of
some ancient people, Of binding a
dead carcass upon the shoulders Of Il
living imam and criminal, and Of com
pclling him to carry it till il putrciipd
and the flesh fell from its bones the
unhappy culprit suffering The dcathly
stencil, and sickcning thereby, until,
by the disease it cntailcd upon him
lie also pinned away and finally sunk
into the most miserable death
How striking! how fit the emblem
Of the body of death we, as a people,
are enduring from that great body of
death, African slavery, which is bound
upon the shoulders of the living body
Of the people Of the United States of
America Entailcd on us as nation
by that nation from whom VIC were
separated by the Revolution, we have
been unable to cXtricatc ourselves to
this hour. Many have been the anX-
ious spirits that have sighed for our
dclvcrancc many have been the be
mevolent enterprises formed many
the tar-sccing schemes devised and
many the millions expended for our
cXtrication but all have proved abor-
tive, and we, who have felt the bur
then, and ScHSed the nauscouS stencil Of
the moral putrciiactIon, have groancd
and struggled on, as, in the midst Of
Egyptian darkness, till at length a
light has broken upon us attended
with awful thundcrings, and the deep
toned and frightful voice Of Death !
\ light, did | say? Light implies the
discovery of truth. The truth we are
brought to behold is, that nine Of the
Slave States have prccipitatcd them
selves into state Of anarchy, rcpu-
dated the Government, whereby they,
by thus forleiting their claim to pro-
lection from the General Government,
have become mere provinces, or, dis
organized territories Of that Gov
crnment. In this state of things, if
there were ever any bonds on the
part of the General Government to IA
yor the institution of Slavery in those
States, such obligations have been
made void by the peoples violating
their own obligation or bond to sus-
tain the Government and, still more
so by making war upon it. If there
ever were any Compromises" between
the General Government and these
States fostering and sustaining slave
ry with a view to aid the latter, said
compromises are rendered null by
those States departing from the obi
cation on their own part to sustain
and carry out faithfully the measures
Of the Government.
1t is claimed that the three-ffths
rule for representation and taxation,
and the rcquisition for the returning
Of fugitivcs from labor are rccogni-
tons of slavery, and are designed as
aids thereto. Admitting this to be
the case, not only those guarantees,
but the existence Of slavery itself in the
seeded and insurreCtionary States,
are forfeited, to the States, as such,
for it was between State authority
and the General Government that the
provision for return of fugitives was
made. The language is No person
held to service under the laws and
regulations of one State, &c, shall be
discharged, &c, on fleeing into anoth-
or" State, &c. This is the bond OF
the General Govcrnmcnt,-th on the
State is the support. in Slate capacity,
of all the duties and obligations i'm
posed on all the States in their State
capacity, which are not few.
But the seeded and insnrrectionary
States have not only failed to support
the Government, but have actually
made war upon it to dcmolish it. If
this does not amount TO a forfeiture of
all those Governmental " compromis-
cS," and all the immunitics from the
Government, let any man who does
not see it 50, assert it. Those States
have become mere territories in a state
of anarchy-having no civil or legal
institutions under the cognition of
Government
AS the succor given to slavery by
the General Government, Of such
was givcn), was conditioned upon the
fdelHy Of those States to the General
Government, when those States made
forfeiture by repudiating the Govern
ment,, all obligation ceased, on the
part Of the Government to lend such
aid any longer. And, as it is admit
ted on all hands that the true policy
Of the General Government was not to
crtea6 slavery beyond its original linn
itations, and and that policy never
having been constitutionaIIy changed,
it cannot be otherwise but that the
Government is bound to make an end
Of slavery in these, now, territories,
which were heretofore States, of the
Union. All their right to hold slaves
therein is abrogated by their act of
rebellion. Even their lands, aDd all
personal property are coniiscated, or,
rather, legally subject to confscation.
And, on return to their fidelity again,
should the Government accept them
it would not be under the least obliga-
ton to restore to them those forfeited
privileges, which have proved such
elements of diScord, and, which have
been the sole instruments in their de-
struction and threatened SO iminently
the destruction Of the whole Govern.
mental fabric. There is, at this hour
no legal slavery in all these disorga-
nized territories formerly Statcs) in
rebellion against the Constitution and
the laws. Legally, it is at full end.
Should slavery be continued hereat-
ter, it will only be under the suffer
ance of the General Government. But
the question here arises, how Govern
mcnt can do that? What right has
the Administration or Congress to
form any new conditions or compacts
for the admission into the Union of
States, territories, other than the
now covered by the Constitution.
In all those anarchicai territories
(oncc States the right to slavery is
forfeited and abolished: and what
shall compel Congress to receive them
again to the bosom of the Government
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