The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-02
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SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 2, 1850

SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER Q, 1850.
Some of our Democratic contemporaries ex-
press no little qualification at the assurance that
1t is the intention Of the PRESIDENT to enforce
the execution Of the laws. Some surprise
seems TO mingle with their admiration as if
there had ever been any reason to apprehend
that WILLARD FILLMORE would hesitate to do
that which in the face of the nation he had
sworn to do. 1t is his simple duty to see that
the laws are executed. This duty he will per-
form, whether the laws are resisted by the or
ganized rebellion of State, or the vagrant in
suTection of a mob. His conduct may be
regarded with the less favor by the Democracy
in the former case than in the latter but
1t will be discharged with the same firm
ness and impartialty. The Democratic press
may wink at the threat of armed resist
ance in Texas, and may arraign a WING
President for proclaiming his intention to
quell it by all the means that the law and the
Constitution have placed in his hands, and it
may find the same intention worthy of all APP
mob men who preach opposition to the Fugi-
tive Slave law. These distinctions are well
enough drawn by iactionists and partisans; but
the patriot and the statesman understand that
the government OF the country is subverted
alike when it is successfully resisted by an in
surgent State or tactious individuals.
1t is no doubt true that a violent spirit of re-
sstance to the execution of the Fugitive Slave
law has been manifested in some of the North
ern States. Many of the public journals have
assisted to stimulate this spirit by violent and
reckless denunciations of the law, and by giving
currency to inflamed and exaggerated or false
statements Of its alleged consequences For a
while the telegraph wires were charged with the
circulation of Abolition dispatches, describing
fabulous stampedes, and convocations of negroes,
conspiring with abandoned and desperate white
men, armed with bowie knives and revolvers to
resist the law sat all hazards and to the last ex-
tremity.' Manyof these dispatches were with
out even a foundation in truth-all of them
were charged with more or less of the fabu-
lous. They have been corrected in due course
of mail; but there is still enough in the we'll
authenticated accounts of the newspapers TO
demonstrate the existence of concerted and
systematic design in some quarters to offer forci-
bic opposition to the execution of the law.
In spite of all this violence, we have no
doubt that the law will be executed This is
by no means the first time that menaces have
been uttered and combinations formed to resist
the Federal authorities. Our worthy fellow
citizens of Boston have been more than once
disturbed by movements Of this nature, but we
believe that in every instance the supremacy Of
the laws has been ultimately vindcated. 1t is not
IN the power of one or two seditious newspa-
pers or of an exasperated mob TO hold in check
the lava abiding spirit of the people Of Massa-
chusetts. The recent demonstration in the
city of New York shows that in that great me
tropolis there is no response to the infamous
Pronunciamentos Of the Abolition press Penn
sylvania has subsidized into her usual tranquility
and all the indications there evince that her
citizens will sustain her judiciary in enforcing
the law. We shall have no repetition of the
scenes of the Whisky Insurrection in that an
cient Commonwealth. Agitation there will
doubtless be in all these Statcs-for there are
politicians in all Of them who are interested in
keeping it alive. Men are to be found who
will seek TO obtain and to hold political power
and consideration at any and all hazards 10 the
public veal; but the number is comparatively
small. The body Of the people are interested
in the maintenance of law and order-and will
not consent to sacrifice, them with the view of
conciliating fanaiicism or assisting faction.
AT the South as well as at the North we
believe that the cause Of the Union will sig
nally triumph. The only State in which the
disunion spirit seems to be paramount is South
Carolina, and South Carolina declines TO lead
in the march of secession. We think she will
find no States to follow. We have no fears Of
Georgia-thanks 10 the unwearied and tri-
umphant efforts Of TooNBs, and Com. and
STEPHENS. We believe that Alabama will
repudste the Disunionists, and that Mississipp
will be backward to endorse the operations Of
the notorious QUITMAN, At the South as well
as Al the North we believe that al the laws
will be executed; and we know that if they are
subverted or successfully resisted in any quar-
ter, it will not be from any hesitation on the
part of the PREsIoENT TO employ all the pow
ers with which he is invested to maintain the
CossrIruTIoS and to preserve the JSIoN.
LAND SALE IN MIssouRr.- Five hundred acres
Of tract of land about eight miles from St Louis
known the Mckenzie tract, was recently die
posed Of at public sale, and brought an aggregate
of S2l 500, or an average of s4s per acre Sub
sequently thirtysi acres, adjoining the Mckenzie
tract, were sold for $50 an acre.