The New York Herald Newspaper, January 31, 1856, Page 2

2 NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 3856. sheen aaa ‘id and con vieved aron the sme, and semlenced to the Pont tao” tbe State of Peunayivanis, or be therein coattue ve-nor of Virgicla te directea to demand bis immedia: | your table is ot wat character. It ts such a one, 1 | ctreumstanees, not only persons stemcine ‘pv thought, ee would suit the stomeeh of apy douvherm man. | estegory ebsll be thus indemoitied, bu laa. v1 ameter Twas williug simply to say to those States, that after all | particular contingerey the Governor of the Commva — BFS " . > tt r rightn ¢ . ball be by 19 440t6°7) tag thet pill | > meomet a! obliga’ » Rigattoos whish oageto-} tr of. pr question of property of proaseaiinn CT oe oe tonal Mntaimour righin sat the end Ii ear | wbfebsbal bis WT . “ th "i of | ow .. yt be en- F re iene Of ua » Yea, , wo | mm © thar one onjeotd Tg comlemen’s a oa te © regarded ip 5 1 cares, me wore ly course refe tou of the al owner. THREATENED CIVIL WAR GETWEEN VIRGINIA AND the rearview Bereta eh et volt tintiosie those 1igath thous ng Fr deni be The @bfect ui is, t seems tome, is to | when we stapd iu the which his Generslas | The @epeti cegrea that t tho ci izens of each PENNSYLVANIA. Dh J. And le pois besams es are beregonierrea [awe Berl tbe perpetai y 2 Uniwn seek | pretoctdanes Parcoma Js, ard ty seve bius trom Mbe | + mbly mewrteres. iu fief eallieg upon ne vie ee Sue | Seteeball be @nii leo 10 all privileges and iaununities of Virg: wie to wack, or bin ip the wall ens of dames ria fe | Bi was cicemea too haxéh, I was yield | pos ame penalties whieh 9 law 0” Penasyivania is abows | totgarstboreg: ost constitutions Obligetions, tuose great | clii in tbe several tes,” aud will any Yenasyl ——~@e and sd temas Ratvona, Jest Serovar be arrevot | to the wisics ct sone. genlemen whi were aabhous | Vo impose Cy him “He there not kewine nogod up 2 | © vathiniah omy, mien with ut whiss ‘hls Valo Tanto dany Bara rigundenp witt s property aver | re ee rtoued upon the charge aforesatd, or shail be arreste., te micer o1 ould ge Bu 4 it up thet Jaws provision thst, under a partiowar stats iever ew sor 1 , and witnon: 5 snd alc ;udlie highways ot Vir ‘Ant wi Virginta Comes to the Rescue of Her Citizens | fa ond on ea 0 the See ae t yg te E Tien to not worth pweseeyings Mutat) ass tect ali blew: | Dok Me are’ aad tee clghla.of the sitisens of the tee poe Lroy wared to this question coolly and deidarate- | States recipr caly he hear of # or 5 o'clock in ‘he even- Your committee deuy thet Pennsylvania bas passed an wir, that your asiion wili be more | uncons'i'uttonal Jaw interdicting a peaceable and friendly and Determines to Enforce Her ¢ 3 Wot | ore BOW ‘and release from the prot stitutiona! Rights, yr . Fenny! | redics which the eyu’s aiforced should ve exhausted, | wenith sheli call together the Lepistarmre? If the provi Rely wnop i t E dean evra Toe Teese id make ic a mater between State gud stave. | rion having relerence to ihe proveotion at Janne | elirorive mire p-tent, by being dene g00'y and dation oscar theese ee eet en mnennnans: Seamed ——— SadtPeem beat in bie Deha'f;ard if tke nald writ and | Tee gen'ieman from Alberarle (Mr. Marly) exp-rmed a | Tasso, Jr, fn bie rights, te one odjeot, sad to | y. Thope, the-efore, that is will be the plessure of the | sf-ter States of this Uniim, and refuring to er. 9 shall not effect the releas” and surrender ofthe sald | Ocop: whether there was ® law in the State of Pennsyl | cxil tege-her the Legisla ure of Virginia ano her then | House now 'o w Journ. mit thelr property to accompany thel ir person. ne ir, Canter nade @ motion toadjourn, but withdrew it | actef the Pennaylvania Legisature of Ist March, 1780, a? the request of Mr. Sedcem, of Stafford and King George. | as expiatned by tre acto: 20th Moreh, 1788, Mc, Serpox +#h/—I eleva: lis; Speaker, that itthisHonas | the prior right of perscna, with thelr domestia slaves, to show. aeyourn, and the vill o@ remode tes, wore feien ta | pass and sejoure in this State for six months, an’ doo wilt be leat to it ban gained, 1 feel that no modification | not ottemp? to cisturb that right, bat deolares all slaver of th eit ce agreeable to a majority of this House. There | to be fiee who are re‘aived by inhabitants, residents aud in not. I believe, a feature in ‘be bill that conflists with | intended residents. Thus we have a elear distiaction The Constitction and the Fugitive us ‘clreumeances, then it aball become the | YS?) - Feasooa » under to be Carried Out. See ee a aoe is directed io taake pra. | oF acy other persov < Oamation i the fac aud wii thirty days after card procis- | character, The lew is ag ¥ mation he ts L.creby directed to convere the Laxisiatare, if not (He read from the code of Avanit, in whish it } Vir 4 A f Slaves ‘In session; ane if in seeaion, to communicate to the Genera! As | was state. (hut for the offence of WF , {in the ebar- | hate, even in the protection o the right ye ci inepa Ponnsylvania, and the Transit of % tem the facts Of tho Osad 10 be provided foc by law as ‘oy | Weer in which Parsons” easela preseated, a penalty of | that rhe hasbeen wndersico? aa true to herselt, may think best, pot Jes than five nor more than twelve yea is inflisted, | true to ber citizens and true to ber honor, We need xo anction tbé tial and tmprisonmaent of Parscus, | this bil embraces two isting? objects, and is barges with an offense of the same | tbrre‘ore awenade %0 constitnti nal ohjeonons. I ap- d that itis not necessary for the Legistatare at nia a’ this day to advance in omy peppvlatly et nol Phrongi Her Territory. ‘act aball be in force from iis pasence. 1 der such, Yorbaste in this regard. T confess, str, that whea I | the sigh’ of any other State, ox the consututional rights | mace and kept up between the rights, in the respect of gt Soon after ite presentation It wav taken mp, on motion of FRE ee eee cet teat teacadeie Cawig, | fret Beara the Bread, wan with hears and soul, be: oe Nigtni. Viana that ere ace not wo objzo. tn passers Se eeereere sail Wikaatieny elo Song gee ate z under & sion s to show that tt in! for esure I did uot Leheve it was smensble ese objec: | the dill. There ene object that n easen- | and intended sericents. Mr. hurr, its patron, and under « suspen: See ot eet a uunn cinee ae you, have | Hove, But the investigations which Lthaa uplergous, | tly legivimate one, Why, sir, wo have apolied time | them ocmes the act of the £1 of Mazeb, 3847, which ze- norizes ma. i ont e of bidnay vements in the Two Legislatures, | rules read » first and seeond time, and untered to be en- | zeal enee of ne mrecaie you pave | nd the enlightened ayguments which have boon. pre ao. grossed forthwith. This being done, the Dill was taken | O17 Oi t) seize a slave wi bh A view of carryioy hita be. | sented in the couree of this deba‘e, with refurerce to i « up to be put vpon ite pastage Pending the vote uponite | fore a Justice, shali be subjected to arrest and twnprison- | provisions, a8 well a8 & close examina ion of it, whio 1 passage, Mr. Pakty remarked that, whole he was stnet- = uron roiantn of this ering saciah ae yey have feken. 00h opportunity Be ws, pees aad Nid , i Y paranteec to you uscer the S act, of 4 b OE RICHMOND CORRESPONDENCE. ly aSoutbern wan; snd if there was any Cegree more | MET BY tive vor the purpose of taking hin before s | it; ano it ia for the purpose of remedying this object n iJ Southern than was usvally ocntemplated, or even mot ) Jucge, you will be loathe to avail yourselt of, when you | that] nowadizess the Howe. The merits ot the bilt, Ricuwono, Jan. 26, 1855. | CO Vsbern, he claimed to de of thelatver, Ho ssid that | will'do so at the hazard of betng linprisoncd.' Is not evis | the bencr of che commonwealth, and the preserva, Puryinia in Arms—Threatenel Civil War between Virginia ‘ile be f 4 that posiiion, he objected to the bili in | ® Preper case toapoly to young faraons,a gentlenin | tom of her rights—a'l there are questions to be eS é While be coouped thas positon, wham, ‘rom the opportunities whish I hud of knowing | considered, apart from the constraction of the and Pennsyteania— The Union Truly in Danger. , P . ite present form, believing i to be unconstitutional, a | jim in she course of our acquaintance ducing "he pein! |, wih reference to its consdtutionality. If, About two or three weeks ago Mr. Hiatt, the delegate ewidracing mere than one object. He was in favor of re- of this inves igation, I would regard as highly respeetn | then we bave in the heat of patrivtism, under a sense trem Hampshire coun'y, offered a reso\ntion im the House {iting it or Yaying ic on the table for the preseat, to ple, and whr—from what I have heard, isa youngg nt | of wrong, and & conviction of a gross indignity offered ~ of Delegates in reference to the expedicn:y of inemnity. | cpl dite ‘ peti wen cf upright chacacter—with several others wont to | the commonwealth, gone a littls too far, fs it not the part jemsy ¥ | enable members to examine more fully intothose features, | yerapinre a parly of fugriive slaves, and meeting | of stateemen, is ttact the part of coarege—that mora! fag a young man named James Parsons, Jv... retieat | 14 i¢ necoary, to remedy sny unsonstttutiond phases | one of his in the ears, he seizes him. The sinve at | courage, I msy ray, which belongs, s0 pre-eminoutly t @ that county, ia the amount of four thonsend dollars— | iff sued existed. He was opposed to hasty action in tempts to run off, ‘and he follows and selves | the young men of Virginis—is it not the part of wistou Gen seteend tia. seacqaienned entered iwio by him with | 2» owe? exmin- ; apelpgi hin for the purpose’ of taking him belore a proper | for vs to lectity error, Mf it 4 au error, which we have a : s matter of much Importance, and be trusted the Hows | tyjbunal A mob ootaes up—uegrees principally, if noc | committed? (Applause.) I think itis, sir. Sir, t there = eros fe mo aon before the Court pola wonld allow it t) stand over at least until to-morrow. all—kick, cuff, gd commit Wi aace upon his person my any one thin he e cartsin t than another, tt via that jong of Bisir county, Pennsylvania, on Mondsy te ma Mie, Speaker, Tar | Hele carried befere a justice of the perce, who canuo!, | Virginia will rectify an error when she onaes to wext, to answer to a charge of Milawoniag a fete wesc | i Rows, of Montgomery, enid-—Ms. Speake, I 0 | unger the pains ond penaltiesof Penn-ylvants law, wfford | it existe, In fact, you cannot got the Virginia peop!s vo rs opposed to laying the Dill upon the table, or recommit- | hizo apy protection. He admtta him to dail; woeretpon | eome up ond ma\niain an error. You canaot oring them Seretas wn cae prepara) Me flowing | ting it. Tregard it ae & matter upon which the Huse | Yarvone gous to get esearch warrant from & commalasion- | wp tosuetala » wrong; od when Jou devel an errr. s had gene to Pennsyivenia to resaptures | iid agi is ain ‘ e , | en whea'be wasagrin asrested. Yon canno! even goto | that is the time to remedy it. “Ido no , Me. Po glean apap labeang totes kas Sa can at copra ee only becnugo of (ae esr | the uroper oftiners fox the meane to reseue your slave, | Speaker, to go ir.to m consideration of what Vi gtola has * » | approach of the dsy when Wr, Parsoas I4 to be tried, but | wiiwous ineurting these penaiics. He was compelled ‘ i : done ant «Lot rhe ought to do in regard to questions no: ‘the slave was ressued from him, and be brought befwre® | ass the teelings « House mey be made manifest | here ugaia to get another fend to become his bail | duly or rather hasuly considered, 1 address myrelt Justice of the peace upon the cha ge above mentioned. | oii, ro/urence to the unwarranted and unoonstiinss And what will ke the effect if you take no notice of | to the consticuti nal’ arpect of this bill, and to We was teetided that the negro whom hs arresiol was free; | coo e purrned by f of Pepasy’ this watier? Here are ull the borers along your Peon- | that akne. Everything else I bold to be ex fand upon this tes:tmony, offered by negroes, be was im | 4° Bes malt ae 9 ania ia this | cyiyania lize, where acts of this kind are almost of d, trancous. Everything ese should be subservisut t) “ay tly bailed f rsonil property hes | ogemzence, dil «here losces are sustatned oy your citi, | thts hare of the subject, Tank, theo, in ft consti: privontd, but pudsequently A out to aopear defore out ane ad digaity of the com | Zens because of thir syatem of plan San you | tioral or no! + fe, Tam ecntent to vote for it, and Seok thas cons O& Tending asia Wan 6 | en ne ete ee er rccucn ‘unt | CxpeoN esa Viecbarge thele Putten towards You | will wilingly abide the cousequenses, If tt 4 not, Ther thin charge monwealth sasailed iv the person cf Mr. Persons, Who, | wien you fail to protees them, and secure them | it becones us as Virginians, and aa legislators mora par- no a lo seckirg to reeover his jy was igoomt these vigh(s which £ll expect from the governmeny | ticularly. having in our guardiaushtp the houor of the The *Meectution was rélerred to 8 sp seized nnd complied to give Ifyou will ray to thes, we capnot protect you fa the | commonwealth and the maintenance of her nghta, io and that committee reported the following | bidmapping; ond this, sie. while eng maintenance of your constitutionsl right sub- | remedy it. We ore recking o constieational rigat from | ition of bis per -al righs. Iau oppored, I soy, to | mit to this perpetual annoyance acd hazard~ you must | suother State, and it iv not for us to trample under fiot eee ee eng Bech any thew. of nscer- | go into the State or Penusylvanta, there 10 be umardered | our cw ecnsuitudon. 1: ts better to be right than to be | caintog “in what’ partioular our commrnwesith hus | and have your gray hairs clotted wih your gore—af yos | expecitfons, and J would egoin ask. the Mouse, if this bill deen injured ipeulted, ov for muy other pose. | say to therm, you must submit to al this, Ieayyoucan- | is amemable to econstitutcpal bjections, to reconsider fi l'presuine, will doubt Ora co. | pov expect them to stavd by you when necestary. Inp- | it, Let us etrike out the objectovable features, and has deen offered peal, ‘hen, to this Honse to stand by this measure, It is tue then having deliserated upon the oourte that Virginie into the neighbortog State very least that can be done, aud I beg the House to pass | imerds to ke, having planted the flag of the comm. of bi own it Cnarimously, inet it may go forth to the wor as | wealth, and beving unfarled that flag, which I trust ty ignty of be evicence that this is not esteemed the care fan indivilual, | God shail be bravely unfurled im delense of Southern for bis proteetinn, s too, with bu: of the State. and that che means to assame the proper | vghts—and when lesy Southern rights 1 mean consti Aoudted perscna| right aud the ¢ aed! siiet | responsibility when the casred rights of any of ber cidi- | tutional righte—when we place ourse.ves in that position, oe 9 States, which guaran’ the » igh: of peoperty between | zens are avsailed, end to throw over bim the Mm wgis | and whea all constitution-loving men sball ral'y to w+, se tesnecting tucitives fra | ove State and another ia this regard; but, ir, how is he | of her proteo'ton, and that so solemoly dogs she reguec —vhen we have done thst, rir, then shsli we rescive to the service of their wasters, | treated? The cons n was, if may use the expres. | these rights vhat she expresses her purpose to eall her Lo. | #'and upon our own grcund, and main‘ain it. even if the! approved Fovsuary 1). 17665 ‘ye sense, enarsved fron his band by ® | gistature together inany emergency which may grov out | roble s.cucture, the Union itnelt, shell crumble unde: @ @uzen of the eouvty of Mampauire and S ate of \ violent aod thirsty moo, tramped im the dust and | of che cave under considezation, cr any similar one, tka' | our feet, one mass of chactic ruin. I appr, then, io Bursuance of the rensiies provided by aid ao ot Cons en 4% | utie-ty dinegarded, aud the Uberty of the slave vouch. | they may s-opt euitable measures, even if it nee war, the Houte for a general expression of opinion in regaré Virginie. followed into the Siate of Peansylves sated to him, while thet of the mester, a free eitizen of | Mr, Deant—I would ask the genticmaa from Albe | to this question. If it isthe sense of the House that the jacob Green, iwe property of hit this commocweatih, was teken away. In adsitton to | marie to withdraw his opposition, and let the yte be | biilis not amenable to these objections, T am purlesity being maltreated by a mob cf uegeoes and insulted by a | taken upon the bill to-day. willirg to give up my opinion. But, as I thing now, and pegre s Tanac Parsons, in d county aod State who was a fughive from ibe service of his said miasier, aod arrested said slave to | crowd of feautics! abolitionists Le was coafined withia ‘he Mr. CLamors eddressed the House bricily fa favor of | accoraing to my humble judgment, founded upon a close ard sgam to Penvry:venia and other Nosthern tates tor | peals so much of the act of 1780 ‘as ant . rediess of gri¢varces committed upon our cliizena by | ters or owners of sinves to bring and retsin such slaves the plunder ef sbeir propsrty, and the only reply wa got | wi'bin this commonwealth for the period of six moaths, im war thet it wea the setion of a mee faction ia their | invointary servitude, or for any period of time whataoey— midst, whi'e 1 Sate wis unwiling to punish these | er.” We velicve thay thig@ct hugs the wind closely, and setions, Now, eir, thecbjeot ot this vill is that Virginia, | sails between the rock of the constitution on one hand, and hreugh ber Governor and Legislature, rhall say to | the whiripce) of ite open repudia‘ion onthe otuer. It doze. Pennsylvania, through ber Governor and Legisialure: | not purport to take away from their masters the domestic: “You bove resolved to plant yourself by the sfle of your | slaves attend’ng upon thelr persons, a8 they ae through, errectory citivens—to protest them against tae conse. | this Siate, I: does rot prohibit the bri of them venees of thelr unlawful aets—and you musi say whe- | within tt. Itenly forbids the bringing and retaizing of Ther thet faction can coutrol you.” This, ia efiecs, is | them here. It may affect the slaves of sojourmers, but it what the bill contemplates. Ard now, sir, say if this | cannot seach persons or slaves in transit, because they ssstem of plunder and lawlessness is not pat dowe | are not both brought and retained within this common- tt cnee. let ue all go for taking a Stato position | weaith, An soto: Asxembly will not be eonsteaed to be with peterexce to the Sate of Pennsylvania, aad say to | vncorstitviional by impllesticms, aor when « constitu- Fee eee violated the constitutional esmpact tare- | ticnal ccnst’ uetion ean ba fairiy given to it. gard to ns, and we must now take the po ition which be- This commonvealch has poperiy abolishe! elavery Jongs to vs as a sovereiga Stats.” Let us, before the | within her own bounds, but beyoad them she as no Heute séjourna, pass tris dill, and let every man, by | jurissicien over it. Cue Southera brethren are pro- essting bis gore in favor of it, pat his mark of cisappro- | tec'ed m ibeir property by s etronger bulyark than an baticn nven the course which Pennsy'vania is pursuing of the Pennsylvan'a L’giviature, and your committee in this matter, Jeare not vo impngo any man for his | cannot corse. t disgrace cur commenwenith in the vote, uur do Ienite to inflaence the yore ot any gentio- |/eyex of the civktzd world by assuming t give that Than’ ty eDy passionate appeal, for I should felgn nope | which she has nelber the power nor the ixctination to torir own judgment, a well a8 the seure of thy wrongs | the away. which esiand this action would Induce them to sastiun Your comm tee therefore recommend the adoption of the Bill. ‘Theve Is, in fact, no zeed for any snow wffort, for | the to lowing resclution:— there ore, J am persuades, enough in the Honse to passit. |p, Resolved, That the committee he Aischarged from the Let ne appes) 1 Pennsylvania and show to her the darge: | furtuer consiuereticn of (he subject, the it i, ord cab upen her people, wi ix times pas’ MINORITY REPORT, have storo by us, to coms to our rescue and put dowa ‘The uncersigred members of the Sudixiary Comintitee their own factions cllzeas. Mr. J. made a few other re- | belog unabe to coneur with the majority of raid com erks; aber which mictee in the views and prngiples eet forch fa their able Mr. Marony, of Norfolk city, rove snd said—Mr, | apd learned seport, on the petitton of Col, Josep Paxton, Speaker, Jazive to ray bur very fow words apon this sud | of Catawiese, proying the Legiviataye to casct a law jeet. It wae wy misfortune to be absent’ trom the House | securing to the civizens of siaveholdiog St'ee who may when the bill came np; ut, a# a member of the comvuit- | pass through this commonwealth, or transiently sojourn jee which seported it, I must trespass upon the House for | therein with their slaves all the rights of vrope-ty in a mimenty, to oxyzees my Views witu regard to AS | cald slaves guaranuieed to thom by the laws of auy other haa been well remarked by the gentleman from Fus'x, | Stata, ond musing & penal offence to attempt, by word or (Mr. Garrett,) the drficully in which we bsve beva | deed, to desoy, or in avy mancer to allenats the said paced bas grown ont cf car disposidon to accommodate | slover fom their raid owoers, against the sald owners ‘axen upon ihis Moor, 1 gre‘ecred the original bid, | will, feel thar it is due to themselves, aa well as the refer ft still, and am prepared to vote for tt—the | yeonle of the commonwealth, that they should set forth ecustntions] oFjections of gentlemen to tue eoatrary | the ground of teefr diseent, uetwivhsianéing. For my part I could see nothing ai- We ds not conene wiia the majority ‘ thet the right of oonetitu‘ional in it, ner cau I be persuaded that such an | transit tbroogh Peresylvania, with heir daves, is al- objection couli obtain in reierenee to it, Bir, this cage | ready eeoured to the cirizens of the slavehuldieg Stat of Paracas is one woich, I would be incucel to say, iies | by toe low of rations a:d the feceral consittutivn, beyond the eovstitution. Your Fugitive Siave law, if it | thatrostatute uf thie State affects to disturb {t.’’ Neither could He cnforced, gives him zo remedy. It is one of | can we give our sasent 10 the reasoning ond doctrines those estes which we made provision for, whea | generaily laid down ix. tho report of the majority. We do we reerved certsin nights from the federa! | not propore to advance sny views in oonitict with the yovernment to those of tue several States. What, | vested Tights of the slavenolding States, toimpuga the fir, are the facth? Lock at the condition of the | ccmpromlacs of the ecnstitation, or to enter into any of country, look at the pre-ent conditin of Congres; and | tho vexed questions growing out of Congresstonal legis. then wht, (ask, fe your federal goveromeat worth? So | lation on the subject ot slavery; much less do we intend far os the enfoseerent of the provisions of tue constitu. | to ciscues the gseat mora) and political evils of slavery, eat ial emnmittes, x ‘Whereas, the consuiu tee Di 4 “no person be'd to service oF later in one stats ander tive Faws therest, evesplox int onsiber, snail, in oom apy law or reguias on Warein, be uistharged ‘hom such service @rabor, bat shal) pe delivered 2) on oulm of the parry wo whem stich service or iavor may be dae; y as be supposed 793.) encith justine and persons eveapin ‘aud the oiber (passed 160) en 4 tary to the act eniitied jrestier and persons escaping fro i d whereas James Parsons, Jr, |} sion ma? ardor to bis being desit with under tae provisions of he 404 Ot | Deipon walle of Pewneylvania, Aye, and thet while the | ihe investigation of it, it is amenable to constitutional oo { tion, wi bout whieh we never would have entered tuto | fiom which this commonwealth bas been #9 hap) Congress aforesaid; and whereas the wid clare war by mo? | Fave cf wictn he was tn quest was set at lioety, having | Mr. Kuxrim, of Madison, suld—I would earnestly ap- | jeotions. : this’cempuc’, ta eonocrued, itreeme utterly powerless, | exempled by the hnmano and enlightened Legislation of Was tabing bun belore the proper irisunals; aad whereas the | been forced from the possession of his rightful owner. | peal to the gentleman from Albemarle (Mr. Early) tw Mr. Caxter—I bad not contemplated that [ stonlt b« | for we find thet instrumen’, day after ¢ay, contemnod, | the past, gradusl'y removing this pernicious institation said James Parvors, Jr., was himsel! arres ed upon a charge of T am ioformed that James Parsons, Jr. the gentleman | withdraw all objections to the bill in ita present form. 1: | Crawn into the discussion of this, or any other subject | cirregaréed aud trampled ‘uncer foot in ali the Northern | by a canvions ana progressive series of acts from the soil States, Gentlemen talk about ty mearures! Great | of Pepnsylvapia. We shall confine our remarks to God | how lovg is Virginia to submit to this aggression | points in which we diiler from the Fran bon and iveult! Wil we ever resist, sir? Are we to walt Ist, We bold that slavery is exclusively a leeal insti- Dati) armed bands of Northern fanatics shall ravage your | tution, and that it is not recrgnized by the law of na- property at your very doors? nay, euter your housesand | ture, the commen law or the civil law. Such ts whe opi- plunder you? fir, that is not tueic policy. That is cot } nivn of tre abiest writers cn jurisprudence. Blackstone, Fhe mode of warfare which they design to wage upon us. | in Lis Commentaries, vol. 1, page 42, ssys:—'‘Upon the Lecntend, Mr. Speaker—for I have Ioarned to express my | law of nature and the law ot revelation depend all hu- opinicnr, knowing thet I might do iojustice even to the | man lew.” That is to eay, nobuman lew should be sentiment# I entertain—J contend that the most strin- | suffered to con‘radict these. The law of Eogiand .abhors gent and immoderate retaliatory mea:uze which we oan | and will not endure the existence of slavery wi'ain this Sdopt. inthe culy measure ot peace, and the measnre | ration. Aslave or negro, the iustaut he land, in Kng- by which we can best rerve this Union, We have | land, becomes tree. When a s’ave comes within the ex- tried remonstranee, reacon snd argument; and with what | oluelve jerisaietion of xngland he ceases to bea slave, effect? ‘Tre ppgrestor ati! marches on with asteady and | because the law cf England porilively aud notoriously “Kidnapping and assadli,” and Leld to a penalty of 62,00 © | to whom Ihave just referred, is reqvared toapoe@ar on Mou- | is unportant and desirable, in the bighest degree, thay which might come befure this House to-day; and wore appear al the rouo'y court in lair coun'y, Poansyivania, aul | dey next before ome of the judgment seats of fennaylvania, | the Hoare of Delegates should preseat an unbroken front | this a questicn of an ordinary character, or one involv aber er suid coarge in crimiual presezadon. whieh Ww’ | upon a charge of i’nappingy thero to be tried nud pom | upon his bul. het xo laggurd be found in our midst. | ing only sectional oF Kceal inierests, { would be canven’ Banding; and whereas the rights rnd ihe sal ty ofsaid Jan: | nounced upon dy pe jared wituesscs sod ancigutesas | Let no faltering w'ce de heard im this hall, ups a proposi. | to lesve it .to those wao might reprosent those Woerty is now evdni jncges. He, sir, isn cttizen of the state of Vi . It | tion either to prevent or redress aa outrage from abroad | local interests and that particular section to Yaws of tbe State of ania, s our duty, as legisla ors of that State—as legisietors of | upon the liverty of » citizen of Virginia, aud through discuss the question involved, and to this Howe abrogate and anoul ibe provisions the prople of this commonmealta, bavivg in charge the | him, upon the roverdlgnty cf the commongenlth. Any | te éixpose of it ss in its Wisco might Selena os oc ae ~ : scyereign’y ofzbat State aud perple—now, whea a c's discira fo eur own councils would ‘ack the moral power | Seem best, without troublicg it with avy xmarks 0 earned thereby: uni whereas the Durruessat woil eb the | Of here is, ax it were, standing upmn the very ve of onr action abroad, and tend to prevent a peaceatle ud- | mine. But, Mr. Speaker, whice I, too, represent @ loca: Feooguizance and bail bond of said James Parcons, Jr. may | Corrupt and tnfamous tribanal, rescue him justment of difficulties, Any such éelay as was urged by | iuierest—s particular s-ction of this ¢ommonwesith—and Feautebimieco 9 the Sts of Pounsyivania, whereby he | uhat perilous pociiion, whea it'is im our power to do | the gen'leman from Albemarle might prove disastrous to | #hall ever, as fn caty bound, f¢ lively interest in a i ‘would be still exposed to the dange - | sc, and restore him again te tiberty, Sir, upon @ | & peaceful scluiion. Mr. Parsoos is now in our midst; that silects or concerne that local interest or that par Sayeed ia! cpon the cherze. & 4, ent beire “ours and | ginute exscoination of the Dill, come objection may | bia liberty ia not yet wholly wrested from him. Prompt | ticu'ar ecifon, in alt matters which fovolve the inte Juries uniriend’y to the far atwinistration of svoe ia ease; | by ecneitered fn reference to it. But 1, sir, have | action msy anticipate and ward olfany collision, Butafter | rette, the henor, or the wellure of my Btate, I slhim to paid rome attention to it, and bave seen nothing | to duy it will be toolate torezort to preventive legiviation. | reprercat thet State in its entire length and breadth, In he prosscudon igned prisoament, proses. le ft the G. at iy ef Virgi , teat rn * said James T int be, acd be i hse, proubied, {| in it Walch Ls chjes\iombl} to we’ at least, nor, 1 | JF wo, celny ut al, we muuat walt until the enen shali | ¢7tsy/bing which pertains to ber _Presverliy. and whica | ecnstant sonce, watt he has invaded your very sll. Ani | probibttn and f- bide the existence of yooh « rolaton be- under & penaiiy oi $5,000. recovered sud puid ruc trust, to this L mitted to ii ave been complicated by ‘he action of @ Pennsylvania | sflects ber fame or ber 1euown, wherever 1 am, | feol that | now he is about to rend one of your citizens to the peni- | tween man and man. This was admi te. #0 ex. other Sues, penal torte r duige the bi passage. and | court, until s citizen may have been robbed of his llverty, iv is both my privilege end my ‘outy ‘to rate my voice in | tentiary in ’ennsylvania npon false testimony—the tes- | pressed by Mr. Weonier ax Secretary of State, ia his cor- ee Ona maier tha: not a Ht he tound re- signed to the penitentiary of anovher State | her behalf,“ Yhis, sir, is a bill containing provisions of | timony of negroes! And this because he ventured into | respor dener wih Lord Ashburton tn the Crecle case. ‘ ; cording his vote If there is at any time result be conscramated, and who woule grave ond momentous importance. It invelvesquestion- | thai State to reccver Lis property! This, sir, they will | (Webster’s Werks, vol. 5, p. 315 ) The civil law takes the continue to do, unti! we show that we are detemined be- | ame view of slavery and declares it to ve against the yond even the consiiintion—for we capuot resist withia | rights of nature, (Just. Lib, 1, art. 2, sec. 2, Valtel’s - the constitution—to maintain our proper position and | Law of Nations, book 2, ch. 9.) When our forefathers assert our righte, no matter gt whst sacrifice. Wecan | emigrated to thie country they brought with tnem the Lever o-herwire aroure them to a senre of the danger and | common Jaw of iingignd, and it has become the basis of periis impencing over this Union, I have no douot, sir. | our own laws. {oar we sbel! be ealied upon to enforce tae provisions of | 2. We held it to be equally clear that the rights of this bil!; una ocobably it were better itshould be So, that | slavebolders to pss» through or sojourn in this State ‘the 1© ue may at once be mace, and our future prospec | with their Haves ie not conceded by tha Jaw of nations. we @iffer upon othe: questions | msequecees? Let the fact once go sbrowi | Which ecncern not only the pretent peace, but it may re ast, nuite ina qnestion of | that citizen of Virginia, acting peaceably and in pur- ; *iouely afleet the futvre pesce and happiness ot our r we » Virginia and the Soath. nance of the constitution cf the United States. bad been | State, and, indeed, may affect the perpetuity and we!! ba- Then, let the Iruilature rot ouly do what wal be | atiacked and besten by aa internal mob of fanatic-— | itg ot cur Union. Under there convictions, and ic nececrary to secure Parsons’ release, but thet which | had been robbed of bis liberty, drogged to the criminal | prcsred mert deeply with o sense o¢ the gravity ano will exercise a prop ce in other States in | bar, ard sentenced to thé fate of a felou—t importance cf the fubject before us, itis, I erates, si: deterricg Yhew pg. to regerd to Southern in- | honorable and spotless citizen of Vurgin‘a had isen | with po little ot embarrassment that 1 astempt to engage . which has marzkel their | foreed by Pennsylvania into bed-fellowship with the | 10 this discussion, I beve said ic isan impertant sup i ef, the swindler and the thief, in her penitentiary, | ject; em the ene hand we bave to maintain the honor anc protec, to pay a . oF other charges of wh: Buréties may incur snd bead): hi ed io pay b§ reascnof bis nou ia overience t@ Re peodioi- incurred m de pia, bas hereby p t Janes prclaaay popular indignation would ve tet trom rhe | integrity cf our Siate, aud to guard and protect the i dendeé, This w Ke be consti‘utioval or it may | We have already shown that freedom is the birthright See ante mnceiner aad nol oles wie: ay Unio to the Cove of the Checepeake, which woaki aevs: | terests, the poscns am property of her elisa; on tu- | pot be; but, slr, T leave every man to judge for und tbe vatural c.nditzon of mau. Story, in his Compila- fodeice but with an armed conflict between tho State | other hand we have io be careful that we take no siep- | hinset. Impognirg no. n’s ives, tion of Lawa, see. 104, ssys:—''Versonal divg valifisation 2. The Goveraor of the Common wealih 1s here'vy authorized y ond direcied to pay ont of the covangeat fund ‘say sum or stuns Prucence, in a ease like this, consists in prowpt and vigor whl compromise, in the slightest degree, thy: | that] sim prepared to stand here and show tue peop'e | Lot arivicg from the ia of nature, but from rustomary ‘ot money sor wie! of this ae, Use Conninoa wealth cus setion, ud that snteg-ity. or which wili jeopaidize thea | of our cwn State, as well as the people of the Unived | cr postive laws ot a foreiga country, expecially auch as States that we sre ready to make the issue ina pructt- | are of pena! nature nature, are not generally regarded in cat wey. I will not proceed with my remacks, tor I | ther countries where the like disqualificstions do not pererive the House is growing impatient. saint. ‘They are strictly torritorial; ao the state of sla Ar. Cansarx here treated brietiy upon the question | ery will not be reecgpived iu uny country whore iusti- ofthe e-nsitwionality of the bill, He showei very | wows ard policy probibit slavery.?? clerrly ibat the tH did not embrace two objes The law of s'avery is in iavitum, and whea e slave gets relérenee to the ohjections of the gentleman fcom out cf the territory wbeve it prevails and out of the power mond city (3tr. Stanard), he said that a railroad bili | of his master, and gets under the protection of another which embraces a charter and an aporopriacion wouid | power, withont epy wrongful ast done by the party giv: be amerstle to constitutional chjestions, according to | ing that pictection, the right of the master, which is his argument, for, by striving out the appropriation | fownced on the municipal law of tha partieslaz place a th se rovecien privileges which she claims, Let ms | Mr. fanty—There is no necessity for this Ill, beexwse reste. ‘The duty incumbent upon us is an importan unite upon his question, ard theredy manitast the teae | vnder a law of ihe United § ates the citizens of Virgin | cne. The task we have to perform is cf a moat deiloare cof our fvelings with revard’ The best | have a iemedy, und gone sa they ougat to resori | character. Dees it, them, become us to approach this b nintroere to toe aggeesrige poltey | to, in orcer to throw the burden ct this action | Putject under the influence of such passionaze exci:emeat antes which we can haya | opon the ral government. I presume, + av iB evinced ob this floor to day? Docs it not rather be- tormination which we | Presicent of the United States is ready snd willi come us, in cur representative capacity, acd charged We have forborve uatit | to carry out at eny time the laws ‘of the lava | we are with such impo.tant 1 6sponsiviittes, 10 pioc forbearance vases to be & virtue, We have been forced | and if necessar: fog the military power |, | with the utmost cwution and eeliberation? 8 baok tothe wall; but from thixéay henceforth ave for- | bear upon sny seirxctory citizers who Cisregard those | Go" become us to sce that, by no act of oura, thi ever let v that our righte shall be opue daad | laws, But, sir, I whl, im deference to the opinion of .ue | gocd old commonwealth should be placed in such « position boldly meinteamed. pevti-men ‘around me, withdraw all opposition to thu. | #8 rot to justify us, come what may, in appealing, no* & of money Py reason ‘Yan'a under the egeinst all totore shell manifest in this instance , upon demand hia ono eas were Stace of tne Goverror and Legislamre thereat. made as aforesad, ihe same shal! no after be fully paid, then the rn Fecied by proper precess to eommand any shorif or other er eilicer 10 seize any property belonzing to the Stave of w Renneylvanis, or (0 ay eitirn Mr Gansers, of King sod Queen and Fasox~—I ds not | dill, believing it to be a very innocent ene, ‘ only to the civiifzed world, but to the God of nations, t | clause, a constitutional vote would not be necessary, | ely, Ccos not continue. The fact of a slave telng taken Gauss tor the sotletaction OF know Mr. Spon’ which of the lasses into wile lie has Powkit--I would, sir, wito great pleasure give my | attest the justice cfour course and the correo: ness of while i! would be necessary if that clause was retained, | toa country where aavery or involuntary inde is divided all the ne South, I belong ve | vote in favor of this bill as 6 Mr. StaxanprepHed at some length to these views. not telern ed, operates on the condition of the slave, and now star da, if I could do pe We are, Mr. Speoker, m my humoe at lings, and in comm a | benvicn, approaching & erie's which is franght with re (sr. Kemper,) 1 woud suita cf ibe moet starting cherscver. The time w Le bappy to see this bill pass unanimously. Ihave, ne- | tir, When to thick of a ciseolution ef this Union + | soy tat 1 belerg gto tho fightiog Sw yeriheless, one objection to it, and that is of a corstiin- | Gecmed ximost unparconable, and to speak of ft wo» | He geks that we rhaii delay the pawage of the bUl unter | tional character; this bill is introduced to accomplish | ecxeidered almort trearon. Bat, rir, how is it now? consideration, with a view to more detibe coasidera- |» yarlieuiar purpose, and to that extent 1 will go { every rection of our country we behold the cigns of ¢ tion with regard ty it. This sudject was referred to the | ws cheerfully a8 any gentleman upen thi i cr, | leyaity, ard ficm every quarter we hear the mattericgs special ecmunittee on the motioa of the gentleman fram | ‘That, rir, ifcarr'ed out will heve accomplishe? :. spe. | Of dirtatisfection, Not only is it received iu some sec Hiscopshire (Mr. Hia't) some woeks emee, and it remalaed | gifle chject upon which we ate now called apo to legis- | tions as a probable er possible, but in many, as a destin. before that ec ee umil they procured fall eviteace unis bill proposes something fa addl ion to | ble cvent—not only » i: inculcated by the writers and upon the question; until they procured copies of tho in- nally intended. It propores to confer upon | lesders, but the masses are becoming fust imbued wih dietment from the Court is Pennsylvania; um'il they had | others the vriviege of jndgiog when ar emezgensy may | the idea that this Unicn is rot now what it once was - breught before them from ten to twenty of the citizens of | arire, end the power to exercise, With re’erence to such | that what wax cesigned as a compact for the more Bampsbire eounty—gentlenen of the li'whost- character | an emergency, the privileges which are conceded in re. | fect proiection of every section and every parto. . and respectability—who bore the movt estisfactory testi- | gard to the yartieular care now ander coneideration. | | confederacy, is fast being converted into an engine or 1 mony to the rood etamling and ixtegrity of the young men | sm not wibkeg Mr. Winwett, of Bedford, was in favor of the bill, but | precucee immecin‘e emancipation, (16 Louisiana Rep., was ouxious thst the question should be put in ‘such | 489. 7 Louiriona Rep., 172.) Slavery exista uniy by virtue form as to bring it belure the Srpreme Court of the | of the Jaw of the State where it is sanotionod, and if the Snited States and Lave it fully vested. He was anxious | s'ave ercaper from euch State to a fres State, he is free, that ihe House should be more full be'ore a yote was | according to the princip'es of common law, and recap‘ure taken. in the free states 1s authorized only by the constitution Mr. SkGsR moved to suepend the rule, for the purpose | and sct of Congress; there axe no general principles in of making 9 motion to recomm{: the bill, in order there. | the law of patiors which require such eurrendsr. (Jones by to cot rid of all constitutional 0 jéc:ions in reterence | vs. Vantant, 2 M’Lean’s. 696.) By the law of rations, no to it. He expressed a conviction that if this were done, | State is bounc to recognize slavery in another State, (16 it would psss by # unenimous vote. He was in favor of | Peters’ R., 659,) or the state of be kant as to ae embody ing the general clausein a separate bill slaves found within the territorial cominions, when itis ‘The wotion was lost. Ayes 42 noes 54. opposition toi's own policy and institutions, in favor of Mr. Burweit, of Bedford, then made motion to adjourn, | the subjects cf other nations, to ensb'e the members to reilect upon the bill, and to ‘The stato cf slavery is ceemed a mero pe cot Sr amend it if necessary, so a8 to make it satisfactory to all. | tion, founded upon, and limired to the range of territorial been in the babi pposing that I below » the most Scuthern, and if my feelimgs apen the | ceseut bil were to ‘be regarded any ectterion, | might shall bereafigr be a resaid.or shal be sylvania, nd, in defanlt thereof, sal) cause the wrt habeas corpus ie be applied ion, end ench other proses trys to be had as fo him sdail seem bast oo his bebal ‘Aud if the (aid writ and proceedicgs shail bot eifect the e and surrender of the aid James Parsons, Jr., (a soch time ax the Governor shal! deem reasonable unter the cir. eamntaners.t hei ‘beonme the duty 0 tue Goveraor, and he is hereby directed, 10 moke prociama*ion ot the fact; and ‘widin ten days ofler ‘aid proc amation. be is hereby dirested to seyze and Imprieon in the Jail or pentiontiary a] cliizans, and (o +eize ant hold ail proper sia’ of Pennsylvania, and £ll property of citizens f said Sint», until the reloase and ot to delegate to another the power of jn7g- | *trument fn the hands of one section for the oppression ant marrender by the proper authorities of said State of the said | [hope liverty is now in danger, From sch materiileas | { g forme or my constituents, or of ding that whi h | anjury of the uiher. Go where we may, we hear 1 The motion was lost. Ayes £8, noes 67. laws. (i6 Peters, G11.) And it is well settied with respect James Parsons, these, sn@ upon such grounds, was the orepared. But ) properly belorgs to tlw Legislature. Whenever a ques- | Same tentiments uttered, and ree the same indicatioa ‘The qveriion was then taten on the of the bill, | to their municipal regulations, that the several States of ir, aud hie preoeriy trom all dabilicy by rea ‘om of the proxeeotion or conviction for the charze aforese'd. @r soy cher charge agains him, on account of any sondust j this wes conceived too harsh, and 1's friends, in deference | tion i+ reised here for the i: terpositon or this State to | tbe oppronching storm. Ys, Mr. Speaker, wherever emmnected with the aurempt maie ‘by hin tn recever the slay: { to the wish of come members, agueed t) ils tesown- | protect the life or property of a citizen. { am wiling to | lcok we see the storm Crh alae? dazk and th.- sires. And until fe by Bam Vo reoere> pose? | mitment, when it wre remotetig to its ‘prosant | go with thix House to acccmplish that object, Let us re. | ‘ver our pohiicel hoivn. We hear the hoarse mu‘ter- ve sustained by reasonof said | Shape. The trial of young map comes on | ider this question. Jet us strike from that bill | ings of that thunder which is but the sare precursor ot ent, aod in all proceedings | On. Morday neat; and 1 say other man of | ell that bas » prospective opera'tou, ani adopt the balance that «term, and which, it not arrested by Him who bas forcement of the provisions € ruc | honor, Le is urwiling that his surefies, who generously | whieh relatos (o Parsons, If, sir, gentlemen desire to the control cf men and of nations, will ere long burst tn =. Ro Grecencael tie ous tuo calth of Virw'aia sia have | stepped forward iu the bour ot bis nerd aud imeurved tue | trecuce a bill upon a general subject I will heartily e: all its fury on our Jand. In view, then, of the great an full power aud author's io cal ‘apem ard ouimunind he wer’ | comin of the commmunl'y fu which thiy lived, shoald au” | gage with them fa giving to it that coneldersiion whicu its | important questions at issue, and of the infinitely Ln- vate citizens whatsever, whe ure required, cinder the pagalty | 26 0D bis wccount. Aud so something is done by this | importance would demand. Sucha subject woud require | portant results which may flew from our action here—in of misdemeanors, ‘oobey the call and command of the cia Legislature to protect him and luis baxl, be must go bas | to be far more maturely considered than circumsianees | View of the fact that ihe consequences may be @ direct to Pennsylvania t stand his trict. He goes back tntoa | wouldet presentacmit; aud beiog ucwilling that weshould | cenilict with one of our sister Sia‘es, with all its community where the experivoes of every day conviaces | retraces single atep, | sm oppored to the adoption of that | attendant evile~in view of the fact that trere is some «if. us he will get no fair trial, He will be tried by & jury of | portion of the bill which—as beirg prospective in its caar- | rezsity of sentiment in respect to the constitutiomallt, -f | } and Cecided in theafiirmetive. Ayes 101, noes 12. this Unfen are to each other foreign. (2 Wash., 278.) Jt shou.d have been mentirnea that Mr. Garnett offered | It eppears, therefore, thet by law of natic ‘the slave- a supplement to the bill, whioh interdicts the power of | bolder would have no right to is thro our State the Governor to aet as the bill provides. in similar cases, | with bis slaves, nor is be entitied to exercise that right hereafter. The bill gave him that anthourity, io rete. | by tho cend-y cf noins. for it appears to be jast as rence to other eases which may arise similar to this. well setticd that that which ia catled comitacinter commu- — blilonor arora biigha sera Co gr pg —— PENNSYLVANIA, prevail in any care, where it vio! @ law of our country, the law of natare or the lew of God. (Forbes vs. a Cochiat, 2 Tarr & Cress, 463.) Tt ban been eleariy abow Hankenens, Jan. 24, 1356. by the above authoritios that rlavery is against Tue law Transit of Slareholders and their Slaves Through Free 8: sx | of vations, ea BS ee: show that It is also a a ‘i against the lywa epnsy! Reports of the Commiltes on Judiciary on Col. Par | “dt, there sucb » right recognized in the constitution tons Pdtiti on. of the United States The clause of the constitution cited five sutbority. 6. Whenever heresiter any citizea of Virginia eh: rested, held 10 bail, or ounricted la & .00-siavenolding state, in eonsequence ef acta connected with or growing out of the re eapiure of a fositive slave. or the attempt to maintain the pow en to the satusfackon of that Stete with a inoral -ertsimty of eonvietlou, to be | seter— way involve the paintul necessity of retrograde | this bill, I sincerely hope that this House will not ». rentenced afterwards to ths : consylvania Peniven’ action ipsist upon taking a yote on ihis bill. Let us take at he Governor of Virginia that the 5 E What is your remedy thes? To appeal to the G Mr, Branxovel apprehend that objections could | least one short night to comider — wy its Com on Judi he | the rsjority of the committee under which the all Go low fal prosecution or maintenance of Uf Penney varia? Whois that Gorerror? Poltosk, «no. | te iade to tee bil upom the ground that demizht be un | provisions and itn chjecte, Ido not, Tite,” en by pros Pesan at ehh pipet ¥ : Hp crcats is claimed, isarticle 1,nec. 8, part 3:—Con- py pd ik fl torious Sooli ‘onist, who was elected by hygek répavik consiftations!; it mnigut be sed that it has two objects in | tertain tho censtitulional objections which’ are | Petition of Col, Josep! eps dan tbaey ‘ment | gress ball have power to regulate commerce foreign Gidea ec eek Semmes yeme’ el be | cans, fore soilers ond Northern Know Notnings. ve | view. Ihave not myself formed an opinion upon this | entertaineé by other featene, ‘and if a vote ts pc. | ofa law allowing or giving to the people of the s:ave- ions, ahd among the several States, ani with the se- Nh source in | question. The gentleman from Loudon (Mr, Powell) hos | civitated this evening, | shall vote for the passage of holding States tho right of transit through the State wi: | veral Indian triber;” and article 4, nee, 2:—'The citisens powers and duties of We rame ux are hare con! ease of Jaces Parsons Jr. #. ‘The Governor shall communicate » eopy of ‘iis act ty the ie, I x aume, Httle to be expected from that the shape cf jurticu ima matter of this character. How | onjected already, from which I ju‘ge thata uxanimow | bill, rather then yote againet it. But I prefer to con stands this question, thes’ What remsias to be done | vole cannot be had for the bill—e result which all would | it more matarely, end I think, sir, it is due to tho «+ in the event of our failure to carry out what | regret. Iam ready to vote forit, but I hope its friends | Co entertain these objections that we should, at least, . | of each State ehall be entillea to all the os and their slave property, made their report in the House to- | [1 CaGt Tete tite oe othe fire Piles, dsy. There wore two reports submitted, both written in Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Gibbon vs. ates with @reques: | is propored by that bill? The young maa Parsons, after | will defer to the conseclentions opinions of othera, and ive them time for a more minute examivation of this | an able mani est | is pr ons, e , an , ti er. Themajority of the committee roported | (9 Wharton, 106,) in copstru fe 1, sec. go Werisitares, sod | baying heen alrvedy seine sar aseailed by a mid foe a0 | modify the bill yo as only wo retain the provisions fo- tx» | il, #0 thal, If powsible, we may have entre mnani''y | thet bere SEE eee ee cae iag rete, | fart’ 3, et’ the comtretion "cea tae powers aie, other renvon than that be was engaged tu the prosecu- | relief of young Parsons, and then let thy gensval tv in whatever ccurse we may edopt. It will, [ aseure you, “A percent bth cad Sieg J pogrers to regulate commerce between tne States, vion of bis rights, will necessarily bave to go back and | peut of the Dil! be the subject of another Mil, These ramuke | it, have more moral force than if we have division of larsh, and in defers w th P ‘ f, sich Sa i snag psa gga ury from which vo saan In his senses can | I intend merely as enggeetions to effect the desired ohjoct | remliment smorg ourselves as to tho propriety of ‘This bill was deemed slavehelder the right to pass through unmolostod with his | says: the gevios and character of the whole go7- wes. That the right of the slaveboldere in thia reapect | ersment sessos lo be thst iia sotion ta to "be applied wish 0! several members, it was recomumitted, in orde. | expect justice, and, on conviction, be throwa into a | of the en'ire House a nmanimons yote. adopting this meacure—even though majority voto 1 to all ) 8 clion, be . fi a 2 ternal f the nation, mcéity 1. On Thersday tags the eoramties reported ::; | Pemiteniiery, while you siand by wi h folded arma.” tbo |” Me- Ganxeti—I sve almost sure that if my friend would obraines. In repent, Mr. Speaker, in Cractuniva, taavamn | YM! Lfothas tom Rll hme lg al ied ee a Ieternel ooaserae. which udbst the States genset iy, bat following bill:— we not owe it asa duty to the Htate to protect Bere eonvider the preposition "hat is made by the geatlemsn | wilting to go as far as ho who goes farthest in pote Pennsylvania Legislature, namely, that of the lay ofna- | not to those which se completely within o sa A zeps in the pro-ecntion of thelr rights? You wii have | fiom Louton (Me. Powell), be would be un villing to ase | the person and prc perty of ctizens of Virginia, ani ia tions and the constitution of the United States; tharefure | State, ard which co not affect other States, and with An Act ro rROTROT J 8 OTHEKS, CITES to say to d that yon are either unable or un ® reconsideration, Ido potthink that he will see’ taiting her honor, but I do not wish totake avy » ling to do 60, or Bring 6 collision wich the Co this bill Ip Hable to copstitational objestions. If you | trem which it will be nocersary to ike a retregrad: step moawealth of Penpsy!vania. », therefore, nessenary | leave out the section narning Jamex Parsons Jr., it wit! | im order to be put rigit; and if no other step is tason ty to act, and act at onse. And what is the action have all the effect that the two sec'lons have.” Th prevent precipitate action upoo this quaation, I how pored? T is of the sin re not two objecta in the bi seme gewticmen will meve to cdjourn F first, that attains might be attained b Mr. Sranarp, of Richmond city, rald— teman frem Loudon (Mr. Mr. Speaker, aro wore a that in which bill, because he veliew not univequently finds bine)? in the dissharge of re a © which it !s mot nesersary to inter'ere for the par, of herds Nereis sei coogi iene vo a Re executing some of the general powers of ihe levers that rubjcet. ments of the minm'ty took the oppostte ground: The complete internal commerce of # State, thon, may mont the rleveuelder eroseed thy line, and | be considered ax rercrved to tho State itself. Tt has been 6: Be wile the Gontrol of tte clearly Fhown that sloery ic local and purely the crea- ate, he was under ‘lo tion of mumeipsi regulation; that 1 is locked upon with fae oe wait A pligetions, i nee dan laws of th's State. He could not bring with him the laws | disfevor, = is gh veoogvized by so jaw, Mi " nemartle (Me n. sentative of ons, in which a sense of th wor | orp ay 9 01 E ». | law ct vations cr the aw of na‘ure. is clause of cause he bei , | which he owes to his own position eontrala th: in bisown domlell; for that reason as noon as A slavestepp- | Oo tition given Congress 1be right to regulate Gom- aiave was forcibly . mt tucst, | Puldes and requires that he rhou'd eontvol the tury iny | ¢@into thieStato hewss tree, They took theground that | merce, and if the construction put upon it in the report 4 a0, remedy, whieh is to relieve i a ie in the intermediate groands, Lam sactaed | to which under cther eireumstances he would cordivliy | avery was contrary to the common law, or the law of | cf the maj rity ve correct, wen Congress has the right the event ¢ ig hie golog at euy future tme inte the com- | to think, however, that the wajority ef tho House would | ve way. It requires in & condition of things like (nic pacure and wae therefore by vature local, founded on the | to regu ate com merer in slaves between the Sta! monwealth of Penosy!vania, where he has & perfect rigot | be in favor of a atrorger measure than even that pow w when itis the desire of every gen lemen upon this floor ‘pal lew cf o partlenter locality. Boing a ccea-ure | the buying and seling of men in our pnolic markets, to go, and in which right we moan to cecure him. A | der consideration. This bili rors to me t> be» ve that whatever could be properly dore chould be done hy ment, 4) could mot exist where thore was no statue | This is certaluiy a novel and cx'caordinary construction provision ix also embodred in the bill to seeare the same | mild one, and J am poreundet that If the rection to | isis Legfslatore for the protection of the rights, liberty sa that the statutes of this State wore | of thie c+ use cf the constitution, On tay en eo county of Hampshire, tn the ‘qvanty te the ooan y of Sar, rat ef a fogiive siave, sone, that anid Parsons te paid Swe of Pernsr'y: weai from said Ay) in of said alo tbe ears a* Garsport. pard of them the enid J , devore avvatienpt | titutte nibs cars and Het: that | leave him aded him, having xathority | to deterroine what shall be en two extremes, Tho rem ew position it to be has ly) takes exesption it ta be too worthines and « of thet amoan to lay the fits words, (a. he was a «la pase ot ibe |a'¢ county of 1b air ordered “ Senfined in cron. unless be, An uiter sirancer wonld #i aarety in ibe sum o! foor tryiand dol ars wo wppear in nad nest ourt of Quarter Neexiuns ot the Peace. t ykideap ands breas of the rig r ities to any other citizen of | which the gontleme in wea etricken ont ¢ | ood property ot onr citizens. Tray, sir, it places our acverse to ith ence. in bosed we +7e i ct informed, right le ¢ sken on - ‘ us. phact Qe 7 ie ‘a9 rone is cited. That Viiginia who may be pisced in a «mfiar In | would be scarcely worth the paper apon which is in | « painful pesiiion, when, ip view of quentions like th Trend you Sie report of each, that you may lay the | n sstex‘e elvim to ti nervice of bis slave, and to a spe- case the eommonvealth of Pénnsyivenia ref to pay | drammup. «® axe called upon to conticer whether the pa: matter before your -eaders, Lot each judge fu (and Fadtal ir thom- | cies of proper y seergnized by our court dai aaid Coneto. Ouwter | back this bill, we propose to efreot the Governor, by M. Braxn J intended the remarks which T made aw | mode which is now presented to us is that in welves. When ccolors Ciagres who is to settle the diffi. | tibunols, cannct be denied; but that rign’ is esential an atonant in Kidnap wun, th make ia care betes State and State, ant | rere cuggestions, cifered with a view to command the | the object we ail have in view can property be ¢ culty? diferent fem his right of osetee is Santeate teiade wuh ecatoement in the peuiiontiary; thal Un mil Parcous, | sign antocs ae eo creat os toy eavdlocummee OF Hy is | unaimous vote of the Mouse in favor of the bili, by de | Tbe cuestion that has been me! by o'bor gentieinen i MAJOLITY REPORT. and demestic enimels. yam ibe fi lag of the eald Indicunont was again require. io | Aire event of t }@ imprisonment of the ‘erring to the conseien‘ious convictions of the gentiewes | om this floor struck me the imowent the bill was The Commit on Judiciary, to whom war referred the His right to tbe former depends upon arbitrary locat ‘nto recogpizance in Oe sum woe thonwnd doilars, | . factory proat of the fact is pro | who bad indicated & purpose to vote against it. Twoula | presented to me, and the imprersion increases, | petith oceph Paxton, of Cartawissa, praying for | Jawe, and is a yirlation of man’s netural rights, p FY EG ke § I Rldh f condi: fi re Nghe d habeas corpus, and { not, if possible, have a single gentleman vote agaiawt it. | ond J carnot, for one, without # violation of } the enactment of & law eeouring to the citizens of elav2- | bot ‘hiv yrogerty In the Jatter is ackcowledgod by —_ aaaar of dauuey rae tt Binvee head cone , iia atte oe he laws of ne Caited | believing, a# { do, that its moral weight and influence will } ‘he oak which ¥ Lave taken to maintata (he eonstitut’ » | holding ftuled of this Cnicn the right of transit through | the Jaws of nature and the laws of God, Tuelawe thet’ PT BRM k aoe th oe eee or ee then, with that solemaiy | be matr:fally eabanced if passed wi hous objection cf Virginia, vote for the bill in the form in which tin yw | .bis Stete, with "heir flave property, respect(uily report a wavery as property are local, and ony upoly so muted opr '. thot the id Paro Mato. dimsaiey | hall ott 722; % m portance ot the cecaston, he Mr, Fiovb—I cleo. sir, to eall the attention of the | stands, because itie amenable to the objection that i) | that tley have hod th sjeet under consideration, and | or hlawaean operate. fuch laws do not maka two indivdh in willing t# bevome b ) . . th th ree , joneral Acsemoly ‘aud submis | Honse to the fact that while some slegree of aifirence | has more than one object. This bill proposes indemuity | have crme to the conclusion that the right of transit | them personal preperty gene'ally (18 Heher’s Rep, 2h6 ) aot pad igapce wih tha ia Matier to them, that they may adopt such | reems to extet in reapect to abstract features of the of.1. for # eltizen of this Stave, Would not tbat provefon o | threugh Peonrylvanie, with their «lever, is already se- | dhe founh antic. section 2, of the constiintion is be- Assembly, satisfied stale trie te not Zs the dearer of env tn i, Meagtios Os Tay sem veorssary tu protect the Iberty | there f« one fact that has been manifest to eve tate diate | and the hovor of a fice born ci waonvor | Are these meseures too har pernoum, ture jury eifrom | it was o such Sn eralre disregard the rigats ‘i Tedten. | the Dill, under your constitution, rejuire a consti ation | eurcd to ihe ci'izeng of the sluveholding’ States by the | iieved to be still wicer frcm te mark, and t> have no eaofthisconmmwealth | dualin this hail, snd that is that the revtiment of the el vote to pens ie On the other band, strike out the first | law of notiens sxd the federel conmitu ion; and that no | more referezce to slavery than to ‘the powes to make on hy ? { am loli the bill, as | Honse i# cnanimous in favor of protesting every | rection and rake a vote upon the balance of the bill, and | -tetute of this State affects to disturb that right, Before | war; but it seoures to citizens of each State the right of naliy propoeed, pro'nced a omsiderable | individual cilizen of the commonwealth n ali tiecr | does ir, or Cees it rot require a rimilar vote’ Here yon | the aception of the constitution ct 1787 raves were heid | ngrere, egress or regress into the eeveral States of this ‘awa of the land: Therefore— pantie in some quarts For may pact I wos iu favoro | constitutional rights, end of Aining et the | bare cne rection of the bil distinctly and cloariy pro nd see grived vty im all the § y ‘ ¥ t of ¢ 5 " DI on grived as property in all the State: of the con | Union, ond whie tiere ibe same immuuities under the ¥ od 07 ae Seowal Sgeamably of Virztnhs hs the on = ae originally pr ope Me mevaly proposed to | xome time the dignity of Btate oom cing for the protestion of a certain iodivional ood federation rave t Fach State was a sovereign and to- | awn cf the ftate that citizens of the rumo Sate enjoy SRR ea ee cess ts atts trantn: | Wecthern Stote that may bec o-every othor | 1 apprebend, taat the contest with reforens to | another section providing for n veries of casos in which | dependent repubdite, sud that comity which is reorguizet | 1m 'er “he lawe thereof But the civizen docs not carry 8, a8 existing betwoen rriendly Vow- | with bim the Jews ot bis cmicil into aris'or State. The erea-es the lino of Virginia into this d not the treata cttizea of ours “ta the | the question, who shall go farthest in any of (hase part. | it ebalibe the ay, of the Governor to convene the Le. | hy the law of natic ma hie alee ant een treated we are | culars? It would be difficult to ny whose desire 5 etre gislature, object requires a certain vote by your | evs. extended to and prevailed anong the soveral States, | mement that may inour ant be mijndged to pay by reas of bis noaap remedy than that hey bis ie fog 09 any other | est in this regard, and whose patriotic the mot ard constitution; another requires a different sort of vote, Ac- | ord the right of tranrit with their then unuisputed pro- | State, be ir under the Jaws or Pennsylvania, Searance, in pursaaane Of sald recog yizance, tas ried aa | thee hh god ond ay = oush courts We adit | Tt is important. however, Mr. Sooaker, thet in takiog | coroing to my Judgment there two onjocts are cloarly and | perty wee not contravened. Jaws of Vi ginia (ree. 4 Jobn. © 480 2d Root’s Com, 258), sald, oF wolah may he nenrred in defending hin or Wie | BAS you can pace slaw with & view to make our pro. | the course that we are now proposiog to take, tha! we ypatpeb ‘Aistinet, and cannot const{tutionally be blentea | | Upon we adoption of the constiintion. property in | auc if he Grings with htm his: alaves, tbe moment tet eave y Under ognt 01 for hia mY pope Ay de sd you sioald come Lerefaad | sbovla be distinotly and ane yuivocally right. It ia bet in the same bill. And it seems to me that the propor | slaves war powitive'y recognized, and especielly protected, | ibey crore the lve they aretree, Bat it has heen desiled woverner of the eummomweslth ie hereby anthorized any omedios, exce| * each oe ak es resorting to | ter that we shonld be right in every partioular, tnan | course to adopt would be to adopt the provision with re | by the prevision for the rendition ¢f fogitives from labor. | that the s(cor¢ restien of #rticle four of the exnatitution nnd dirgaied do pas’ 0.t fe Buy comedion, wxoept sacl as can ciently by p-oviigt by | that wo should go the full extent to which our ieullogs | eyeet to Persons. and to intreduce in rome other form | slaves were reengulzed of bgitima:e proverty at thai | cf the United Staten dor not extend to the ease ofa slave ums of money for which by ere, "Th. Ws _ oe” whe at yon mus’ stop | ond opiniona would permit as to go [will vote for too | ‘he other provisions contained in the bill, which could be | time. nor eniy by the federal constitution, but by the | volupter ly car iec by his master into ancthor State, and wen th oF anny boos v ik om point where hamen forhovr. | bili irit is the sense of the House that it does not violate | done by bringing in two separate bills, We should avoid | inwe ct the coveral States of the Unfon, including Penu- | left there under the pictection of a law him ance cansen ind thet Je whon you lay your lisnds | «constitutional privilege. If it cid, amd wo should | placing ourvelvee in a position in which wo might bo | rylvania. fice (Pnvler, Hoover, vol. J. KR. $99). | ere tre ane eed hee fea wre en oa kak Virginia re. | carry it out, we would be guilty of precisely that whieh Joatly liable to the charge of disregarding to provisions | Having ecopted the consti ution, and thus plighted | T1/:e is ne thing in the letter or the epirtt of the con~ » Sul her fag waves on h’gh, #0 loog wil | we are chargicg upon othe A, and which tiiy bill ix de. | ot ovr own constitution while we were censnring others | ber honer tothe feitbful cbrervance of all ita covevants, | stiiniien that wils justity the right eleimed ander it, nor ‘and dincharge vil conta, fines, forfeivares, peralcies or i toe changes c! wancgorar charactel, @hien he te Weearetics | meine etc, wet she rorent the outrage of casiing a cttivom of hers int» | signed to counteract, no far as that for » violation of theirs, T confess that thiv matrer onght | ebe will not now divboncr herself by denying her bond | bes he &w J «Ras , ty | rigned iat for 5 8 ght + e Supreme Cont of ¢ even. nes oo ecpoant awit ovrnout, | Lruen And should ithe seemsea7. the will row her | course aMbots Us If tt la the sense 0. this H ve | Sotto be persed upon in any other mennoc thao shal’ | or violoting avy of ite obligations. Mis law oF tattoos | hele own Mtote rourte, bo Mi ohne tone bemeama te ae eee comaan Ba gis domes Tersone. Je and | Toot ree ines whee ae to pro neserting @ constitutimal privege by this bill ww do | comport with the dignity of Virgmla. 1 ought not to | given ibe right cf peeceabie and orcerly traneit to bovh | cesta n, eve given it euch @ construction. Ca ee Me | Say & Nor cieows wine it bes And we say that | not, in adopting t, brow down the cous!i'w tonal are tara | Ne parret upon in such o ianner thay tt inigit be sald | persons po preperiy, and that right f# ratified and con. | By ie sot of thie eormonweatth, passed tet March Whenever beresivr acy ciase of Ti shalt be errant | yon ty r pafbersingd ray we shall seizo one of | which we ourselven fave Impore | wae the effect of partion. and not cf res slution as ‘he | firmed by the copatiiutton, more especially fa the clause | 1760, forthe gracual abdoivion of slay itis provided: shehabiing in conseynance | Jon ifn ° pase ore the an ones we shali tmpri- | vote for it, Bat Leanvot helo oa reruit of soatare sam. Tet us take our posi | wich reserves to Cr ngrers the exclurive righ’ to egu- | that all neg aca, lattoes and otbers born withia roving Gut of the resapiure ot 4 a that wen the Pill whiett I otill be of the original nit? he bill, as it now stanls, {9 liable toc ten vpop this sutjest deliberately; Jet this pirti | late ectumerce ameng the States. This reserved right | State, ater ‘ho pars: ge of tho act, should be free. - yg ‘cay fo imatntaie toy posanenie’ | SHC that was tho DO! whiab I stil oelfeve wonit bo boss’ | onfections, The constitution tx cloar vpn this subjesr, | euiar ease, Mf you please, be tho occasion @ jax | ‘s construed by the Courts to ‘netude Intercourse nal tho | By the act 2d of March, 2647, see. 7, 20 much of the * : | under the circumstances, old awaken Northern | (He here road from the ‘ t Authorized the masterr lbs proven 00, the aa feta ch We Governor wf Virgin ur be cs fai Go) adele. | poe tily our taking ® proper position; let us take | tremsportasson of property, and most clenrly excluded te | act of Ist of March, 1780, a or cave jo sogard im te first place, most religiously, oye | right of andiyidual tater to prolibit mtercourse and the | cruers of rlaves i being aad retain auch slaves withta men , stitution the passage ehish a jhe fac: thoi wo were prepared tu dy anyiblng te | ¢oclares that ‘ no lew eltell couta'n more tuaa bbe ol " ct