Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-23

coming 70 THIS Wrecned county, NY noais sickHs "isuM
me when think Of it. 1T. w.
THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. aaa
The recent law Of Congress for the restoration of
fugitive slaves to their owners has been the great
theme for discussion the last six weeks. II has
been condemned and denounced in abusive terms.
Indignation meetings have been held, ndappeals
sent forth to the people to rise in their night and
prevent the execution of this law Some OF the pa
pers call for an armed resisance-and the Ildepen-
dent, religious paper, exhorts the fugitives to re-
sist the law at the peril of their ivesand 70 shed
blood and die the galows if need be, rather than
yield to the demands Of this enactment. Ecclesi-
astical bodies TOO have taken up the subject.
meeting Of Baptist ministers in Boston has sent
forth document affirming that the la,O Is found
ed in iOrong' and that it requires men to commit
actsIin uioZation of the law of God! Another
meeting of ministers Of different denominations,
calling themselves an Evangelical Alliance have
taken the field condemned the act and called upon
the people to vote for no candidate for Congress
who will not exert himself to the utmost to re-
scind the law. These ministers also demand that
the clause requiring the restoration of fugiives
shall be stricken out of the Constitution.
On the other side the people have commenced
holding Union meetings to sustain the law and cOun-
teractthe organized efforts those whom they regard
as fanatics !" and " disorganizng nulli6ers.' Such
meetings have been held in New York, Boston,
Dayton, and Chicago-and strong resolutions adopt
ed in support Of the compromise" and of the law
which forms part of it. In these meetings and
in some Of the papers, the measures Of the opposite
party are reprobated in decided terms.
II is deeply regretted that this agitation has en-
tered the Church and been promoted By ministers
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who evince the greatest zeal on the subject are
hardly competent to guide the people OIL questions
OF this kind Their views and feelings are too mar
roso and too local. to appreciate political measure,
intended to meet the complicated relations and CIR
cun,sfces of the ertensiue territories Of our co,ta-
try It is thought that their studies and associa-
tons do not qualify them to guide our Legislators
in political science. 1t is also believed that some
of them have greatly erred in their Interpretation OF
that supreme law given to bind the conscience OF
every man. whether bond or free.
lChristian Observer, PHILADELPHIA
FROM THE MOBILE DAILY ADVERTISER OF NOVEMBER Z.
It cannot have escaped the attention of our read
ers that the slave States bordering on the free
complain much less about the loss of slaves who,
escape to the free States than those lying further
south, on the Gulf and on the Atlantic. Why IS
and Missouri, from whose citizens these fugitive
slaves escape and are stolen, say but little compara
lively about these losses and aggressions, while
South Carolina, Georss, Alabama and Mississippi, whose
citizens rarely. ever lose slave by his escape to free
State ready dissolve tie Union unless these agges
sons the property Of their neghbo terminated. The
former States almost unanimously in favor Of the late adj
usment passed by Congressmany Of their Re-
personalities voting for them, concede the consutionaly
Of all of them and express their fullest confidence that their
rights and the rights Of their property fully guaranteed
and will be protected under those Laws. The latter States
denounce all these except oneand that they DE-
clare will be executed, rather portion Of their peo
pie doas unjust Of them unconstitutional and dega-
ding to the South &c
This anomalous state Of things hardly be accounted
for any other ground than that the Engaged in these
sgatons and exciements desrous Of making epy
branch Of the slavery question for the purpose Of accom-
pkshing their darling scheme Of preparing the Soufhen
mind dssotion Of tie Union, and the establishment
its ruins Of Southern United States Confsderscy
Unless this be the object why do the people Of the States
who the real sufferers and whose property 10 taken ex-
press their entire willingness accept and their full conf
1ence in Congress and the laws which it has passed. while
portion Of the people Of Alsbsma Mississippi Georgia. and
South Carolina indignant and outraged by these
wrongs pepea,ed their neghbo DO ready not only
secedc, but profess be ready shoulder their uskes
the occasion Arc the border States blind If the dam
ger often painted in such startling coors by our dssnion
artists heresbous impending the institution Of slavery
b real, will not the first blow fall upon the border States
But the people Of those States do not perceive their danger
10 not feel It, Their imaginsons not 80 vivid as those
IF asrmists and crises -" secessonss further
Southland therefore they look to The future with bright
hopes and strong confidence. They soc no dangers
IN the distance which cannot be provided against in
be Union, and they cling to the and stripes the
hor Of their hopes for their children and as the last resting
place Of American liberty.
FATAL RAILnoAD AccIDsxr.--On Thursday evening
last the Hartford and New Haven train resched road