Show rive ME MINUTES speece hen iy ay winter davis bavis made a pointed and conclusive reply in congress 0 1 to a member who argued ar nied that the government cannot take tak c slaves because eaic they are plo the sub jiuu hi V id passage bioni his short speech greatly pleaded plea ed tile house I 1 desire categorically to deny that assumption as a point of law I 1 aw the adl the united states S j ates never a slave as property prop orty lie he is Is pro property prop city not by law of tim united d states but by the laws of th alio L ive states the constitution on of tile the united states him as a t person find and only as a person slaves go to increase inci ill clease ease ie presentation direct tax ia is inquired in proportion to numbers I 1 U and it slaves are arc counted and the plot pio vision oil which prohibits tile the exclusion of 0 f emigrants prior to a certain date authorizes Con giess gless to tax them as poisons pel not dot exceeding ten dollars they aie directed to be up lip when they shall have fled from se r sarc c are then treated as persons andonov andi not as property they are arc known aown is as property to the laws of tile the tius tiu s one gentleman blell tle niall fraid that tile the 1 ill lav yf if a Slat aali can so change the tl relations between men that it can exempt them from tile the military service of the united states they place the existence of the united states at tile the mercy of the subordinate law of the states for they declare that every wife shall own her husband and every parent his son and the government is stripped of everybody chat that can be subjected to military service the gentleman spoke of robbery sir the advocates of slavery should seek sonic some other term of reproach its origin was in robbery and time and law have sanctioned it but they have not obliterated its historic origin 2 |