Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay O The Unconstitutionality of Slavery Reprinted Slavery, Ted from Standard, With Additions (Classic Reprint)

Domestic Slavery is the most prominent feature in the aristocratic COUNTENANCE OF THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION. GoUV emeiir Morris in the Convention of 1787. Madison Papers. Two years ago, Lysander Spooner, Esq. published an essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. We shall but fulfill an old promise in reviewing the argument it contains. Events beyond our control have delayed us till now, which we regret only as it seems to have led some of Mr. Spooner sadmirers to imagine that the delay proceeded from an unwillingness, on our part, to measure lances with so skillful an adversary. We exhort them, on the contrary, to believe that we have no innate antipathy to the idea of an A nti Slavery Constitution; that so far from being obstinately wedded to our own opinion, Mr. Spooner, or any one else, shall find in us a most ready, willing, and easy convert to a doctrine, which will restore to us the power of voting, a right we much covet, and a direct share in the Government of the country, a privilege we appreciate as highly as any one can. Only convince us fairly and we will outdo Alvan Stewart himself in glowing eulogy of this newfound virtue of the American Constitution. I ndeed, if merely 6clieving the Constitution to be A nti-S lavery would really make it so, we would be the last to stir the question. If the beautiful theories of some of our friends could oust from its place the ugly reality of a pro-slavery administration, we would sit quiet, and let Spooner and Goodell convert the nation at their leisure. But alas, the ostrich does not get rid of her enemy by hiding her head in the sand. Slavery is not abolished, although we have persuaded ourselves that it has no right to exist.
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