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BURLINGTON:
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: ::0CT0BER ~, 1850.
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Agitassrs, Nsrsh and Sossh.
The hope was confidently indulged, that with the
manage Of the measures Of compromise by Con-
eress, returning sense Of proprety and of the OBJ
lisations resting upon both parties to cease all
strife and agitation, would have caused the people
Of the North and the south to come together again
% brothers, forgetting all causes of mutual animos-
ity and resolved for the future to suffer nothing
disturb the relations Of faternal harmony and con-
adencs which should ever exist between them
However unfaverable the aspect faffairs may have
looked Of late We still trust that this hope 10 not
destined to disappointment. We firmly believe
the great body OF the American people are satisfied
with the adjustnent by the Congress just adjourn
ed, Of the various questions so lately agitatins the
country. The agents Of discord however have
been at work both At the North & the South-msn
who make agitation their daily food, and who can
oaly live in the midst Of been busy
q work. up the elements ofstrfe and heap
ing fuel on the smouldering smhers Of political and
sectional aninosity.
The South, In this matter, has been hardly less
table to censurs than the North. But short time
ago, all that she asked Of the general government
Vas aon.irtsrvention on the subject Of slavery
% permit the people Of the territories decide for
themselves whether slavery should b admitted o.
excluded, when they came into the Union. Yet
when California adopted constitution prohibiting
slavery, the South absndoned the only tcnable
ground che had ever assumed upon the subject, and
attempted to prevent her admission a. state, be-
causs the people had for themselves decided ques-
ton, which southern men up to that time always
conssnded that they alone had the constitutional
power to decide. And when California is admitted
upon the ground always maintained by the South,
~ 6nd the Governors Of three Of the southern
states-south Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi
Issuing proclamations to assemble conventions to
decide what steps necessary to be taken to re-
dress the wrongs Of the SOUTH and in the language
Of one ofthese o6cials, eto resume the powers del
egated to the general government" What these
conventions may bring forth We cannot tell. That
the designs OF prominent men in the South, are
fraught with evil, thsre be doubt, and in all
probability We may yet have to date from these
movements, the beginning Of measures contempla-
ting, withot disguise, the dissolution of the Union
Of the states.
On the other hand the people Of the North hare
been quite ~ much to blame, In the unreasonable
clamor that 10 raised on account of the passage Of
the fugitive slave law. II has been proclaimed in
oil the conventions Of both political parties Of the
NORTH and BY their leading statesmen in and out Of
Congress, that the north intended to stand by sal
the compromises OF the constitution" They were
IN favor Of restricting slavery within its present
limits, but entertained neither the desire in.
tsuton Of abolishing it, nor even medding with it
In the states where it now exists. This was the
true ground upon which the conservative states
men Of both parties, in the North and South might
well unite. This 10 the doctrine Of Mr. Benton and
Mr. Clay, OF Gen. Cass, and Mr. Webster. Now We
do not say that these men, nor that the people Of
the North a. mass have, on this question exhib-
lied any inconsistency or have abandoned This con-
servativs ground. In the reception, however,
which has been given to the "fusitve slavelaw" at
the North; BY the "higher law'' portion ofthe
munity, there has been evidently most palpable
disposition to set At naught the obligations of the
constitution and laws-in fact, to tramps upon the
sCompromises OF the Constitution" The N. York
state WING Convention, By large majority, passed
resolutions endorsing and approving the conduct
~oA nrinSnaa AZ Hx.fsov Cnw..6 Qau.to, f,orn that
state and the author Of the higher law'' doctrine.
The Massachusetts, Wing Convention unanimously
dsaounce the Fugitive Slave Law. The New York
Tribune, N. 7. Evening Post, and the Boston At
las, able and influential party journals, are spend
Ing Ill their powers in the endeavor to break down
the Law, to render its provisions odous and to de-
feat its practical operation.
Men may differ in opinion on the snbject ofslave
n, and % TO the policy OF laws proposed to enable
the master to recover the fugitive slave; but with
Oh rood citizens, there can be no difference Of opn
ion 40 70 the obedience due TO the declared will
the law. making power.
But the opposition portions ofthe two great po.
ntiesl psrtiss at the north to the fugitive slave law
10 mild and temperate in comparison with that o
the particular class ofpersons who call themselves
PER ercslleace sffee soilers." We see aconvention
ofthese persons in Massachusetts, putting forth
appeal to al who claim to be followers of the Re.
desner, and believers in "higher law'' than that
Of nan, to resist the law and harbor the fugitive
slave. They are told that as moral and religious
msa hey cannot obey the law without FORGETTING
their character and committing gross impiety-that
TIE edict Of setting up golden i'm.
-, to b worshipped. just binding as the fu
gtss slave Law Of Congress. That the law is to be
denounced, resisted, and disobeyed at all hazards
That no ocer 10 to dare give any heed to it. That
the press refusing to record its protest against ID
toos marked, exposed and held up to public abhor.
renee. That the clergy are TO arraign il from the
pulpit - inhuman and immoral, and therefore null
and void.
u almost oil the principal cities Of The North, Easteru
aasics have bssn held 10 denouncs the law ana
ts and the protection ofths slave
from it, operation. In all these meetings the paramount
apthoy Of the Constitution and Laws, has been scofe
u and deridsd, and the shigher Law" Of Gov Sswan
maga6sd alone worthy ofconsderation obedience
Beth ia speeches and rssoluiioas the determination
vowed 70 resist the execution Of the law with all III
and devices IN their power openly and secretly B.
frcs fsasd, with arms and IL necessary with blood.
Another evidence Of tho public sentiment amon
sportion OF the people Of the North on the suhjec
OF slavery and obedience to laws, 10 seen in tn