The State of Virginia, not content with the decision of our own courts upon the right claimed by them, is now engaged in carrying this, the Lemon case, to the Supreme Court of the United States, hoping by a decision there, in accordance with the intimations in the Dred Scott case, to overthrow the Constitution of New York. Senator Toombs, of Georgia, has claimed, in the Senate, that laws of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin, for the exclusion of slavery, conceded to be warranted by the State Constitutions, are contrary to the Constitution of the United States, and has asked for the enactment of laws by the General Government which shall override the laws of those States and the Constitutions which authorize them.] [Footnote 40:--"Policy, humanity, and Christianity, alike forbid the extension of the evils of free society to new people and coming generations."--_Richmond Enquirer, Jan_. 22, 1856. "I am satisfied that the mind of the South has undergone a change to this great extent, that it is now the _almost universal belief_ in the South, not only that the condition of African slavery in their midst, is the best condition to which the African race has ever been subjected, but that _it has the effect of ennobling both races, the white and the black_."--_Senator Mason, of Virginia_. "I declare again, as I did in reply to the Senator from Wisconsin (Mr. Doolittle), that, in my opinion, slavery is a great moral, social, and political blessing--a blessing to the slave, and a blessing to the master."--_Mr. Brown, in the Senate, March_ 6, 1860. "I am a Southern States' Rights man; I am an African slave-trader. I am one of those Southern men who believe that slavery is right--morally, religiously, socially, and politically." (Applause.) ... "I represent the African Slave-trade interests of that section. (Applause.) I am proud of the position I occupy in that respect. I believe the African Slave-trader is a true missionary and a true Christian." (Applause.)--_Mr. Gaulden, a delegate from First Congressional District of Georgia, in the Charleston Convention, now a supporter of Mr. Douglas_. "Ladies and gentlemen, I would gladly speak again, but you see from the tones of my voice that I am unable to. This has been a happy, a glorious day. I shall never forget it. There is a charm about this beautiful day, about this sea air, and especially about that peculiar institution of yours--a clam bake. I think you have the advantage, in that respect, of Southerners. For my own part, I have much more fondness for your clams than I have for their niggers. But every man to his taste."--_Hon_ _Stephen A. Douglas's Address at Rocky Point, R.I., Aug._ 2, 1860.]