New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-01-11
The Case Of samuel Hoar.

We will not doubt that ell our readers have
read eanestly-they could hardly read other
wise-thc Official Statement Of Hon. SAMUEL.
HOAX, Agent of Massachusetts,, OF the result OF
his mission, and the measures resorted to al
Charleston to bring it to an abrupt and premature
conclusion We viii hardly trust ourselves to
comment, and happily ne comment ia needed
Mr.. Hoar's concluding sentences go straight to
the heart of the matter, and embody all that need
be said. What we desire lie the widest possible
diffusion Of this document, and 10 this we urge
our readers 10 contribute by lending their paper
containing it to every one who will peruse it.
We have seen nothing better calculated, though
sndesignedly, 10 enlighten those who will think
as 70 the utter baseness and hoilowness Of the
whited sepulchrc vauntcd as Democracy. This
South Carolina is thu most unanimous Demo
cratic State, this Charleston the most exclusive
Democratic City in the Union. Yet it is from
their midst and by the unanimous action Of their
transcendantly Democratic citizens that dis
tinguished and venerable man, to whom person-
ally no shadow of objection is alleged, is ignomi-
nously and violently driven, denied shelter, and
inminenty threatened with grossest outrage if
not with murder, in the sight Of his young and
unprotected daughter-apd all for wha. Simply
because he has been legally commissioned by his
own State to take measures to test the constitu.
Iionslity of law ofSouth Carolina by whichthe
free citizens of Massachusetts are confined in the
dungeons of the former and thence sold into
eternal Slavery on no allegation or suspicion Of
crime but that oftheir color Massachusetts, does
rot ask to decide that her colored seamen may
visit the ports of South Carolina without in
curing these penalties she asks only that
the Supreme Court Of the United States,
composed in greater part Of Shareholders, may
be allowed to arbitrate between her people
ana those offensive laws. But this, South
Carolina says, is incendiaty, atrocious, and
che will not permit it and SO she settles
the whole matter by driving the gray.haired
commissioner of Massachusetts, oat of her
territory Universal Democracy, of the bss-
tard kind, grins and howis its delight at this;
not merely its Globe and Richmond Enquirer,
but its Journal of Commerce, Herald and Sun
are radiant with calm approval; its Morning
Ncps thinks Carolina quite right on the princi-
pie in dispute though not in her manner of pro-
cedure; aud its whole New England journalism
either applauds TO the echo or crouches in guilty
silence. And this is what men reverence, strug-
gle for, lie for, as Democracy! Let the whole
theme be pondered,
---One word as to Mr.. Hon. We have ex.
pressed our regret that he left Charleston wthou,
being subjected to actual violence. We still re-
gret it, but we take back all censure on him, if
cur words have implied any. He did his whole
duty; he had no choice but to come away when
he was denied farther shelter for his head except
at the imminent peril of whoever should enter.
tain him. Yet we still deem it matter of regre,
that he was not expelled by actual violence. il
sseas that no more than that would have been
requisitet to warm the coolest and rouse the most
.,rl;a re's::-;it..t-ih the cause Of Truth and
Freedom.