Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-09-30

register us testimony against lhe cldNe Law,
in the following emphatic manner, that Law would
at once be rendered powerless.
From the True Wesleyan.
The Law for Catching Hen
The Fugitive Slave Bill, so called, has passed both
Houses Of Congress, and we suppose has become
law, so far inqnity can be law. Against this out
rage upon the statutes of heaven and the rights of
humanity, we record our protest, and pledge our un
compromising opposition, strong the powers of
life and as lasting the day of probation, unless the
foul blot be ped from the disgraced records
of the nation. Our opposition to the new law for
hunting and catching men is not grounded SO much
upon the supposed additional facilities will furnish
for recapturng and re-ensaving fugitiyes from the
house OF bondage, as upon the principle involved.
Men and nations often guilty for what they
only attempt to dc, than they for what they ac
tually accomplish and such, no doubt, will prove to
be the case with the passage ofthe Fugitive Slave
Bill, by the Congress of the United States, in the
year of our Lord thousand eight hundred and if
ty. Ii may avail in few instances in catching a
fugitive slave, who would otherwise escape; it may
be enforced upon few who have moral honesty and
courage enough to violate it, in the shape of fine
or Imprisonment; 1t may subserye the purpose of
kldnappers IN few cases, enabling them to seize
and carry off freemen to the chains, and whips and
least idea that it will, or can be generally enforced
Public sentiment, is too powerful in the North for
such laws, and 1t is growing stronger and stronger
every day, and must soon tower above them and
bear them down, and proclaim their violation viz
tue, and render the penalties they impose, TO him
who endures them, passport to the sympathies of
all the good and true.
1t is not, then, the practical evil that alarms u.s.
Is not the additional number ofsayes that will be re-
captured; but 1t is the deep and dsmnmg disgrace
and guilt that have been recorded upon the nations
statute book the insult that has been offered heaven
and the outrage attempted to be perpetrated upon
humanity. We believe the law in question is in di-
rect violation of the law of God, and that he who
obeys 1t, or voluntarily aids in its execution, is SIN
ner. We believe ii is no less an outrage upon the
Constitution Of the United States than that the slave
influence has perverted The Constitution, land led Con-
gress, In this matter, to assume legislative powers
which that document does not confer These being
our honest and deliberate views, we can do no less
than to denounce and oppose the infamous enactment,
and this we shall do as already stated
Let every Northern man who voted for it., and all
who were not in their seats TO vote against it, be
forthwith indicted and arraigned at the bar of public
opinion, aud made to render account for their evil
deeds; and let the political power and influence of
the President, whose right hand signed the Bill with
er and rot upon the body of his party Let every of
Cel anu every attorney, ana every private citizen
who shall attempt to aid or enforce the law, be look
f ed upon with the eye of public contempt, until the
blush OF shame shall burn upon their cheeks and let
them and the party to which they may belong, and
that shall put such cravenheared persons in nominal
uon be remembered at the ballot-box as honest men
and patriots should remember the enemies of God and
their country. Let the cry of Repeal be raised let
It be heard from Plymouth Rock, and from Bunker
I'M; let 1t come comes the northeastern storm
from the snowy land and widespread coast of Maine
let 1t be heard on every rocky cliff of New Hamp-
SHIRE and from the Green Mountains ofVermont: let
It roll along the shores of the ST. Lawrence and all
the lakes and rivers and canals of New York sweep
ing westward until it shall meet with the responsive
echo coming from the empire looming I'D upon
the PacIhc shore. Let every man who fears God and
regards the rights of humanity, by all reasonable
means oppose, resist, and seek the repeal of such
an infamous statute, indispensable condition OF
eternal life. Let the press speak, and especially the
religious press, and let that portion of it that will not
speak, be looked upon cowardy, pro-savery, and
recreant to the claims of God and man. And let
the pulpit speak, and let the ministers of the sane
uary teach that opposition to such laws is obedience
to God. We now declare that it is our purpose 50
2 to write and so to teach, so long as we can hold a
pen, or utter words in the ears of men, If we live
not to see 1t repealed, will teach our children "a
oppose 1t after we are dead, and eniom upon them
to engrave 1t upon tombstone, that we lived and
died In opposition to the fugitive slave law of eah-
teen hundred and fifty