Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1850-11-15
From Inc INaYannan news.
A Voice from tho North.


The New York Express in an able article on the
Fugitive Slave Bill. SAYS:
"There is nothing clearer to the observing eye
than if in the North the Federal Compact is broken
it ceases to be binding the South, and that the
South will not be bound by it. If the North has a
right to refuse to deliver up " on claim" persons
held to SERVICE" the South has right to make
prisals therefor. If the Federal Compact is not
maintained, Maryland is much alien State
Great Britain, and Maryland, then, has just as
much right to make reprisals or to make upon
u.s. as Great Britain has, and this is the very point
to which this Northern Notification is coming Re-
prisals of Northern property found in the South for
Southern ESQ called) property taken in the North,
follow inevitable state Of quasi war. Reprisals
commonly lead off before real war but if there is
to be war between and sister States it is to
be a civil war, aggravated by all the horrors and
atrocities of such unnatural 1t is impossible
for reasonable man not to that if the Northern
States allowed to become the refuge of Southern
slave property, and that property cannot be return
ed, then there will be reprsas therefor which, in
the end is civil If the Southern States acre
Independent foreign nations, they could protect their
property and will they submit to the plumber of it,
under the constitution 2 Certainly not"
This is all good Southern Rights doctrine " If
the federal compact is not maintained" saws the
Editor, then the Union is virtually dissolved, and
the States have right to act in defence oftheir own
rights and interests. And" adds the Union Ed-
tors of the Express this is the very point to which
this Northern Notification is tending" He might
graph the fact that that point has been violated by
the notification of the Fugitive Slave Bill.
We invite the attention of our ultra Union friends
to the concluding sentence of the above paragraph
The editor has higher opinion of the ability of the
South to protect herself and her institutions than
had the trainers of the Macon platform who in one
Df their resolutions declare that in of dissolu-
tion of the Union: the people Of the South ~oodd be
obliged to anumt their staves We believe the opin-
fon of the editor of the Express to be the best South
ern doctrine. The same paper says:
The slave case in Boston shows that practical
Modification EXISTS in that city already The act of
Congress is VIRTUALLY NULLIFIED. Net only as the
SLAVE refused to " be delirered up bit the claimant
put under $4,000 bonds in SANDER suit. for calling
the SLare a SldUe.
1t is evident that Boston cannot long nullify the
laws without reciprocal notification elsewhere. Il
the Constitution and lars cannot be enforced tn Bos-
ton they cannot be enforced out Of Boston for the ben
rift Of Boston.
THE JUDGES MIsTAKE.-The London eorrespon-
dent of the New York Albion, in recent letter,
says:
Rather a good scene occurred lately in Bail
Court, on a new trial in a cause removed from the
Sherif's Court The Judge read from the notes
which had been furnished to him. and made several
amusing mistakes in consequence of the badness of
the writing; but the following which was enuncia-
ted 4 ore rotundO" was the best "The defendent
said he would sec the goods id first, before he
would pay for thcm. Up jumped simultaneously,
both counsel, screaming out, 'iny Lord, according
TO my notes, the expression delirered first -
which caused roar of laughter. His Lordship as
soon as the niirth had subsdcd said, Well, per-
haps you arc right; but here it is D. and then long
DASH for call it nothing else and then another
D. wish people would learn to write little plain
err