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astidious with regard to the color of its prey. As soon as that appalling decision of the Supreme Court was enunciated, in the name of the Constitution, the people of the North should have risen _en masse_, if for no other cause, and declared the Union at an end; and they would have done so, if they had not lost their manhood, and their reverence for justice and liberty. In the 4th Sect. of Art. IV., the United States guarantee to protect every State in the Union "against _domestic violence_." By the 8th Section of Article I., Congress is empowered "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, _suppress insurrections_, and repel invasions." These provisions, however strictly they may apply to cases of disturbance among the white population, were adopted with special reference to the slave population, for the purpose of keeping them in their chains by the combined military force of the country; and were these repealed, and the South left to manage her slaves as best she could, a servile insurrection would ere long be the consequence, as general as it would unquestionably be successful. Says Mr. Madison, respecting these clauses:-- "On application of the legislature or executive, as the case may be, the militia of the other States are to be called to suppress domestic insurrections. Does this bar the States from calling forth their own militia? No; but it gives them a _supplementary_ security to suppress insurrections and domestic violence." The answer to Patrick Henry's objection, as urged against the Constitution in the Virginia convention, that there was no power left to the _States_ to quell an insurrection of slaves, as it was wholly vested in Congress, George Nicholas asked:-- "Have they it now? If they have, does the constitution take it away? If it does, it must be in one of the three clauses which have been mentioned by the worthy member. The first clause gives the general government power to call them out when necessary. Does this take it away from the States? No! but it _gives an additional security_; for, beside the power in the State governments to use their own militia, it will be _the duty of the general government_ to aid them WITH THE STRENGTH OF THE UNION, when called for." This solemn guaranty of security to the slave system, caps the climax of national barbarity, and stains with human blood the garments of all the people. In consequence of it, that system has
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