The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-06
Prom the Albany Epening Journal.
CA Speech OF War!
81 EroJu flie Ne,D YorE Er,rp.s

"Fr0m the Ne,o York Express.
"'The Modification party, which is just now pre-
dominant in Boston and elsewhere, cannot pre-
vail long. II ia stated from Washington that the
President of the United States will enforce the Fu-
gltve Slave act at all hazards even, if necessary
with the whole army of the United States. This
Is the language he held TO Texas when she was
threatening nullihcation and this is the Ian guage
for the Northern nullihers now. We have a Pres.
dent that is a President Law is law, and it will
be executed
"This has an ugly look. The whole army of the
United States TO be called into service if neces
sary To enforce the Fugitive Slave law This Ian
guage sounds harshly upon the ears of freenen
"The Fugitive Slave law, by condemnng men
without trial by jury, and in denying accused
persons the protection of the writ of habcas corpus
overrides the Constitution. In its operation the
law outrages all the laws of civilization and of hu-
manity.
but the New York Express, whose editors claim
tospeak by authority, say that THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES WILL ENFORCE
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT AT ALL HAZ-
ARDS, EVEN, IF NECESSARY, WITH THE
WHOLE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES
. Again, We say, this ia harsh language 1t
sounds strangely The Freemen of this State
are unaccustomed to such threats. The sucges-
ton will astound the peaceful, patriotic Citizens
OF this Commonwealth But though it may
shock, II will not alarm Freemen. If the enforce
ment of the Fugitive Slave Law requires the
personal aid of our Citizens we take leave to say
mat the PRESIDENT OF U. s. with Army at his
heels, will fail to accomplish that object
% Our Army has just emerged from one War for
the benefit of Slavery That, however, was
against Foreign Enemy. If, on the failure to
execute the Fugitive Slave Law, President Fill.
MORE intends to march the Army against his own
COuntrymcn WI hat, h.
ants OF the Sires who fought at BUNKER HILL at
BESsIseTos, at SARATOGA, and at STONY PoISr,
will be prepared to face the mssic''
We copy the above article from the Albany
Ecening Journal, with its interjectional and
typographical embellishments. This journal
has been the State-paper Of New York at any
time during the last twenty years when the
WINGS have been in possession of the State
government. Ii ought. therefore, to have ac-
CURED an habitual regard for law and order that
should shrink from the menace of rebellion.
or from intoxicating seditous and reasonable
sentiments.
But the too long possession Of political nflu-
ence and power generates an insolent and die
tatorial spirit. These WARwIcKs of the press
your ''setters-up and pullers-down" Of great
men-are apt so TO WELD their authority as to
accomplish ultimately their own destruction.
It's official position, and the strength which
that position has given ii with the party in
New York, have made the Erening Journal
altogether too imperous and Overbearing, too iin-
patient Of disappointment or contradiction, and
too confident in IFS power TO crush those with
whom 1t differs. This all comes of twenty
years selfish and arbitrary use of power. patron
age, and position.
When the Journal has threatened WING
Senators of the United States; when it has lee
tured and hectored the President himself in
a style hardly fit for pedagogue to use towards
a refractory pupil-we have only smiled at the
oyerweening vanity which could prompt such
INDIGENOUS language. We have pardoned
good deal to the fact that a twenty years un-
disturbed dominion makes poor human nature
arrogant, opinionative, and peevish But when
the Journal, not satisfied with personal offence
and insult, undertakes TO preach open sedition.
and to threaten the CmEr MAGISTRATE of the
Union with armed resistance to the laws
assailing him in his public character with
language of reasonable defiance. it seems 10
ms that good men and patriotic men of the
WING party, and of all parties. are called upon
to rebuke and reprobate it.
President FILLMORE has sworn to take
care that the laws be faithfully executed"-
not such laws merely as are agreeable 10 him
self, or TO the North, or to the South, but all
the laws--good or bad, palatable or unpalata-
Bile, wise or unwise, popular or unpopular. II
he could exercise his private judgment as to
the laws which he should execute and those
which he should leave unexecuted. then the
menaces Of rebel Governor. OF even those Of
seditious newspaper, might introduce new
element to influence or regulate his conduct.
1t is possible that. the disapproval Of Governor
QUITMAN in one quarter, or Of the Erening Jour
nal in another, might induce him TO dispense
with an offensive law. But the PRESIDENT has
no option. If he can disregard his constitutional
obligations in the case Of the Fugitive Slave
law, he can disregard them with respect to all
other laws. If he yields to threats Of resist
ance and rebellion in this case, he must yield
IN all other cases where seditious persons or
presses may undertake 10 set up their private
judgment ofiis inexpedency, inhumanity, or UNI
constitutionality, against the supreme law Of
the land. II he can dispense" with the exc
cution of the law in any case--if he can exempt
individuals or communities from their obliga-
lions to obey the statutes of the land-he pos
sesses power more absolute than our English
ancestors conceded TO the SrUARrs, and one
whose exercise by the second JAMES cost that
monarch his throne.
The plain English Of the Journals article is
70 this efiect-that the Fugitive Slave law is