The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-08-30
THE RANDOLPH RPISTLES.


$22.000,000 in the last 40 gears, and her
annual losses amount 10 $55O,0O0, for lOhich
the North is responsible, &c.-Jll~y Trial in
the Free STATES, devised solely for the enfrani
chisement of The fugitires-1He Military re-
sources apd strength 6t The South, dc.
WksHINGroh Cry, July Is 1885,
About nineteentwentieths of all the wars, c.
vii and national, which have wasted and sadden-
ed the earth, have sprung OF aggressions upon
the propertg.rights of men and nations. MIR.
WEBSTER once said, and with that felicity of
thought for which be is so remarkable, that the
men of the revolution were so sensitive TO the
least encroachment upon their property-righs
that they even rebeled against preamble, and
took up arms againstlthe first maritime D0w-
er in the world for The recitalS of an act of Parl-
ament, &c. In homelier words, they main.
tanned that those who pay the taxes must lay
the taxes, and that the rights of taxation ard
representation were inseparabe elements of all
rightful legislation In support of this principle
they drew the sword, and sheathed it no more
until they had cleayed the colonies and kingdom
asunder. AS practical grievances, the moderate
duties upon teas, stamps, &c, were scarcely felt,
and the whole controversy arose about the right
to impose them. Moreover, the revenues raised
were all destined TO colonial uses; and in all the
time the colonial tariff lasted, scarcely amounted
TO tgthe of what it costs large portion of their
descendants annually, and over and above all
the burtAens and expenses Of the State and Fed
eral Governments, and without dollar being
applied to any public uses, or returning into their
pockets. through any Of the channels Of the pub
lie expenditures.
The descendants referred to are the. people. of
the South, and the monies spoken o., are the an.
nual values of her fugitive slaves, which the c-
tizens Of the North entice from her borders
and set at liberty. This has been carried on for
these thirty or forty years, and in late years
through organized associations, with alarming
frequency and most amazing audacity. One OF
the worst omens of the times is, the shameless
ness with which of late, men of property aud
character at the North, avow and boast of their
criminal participation in decoyng away and de-
priving owners of their slaves in the slave States.
1t is scarcely two months ago since 'Fhe New
York State Vigilance Anii-Slavery Committee, =
(of which the opnlent and famous Gerrt Smith
is chairman) held its anniversary meeting in pub
lie in the city OF New York, and quote single
passage from its secretary's official report:
"The Committee hare tcithin the gear, since
The | ST Of May 1850, assisted one hundred and
fiyo,le fugiiiues (or that, you kno,O, as our bus
iness) in escaping from seruitude!"
Are these people aware how deeply they
have criminated themselves in these ayowals?
Do the citizens Of New York hold themselves
irresponsible to public opinion in conniving at
felonies and giving them impunity? Do they
not know that the members of this committee, by
visiting sister State. violating her criminal
laws, and carrying off her property, themselves
become, in the sense ofthe Constitution, 5ugitires
from Justice, and BY virtue of their own contes-
sions OF the crimes they have committed. are
subject to arrest and delivery to the authorities
OF the State whose laws have been broken!
These one hundred and fiity.one slaves, at the
most moderate estimate, were worth 5000 a
| piece, which amounts to an aggregate value o
| $75, 500; and il the same persons had publicly
| confessed that they had stolen that amount o.
money from the same citizens in the State o
| MARYLAND or Virginia, or had sraudulently ac-
quired it through counterfeit bank bills, is there
| judicial officer in the State of N. York wht
would not have felt il to have been his duty, tc
have caused them 10 have been arrested and i'm
| prisoned upon their own confessions of the felo
nies, and have detained them subject to the de-
K tildllu VI lu6 VI O1nt0 "hoSS -"
had been violated?
| In all the Southern States, the stealing o
slaves is one Of the highest species of statutory
ielonies In several of them it is punished will
death; and the mildest punishment for the crime
| m any of them, extends to hard labor and peni
Tertiary confinement Every one who entice:
away slave, with intent TO deprive the owne
of his services, and all who aid and abet him as
accessories before the fact or after the fact, arr
made thieves and !elons by the laws, and shal
suffer Death, or imprisonment at hard labor TO
life or for years, according TO the criminal laws o
the jurisprudence where the trials are to be had
Yet Presbyterian church in New York, make
free its pews 70 these fugitives from justice, ant
there in the presence of the New York public
they detail their felonious thieveries COMMITTEES
against the property-rights of her sister States
and in faerant violation of the Constitution
os the United States; yet no man lays hands OF
them, or denounces Or reproves them!
propose in this paper 10 bring these abuse
to public attention. My subject is the escap
to- and emancipation in the free States, OF tu
gitives from labor from the slave States. NJ
object is to ascertain, as nearly possible, thei
numbers, their values, and the probable losse
sustained by the South annually and aggregately
in the course of the last forty years. This ha
never been attempted, that ! know OF. have
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