The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-12-25
The Boston Riot an the President.

The Boston Riot aud the President,
Not long Since we published Che state
mens Of Night, one Of The gentlemen en-.
gagged IA The arrest Of Two runaway slaves
ia tile City Of Boston, This week we pub.
fish the statement oF w. II. Haghes, the
other gentleman, who acted as agent for
Dr. Collins one Of the owners Of the slaves
which we commend to the careful perusal
Of those who have not before read it. The
reader cannot but be astouEded at the start
ling developments which it makes and at
the corruption Of those in ''high places"
in Boston. And strange to say all this null.
LITIGATION and treason was carried on under
the very eye as it were OF our sweet pro-
missing President, or at farthest in day or
two's journey ofthe City of Washington,
and yet he suffers more than a month 10
elapse, before taking any public notice Of
it. lie then graciousIy condecends to pro-
cure the opinion of the Attorney General,
founded upon positive falsehood, and cir
culates it as an apology for his shameful
neglect of duty. He was doubtless too.
deeply engage in preparing, for publication,
his high sounding professions, of intention
to execute the law, to attend TO the vulgar
business Of seeing it executed. Tho opin-
ion of the Attorney General is founded upon
the assumption, that Hughes, made no
complaint against the officers, whereas, i'll
his disposition, Huges, charged them cum
equivocally, with neglect and evasion o.
duty" This Crittenden, when he wrote
out his opinion for the presidents use eth
knew or might have Known, if he knew it,
he is guilty of deliberate wi!lfull falsehood:
if he did not know it,then he is guilty OF Gull
pable neglect ofduty, of imposing upon the
country, and the Presidential encouraging
the violation oflaw by lending his influence
to serene the offender. Any view we may
take of it, the Attorney General is ilexcus-
able. The attitude Of the president, is
far worse. For while the mob, in Boston
is setting at defiance all Federal rule, "and
the sword of the assassin glittered in the
streets of Boston insulting and final
Iy expelling theref:om citizens in the
lawful pursuit of their stolen property; he
was re clining at ease in the magnificent
apartments fitted up for him by the nation
penning the following piece of bombast
I" The country may be assured that to the
utmost of my ability, and to the extent oil
the power vested i'll me, l SHALL AT ALL
TIMES AND IN ALL PLACES, take care that the
laws be FAITHFULLY executed. In the dis
charge of this duty solemnly imposed upor
me by the constitution & my oath of Office
l shall shrink from no responsibility
Completely exhausted by the conception
of this bubble of the brain, he is incapable
of farther exertion chants a requiem
to his exhausted energies and remain
"dead to all the pulsations of duty" ant
suffers the disgraceful secures to pas
unheaded, awaiting his season of delivery
vainly hoping, that graceful sentences, vel
rounded periods, and high sounding profes
sions, would atone for the gross and williu
neglect ofduty. The voice of an outrage
r people, will teach him another lesson.
"Wecannot close this article better thai
. by giving short extract upon the sam
; subjec: from the Richmond Enquirer:
"The rights and honor of our citizens al
|. neglected; Federal Executive does nott
: ing and an Attorney General of his own Sc
2 lection says, at the end of thirty-fve day
! fast, that he sees nothing to punish in an
!. of the officers in Boston. Blind indee'
i. must that man be who does not see that
n Marshal falters in his duty-that the Con
Q missioners are derelict in their duty; an
/ doubly blind must that press be which
p ready to defend the vexations and GRIMM
II al action of the officers of Boston. We ure
IF again and again the Legislature of Virgin
= ia to retaliation, to a commercial restri'
" ton that will sunder these alliances wit
J. aggressing States; and IN doing so, W
}. must, of course, expect the Wings oppos
T. ton"
u VERMONT