The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-10-26

slavery which at first Swallowed our land but this
slave bill was conceived In such SPIRIT rests
no such assent; II Is conceived in insult, and rests
| for its fulhlment on an appeal to the meanest
| passion that lives in the human heart For,
il is an insult on any people, TO establish in tn cir
midst, court consisting of one man, who shall
have instant, er parte and final jurisdiction
any one Of that people, in the matter Of personal
liberty. 1t i. an insult to append the threat and
the reality of an armed force, to confirm and
carry out, with bloOdshed, if need be, the de-
crees of this extra judicial court Ii is insult
upon the American people, to chain them down
with law OF compromise, which depends, for
its fulhlmenf, not on the spontaneous love of
Union, burning in the breast of every American
citizen, but upon the spirit Of avarice, and the
fear of death This law is insulting, when it ex-
claims to the christian citizen, dehumanze your
self; see your fsllow-man or sister woman borne
away into helpless, hopeless servitude; good cd.
he say he is free,' no matter il she screams for
the last sight of her own children; good ctzen,
club him, choke her shrieks, and hurry them away
to fulfil the compromises Of the constitution, and
the law of our free and happy landp
But this slave bill, so insulting in its nature, so
STAINLESS IN its exacons, not only fails as measure
of compromise, il also fails as technical remedy
for the great evil Of which the South complains
The fugtves fem unrequited toll, who lived in the
free States or before its enactment, have es-
capped into Canada, or have placed themselves beyond
the claimants power; and now, and ever, men and
women will continue TO flee from unrequited toll,
go long as there are footsteps and carriage roads
aud railways reaching from Mason ana Dxon's
line to our Northern frontier. Let our Congress
tear up these roads, blot the northern star scar
human sympathy from the human heart, and crush
out the divine inspirationto be free, which comes
with every breath into the human bosom-and it
will have only begun to make provision to ares.
the escape of persons from unpaid labor.
Aud this bill not only fails as measure of COM
promise, and fails a remedy for the Southern
evil-more sgnally and utterly does it fail as a
eoOher of the slavery agitation in our otherwise
tranquil land So far from allaying, il has served
to excite that agitation beyond all former expe-
rience, and has aroused the two sections of the
Union to attitude of sterner and more unfrater-
nal opposition than has happened since the founda-
ten of the republic.
Under these circumstances, cllow-citizens, we
call upon you to urge and compel our repre-
sentatiyes in Congress to repeal this Fugitive
Slave bill, odiOus in its conception, o iious
in its provisions, impOtent in its intended
suits. So hateful is ii known to be, by those en-
titled to enforce it, that they have as yet made
no serious attempt TO carry il out. But, even
if continue dead letter the statute book, il is
so fraught with disgrace, so capable of evil,
that all who hold dear our common country,
and her good name among the nations of the earth,
join in agitation that shall only cease with its
repeal
JOHN ]. ZUILLx, THoMAsJ. WHITE,
JOHN T. RAYMOND, WIN. J. WILSON,
JuNIUs c. MoREL, ROBERT HAMILTON,
VIM. Z. POWELL, JEREMIAH POWERS,
THOMAS DowNING, LEWIS Fl. PUTNAM,
JOSEPH w. SMITH, ALBRo LYONS
JAMES nicotine SMITH,
New York. October. 1850 Committee