Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1850-10-11
DAILY FREE PRESS-OCT. g, 1850.

The "principlcs "ofhe Fugitive Slave Law
must be looked for Il good deal d" lower down
than Albany its working" has been forci-
bly, illustrated in New York.
And now we have a word or two to say to
Fugitive Slaves themselves. We wish our ad.
vice could reach every mothers son Of them
We think a good deal more Of the Slave who
has the spirit to attempt to assert his inalicn.
able right" TO personal liberty, than we do Of
the white man who would deprive him of that
right. The Slave who rms a,cay from bondage
has something Of the dignity Of manhood in
him particularly if lie runs away at his own
suggestion, ard from a sense Of bis own out
ragged rights. Such a man, though he may
happen to have dark skin, thick fps and
flat foot, is mighty sight likclicr man than the
FootcS who legisla'e TO keep him and his pos
tcri;y in perpetual bondage, and an angel light
compared with tie Commissioner" who is
sue " certificates to persons claiming Fug-
tive Slaves, and the dirty go-betweens who
moke use of these certificates to capture
and rc.enslayc their fellow men. We speak
not oftLe 1egality but Of tie intrinsic respscta.
bHHy of the actions Of the different men.
--Thercfore, what we wish to say to run.
aray S2dteS, is tins KEEP OUT OF THE CITIES.
Morality and II, m1nity are dead among City
officials. Where men conErcgate together in
great herds, the vicious and inhumau altogether
pioduminatc over the Just :ud humane. Nam
mon is a perpetual foe of God aud Mammon
has his Throne aud Sccplcr in large Cities
Public opinicn is never wholesome, there, OK.
cept by accident or impulse. There is no steady
and abiding pEINcuLE in large aud miscclIdne-
Gus masses. The same popular impulse thai
sometimes brutislly destroys Flour Store, ard
/ Flour, may he easily directed against the ALSO.
! lu,e right o. personal freedom. Crowds are
always minimizing, though they may be some.
times just. They prefer, doubtless, to be right,
bat are apt to BE- wrong they are wrong
oGcnor than right because their rr,civily is to
/ the wrong a go0era ding they like to he
cruel and oppressive If they can he so under
the sanction Of Law. Human freedom is never
safe in Cities. The masses in large cities care
very lite about freedom because they contound
it with lccnl!ou~Dess-aud lccn'iousucss j.
In-t simply the devil unclaimed nothing more.
We therefore counsel runaway Slaves 10 plant
! Themselves in the C'uN1Rr. Don't run, o, ye
! Black, Mulatto, and enadroon Fpgjlives from
: the frynr-pau into the fire = Avoid the Cities
as you would Solom and Gunorrah Go into
the uuconltUiEa'ed CoU>r5Y. Seek our q9io,
Villages. where the Mounain. and tine Va,lcy,
ana the Streams and tie Air, are the E:auac.
lists Of Freedom. G., iu'o an atm,saacrs tia,
/ slave. Calchcrs cannot breathe and !iye--Yh here
/ ilaaeas Corpus and Trial BY jury are sQb>.an-
/ ,al reaiiDic., and viii no, be surrendered ill
/ tine Constitution auiL,riiaIiyrly demands tho
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and abiding love %! III, CoySrrUroY, the IN
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