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, r rnivAVK riioi'ERTV—rowfias or
1 viU CONVENTION IK A TKRRITORV
| . to the painful apprehensions
Ig**. \ttorney General, that if we
1 L Territories all the rights of self
r* in reopect to their internal polity,
rlfoeatc all the private property
flI ,d ••mar order the miners
'^ ^ oooeeof pold that ho. been
’ I have only to say that
c 0U rt of the United States, in the
?, ft have decided that under the
-• noflhe United Slates a man cannot
of Wo liberty, or property in a
. 1,without j’-ist compensation; and that
(tic decision.
' i,ohis declaration “that no such
in a territorial legislature, and
* f ho desire to confiscate private pro-
finrlind must irail until they get a
Jl aurentum, or tho machinery of a
fnnsent, in their hands,” I have to
£laa not aware that tho people of a
U’sheu assembled by tlioir represen-
tV|TOOs , 'tntional convention,” mth-
^•4 Cmgiess, for the purpose of
rJ t the 'territorial government estab-
7 agress. (as was tho case with the
-jj l.ecompton conventions,) has any
|; tetter power than when .assembled
•datum in pursuance of the consti-
, e l the act of Congress. Judge Black
Urefers to what he calls “a constitu-
'tention’ of a Territory, (which is
ta>n' nor less than a body of men as-
ionJer the authority of a territorial
r’-re without the consent of Congress,
b constitution to take the place of the
■ passed by Congress.) as having
tl complete sovereign power over the
U of slavery and every other subject
f.g to their internal polity, wben he
'ibe same power to the people and leg-
v of the Territory by whose authority
he convention has any legal existence or
What authority can any such “con-
innl convention ” have eicepttimt which
iff trow the /egis/ature which called it
jjlcnce. or from the people of the Ter-
rwhoin the delegates were elected ?
, f the people nor the territorial legis-
-scsses any sovereign power, how can
art severeignty to a constitutional
L«i ef their owu creation ? Suppose,
5; jvople of a Territory shall “ wait un-
[pt iconstitutional convention or the
rr of a State government into their
' without the consent of Congress, as
list TopcVa, and again at Lecompton,
Ly, shit power will they have to “con-
[ private property.” or to decide the
I,antes. or to perform any other act
hrigaty when we arc told that the Ter-
attribute of severeignty about
leu understand how the territorial
is cu exercise legislative power over
'1 objects of legislation in purau-
sset .if Cougrcss and the Constitu
te af:ss my inability to compre-
|»-ey tin call *• a constitutional con-
nhout the consent of Congress,
'«tie organic law established by
kwl exercise all the sovereign pow-
u.:; to a sovereign State, before the
uhffoae States, and when “they
£r.bute of sovereignty about them?”
'ST ni-T in Tut: territories rv vm.
rr or tiie cosstititios.
Court ot tl.o l nito«l States. I will first inquire
whether “ it is frectsr£t so with the statui
of a negro carried from one part ejf the Unit' d
Stale* to another.
Instead of interposing my individual onin
ion m opposition to that so boldly expressed
by the learned Attorney General,*! will quote
the language of an eminent American jurist
whose authority is everywhere acknowledged,
Upon Ibis precise point Judge Story, in bis
Conflict of Laws, p. 150, says:
“But fee know that no nch generalrffeet hat
lire ever been attributed to the state of slaveryThere
is a uniformity of opinion among foreign jurists and
foreign tribunals in giving no . fleet to the state of
slavery of a party, whatever it may have been in
tne oountry of his birth or tliat in which ho had been
previously domiciled, unless it u also recognized hy
He laser 0/ the country of kit actual domicil, and where
no is found, and it is sought to be enforced.
After citing various authorities, Judge Story
C cceds : “ In Scotland the like doctrine has
n solemnly adj'udgcd. The tribunals of
France havo adopted the same rale, even
in relation to slaves coming from and
belonging to their own colonies. This is
also the undisputed law of England.” It is
unnecessary to burden these pages with the
long list of authorities cited by Judge Story to
prove his assertion that “ there is a uniformity
among foreign jurists and foreign tribunals ”
that tho law is precisely the reverse of what
Judge Black states it to be in respect to slave
ry- But if ho attempts to cschpc the force 6f
this uniform current of foreign authorities I
will test his respect for the decisions of the
Supremo Court of the United States by citing
the case of Prigg rt. The Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, (Id Peters, p. Gil,) in which
the court says :
By the IswS of nations, no nation is bonnd to reo
Is *
wnpoli
ieotsof otawnstii.ii., where slavery is recognised.
If it does, it is a matter of comity, and not a matter
of international right. The Hate of slavery if derated
to be a mere muuicrpil regulation, founded upon and
limited to the range of territorial loses,
5-cl ays that “ The Constitution
r its not establish slavery in the
la. nor anywhere else.” It must be
list my article in Harpers' Maga-
1- i the* happy effect of drawing from
fcy General a declaration as unex-
I it is gratifying to the great body of
ivracy, which, if approved and con-
in hy “nineteen-twentieths’' of the
M he asserts, will tend in a great mcas-
restore _ harmony to its counsels and
) its action. It is to bo presumed that
| not used this language in any
kj or technical seme, amounting to a
jkMe or play upon words; but that
In of slaves jmsscss the same rights,
*•*, under the Constitution, in the
litritories as in each of the States of
sad that those rights are not af-
i: -tsc of anything in the Constitu-
f?l the provision for the rendition of
'es, which is the same in the States
fts understanding I do not feel dis-
I sirrel with Judge Black for his gra-
Phriion that “nobody ever said or
I that the Constitution established
I "in the Territories, nor anywhere
frith Mr. iluckansn for his state-
las Lecompton message to Congress
pwitolcmuly »,(judged by the highest ju-
rjvU.-r,,i lMmr | twi that slavery exists
Iftn'PfSfUe Constitution oftbo United
L ^' 1 * i». tl.ereforo, st this moment as
P*’’ Site u Georgia or South Carolina.
* >J "iHing to accept in the same spirit
the authoritative explanation
Attorney General has furnished in
riu. lust ihe President only meant
[“"•’try exists in the Territories by
i“*Lw«tiUition in the same sense
Morinonism, Mohammc-
1 *her religion, 'exists in the
n "* stave rotate in um
. hfofgjj a nd South Carolina
,yriirs. or Mormon States, or
'isles, or Pagan States ; that
pisuoa does not establish Christi-
r • ^-monism, nor Mc’aammcdanism,
. “'? territories; but that “Cliris-
jt <1 course Mormonism, gnd Mo-
P®- *nd Paganism, •* exists there
'Constitution,” because when
^ tr Mormon, or Mohammedan, or
'■ into n Territory, be cannot be
f® taking his religion along with
* •>« afterwards ho legally molested
^principles the rule of his faith
r - M'.ous exposition of the distinc-
[r 1 hriag established by and existing
Constitution, I shall of course,
L*' 1 a . v upon the subject except
■«* it is beyond my comprehen-
r''T; r I'RINCItU or ri'BMC LAW.”
(jSjjltd the heresy that tho Con-
jr^'wes slavery in the Tcrritorief
kL e i * ■ and demonstrated that the
C“*not mean anything when he ar-
r 1*0*1 message to Congress that
[c “,. muc h aslave State as Georgia
IT*** by virtue of the Constitution
Ifrita® Attorney General kindly
LJyntnd f» r my benefit the axio-
public law t» be under-
of pBb
rriilii* 1 .i* nva, o rcUtiou, condition or
1,1 0D « Stale or country, is
punov al of the parlies to
^ of country be
* or instance: a
is binding in Am. rii s,-
M wz***/ »ro legitimate here if they
v •»«. a merchant who buys
to the laws of that
tu Illinois and bold them there
PteW prscisely so with tha status
PMT of tbs United States
L'-Cv , ” “f m his freedom or servitude
rVni *hs place where he oame
PwIIa,®. *h»t alone, if there be no
“ptsoe te which he goes or is
Crv* 1 erasnox or slavery J
I ir . ts * n, > the question lmw
5->*bet |.l' r .'" l '-.t | I®” is accurately
■' 1.UVC lie, 11 ud-
rp c.mic t,j,( by the Supreme
The same doctrine has been held not only
by tho highest judicial tribunals in most all of
tho northern States, but by the supreme court
of Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, Missouri.
North Carolina, and, indeed, nearly, if not all
of the Southern States. But I am willing to
rest the whole cause upon the authority of the
Supreme Court of tho United States, and to
exhort the Attorney General, in his own clas
sical language, only substituting his name for
mine, to cease “fighting the judiciary ” and
treat the courts with “decent respect.” “We
aro called upon to make a contest, at once un
necessary and hopeless, with the judicial au
thority of tho nation. We object to it. We
■will not obey Judge Black when he commands
tu to assault the Supreme Court of the United
States. We believe the conrt to be right, and
Judge Black wrong.”
If, however, the learned Attorney General
shall not be turned from the error of his ways
by these words of wisdom from his own pen,
I will make another effort to save him, by
commending to bis especial attention the fol
lowing paragraph from his own pamphlet:
•• In former times a question of constitutional la,
once decided by the Supreme Court was regarded as
settled by all, except that little band of ribald infi
dels who meet periodically at Boatnn to blaspheme
the religion, and plot rebelli ,n against tho laws, of
the coantryf’
CAN TH* LAWS Or ONE CorfcTAY OPERATE IK ANOTH
ER WITIIOCT ITS CONSENT ?
Having shown that Judge Black's “ Axiom
atic principle of public law ” in respect to the
operation of the laws of one State or country
within the jurisdiction of another, as defined
and expounded by the highest judicial tribu
nals in this country and Europe, has uo ap-
S lication to, and does not include, slavery;
ut that, on the contrary, “ the state of slavery
is deemed to be a mere munteival regulation,
founded upon and limited to the range of the
territorial laws ;" and, in the language of the
Constitution itself, exists in one Stale under
THE r. UVJ TIlVRI'nr.’’ «n,I nnl hst ,k “
Constitution of the Uuited States, nor of any
federal authority, nor of any foreign law, nor
any international law, I will proceed to exam
ine how far Judge Black has accurately sta
ted the “ axiomatic principle of public law,”
or the law of tho comity of nations, by which
“ a right of property, a private relation, con
dition, or status, lawfully existing in one State
or country, is not changed by the mere remo
val of the parties to nnothcr country, unless
the law of that other country be in direct con
flict with it.” j0 .
I shall pursue this inquiry out of respect for
the great learning displayed by the Attorney
General in his philanthropic purpose of en
lightening me upon the subject, and not be
cause it has any bearing upon the question at
issue, if the decision of the Supreme Court of
tho United States is to be taken as conclusive
evidence, in opposition to the opinion of Judge
Black, as to the law of the case. _ Of course.
I express no opirion of my own, since I make
it a rule to acquiesce in tba decisions of the
courts upon all legal* questiqps. In order to
have stated the general principle fairly and
accurately. Judge Black should havo added
that whenever the foreign law, or the law ol
one State is to be enforced in another, it dc-
rivet it* validity from the consent of the State
or country where it it to be enforced* and not
from the sovereignty of the State or country
from which it came. . . ,
. The brief space allotted to this reply, al
ready too long, will not permit me to cite,
much lets quote* the long list of authorities*
American, English, aud Continental, upon
this point. It may be safely assumed as an
incontrovertible principle, that the laws of one
country can have no force in any other coun
try without its consent, expressed or implied,
and that such consent will be implied, nnd the
tacit adoption of the foreign laws, by the gov
ernment of the country whero they are to be
enforced, will be presumed by tho courts in
very, the courts of justice will presume that
the territorial government has ci nsenledto the
existence of slavery, and has tacitly adopted
the Virginia laws in respect to the rights of
the master who came with his slaves from that
State. But at this very j>oint Judge Black
erect* an insuperable barrier to the rightsojflhe
owner of the staves. Ho argues thnt. the terri
torial government has no power to act or leg
islate upon the subject of slavery, and conse
quently it incapable of giving its consent to
the operation of the Virginia laws, while the
courts of the Territory cannot presume such
consent to have been given where it was im
possible to give it, nor the Virginia laws to
have been tacitly adopted by a government
which had no power to adopt them. There
fore, unless the power of the territorial legis
lature to act upon the subject of slavery in the
same manner as any other domestic or munic
ipal regulation bo conceded, and consequent
ly its right to give or withhold its consent to
the operation or tacit adoption of the laws of
tho shivcholding States be acknowledged, the
conclusion is irresistible that Jndgc Black’s
axiomatic principle of public law, as defined
by the Supreme Court of the United Staler,
would strip tlic owner of slaves in tho Terri
tories of all those rights which lawfully exis
ted in the States from which they removed as
effectually and inevitably as the Wilmot pro
viso or the Ordinance of ’87. But if it shall
be conceded, on the contrary, that slavery is
a proper subject of legislation, upon which the
territorial legislatures may rightfully act with
in the limitations of the Constitution, it neces
sarily follows that they may consent to the
operation or adoption of the laws of the slave
holding States to the fullest extent necessary
to the protection and enjoyment of the own
ers' rights in slave property.
SUPPOSE THE SUPREME COURT 1VRO.NO AND
JUDGE IIUCK RIGltT.
MACON, NOVEMBER 22, 1859.
count of Mr. Douglas’s speeches on the Illino:- without any such conflict of law. The quot
stump was. no doubt, faithfully kept; but, tion from the opinion of the Supreme Court in
.Volume XXXIV.—Xo. 9.
when he claims credit for their orthodoxy, he
must show something more than scores on a
tally paper. 11c might as well come, with his
Harper article in one hand and a two-foot rule
in the other, ready to demonstrate his concur
rence with the court by showing that it con
tains two thousand eight hundred and eighty
Pngg vs. Pennsylvania is made with the same
rashness and witli no nearer approach to the
point
The public will doubtless be somewhat sur
prised by Mr. Douglas’ unique mode of deal
ingwith books. Kor myself, I am inexpressi
bly amazed at it I have no right to suppose
square i.uhes of surface Without reference U at he tended to insutt the Intelligence of
to tl.e superficial 11” 3 readers, or to impose upon their ignorance
by making a parade of learning and research
fully enumerated repetitions of the otlur, we
may safely presume that the quality of his spo
ken arguments was not better than that of his
written essay; and in this latter Mr. Douglas
not only opposes the court, but, what is much
worse, he charges it with holding his opinions.
which he did not possess. But how shall we
account for quotations like those ? I am ob
liged to leave the riddle unread.
II. Assuming that slaves taken fromaslave-
This is a deep and seriousj^iry; for, how ^^inU^Tcnitorjjto^nua^to be
would the judges of the great tribunal be able
to look their country in the face if they had
ever said, that a power over privato property,
slaves, can thcr rights of tlieir owners be af
terwards divested by an act of the territorial
legislature ? They can certainly, if the Ter-
foriiidden to the l'ederal Government, might be j ( r .‘ t . 0rie3 sovereign states ; if "not. not. On
delegated by Congress to a territorial legisla- ! us ( l ue stionMr. Douglas has placed lumself
turo? I in a most petxiliarposition. Heretofore he has
Tho whole dispute (as far as it is a doctrinal alternately aflirmed and denied the sovcrcigu-
dispute) between Mr. Douglas and the demo-] fJ’ of “io lerntories. Iu his last pamphlet
cratic party lies substantially in these two pro-1 s ? cm3 L to “ mi k •» middle way safest; he
positions: 1. The*ownerofa slave may remove admits that they are not sovereign, but asserts
with him, as with other property, into a Terri-1 “Jf V 1C 3' have “tne attributes of sovereignty.”
tory without forfeiting his title. 2. Tho gov- j I l' IS u not *“ ingenuous. It must be appa
eminent of a Territory has and can havo no | rcnt to “m “jdlest understanding thnt a gov-
power to deprive the inhabitants of their pri-j crll m c nt which has tlieattributcs of sovercigu-
vatc property, whether in slaves or anything | ty» ‘ s sovereign.
else. " ' Sovereignty is the supreme authority of an
1. The “axiomatic principle of public law,” j independent State. Nogovernmentissovcr-
that a man, going from one country intoanoth- cign which may be controlled by a superior
cr, retains in the latter (if there he no conflict-! government. As applied to political structures,
ing law) all the rights of property which he had supremacy and sovereignty are convertible
in tile former, is so universally acknowledged, | terms. To prove this I will not refer to “the
thAt nobody thinks worth while to prove it At primer of political^scienceit is found in all
all times, in nil countries, and by all persons it
is taken and acted upon as a postulate. - I cer
tainly had not, until very lately, tlw remotest
the bom books. Every half-grown boy in the
country who has given the usual amount cf
study to the English tongue, or who lias occa-
t all cases where there is no local law to the
jynrtu t |, e Constitution ; and pontrary, and the foreign law does not contra-
"TAsassiu a slave State in the V ene its own policy. Tho whole doctrine of
tho law of comity of nations, as applicable to
the question how far the local law of one State
of tins Union could operate and be enforced
beyond the territorial limits of such State, was
fully discussed and deliberately determined in
the case of the Hank of Augusta r». Earle, id
Peters, p. 519, in which Chief Justice Taney,
eontraots mods in foreign countries sre
ample*; and tin-courts of justice ha\e » c * f
^tm^VoT^XyTr pniudi-
diltTitA interests. But.it
i.rdenvinLT, or restraining the operation
Uwa, coufts ofjo*tice presums J.
them their ow*gotcruuunt, Bnlesl thoy arc repi n
nsnt to its policy or prejudicial to its interests.
JUDGE BLACK’S DOCTRINE EQUIVALENT TOT II .
WILMOT PRIVIS0.
This is the law of comity applicable to the
vend States and Territories of this l mem,
nded aud defined by the Supreme
juppo.uig it to
.Urea with him, and to
Wal rights there according to the tenor of tie
laws ofVirginia, of any
messed or implied; and “in the silenec oi any
w&t !' srsrfws&rs
Virginia^ courts of justice hi Kansas will
PRESUME the. loot adoption. 0/ ^ j e
era,neat of that Territory, uuicss tho laws^ot
Virgiuia are repugnant t0 . th F 1 ? A
Territory or prejudicial to its interests. AC
I erritory or i J , \ ; rc mia master
‘m. .. .w '■•""“'v.r.t 4
i..... s thereof;" and in the event that me te
vitorial laws are silent upon the subject ol sla-
Suppose, however, the Supreme Court of the
United States to be wrong in holding that the
laws of one country can prevail in othsr coun
tries only by consent or tacit adoption, and
Judge Black to be right also in asserting that
the State law in respect to slavery follows ibe
master «nd bis slaves into the Territory and
remaim in force and unalterable until the Ter
ritory becomes a States, let us see what would
be the'practical result of such an “axiomatic
principle of public law !” It would enable any
one citizen of each of the fifteen slaveholding
States to remove into aTcrritory with bis slaves
and carry with him the law of slavery peculiar
to his own State, and thus put into operation
in the Territory, without the consent of the
legislature or of Congress, fifteen distinct and
conflicting systems of law—some rocognizing
slaves as real property, and others as person
al ; some prescribing one rule and measure of
punishment for offences, and others a differ
ent; some prescribing certain modes and con
ditions of emancipation, and others different
ones; nnd others still prohibiting emancipa
tion altogether. Fifteen distinct and conflic
ting systems of law on the same general sub
ject, each deriving its validity from the au
thority of the State from which the master em
igrated, and following the slaves as the indi
vidual right of tho master, in couseqnence of
bis former citizenship of such State, nnd not
by virtue of the Constitution of the United
States, nor by the assent of the Territory or
of Congress, are put in operation iu the same
Territory, each by the individual act of one
man, in opposition to the wishes of the people,
and in defiance of the legislative authority of
tho Territory, and all tp remain unalterable,
no matter how inconvenient or unsuitable, un
til the people get a constitutional convention
or the machinery of a State government into
their hands.
• As. the law of slavery which the master car
ries into the Territory with his slaves is bis
individual right, resulting from his former cit
izenship in another State, some inquisitive per-
son. may require ho« longibo““en^ii'e
Kentuckian sells his slave to the Vermonter;
under what law will tlio Vermonter hold the
slave; whether under the law of Kentucky,
where the new master never resided, or under
the law of Vermont, where slavery is prohib-
ited? . . ’ „
The same “axiomatic principle,’ as inter
preted by Judge Black, would enable any one
citizen from each of the thirty-eight States
and Territories of this Union to put in opera
tion in any other Territory, without their con
sent, expressed or implied, thirty-eight sepa
rate nnd conflicting systems of law upon the
subject of marriage and the rights of married
women; upon the legitimacy of children and ^
their rights of inheritance; upon the relative mon KenM *
rights and duties of guardian and ward, mas
ter and apprentice, and every “right of prop
erty, private relation, condition or status
lawfully existing in the State pr Territory
from which they came! ... .
The same construction of .this axiomatic
principle would enable any one person, brick
or white, who should emigrate from Europe,
Asia, or Africa—from North, South, or Cen
tral America—or from the Islands of the Sea,
wherever they are recognized as civilized peo
ple, to go into the Territories of the United
States and carry with them and put re opera
tion all the laws of their respective countries,
so fur ns they recognized any “right of prop
erty, private relation, condition or status, no
matter bow' revolting to the morpl sense of the
community, without the consent of Congress
or of the Territory, and when it was known
that such laws were ContMry to its policy and
private corporations, but no Turnpike Co i J
pany pretends to be a sovereign State. The
courts in many places have authority to create
corporations, the sheriff of aeouuty has pow
er to imprison or haug malefactors, and tho
supervisors of a township can levy taxes; but
1 think no judge, sheriff, or supervisor has
ally clear and explicit in his assertion that “it
1 has no application to, ami does not include, sla
very.” 1 insist that he is utterly mistaken.
Slaves being recognised as properly by the
Constitution, and made so by tho local laws of
those States which have power to regulate tlieir
condition, there can be no constitutional or le
gal rewou given for excepting them from the c ,e r claim e d the purple or the diidem on any
operation ofa rule which .pph« to property l h d< always act by
in general. Mr. Dougla-ss argument in favor t h C ir agents, but the agent, whether it bean
r 1 * v » a* a • * a city or a Territory, is not m any casesover-
anruinent can ever be nisdo on that side, ex- J . * y . «, , / mi ,i
An tl,** uhitrlwp i. v « eign, supreme, and uucontrollable. Thus the
Ztrin^ taughtby that new religion,’ of which ^gumente of Mr. Douglas, which he elaborates
Saint Ossawattomfc is tho apostle and the mar- through page after page with wearisome pains,
are but touched with the finger of investigation
It has never been held, that any kind of pro- an< ^ they disappear forever,
perty can l>c introduced into a State or Terri-1 “ TIis earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
tory whose laws oppose the owner’s right: a And these aro of them.”
liquor-dealer in New York cannot * ke brandy Mr. Douglas, the senator, the statesman, the
to Portland if the Maine law forbids it. So a struggling candidate for the presidency, should
relation formed in ono country must cease when not have borrowed from the lawyerlings and
the parties go to another, in which such a rela- small wits of the abolition party, the stale, of-
ion is illegal 1 : a Turk may be the lawful hus-
prejudicial to its interests! ,
It is true that, according to Judge Black,
these results can follow only where there is no
local law in conflict with his axiomatic princi
ple of public law. It should be borne re mind,
however, that if the Territories “have no at
tribute of sovereignty about them,” aud con
sequently ho legislative power upon any sub
ject whatever, it remains for him to show bow
there can be any such conflicting law in the
Territories. . , .
(To be Concluded.)
■rejoinder lo Scrinlnr Dousin'"*
As briefly as possible, eschewing al! mature
personal or quasi personal, and without retro
action or preface, I shall noUce the only i>omLs
in Mr. Douglas’s last pamphlet Unit are worthy
° f Ho dentes that his views on “Sovereignty in
the Territories,” as expressed in Harper sMag-
azinc, are inconsistent with those of the bu-
pretne Court in the Bred Scott case. I aver
on the contrary, thatjie could not hare made
such a denial it hc.had not-totallv misunder
stood cither his own opinions or those of the
court; for they arc in direct conflict with one
thcr.
betw
“"Thtoomt; after demonstrating in thc clear-
est manner that the Federal Government had
no authority or jurisdiction to
in a Territory, proceeded tosay w uit Mr l oug-
las himself has quoted on page 630 of the ma 0
a/ “And if Congress itself cannot
is beyond the powers conferred on the Federal
Government—it will be admitted, wc presume,
li at it could not authorize a territorial govern-
mt nt to exercise them. It could confer no
, m-er on any local government established by
its authority to violate tho provision ofthe Con-
' ThH is irisubstonco the very Mcntkai prop
osition which Mr. Douglas, on pag» MO,, pro
nounces to be "as plausible as it \s fallacious.
lie adds, tot “to reverse of it is trueas a gene
ral rule-,” and then supports his
another assertion tl
was placed on rood
-lightest pi
eminent; m
rt • for they arc in direct coninci v* mb ww
thcr. A plain issue of fact is thus made up
ween us «nd it is triable by the record. Let
rtion by
that ever
Tcrritorj
>rd by any
ns to a kno'
that Con;
uch powers
A exercise in
‘ r ,,n "rest cannot exercise inner me v
Uo^’-There is the record ; amll an. perfect
,1.-1 no tolerably sensmle man m the
n y it S ion except Mr. Dotigla-. " ill doubt for a
.hit it places bun and tho court in a,
„,i;tnilc of perfect antagonism.
a ^tut then he says lie defended the
ue-tioii i f law are valued according
iceight, m.i no* according to their nui
man h
Bring
the
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Mr. D<
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dor the
Cons
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with “th
lone
to their
;ber. The
suspicion, that any man on this side of China sionally looked into a dictionary, knows that
would doubt it All the intercourse between | the sovereignty of a government consists in
the States, and with foreign countries, depends I its uncontrollable right to exercise the highest
on it. "Without it, the traveller must lose all power. But Mr. Douglas tries to clothe the
right to his trunk whenever he passes tho bor- J Territories with the “attributes of sovereign-
der of his own State; and when a foreigner ty,” not by proving the supremacy of their
lands among us, he may be robbed of bis purse jurisdiction in any matter or tbing whatsoev-
by the first loafer tliat meets him on the wharf. I er, but merely by showing that they may be,
Importation and exportation would cease, and j and 6ome of them havo been, authorized to
the commerce of the whole world would sud- \ legislate within certain limits, to exercise tho
dcnly come to a dead pause, if a man might not! right of eminent domain, to lay and collect
l;„ --1-. —i T,™—<- -I ' deprive a citi
prove his right to personal property in one taxes for territorial purposes, to
country by showing that lie was the legal own-j Z gu of life, liberty, or property as a punish-
ar of it in another from whence lie brought it i nient for crime, and to create corporations.—
.This principle is to the^commercial world what ^\jj jjiis is true enough, but it does by no means
the law of gravitation is to the material uni-1 ollow that the provisional government of a
verse; it cannot be abolished without hurling Terrritory is, therefore, a sovereign in any
the whole system into ruin- - senso of the word. A city council may legis-
Mr. Douglas does not admit this axiomatic j ate> jj nt t |, e c ; t _ j g 8t j|[ subordinate to the
principle,” nor does he deny it, though lie f State which gave it political being- The right
writes a great deal about it. ^Bjtt he ut^unusu- eminent domain is delegated every day to
tiou ot constitutional law, far. very far, above
party polities. Hut I am tempted to vindi
cate the democracy from the imputation which
Mr. Douglas easts upon that party when he
claims the Cincinnati platform as favoring his
creed. It contains no word of the kind. X
may also add, that every democrat who de
sires to preserve “ the unity of the faith in
the bonds of peace” will disapprove the odi
ous charge which Mr. Douglas flings at the
President, of agreeing with him on this sub
ject. The calm, clear judgment of Mr Bu
chanan was never for a moment imposed on,
nor his love for the Constitution shaken, by
this heresy. Neither in his Sanford letter,
nor in his letter of acceptance, nor his Inau
gural Address, nor in any other paper, pub
lic or private, did lie ever give the remotest
countenance to such doctrine. He lias often
said, that the people of the Territories had the
l ight to determine the question of slavery for
themselves, but be never said, nor intimated,
that they could do so before they were ready
to form a State coustiution.
I will not follow Mr. Douglas any farther at
present. But I must not be understood as as
senting to the numerous assertions upon which
I am silent. There is scarcely a sentence in
this whole pamphlet, which does not either
propound au error, or else mangle a truth. I
do not charge him, however, with wilful mis
statements of either law or fact. J. S. B.
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fact, been compounded
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o | ten repeated, and worn-out assertion, that
band of many wives in Constantinople, but he emigrants cannot hate a right to the property
cannot keep them, if lie dunges hUjestecnce- they teK'Si^y’bt^Sfafewiicre tli e y settle.
So ITunSoubteail'is'wTth slavery: no man in all the conflicting laws of the dift’erent States
his senses ever contended, that a Virginian, go- from whence they came. Nothing could be
ingtolivc in Pennsylvania, could take his slaves jess worthy of his high place in the councils
with him, and keep them there, in spite of the 0 f the nation. He ought to know that goods'
Pennsylvania law. But if he goes to Ken- 0 f various kinds arc going continually into
tucky, where the law is not opposed to slavery, each State from all the other States of the
it is equally clear, that he retains all the do- Union, without producing any such effects,
minion over them, which he had before his re- u e does know that nearly ail the personal pro-
moval. The right of property, no matter where p C rty within the limits of a new Territory lias
it accrued, continues to be sacred and inviolr- CO me there from abroad under the protection
bic until it comes in collision with a law which 1 0 f t(, c axiomatic principle which he thinks pro-
dirests it. In a federal territory there can be I j )Cr [ 0 sn ecr at; and he never heard that any
no such collision with the right of a slaveholder, difficulty or confusion was produced by it.
because there is no conflicting law there on tliat j ncrcr said, that au immigrant to a Terri-
subject. tory had a right to his property without a reme-
All authority, as well as all reason and com- ,•,/ ; but I admit that he must look for his
an sensor is in favor of this doctrine.' It was remedy to the law of his new domicil. It is
the very point of the Bred Scott case. _Drcd tnle t jj a j jj e takes his life, his limbs, his rep-
was the slave of Br. Emerson, in Missouri, and u t a tten, and his property, and with them he
was taken by his master to a federal territory, takes nothing but his naked right to keep them
where there was no valid law which either ex- an( j cn j 0 y them. Ho leaves the judicial rem-
“ressly authorized or expressly interdicted Jhe Hdica v r i,io previous domicil behind him. It
..olding, of slaves. _ Thecourt held that llreu j 3 ^ true, that in a Territory just beginning
Scott’s status in Missouri was not changed, nor tQ get tled, he may need remedies for the
tho right of bis uastcr divested, by Ins removal v ; n( ji cat i on 0 f hi s rights above all things else,
to tho Territory. The principle was applied_t j n |,; s new home there may be bands of base
the case of a slave just as it would be app u. marauder*, without conscience or the fenr of
to any other property. It is half a score o |j C f ore their eyes, who aro ready to rob
times repeated by the judges, that there can be , —, /—„ ..„,i, : — .u.f
ics repeated by the judges, tnat tnere can oe. an j mun j er> anl j spare nothing that man or
distinction between slave and other propc y. WQman i 10 id a dear. In snch a time it is quite
^motherauthonttestothosamepoinUrocon- (o an abolition legis-
clustve and ovenvhclming. - > TJ _ , . ( I lature whose memDersoire ti, c ;, n.u to SLorn.
desires to see^ all the learning of th J ^ an( j t hc money of the Emigration
may consult CM on Slavery, , frij Society. Very possibly a legislature so
airanged in “ chosen might employ itself in passing laws
with so much ability, that not i 0 unfriendly to tho rights of honest men and
be dcsireq, I .
There is c
point, which
sic value, but because tt^vi iPro^^ ,1-tr^ 'n^ But it is an'insult to the American people to
suppose, that any community can be organiz
ed within thc limits of our Union, \*ho will
highly esteemed by Mr. Douglas himself It is
an extract from a speech of his own delivered
in thc Senate on the 23d of February last.
The legal equality of slave property and other
property was thep asserted hy him in thc fol
lowing fashion: , . . ,
“Slaves, according to that decision, [the Ilrcd
Scott decision;] being property, stand on an
equal footing with all other property. There is
just as much obligation on the part of the ter
ritorial legislature lo protect slaves as every
other species of property, as there is to protect
horses, cattle, dry goods, liquors, Spr. If they
have a right to discriminate as to the one, they
have as to thc other, and whether they have
got tho power of discrimination or not, is for
thc court to decide, if any one disputes. ****
If there is no power of discrimination on other
species of properly, there is none as to slaves.
If there is a power of discrimination as to other
projicrty—and I think there is—then itapplies
to slavo property. In other words, slave pro
perly is on an equal footing with all other pro
perty.”
In thc face of all this, in thc teeth of his own
words as recently uttered, in defiance of the
Supreme Court and all judicial authority, Mr.
Douglas now declares that the “axiomatic prin
ciple of public law”.which, enables a man to
remove his property from place to place, wher
ever the local law does not forbid its coming; is
not applicable to slaves. To sustain himself in
making this distinction, he produces two short
passages, both of which have been picked out
of one paragraph in Story’s “Conflict of Laws.”
These passages (will thc reader believe it?)
tolerate such a state of things. If it shall
ever come to that, .Mr. Douglas may rest as
sured, that a remedy will be found. No gov
ernment can possibly exist, which will allow
the right of property to go unprotected ; much
less can it suffer such a right to be exposed to
“unfriendly legislation.”
Mr. Douglas thinks that a Territory may
exclude slaves, or interfere with the rights of
the owners, because, in some of the organic
acts, the general grant is made of authority
pver “ all rightful subjects of legislation.”—
This is not tbe least unaccountable of bis
strange notions. -In such an act nothing is ta
ken by. implication, nor could tho power iu
question be given even by express words;
for it is forbidden by thc Constitution to the
Federal Government itself. The logic so pe
culiar to Mr. Douglas, which infers tbe power
to give from the want of possession, may sus
tain such a construction of a statute; but notn-
iug else will.
A “ plan ” relating to tho Territories was
offered to Congress by Mr. Jcft’crsonjn 178J.
It was a mere project, in the form of resolu
tions, embodying certain abstract propositions
in anticipation of settlements yet to be made
in the wilderness. It did not establish any
government, temporary or permanent, but pro
vided how the settlers, when they would go
there, might petition Congress and get them
selves organized. There is not a word in any
of thc resolutions about sovereignty or slave-
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England, France, Scotland, and Massachusetts,
to prove, that the laws of those countries, be
ing opposed to slavery, will dissolve the relation
of master and slsvc when brought into contact
with it I say, that slaves may be taken to
Kansas or Kentucky without being emancipa
ted; Mr. Douglas, with great gravity and com
placency, answers me, that I am wrong, because
' cry "is not tolerated in England or Massa-
in>tance of a non sequitur so
palpable has ever before fallen
forbears to burden hi
J list of authorities" which he
1 by Judge Story. It i
fact that not a single one of* those authoriti
touches the question in controversy betwet
They all, without exception, refer to cases
and another plan totally different (the famou
ordinance of 1784) was substituted in its place
Mr. Douglas, in Harper, referred to this plan,
and expended column after column of dreary
comment upon it. It was ridiculously iuap-
pliccbleto his argument; like his quotation
from Story, it had no more to do with thc sub
ject before him than the Edict of Nantes. I
referred to it merely as showing how he could
wander from thc point. But he allows his
righteous soul to be vexed at me for saying it
i was rejected. It was rejected ; for though
• J, i:1 ”, e '' Congress assented to the resolutions when
’ . K 1 first offered, the plan was repudiated before a
cunou.' principle of it went into operation. Mr.
Douglas says that it “stood on the statute-book
unrepealed and trrepealable.” I take it for
' granted, that he would not have made such an
V ! allegation if he had known what I now tell
in which there was
the law of the country where the slave came! aLegation
from, and the law of the country to which he 1,1111; that 11 was ’ 111 fact ’ repealedm I/fv by
taken. No one of the writers referred to the unanimous, vote of the whole Congress.—
has outraged common sense hy saving or hint-1 (Jour. Cong., vol. J, page 75-1.)
that slaves are made free In- more removal I I b ave regarded this dispute as on a qttes-
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p Leave Macon at 10 A. 1L Arrive at Atlanta
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Le"
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' Atlanta at 11 A. M. Arrive at Macon 3.00
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, ‘ ."i 1 ,- Georgia_It. R. at l'.MW night and at At
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Leave Columbus 4.00 a. m. nnd 3 45 p m* Arrive at
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On and after Sunday, September 4th, the Passen
ger and Mail Train for Albany and CuthbertwHl run
as follows:
Leave Macon, at 10.40 a. m., arrive at Aibanv, at 5.41
p. m.
Leave Albany, at 1.40 p. m., 44 44 Macon at S.44
p. in.
The Mail and Passenger Train from Cuthbertwill
connect with the Albany Mail Train at Smithville,
No. 10, South Western li. R.
Leave Cuthbert, at 12.45 p. in., arrive at SmithnUe,
at 3.18 p.m.
Leave Smithville, at 4.05 p. m., arrive at Cnthherf.
at C.39 p. m %
Making the connection with the up and down Al
bany Mail Train.
Trans to Columbus form a through connection
to Montgomery, Alabama and Augusta, Kingsville
Wilmington, Savannah. MilledgSvifae RI)( i Eatonton.
Post Coaches run lrom Albany to Tallahassee
Bainbridge, Thomasville, Ac., daily: also, tri-week
ly from Cuthbeit to Fort Gaines, Ace.
’ Hacks run six times a week from Fort Valley to
Perry, Haynesville and Hawkinsville, and tri-week
ly to Knoxville, Ga.
Passengers for points below Fort Valley, should
take the Jiic’ht traina frnm Atunnia «n<3 iu
tner Tram.
First class steamships leave Savannah for New
York, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.—
Passage in the Cabin $15, Steerage $6.
Through Tickets can be procured from Rail Read
Agents at Montgomery, Columbus and Albany via
Savannah to New York, by Steamships, in Cabin, af
follows: Montgomery Columbus $23 ; Aibanv
824 25. VIRGIL POWERS, Kng'rA Sup't.
Macon, Sep. 6, ’&9
OSNABHBGS, EARNS, KERSEYS
AC., AC., AC. c
I /-rv bales No. 1, Osnaburgs. 95 do. No. 2 Osna
lt)U burgs, 175 do. Georgia Kerseys, 100 de
Macon Sheeting, 20 do. Macon Drilling, 20 do. Ma
con 7-8 Shirting, 200 Macon Yarns, for sates at Fac
tory prices, by J. B. 3c \V t A. ROSS,
july 26
THE CELEBRATED
COPPER TOE!
Mitchell’s Metallic Pateut Tip.
Designed especially for
Bovs’,-Youths’ and Children’*
BOOTS 6l SHOES.
Drs. McDonald and Van Geisen,
Dentists.
OFFICE IN WASHINGTON BLOCK,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Electricity used iu Extracting Teeth.
M C DONALD’S Tooth Paste always cm hand and
for sate. Dentists can be supplied with the
finest style ot TEETII, also Gold Foil, Gold and Sil
ver Plate and Wire, Lathe Fixtures, Ac., also with
any kind of Instruments or Materials on short notice,
oct 12
GRANITE HALL
OPPOSITE TIIE LASilEK HOUSE
T HE subscriber will open the above Hall about
the first of APRIL next, for the accommodation
of Families, Day Boarders and Transient Custo
mers. This nouse is now offered as inferior to no
other First Class Hotel in the South, and from it?
central location, its large and airy rooms, offers great
inducements and accommodations to Families and
Transient persons. The public may expect from this
House, all the luxuries and comforts to be found ir
any other hotel B. F. DENSE,
mar 2 Lat« •fths Floyd
BEOAV N’S HOTEI
OPPOSITE THE NSW RAIL ROAD DEPOT,
MACON, OA.
E. E. BROWN, Proprietor
Meals Ready oa the Arrival of every Train.
•PUS
NEW GOODS.
C. Campbell & Son,
NEAR THE LANIER HOUSE,
TTAVE just received their Fall and Winter supply
JUL of KERSEYS, HEAVY BLANKETS and
NEGRO SHOES ut thc lowest market prices, and
Planter* would do well to call and examine before
irebasing.
They also continue to keep a general stock o
GROCERIES at the old stand, and do not inteni
O be undersold for Cash.
Macon. Oct. IS. 1855.
SOO NEGROES
'W'a.xrted. to Hire.
mllL SOUTH-WESTERN RAILROAD COM-
JL PANY want to hire 200 Negro Men to work
on REPAIRS of their Road for the year I-’MjO.
Also, 40 or 50 Negro Women as Cooks and Shovel
hands for which liberal prices will be pAid. Con
tracts can be made with—
John M. Walden, Supervisor, Fort Valley,
Wm. S. Brantly, or the subscriber, at the olRc<
Macon.
For particulars, address VIRGIL POWERS,
oct. 25 2m Engineer Jc Superintendent
Kin
ent ha
been applied to Boots and
k saving of expense to tho
consumer, of two-thirds, is realized, by actual ex
periment.
THE TIP
consiste of a piece of copper or other indestructible
material, neatly fastened to the toe of tho Boot or
Shoe,'forming a complete protection. This inven
tion is now presented to tho public, with tho fullest
knowledge of its pracfica] utiiiry, having been test
ed over two years, and Is destined eotirely to super
cede the old ftyle, for
Children’s lioyn* nud Vouili*' ESools AMlior*
The importance of this invention will be readily
appreciated, as it is well known that children inva
riably wear out their boots and shoes
Firm at the Toe,
and, with this protection, they will, upon au aver
age, wear at least twt> to three rimes as long as th
old style, while the expense is
But a trifle more.
This invention is also especially applioab|3 to
Miners’ Boots, and all occupations subjecting the
toe of the boot or shoo to be cut or worn.
Merchants, and the public generally, will see the
importance of obtaining these goods immediately,
as they are destined, for general use, to supercedo
all other kinds.
Tho Goods may be obtained of nearly all the
wholesale dealers in the principal cities, or of tho
subscribers,
CHASE, MCcKINNEV At CO.
(Owners of tho Patent.) Burton,
aug 9—6m
Pugrli’s
Premium Photograph and Fine Art
GALLERY!
TRIANGULAR BLOCK, MACON, GEORGIA.
T HE superiorityof PUGH'S Colored Photographs
over all others made in the State, is conceded
by all Connoisseurs who have examined them ; and
as another evidence ot their just appreciation, he
was awarded the Premium at the late Southern
Fair, held at Atlanta, Georgia.
Orders for the above style of Pictures, (which can
be made from Daguerreotypes of deceased persons
well as from liTe,) will receive special attention.
STEREOSCOPES, AMBROTYPES, and all oth
er styles of TYPES, taken in the very beat manner,
and at lower prices than the same style ot pictures-
can bo obtained elsewhere.
CALL AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. _
1 1
FEARS & PKiTt HETT
Have in store choice Country Hums,
Extra Family Flour,
35 Bales Gunny Bagging,
500 coils machine Rope,
100 boxes Adamant Candles,
10 boxes Sperm 44
15 bales No. 1 Osnaburgs, 4 (feijt
17 bates Ocmulgee Mills, Kerseys,
100 kegs Cut Nails,
5^ bbls. Fulton Market Beef,
5o cases and 3 chests Black and Ilyson Tea,
100 bags Rio Cofieo,
*0 bags Java and Laguira Coft'ee,
Stewart’s Extra GoJJen Syrup, Stew
arts Sugar House Syrup,
100 bbls. A B and C Sugars,"
5u00 pairs Russet Brogans,
1000 d 9 and 10J Negro Blankets,
30 pairs Fine 10 to 12j Bt-d Blanket!,
400 pieces Fancy Calico and Ticking,
Bleached and Brown Shirting and Sheeting,
700 lbs. Blue Stone and Coperaa,
75 boves Pale Colgate Soap,
50 boxes Wheat and Corn Starch,
10 bbls. Vinegar,
1*00 lbs. Pure White Lead,
Linseed, Train nnd Lamp Oil, D
Putty, Glass, etc., etc.
j-^T^Pncefc as low as any House in the trad#,—
Friends aro invited to call.
Macon, Ga., Sept. 20—lm.
Book Binding*.
ACCOUNT BOOKS mad* to order tor
Courts anti Counting House, and the nvmbers
printed on the pages without extra charge.
MAGAZINES, MUSIC AND LAW BOOKS,
bound iu neat and cheap styles.
DAVID ROSS,
Cor. 3d and Cherry Street*,
feb 1 Over George T. Rogers A So».
T HE subscriber has purchased the Right to Rovr-
and's Patent Carriages and Springs for Biaak
Account Books, which he will put on work when
ructed. DAVID ROS*.
inst feb 1
Checks on New York
FOE SALE ET THE
MMDFACTUKEKS’BANK
our 2