The Van Zandt Case

On our first page wc havo publisbed the decisión of ie" Supreme Court of the United Stutes in this case, omittingonly that portion ofitwhich related to points entirely teclinicnl. Many of our readers, we know would like to examine it with care. Tlie whole ] document assumes that men bc proporty uuder the Inws and Constitution of the United States as well as of the several States. - This much mooted question seems, iberefore, to be as firmly soltled ns the most fmphalic and explicil declaratioiio of the Supreme Court can settle it. The act of 179:% is affinnel as constitutional nnd proper in all its part--. - The whole argument assumes tliat the Constitution was intended to secure property in slaves, and thai the law of 1793 is just the thing to do it, and will therefore be mainfained by the Supreme Court. We cnnnot say how important ma y be the results of this decisión in all respects; but vvo aro fully sntisfied it will weakea the attachment nnd venoration of honest and thinking men for the government of their country. Governments ought to be i.nstituled among mon to secure their welfare; and in the caseof our fathcrs?, our Constiliilion "was ordained to secure the Messing of Liberty" to themselves and their posterity. And now, at the end ofsixty years, the Supremo Court, by this decisión, havo determinad that iliree millions of the peo)le inay be held ns property under the Cnstilution then adoptcd, and may be lninted, seized, chained, and carried into bondage from every foot of soil in this vast republic, without jiry trial, or any efficiënt legal snfeguards for freedorn. Do we admire - do we love and reveronco such a constiiution? The lionest, philanthropic mind regnrda ibis feature of it with loalhing and ahhorrance. The Western Citizen, Chicago, is out for John P. Unie for President, nnc Samuel Lewis for Vico President. The ncmination in ilself, is not a bndone. - Wo think well of Mr. Halo, although we should like to sco wliat hiscourse will bc in Congress before we vote to make him President. " Confidcnce is a plant of slow growth." The Citizen puts over its names, " Liberty Nomina tion." Now Mr. Halo is not,never was, and probably nevor will be, striclly a mernber of'he Liberty party. Many will ask why a man out of the partj tihould be nominaled by tho party. This is lio gi'eat stumbling block to us: butwc should rciilly liko know what reasons tht Citizen can givo for goiug out of tht iiajty to lind cundidatcs.