nian school, the hot-bed of Northern fanaticism, it is but the transfer of the seeds of sedition and corruption from the humbler walks of the noisy rabble to the heart of our national legislature. It is no new principle, but an old tenet of a corrupt faction — a recognized element of a false political creed, under a new name and garb, and in a new sphere of action. Take any other tenet of that faction, or element of that political creed, and transplant it into a soil and climate as well adapted to its development, and watered by golden showers as congenial to its growth, the expansive elements of its nature will be exhibited in the same proportion. It requires no extraordinary powers of discernment to discover, that every principle involved in this issue is founded in error, and unwarranted by truth and justice. It is certainly a political paradox, without a parallel or precedent, that a government should, in the frame-work of her organic law, ordain a species of property, forbid any interference with the rights of private individuals, and subsequently, through her legal representatives in Congress assembled, enact laws especially interfering with those rights, by restricting the holders of said property to certain specified States and sections of our common country. Such a proposition is absurd, and inconsistent with the fundamental principles of our government. And we are confident, that no intelligent legislator, who did not wish to make political capital with the multitude, regardless of the imperishable principles of truth and justice, would for a moment contend for such a principle. This question, we repeat, has been productive of incalculable evil; and we hope soon to see it, with all the various elements
