Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-11-04

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Mr. EDtron-Will you please copy the
following from the pen Of Mr.. Brooks,
Editor Of the New York Express, and a
Whig member Of Congress from the City
of New York. In these, sharping times it
is bu. fair that both sides Of the story should
be heard and considered. se@ - :. .ss'F
sfF - CANDOR. *
1--WE are sorry mol 10 see more calm
ness in The public mind, Nerth and South,
touching the recent settlement by Congress
Of the questions connected with the institu.
,ion of Slavery. The Union men at the
South are ridiculed, as the Unien men are
here. BY fanatics and extremists la the
ono section there is a general raving be-
cause California has been admitted as
{ free State, and the Territorial questions
se,lled upon constitutional grounds, bat, most
of all, because Texas has been shern of
some Of tho territory claimed by her, for
money Consideration. The very same SET
tlefnent Of the very same question is the
subject of like railing at the North, because
ten millions are to be paid, and the Texas
debt paid by the Federal Government; an,
&C, which was virtually pledged at the time
of the annexation of Texas. Then the re-
lection of the swim Proviso, upon the
territory acquired, which was pledged to
freedom withou, it, and the Fugitive Slave
Act, are added as general chorus Of com.
plaiEt on the part Of some ef our people,
in word the ultras are not satisfied; and
ifagi.aiion can bring about the revival of
the war Of words and almost a wur ofdeeds,
through which the country has just passed,
,hey are resolved, regardless of all conse
qusnces, 10 begin the fight anew. ea
In the history of sectional strife and bor-
der rfeuds we can recall nothing moro afro
ciotis than the means used to accomplish
this end. The measures Of Congress have
been prevented as much as the motives Of
men Who enacted them into laws. The
Texas boundary has been the subjec. of a
world Of falsehoods, but NEST Of ali, the
Eugitivc Slave Bill Men tell US from the
pulpit, the forum, and the press, that the
,.cs does no: allow trial by jury; that il
ahs,lishes the habeas corpus; that any white
man can seize black man in the street,
and drag him Off into perpetual slavery;
thai he IS Judged without hearing, or heard
without friends, condemned and sentenced
without evidence, and sent off upon the
claim of any man who may say the slave
is his property. A more wicked misrep
resentation ofiaw ard evidence could not
have been invented by the wit of man;
md equally false are. the stories sent by
lightniEg, all over the land, as to the ar
Fest Of fugitive slaves. A sheriff of Mass.
issues civil process upon colored bar.
her in the town of Springfield, and it is tor
,ufed into man Sealing. Two or three
shareholders start west, and the Evening
Journal tells its readers that they are in.
pursuit Of Fred Douglass; thus wilfully
cohceaiing the long notorious fact that
Frederick Douglass is just as free as the
editor Of the Journal HIMSELF So Of near
W all the stories put afoat.4A They are.
-ssudied peryersions of truth, and electricity
and steam, horse power and man power,
night and day are used to carry the lie upon
the wings Of the wind to the four quarters
ofthe country. Eaz@ ssssf -
tAn ignoran, population are invoked 10
break tho laws. 10 arm themselves to the
teeth, and resist to the death. To- resist
whom. and what? The Constitution and
the Government, and the Laws fthe land!
Many Of these fanatics are not content
with raising the ry.ofrepeal, but they de-
inanf blood, and ,hrea.en bloody resistance
to aH who maybe called upon 10 execute
theslaws of Congress. They purposely
misrepressnt the oct of Congress, and then,
starting with lie, excite on ignorant NAL.
,isude against it. If, the Fugitive Slave
law Is bad, ,-and we wish, with all our
heast, lhereswas no necessity for any such
laW-hows much worse than The law are
they who prevert its meaning; and who
snakei il theoccasion for inAam,natory np-
psals to the wersf passions Of the ignorant
and excited cammunity among us2 hat
shall be said Of those men who set all law
andall decency q, defiance, not only by the
misrepresentation of which we complain,
basby Sincitemsn,s 10 the fell spirit Of the
>mobf Is this Chris.iana is it manly r.
:isisjuslf SIS 8sas-5 sg lszs
So far We know of but ene man who has
.beenssent back 10 Ms master under the op-
ssFasion Of the Fugitive Slave Bill, and he
hsssreurneda a fresman. Even he might
have been arrested under the law Of 1893, !,
ns.d " 4. ;.,af a n Lin hIa rradar ito nrov;x;one
tobe returnedsto slavery sas under the ae,
, of 1850. The law Of Congress is an act
in pursuance Of the requir ements of the
Constiiption., lfit be not so, test in d court
efJnw, and overthrow i, al the hands Of the
EVpgeme Court II its provisions ire too
ssxjngent, let tfsom be modified BY an a.
mSndmsni Of the law. II there is no. the
VIII 81 tbe power Of tho communily to
guard The fugitive from unjust seizure,
though we know there lis the will and the
power, then let the State legislature pro.
vide thst protection for him by the employ.