Concluding Argument of Hon. Geo; W. Paschal
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Excerpt from Concluding Argument of Hon. Geo; W. Paschal: Before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, on the Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Seventh Days of April, 1870, in the Case of William McGarrahan, (Panoche Grande); With an Index I neither believe in the infallibility of the Pope or the court. I remember, as you remember, how in the construction of that very section which confers upon Congress, whose Judiciary Committee you are, power to make needful rules and regulations respecting the territory and other property of the United States, that tribunal fell into an egregious error, which has cost us rivers of blood and mountains of debt. It was in construing that section that it was claimed, that the "territory" here described meant that alone which was conceded to the Confederation by Virginia, prior to the adoption of the constitution, and that it left loose and subject to some indefinite notions the vast possessions acquired from Georgia, Spain, France, and Mexico; that there was something owing to that omission which enabled them to proclaim from their high place, that a man born and reared within one of the States of the Union, possessing ordinary intelligence, and having once tasted the sweets of freedom, was not a citizen, and that Congress, with its enlarged power of naturalization, had no power to make him such; that he was something a little lower than a monkey, upon whom could be conferred no power as "one of the people of the United States," as "a citizen" entitled to maintain an action, but who was only known when it was necessary to count him to make up an unequal representation, or to catch him and deliver him up if he had sought to escape from the servitude to which he was born; and that in regard to the public domain there was something of a character, in that kind of property at least, which put it beyond your power to declare who should reside there, what should be the laws there, or what regulations the squatters should have, except to live there and inhabit there, with full power to exclude every other species of property, but not to interfere with the negro, until some morning or night some convention, called no matter how or where, should proclaim in favor of slavery, and that then, and not until then, they might determine the status of the black man, and knocking at the doors of Congress for admission into the Union, you must admit them with a slave constitution, or it would be a casus belli. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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