New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-21
TaR QUESTION OF QUESTIONS.

In ,rhat section or clause Of he Constitution
is the Nation or its GorsrnmsHt required 70
guarantee or protect The alleged property Of
ReJels ia hos, Gey c'a;m as their s'ares'
We have asked this question in substance
once already, and have waited Tong for
response, but there is none.
Why none
If there is any such clause or section, 1t
must he easy to point il out. VIII some one
atiempt 10 do 500
If there be any law of Nature or OF Nations
any principle of comfy or usage OF wsr, which
requires us to treat loyal persons as the slaves
of Rebels aud remand them into Slavery 81
the beck of those Rebels, some one can cite It.
We challenge its production
The Pro.Slavery journals AID speakers can
talk glibly enough Of the guarantees OF Slate
Rights and slave property embodied IN the
Constitution; but they glide OYER the fact that
these guarantees uniformly contemplate ana
refer to States 10 the Union and obedient TO ia
authority. not States in rebellion against and
hostility to tue Federal authority. In no pof-
ton OF our Federal pact is there phrase, Il
word an intmstion, implying that persons or
States in rebellion against tine Union are emf
tied to be upheld aud projected by that Union
in holding human beings ia Slavery.
Il not the distinction here insisted on pain
aud vital Who contends that Rebel IL
arms against the Government is entitled to a
voice ia the conduct Of dat Government ANA
if he foriets by treason his right to vote for
Members Of Congress, how shall he escape the
forfeiture of bis right-if he ever had right
TO be protected by the Government in hold
ine lis fellov-bcings in bondage
When before did ever Government whose
very existence WIS periled by rebellion al
tempt TO bold its loyal subjects III bondage to
trators' When before did Nation batting
for life ever surrender loyal sons eager 10
serve il to traitors fighting to destroy 1t
A simple Proclamation by 'he Federal FNccu-
li,e-.'An you abe-bodlcd men vino are will
NC to work or fight for The Union, repair 10
The most convenient Federal camp, and there
grasp the tx, the SPADE or The rifle M sinai
be deemed advisable, and your liberty az least
shall be assured and protected" would, within
tgo months. rally at least one Hundred
Thousand new supporters 10 the National
standards. All thee would be willing 10 do
whatever might 6e Re CURED Of tLen-wonld De-
patient and willing laborers-and would save
our o,erworked soldiers from much fatigue IN
this hot, trying weather. Even though none
of Them was ever allowed to shoulder u muskct,
they wonld add immensely b. The strength oi
our armies by saving the health and Vlgor OF
The men. They waa 10 help ~ iOt nothing
but Freedom, yet they arc not permitted
Instead Of this, thousands who would s'sdi!
fee from their Rebel masters Ia orr camps
are deferred by knowing that our Generals
send back refugees to be whalcd end gcshed "a
deaths door by their Infatuated masters
Therefore our armies occupy Nashville, Norfolk,
eW-Orleaus, and Memphis, yet make little OF
30 impression upon the s.ayeho.ding rural dis
tricil by which those cities are surrounded.
ia this making War! is It honestly ant
faithfully striving to put down the Rebellion
Ia il doing justice TO the Nation, its authority
and its integrity
Men aud brethren shall IL, Not,oH del
Shall il not at least honestly and earnestly tri
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