Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-16

| say tnat lnls part OF the act became a dead
| letter. and that no part OF the money sppronrt
| ated TO aid colonization was ever expended.
! Enforced expatrfaton, even or an Oppressed
race, has never been agreeable to any people.
| In any part OF the world, and nothing short OF
| chattel slavery can reconcile them 10 IL Men
prefer TO suffer the Ills they have around them
rather han fly TO those they know not Of
Mr.. Davis resisted the amendment TO his
amendment with all his might and predicted
| oirefui consequences as certain 70 dow from
me liberation OF the slaves and allowing them
pressed his own honest conviction. and that OF
me great majority OF the southern people
Wneh be declared that whenever that policy
Is lnaugurated, especially IN the states where
there are many slaves 1t win Inevitably ana
| Immediately Introduce a war of extermina-
tion between the two races" Sixteen years OF
experience has demonstrated the folly OF these
gloomy foTeocd1ngs: and, indeed, there never
| was, In view OF the nature OF man, any good
| reason for indulgtng them. For II centuries of
! oppression had failed TO produce war OF races
In this country, why should we anticipate such
a consequence from a sublime act OF instices
Certainly the emancfpated race could have no
motive to rebel against society In order to Sc
cure rights which had already been acquired
and IL danger to the public peace was TO DE ap-
pretended, IL must come from the white peo-
pie who we've deeply dissatisfied with the
measure OF emancipation. But the south had
seen and felt enough OF war during four long
years OF the struggle for independence, and as the
result has shown, they were not In the mood.
nor in the condition 70 renew IL. IL emancipa-
| ton had been declared before the war com
menced. 1t would doubtless have precipitated
II: out emancipation as an event OF the civil
war, contaminated and confirmed by fits trium-
phant close, could have no such consequence
a as q war o,s OF races There have been
sion between the races In the sou, h. hut these
have been caused by the enfanc6isenellt OF
the co!oIed men, and not by their emancipa-
lion. But these collisions Between whites and
blacks at the polls IN the south, have not been
| more violent and bloody, or attended with
greater corruption than those which occurred
I n fvrQQ n loci M
fngton and Baitimore-twenty- five TO twenty
eight years ago, when the Native Americans
or know Nothlngs" were arrayed against the
foreigners and Catholics. We have seen that
bad and bitter spirit pass away, within gen
Grafton, leaving not a wreck behind it: and we
see signs already that the bitter antagonism of
races us passing away In the south. IL is now
aDout thirteen years since the colored man be-
came q voter. and 1T is safe to predict that at
Tue END OF thirteen years more his right will
stand as unchalleDged as is that OF the foreign
born citizen to day.
THB BILL IN THE SENATE.
| The limits appropriate TO this article are 100
| circumscr1bed to admit even OF sketch of the
| eebate which attended the passage OF the bill
through the Senate but salient point or two
| will be noticed.
| Mr.. Davis maintained that the right to hold
slaves was the same as that to hold land or
| ether property; and he interrogatej Mr.. Sum-
! ner On the subject, and especially with refer
| ence to the constitutional guarantees of the
institution. Mr.. S. replied with great eloquence
| and force. He said 1t was too late In the day
| for men TO feel the force OF arguments Ia favor
or slavery; and he maintained that the instft,l-.
ton had never had legal existence In this Dis
| trtct. He said: "An honored predecessor OF the
Senator from Maryland (Mr. Kennedy whose
| fame as statesman was eclipSed perhaps by
his more remarkable fame as q lawyer mean
! William Pinkney-and 1t is among the recol-
lectl0ns OF my youth that heard Chief Justice
| Marshal call him the undoubted head OF the
American bar-in speech before the MARYLAND
| House OF Delegates, said
| "'Sir, by the eternal principles OF natural
| justice no master In the state has a right to
| hold his slaves ia bondage for single hour
land Henry Brougham spoke not only as
statesman and lawyer. but as an orator Also
| when, In the British Parliament, he uttered
| these memorable words:
Tell me not OF rights, talk not of the prop
| erty OF the planter In his slaves. ] deny the
| right. ! acknowledge not the property. The
| principles, the feelings OF our common nat IRE
| rise Ia rebellion against it. La vain you tell
| me OF laws that sanction such claim. There
| is a law above all the enactments of human
| codes the same throughout the world; the
| same IN all times; IL is the law written by the
finger OF God on the heart OF man, and by that
law, Interchangeable and eternal, while men de-
spise fraud, and loathe rapine and abhor
blood, they will reject with Indignation the
guilty phantasy that man can hold property in
Mr.. Sumner resumes:
sit has often been said that the finest SEN
tence OF the English language is that famous
description OF law with which Hooker closes
cannot coubt but that this wonderful! denuncia-
ton or an Irrational and fnhuman pretenSion
Will be remembered hereafter with higher
praise; for IL gathers into surprising eloquence
the glowing and lmmitgable instincts OF uni
yersal man."
WHAT THE CITY COUNCILS DID.
The aldermen and common council OF the
city CT Washington adopted joint resolution,
which was presented by Mr.. Wright. OF Indiana
protesting against the passage OF the bill, and
especially against converting the city, located
as 1t is, between two slave holding states into
an asylum for free negroes, population IN
desirable IN every American community, and
which IL has been deemed necessary 10 exclude
altogether from some even Of the non-slave-
holding States"
Signed z. RICHARDS,
President Board OF Common Council;
W. II. Dow
President Board OF Aldermen.
RICHARD NAILACH, Mayor.
WHO VOTED AGAINST IT-wHEN SIGNED.
The bin passed the Senate on the Sd day OF
April, by majority OF 20 TO II, and was adop-
ted In the House, without amendment, on the
18th OF the same month, after two days debate.
Four republicans, Messrs. Wiley and Carlisle,
Of West Virginia; Henderson, OF Missouri, and
Wright, OF Indiana voted against II. On We'd
nesCay April 10, 1862, it was signed by PreSi-
dent Lincoln. and became the law OF the land.
July 18th, or the same year, a supplemental
act was passed authorizing the clerk OF the
Circuit Court to give certificates OF freedom
to such slaves, resident in the District as were
not claimed by their owners; and to such
as had owed service to citizens OF the states.
but were permitted to remain here. This act
also makes it the duty or the courts to receive
the testimony of all persons without regard 10
coIor.
HOW TIE LAW WAS ExECUTsD.
In pursuance CT the act, President Lincoln
appointed Daniel r. Goodloe, then citizen OF
the District and journalist; Hon. Samuel F.
Ninton, distinguished eX-member OF Congress
from Ohio, and the Hon. Horatto King, eX-Post-
master General, commissioners. Mr.. Vinton
acted as chairman during the few days that he
survived his appointment and the organization
Of the board. he was taken suddenly III of
erysipelas, and died on Sunday, May II. The
commissioners IN their final report, acknowl-
edge the great value CT Mr.. EinUon'S brief SER
vice with them, in preparing the forms and
rules OF proceeding, and they pay a deserved
tribute to his memory. DR.. John NJ. Brodhea6,
VINO, prior thereto and subsequently, was sec
one comptroller OF the Treasury, was appointed
to succeed Mr., Vfnton. William K. Woodward,
esq.,, then and still member OF the Washing
ton bar, was appointed clerk. The marshal
designated Joseph F. Kelley as his deputy to
execute process, and the commissioners en-
pioyed Henry Olive as messenger. They also
purchased Gre proof safe In which to keep the
valuable books and papers.
HOW CoLoRRD PEOPLE WERE APPRAISED.
The commissioners had little confidence in
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