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1 Albert G. Brown, Speeches of Hon. Albert G. Brown, of Miss., in the Senate of the United States 1 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/shagbm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: PROTECTION TO SLAVE PROPERTY IN THE TERRI- TORIES. SPEECHES ON HON. ALBERT G. BROWN, OF MISS., IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. On the 18th of January, 1860, A. G. BROWN, of Mississippi, sub- mitted the following resolutions to the Senate: Resolved, That the Territories are the common property of all the States, and that it is the privilege of the citizens of all the States to go into the Territories with every kind or description of property recognized by the Constitution of the United States and held under the laws of any of the States, and that it is the constitutional duty of the law-making power, wherever lodged, or by whomsoever exerCised, whether by the Congress or the Territorial Legislature, to enact such laws as may be found necessary for the adequate and sufficient pro- tection of such property. Besolved, That the Committee on Territories be instructed to insert in any bill they may report for the organization of new Territories a clause declaring it to be the duty of the Territorial Legislature to enact adequate and sufficient laws for the protection of all kinds of property, as above described, within the limits of the Territory, and that upon its failure or refusal to do so, it is the admitted duty of Congress to interpose and pass such laws. On the 2d of February Mr. DAvis, of Mississippi, submitted the following resolutions, which were understood to be the result of the deliberations of a Democratic Senatorial Caucas: 1. Resolved, That, in the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the States adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the Federal Government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as well as foreign; and that any intermeddling by any one or more States, or by a combination of their citizens with the domestic institutions of the others, on any pretext whatever, political, moral, or religious, with the view to their disturbance or sub- version, is in violation of the Constitution, insulting to the States so interfered with, endangers their doinestic peace and tranquillity-objects for which the Constitution was formed-and, by necessary consequence, serves to weaken and destroy the Union itself. 2. Resolved, That negro slavery, as it exists in fifteen States of this Union, composes an important portion of their domestic institutions, inherited from their ancestors, and exist- ing at the adoption of, the Constitution, by which it is recognized as constituting an important element of the apportionment of powers among the States; and that no change of opinion or feeling on the part of the non-slaveholding States of the Union in relation to this institution can justify them or their citizens in open and systematic attacks thereon with a view to its overthrow; and, that all such attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the States, respect- ively, on entering into the constitutional compact which formed the Union, and are a manifest breach of faith and a violation of the most solemn obligaions. ' 3. Resolved, That the Union of these States rests on the equjlity of rights and priyl- leges among its members, and that it is especially the duty of the Senate, which represents the States in their sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts to discriminate either in rela- tion to person or property, so as in the Territories, which are the common property of the United 8tates, to give advantages to-the citizens of one State which are not equally assured to those of evgry other State.

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