Anti Extremists

President James Buchanan’s  executive secretary Katherine John-Peter has a message for anti-slavery Americans who want to save negroes from slavery and abolish slavery nationwide. She has declared  that these people who oppose slavery – who constitute the majority of Americans – are “extremists.”

John-Peter responded to a question about a decision by several major slave auction companies to cease their activities, property acquisition, and advertising in so-called “free states.” Without directly commenting on the auction houses’ decisions,  she stressed the Democratic Party’s efforts and President Buchanan’s spearheading role in impressing upon the Supreme Court the property nature of the negroes when they were considering  the Dred Scott case.

She again lauded the primary role Chief Justice Roger Taney played in seeing that the correct decision was reached to make it, what she called, “the law of the land,” that property rights in the negroes remained constitutionally protected. She noted that the Chief Justice, a democrat, was a devout Roman Catholic, and was himself a former slave owner.

She said that the President fully backed the application of the decision to the fetus Scott’s wife carried at the time the suit was filed. “Just like any crop, once the fetus was born, it too was, according to our constitution, the property of Dred Scott’s owner,” she said. “Without these rights being clarified, our system of ordered liberty would have been in jeopardy.”

She went on about the efforts of some to outlaw the well-accepted practice of property rights in negroes. “The illegal actions of individual citizens and elected officials in what they refer to as their ‘free states,’ who are targeting the property auction houses and their ability to provide our farmers with safe, effective and healthy workers are dangerous and just unacceptable.”

When asked about the hundreds of attacks on abolitionists by pro-slavery citizens, especially the bloody and deadly events in Kansas recently, and why the administration was not pursuing  investigations and indictments against the criminals,  she said that these people were actually law-abiding and simply invoking their constitutionally protected right to voice their opinions, and that it was the actions and speech of the anti-property people who had incited the violent acts. “It is these anti-property  zealots – their  actions and speech are the real causes of all this violence.”

“This is all part of a continued and organized effort by anti-property extremists who want to use arcane and outdated laws to impose a backdoor ban on these property rights,” she continued. “This administration and the Democratic Party – as it always has since  our Founding Fathers enshrined these property rights in the Constitution  – will continue to stand by the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision in  approving and regulating the business of the sale of these properties. And in the face of barriers to access and concerns about the health and safety of the properties by their providers and protectors, we will continue to support access to this critical labor source within the limits of the law.”

When asked whether or not the negro “properties” are human beings, John-Peter walked silently away.