Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-10-15

subject is, that the law throws the ons of nullifi.
cation upon the North. Northern States must now
say whether they will resist law of that Con.
gress which they have so long held to be supreme
If they either nullify or repeal the law they will
satisfy the South that the Union is no longer to-
lerable. But let us not contemplate the necessity
of coming TO that grave conclusion, because of the
few negro mobs which have dared to threaten the
federal officers at different points in the North So
lar from the commissioners not being able to OBJ
tain possess we believe the pay offered for the SER
vice would raise the requisite number of men in
the most rabid neighborhood in the "Western Re-
serve" of Ohio.
| We are happy to find that many of the leading
Northern papers are boldly battling with the spu-
rous philanthropy of the agitaors who are striving
to excite spirit of resistance to the law The
following extracts may be cited in point:
From the NJ Y Express.
In word, the ut aiss are not satisfied and if
agitation can bring about revival of the war of words
and almost war OF Deeds throu h which the country
has Just passed, they resolved regardless of all
sequences, to begin the fight anew.
In the history of sectional strife and border feuds,
we can recall nothing atrocous than the means
used TO accomplish this end The measures Of Congress
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men who enacted them into laws. The Texas bound
airy has been the subject of world of fasehoods but
most OF all the tugitivesave BILL Men tell US from the
pulpit the forum, and the press that the act does not
allow trial by jury that tabolshes the habeas corpus
that any white seize black man in the street.
and drag him Oft into perpetual slavery that he is
Judged without hearing, or heard without friends con
demned and sentenced without evidence, and sent off
upon the claim OF any who may that the slave
is his property. A wicked Misrepresentation Of
law and evidence could not have been invented by the
lxyt oty, Il He, I,lc 81, L
Lightning all over the land, to the Of fugitive
slaves. sheriff of Massachusetts issues civ process
upon colored barber in the town of Springfield audit
is tortured into n-sleaIing Two or three slave
holders start West aud the Evening Journal tells its
readers that they are in pursuit OF Fred Douglasstbs
wully concealing the long notorious fact that Fred
erck Douglass is just as free the editor OF the Journal
himself So OF nearly all the stories put a1oat. They
are studied perversions of TRUTH and electricity and
steam, horse power and power, night and day.
al used to carry the lie upon the wings of the wind to
the tour quarters the country.
An Ignorant population invoked TO break the
laws to arm themselves to the teeth and resist to the
death 10 resist whom and what? The constitution
| ofthe government and the laws OF the and Many OF
these fanatics with raising the cry of re-
peal, but they demand blood, and threaten bloody
resistance to all who may be called upon execute
! the laws OF Congress. They purposely misrepresent
the act OF Congress, and them starting with lie excite
an ignorant mu ttude against it. II the fugitive
law Is bad-and we wish with all our hearts there was
no necessity for any such law-hoW much worse than
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and who make 1t the occasion OF inammatory appeals
the worst passions of the ignorant and excited COM
munity among u.s."
From the Harrisburg keystone, Oct. 10.
| FUGITIvE SLAVE LAw-Without the provision in the
Constitution requiring the restoration of g ives from
labor TO their owners this Union would never have been
formed and unless that provision carried in good
faith it cannot be preserved The question of the ,s-
tce or injustice of slavery has connection with the
subject The " higher law prime iple put forth by Mr.
Seward and the aboitionists leads directly to revou-
ton and anarchyto the dissolution of all obligations
of obedience to the laws by which we are protected
and held together people. Those who recon-
mend resistance 10 the Fugitive Slave law are nufers
| and traitors to as great an extent the Hartford
Conventonsts, the authors OF the Colleon resou-
tons; and were their recommendations practically en-
forced, dsunion civil war, and the destruction of the
securities of our rights and liberties would follow.
| From the movements of those who clamor against
this law, it is apparent that their objections arise who'll
ly from its being too efecual in providing for The bon
est uhlment OF the constitutional obligation 1t is the
Constitution they oppose, and wish evade, trample
its sacred guarantees the dast-hot that they love
their country less but that they love the African race
more aat ~ carrying this out consequences weigh
not feather in tie balance. They <are blind 10 the
vista o the fuure-a government subverted; proud
| Republic sundered into petty States a happy
country desoated by deadly iralernai strife: and with
all this the condition OF the African unchanged made
worse
Fortunately for the welfare of our country, those who
are thus inclined to agtate, pull down, and destroy,
though noisy, are few in numbers. Nor will their
malign Influence be likely seriously disturb the
peace OF the country. by destroying the sturdy patriot
ism OF the masses, and inducing determined resistance
to any OF the provisions OF our great fundamental law.