The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-11-19
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ruE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

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rug FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW
There has been considerable yaPoHns
among the wing ALIAS -ubmissioD) presses
South. about this law. They oil declare u
the North nnHJy the Fugitive Slave law
they will 20 for disunion, Death before
Dishonor
They support the admission Of California
the open robbery Of the South OF an en-
piro-of equality and ofall political influence
in the Government, and yet cry ont disuni'
ON disunion - ii a Jaw for the reclamation
fugitive slaves be nullifed. Thisis strain
ing at a gnat and swallowing a saw-miiI
We doubt their sincerity, too.
They know the Northern people are not
such fools as openly to nuLlyy by State
action, the fugitive slave law. And al
though the standard Of repeal has been rals-
ed. vet we do not believe the aw will be
repealed. Where u the necessity otHAtEyy-
ing or repealing a law which public senti.
meat North, will render wholly i~a0perat're !
The fugitive slave law of 1898, is in princi-
pie, the same as the act of 1850. The lat
ter only provides for the execution OF the act
of 1898, by feaeyak o6icerS, instead OF leav-
ING it to State officers. The law OF 1893
was imperative, not because it was not
strong enough, but because public sentl-
ment, North, was against it. So will 1t be
with the act of 1850. Where, then, is the
use or the sense of repeating an imperative
law? 1t would be killing the goose that
lays the golden egg. Our shrewd brethren
at the North, act upon the principle laid
down by his guardian for "Leettle Paul -
"Them as swindles makes more than them
as robs." But if our legal rights can only
be enforced by the employment of federal
bayonets, it is time for us to separate.
Ours was and must remaina Union, not oil
force, but of good will and interest, or it can
not exist at all. Public sentiment, North, is
depraved in reference to Southern rights.
Opposition to the institution of African slave,
nv pervades all classes, from the ministers o.
the gospel to the grog-shop politician, and
the first blood spilled by federal soldiers in
the enforcement of the fugitive slave law,
will light a flame which will consume our
political edifce-the Union.
Better that we part in peace. We do not
desire to see the hands of the people en-
bued in each, others blood. But what says
our contemporary, the Wilkinson Wing to
the position of Washington Hunt, the wing
candidate for Governor, in New York, who
declares that the fugitive slave law ICON.
hicts with all our Oheir) notions of personal
right and security, derived from the com.
mon law, and recognized by every free con
stitution" and needs essential mortified
ttop." Will the Wing endorse Washing
ton Hunt and the Syracuse convention, as
did, partly, the resolutions Of the Massa
chusetts wing convention?
We suppose it will ask, where is tn
"wrong or injustice in securing to the run
away slave, a.jmry trial in the State wher
arrested as well as having officers appoin
ed in each county, to aid the fugitive slav'
in throwing every obstacle, which legal el
genuity can devise, in the way of the ma'
t ter who attempts to reclaim his property.
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