The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-28
NUMBER III.

LOI ali evils O1SIuIOLu6 1IS auIoONAI1
and operations. .....
NUMBER III.
The wars engendered by passion have
desolated all countries in all ages, and this
war is only melancholy fact that will stand
recorded in history to verify this assertion.
Before proceeding with the main subject
I propose to give a short sketch of this con.
troversy. Gao
About the time of the enactment Of the
law prohibiting the importation of African
slaves into this country, which went into
effect on the 1st day of January, 1903. q
society was formed, in Virginia, which after
! wards established branches or auxiliary So
cieties in Kentucky and other States, which
took the name of the abolition Society,""
its object being to- remove from, or ex-
tinguish slavery in the United States. OF
this society Mr.. Clay and many other en-
inent politicians of early days were members
and it met no opposition and excited no
jealousy in Slave holders, until the ques-
ton arose of forming colony of such slaves
pated either by their pecuniary means or
their influence. This auxiliary society's
meetings were held in Mercer county, KY,
and it published its proceedings in Danville.
Mr.. Birney was printer of that society at
that time, about forty years ago; the society
determined to form colony, and locate 1t
on the coast of Africa, in q clima ate con-
genial with the constitut ton fthe black man
and finally chose the place, now known as
Liberia, and from that time took the pane
of the "CozOnization Society" From these
proceedings, Mr.. Birney dssented and pub
lished structures on the policy of the society,
styling himself and those who went off with
him as the true abolition" in opposition to
the Colonization Society. He soon brought
on himself and associates the animosity of
the slave e-holding community, removed from
Danville to Lexington, where his. press was
torn down by the citizens and removed out
of the State as nuisance; this course ex-
cited animosity in Mr.. Biruey's associates,
which soon drew to itself sympathy OF large
numbers, not interested in the question, citi-
zens of ron-slave- olding States, until the
cloud, at first not larger than a mans hand,
has over spread and shrouded this nation 10
midnight gloom, and burst in a storm of
passion, deluging this fair land with blood.
Mr.. Hamilton, one of the leading trainers
of the constitution, in his commentaries on
it (Federalist No. 16), after discussing the
bad policy OF keeping up large armies to en-
force the requirem euts of the general govern
mert, saws: "THE MAJESTY OF THE NATIONAL
AUTHORITY MUST BE MANIFESTED THROUGH
THE MEDIUM OF THE COURTS OF JUsTIoE."-
And in writing of the power and authority
of the judiciary (No. s0). be says: "Contro-
versies between the nation and its members
can only be PROPERLY referred to the nation
al tribunals" And further on, iD the same
number, says: "History gives horrid pic
ture of the dissentions and private wars
which distracted and desolated Germany,
prior to the establishment Of the Imperial
Chamber by Macmillan, towards the close
of the fifteenth century," and il poems, as at
the same time, of the "vast influence of that
institution in appeasing the disorders and
the tranquility of the empire:
this was a court established to decide finally
all the differences among the members of
Germa an body" When we reflect that
G ermary and Ibis country have derived
their constitutions from common origin,
the feudal system, we must admit that Ger
many has taken one step in advance of US
in settling sectional controvsrsies,-h ,-hy>a court
of Justice, in peaceful manner, and the
precedent was valuable to the fathers Of the |
constitution; though this constitutional pro-
vision has unhappily been lost sight of in
this controversy, while the parties to it must
have known it to exist and feared to appeal |
to it, lest it should not fully answer their
designs; the object of the one being the
abolition of slavery, and the other to cut
them selves loose from those who inter-
meddled with their cherished institution;
the latter openly avowiLg this object, the
other concealiug their purpose under vari-
Gus pretences, toe transparent to afford
cover for their real design, declaring that the
object of this war is the preservation and
of the Union, in direct subversion
of the enacting clause of the constitution,
the second phrase of which is "to establish
justice" and the third ito ensure domestic
tranquility" and in contradiction. of the
whole tenor of President WashinSton's let
ter advising the States to adopt this eonsti-
tuition as the result of spirit of amity,
mutual Difference and concession indispsu-
sable to the popularity of our political stu
ation." Can t0e establish justice, insure do
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