The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1862-03-26

Jury OF tHe SIaJe or ulSITlcI NneIoln
the crime shall have been committed,
which district shall have previously been
ascertained by law, and to be informed of
the nature aud cause of the accusation;
to be confronted with the witnesses
against him; to have compulsory process
for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and
TO have tho assistance of counsel for his
Defence
"a bill has been introduced into this
body of similar import, and obnoxious TO
the same objection, and likewise to a still
stronger one. The latter bill proposes to
abolish State, and degrade it to the po-
sition of Territory. Such an act as this
is utterly at war with the theory of our
Federal system. II could not be carried
into effect without destroying the nation,
as it has heretofore existed. It's success
would establish a precedent which would
make the Federal government the source
of all power, and convert the States into
mere corporations"
To accomplish his purposes, he would
recognize the so-called Confederate States
as a separate nation, and wage war upon
them because he believes that the laws
regulating public war would enable him
to deprive the citizens of those States Of
2,o0o,O 100000 worth of slave property.
He says:
"The conflict has now been progressing
nine months, and has changed its charac-
ter from an attempt to destroy an insur-
rection into deliberate and settled wal"
l have noticed this speech because l
think it representative speech, and be-
cause he states with boldness what l
believe are the views of his party,
and what his party associates, less
bold than himself, do not dare to
avow. If a member from a slave State
had uttered such sentiments as these, the
whole air would have been filled with the
cry of disloyalty. The press which clam
ored so loudly for the expulsion Of the
= late Senator from Indiana (Mr. Bright, J
is now engaged in applauding the senti-
meuts Of the member from Kansas. The
secessionist and the abolitionist have pull
. ed at the same string, at different ends,
! heretofore, both sitting in Congress. Now
= they are pulling at the same string each
at his own end of the country. Both want
their rights. The secessionist is fighting
: for his, and the aboitionist wants you tc
fight for his; one wants you to acknowl'
, edge the right to take slaves into Ter
: rtory, though he knows he will never take
; them there. The other wants you to ac
' knowledge his right to liberate the slaves
not that he would ever do it, for he WOO
: not take care of them in his own State
a and he knows he would not be permitted
D to live in slave State. Par mobile fra
}, trum. Abolition and secession, twins
they were spawned at the same time anC
/ in the same muddy stream. The seconC
@ section of this bill provides for the emanci
i patton of slaves and the purchase of trop
J. ical countries for their settlement, ;
i scheme which will never be carried out
But the people are to be taxed at all times
IS and in all ways, to advance the scheme
: of those persons who view with compla
II cency the sufferings and groans Of th
7, white race, but are horrifed at the stat
d of four millions of negroes, comfortable
70 contented and happy, and unconscious o
:, any suffering until informed by some phi
OF lanthropic Greeley that they were in
re dreadful condition, and whose labor an
10 productions have contributed more tha
any other TO make the country what
10 was, one of the richest and most prosper
10 Gus on the globe. But the advocates c
rs this measure are mistaken if they thin
such an emancipation of slaves could wor
~ any good. Selfpreservation would CON
D. pei the States where slavery now exist
le either to expel the negroes from the Stat
IL or re-enslave them. If expelled, wher
a. would they go9 Many of the non-slavC
to holding States have already exclude
IS them, and others would Immediately d
ch so, and then what follows? Extermns
es ton or reinstatement. Can it be poss
IS. bic that the christian sentiment of th
se North, which it is said demands abolitio
by of slavery, really desires the extermin'
~ ton of the negro races Such, l trust,
b. not the sentiment Of any considerabl
lrs number of persons anywhere. The rc
he sui. would be that the States would
he what they have the acknowledged const
he tutional right to do, re-enslaye them. III
to well-being, if not the existence of th
sse white race, would demand their re-er
is, slavement, and it would be DONE l as
them what good would be done to the
is race by the passage Of this bill? The aC
ers vocates of this bill would have us belle,
lie, that although in time of peace the col
lts stitution is the paramount law Of the Ian,
Mt yet in time of war it ceases to be binC
ste ing obligation, and, therefore, failing
ms constitutional power, they seek to show b
di- citations from Grotius, and others, th,
ro- such measure is authorized by the la
ISL of nations, forgetting that the laws of W,
Mt. fix the rules by which separate and ind
fth pendent nations are to be governed whc
les they engage in war with each other Sci
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