Letters to the Southern People Concerning the Acts of Congress And the Treaties
Letters to the Southern People Concerning the Acts of Congress And the Treaties
Edward B Bryan
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The several acts prohibiting the slave trade are municipal laws, which cannot require a political alliance with a foreign power for their execution. Our government professes to be "fully able to enforce its own laws without the aid of British cruisers" and yet we find in the treaty of Washington the most solemn obligations "to enforce the law. " Now the treaty power has nothing to do with enforcing the laws of Congress. Great Britain nor no other Power on earth is to take part in executing them.... If, then, these laws require " a provision introduced into a treaty to enforce them, " they cannot be among those which our government is " fully able to enforce, " and being consequently inefficient, should be repealed. Or if, on the other hand, they do not require "a provision introduced into a treaty to enforce them, " then should that provision be abrogated. With you, intelligent reader, I leave the choice. 64 No. 16. CONCLUSION. Having now, my countrymen, endeavored to present some of the points involved in the great, and as yet unsolved problem of African slavery, I will add, in conclusion, a few remarks which should have been included in the foregoing letters.
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