Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-10-19
The whig Press and the Fugitive slave

Nothing. we are certain, can astonsh an Ingenious
mind more or more disgust an honest one, than the
teuseity with which the Wing presses seek to com.
mend the Fugitive Slave Bill to the people
Every subtoruge oflogic. and every ruse which I'M
scrupuou mendaoiy daes to practice, have been
ted to in order T. gid this bill of denominations, aud to
render it paatabe to republican 6eemcu. The Boston
Transcript of the llh inst, SAYS
"rhe bill IN question: neither created any new rights
noreuarged any that had been possessed before, 1t
has merely pointed out the way in which the right
granted hy the Constitution shall he exercised, that
certainty the method Of Its execution may not lead
to collision, TO which all things IN doubt are exposed
The second section Of article Of the Constitution is in
these words ''No person held 10 service or labor
in State under the laws thereof escaping into
another, shall in consequence of any law regulation
therein, be discharged from such service labor, but
shall be delivered up on claim of the party 10 whom
such service or labor may be DUE This therefore il
will be seen, expressly states tina, persons held 10 la
Dor under the law one State, shall, when fleeing into
another, be dcveredup Now the fugitive Slave billhas
merely shown the way in which this provision OF the
constitution may be carried out"
The above twsddle is clearly intended TO reconcile
this slave bill, by representing 1t as law that
does not increase the powers which the STAKEHOLDER all
ready possessed, but merely as a fngerpost which
shows how he make his rights available,
Now. who does not know, that bills cannot confer
s Rghts sse not i bit a, natural and
fore, do not complain that rights, or even psoes have
been enlarged by this paper law but they DO complain
in shame and bitterness Of spirit, that rights have beer
denied, withheld robbed from men,--that the rights
ka5eas eoas aud ,tal By jsry have been tramped OF
with contempt, by the representatives of this model re
pubBcs" BY the Congress of this ''hopc aud refuge
the enSlaved of every land" II is not because an,
thug in the shape tights has been conferred that w
deplore This formal eSpressionof brigandage called til
Fugitive Slave Law. Ills because all the rights Of
wonged race have been utterly abrogated by IT,
waspish print published in Boston, uoder The des
gaatioa Of the Bee," notorious for It's shaneles.ness
It's heartlessness and its ulua-acalous wAiegishness
pretends believe that the Fugitive Slave Law give
the fugitive advantages which he did not possess unde
the act Of 'ss; and this majestic Bee viii not be con
WINGED that it is IN error in 50 believing, except by
practical Illustration of the results of this law W.
wish that the Be- could speak the truth ia these in
stances. We wish that this bill did confer advantage
on fagitivess and we wish, also, that some Viii.
Shareholder would prefer claim upon the ssmans' o
the Bee. We have no doubt, that. in this case. h
would be convinced ofthc iniqoity Of the law
Selfish minds never understand general questions, I'm
less they brought home to their own. particala
Selves and Il the Bee forced to pick cotton i
Georgia, with stripes ia rcqutsl Of its toll, as woul
doubtless improve IN moral sentiment,
The 'eBeston Traveller seaaced also by party in
foeaces, and forgetting that not the word, but the mo
i've constitutes falsehood, Publishes an opinion 0
f.Ac, MI !.
which II charaeierzos particularly interesting al Thu
time. The following is that opinion, and the asidioa
motives which iadnced its Publication, may be gather
ed from the fact, that il deavood 5eJort ii, me
aefovs law oas passed.
'ln regard 20 the Of fagitives from labor, tho
law docs not impose active duties on COR citizens eener.
ally They not prohibited from exercising The or.
binary charities Of life towards the fugitive 10 sccfeto
hal or to convey him from the reach II his master or
10 him when IN legal custody is forbidden: ana
for doing this liability is incurred This gives no oac
iast ground Of complaint He is only refrain from
an express vocation ot the law, which operates to the
injury Of his neighbor Is this hardshipq No law.
abiding man consider il. tic cannot claim q
right do that which the Law torbas without inc
At the base Of society. lfshc law be unwise or mpoi.
tic, leJ il Ike changed IN the mode prescribed; bot 50
long az i remains the law, every good citizen will con-
form to II. And every who arrays himself against
Il, and e8dcavos by opca secret means to bring Il in
TO cooteGp,s thai It may be violated With inunty
il an enemy 70 the best Interests Of his county,
Alas CO.. Libersy-shat idea which Gunius has canon.
ized aud lleroism exalted when like The Hebrew tray
eer falls among those thieves Of politics. uascvpu.
ous partzans. Alas for Justice and Truh when their
Parity is depesaeat upon the abettors Of faction.
The Wings deny 10 one breath thar thpy have any
synpatAy with this Infamous bill, in another they de-
fame and repoaiate IL and in The third they coucoct
such miserable apologies for Il as VIC have commenced
en-