New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-12
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, JUNE 70.

est dcsiperr in ocO Or il is pleasant 70 sac erave
Senator play upon words. bat there must be Wit 20
redeem IL from puerility.
But the childishness Of this criticism IL not its
worst festure. What is tie great frsfh which NJ.
Webster and bis upo0gists attempt here T. riai.
| calel It IS that while every man tm0n ST as In
| regard - any piece Of property worth more than
! twenty dollars, Of which violence or fraud NAV
attempts despoi him. has right to trial bv iary
! yet mans freedom and that Of his pos,s-itg for
ever, may be vgeited nom him, as our law now
stands, without such a trial. Does not this hold
mans freedom 70 be Of less value than twenty dol
lars If two adverse clalmsufs contest title % m
alleged slave, whose market value is more than
this Gun, each is entitled to a jury y b., the fact
Of owneulip Bot II the alleged slave declares
that he owns himself he is dcbarrCd from ih's riot
And tlf truth, or G cannon illustration of IT, Mr
Webster and lis apo.orists think suitable topic
for srcers or Tlearauiry 4 foreign pr1varb SAYS
tlGf for mon % kiIhs mother ~ not ir GOOD fqS'e
Itust the moral and religious pcopso Of MassRch1-
sets have TOO much good taste 20 relish like on
such theme.
81 Mann then goes ca 10 examine at 1 gth a-l
with remarkable ability aud learning, the merits
Of he ia7al end colsttutols question Of granting
q iria ~ jury TO persons claimed g., fugitive
Saver a'sailg ilet thcy have every VIZ good
right thereto.
We quote thc llcEi- paragraphs:
M WCltlCr G1tf--, n.s. in n cer.c'n e.. '.ger
cy, % appeal TO that higher al.ll,ig Which SIS
onurgucd above the C9nlut1tion anil above tie
law take 10 exception % this cl1ns % because
OF It's oihclOusness, but wouid thank him iorit My
ideas OF duty require me 10 seek anxiOUsy for the
true Interpretation Of the Constitution, and then to
abide by it, unswsyed by hopes or fears. If the
Constitution requires me TO do anything which my
sense OF duty forbids, j shall save my conscience
by resigniDg my office. / am free, however TO say
that if in the discharge Of my political duties, l
should transfer my allegiance TO any other power,
/ should adopt Mr.. Websters advice, and 60 to
tee power (which sits enthroned above" rather
than to descend to that opposite realm, whence
the bill which he so cordially promised to support,
must have emerged.
Mr. Webster holds Massachusetts up to the
ridicue Of the world, because she grows ervid on
Pennsy lvauia wrongs" and he has deemed it his
duty TO inquire how many seizures of fugitive
slaves have occurred in New England within our
time. Is this the Christian stand ard by which to
estimate the evil Of encroachments upon the most
sacred rights Of menl If | repose in contentnent I
and indifference, because my own section or State, /
or county, is as yet but q partial sufferer, why |
Ghould ! not continue contented and Indifferent /
while l myself am safe In providing FOX the |
liberties Of the citizen under common govern |
ment think Massachusetts, worthy of all honor.
and not Of ridicue, because she does grow fervid
on Pennsy vaDia wrongs" and on the wrongs OF an
entire rsce, whether in Pennsylvania or California,
certainly within the boundaries Of our own coun-
try. ! see reason why ny sympathies as a
man, or the Obligations Of my cath an officer, IN
regard 10 the nearer or the remoter States should
be inyersely ns the squares Of the distances.
Even with regard to foreign countries, did Mr.
w ebster think TO- in those better days, when his
eloquent appeal for oppressed and bleeding Greece
reused the nation like the voice Of U caro1l Did
MIR. Webster deem 1t necessary to make inq1isi.
oh oil fha md no
many Hungarian patriots there lad shot at the
TAP Of the drum, or how many noble Hungarian
women had been stripped and whipped in their
narketp places, before he thrilled the heart Of the
nation, at the wrongs Of KOssuth and his com
latriois, and invoked the execratons of the world
lpon the Austrian and Russian despots l see
10 difference between these cases. which is not in
avor Of our home interests, Of our own domestic
7ghfs, except the difference Of their bearings up
IN partisan politics.