The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-08-15

The BALTIMORE CLIPPER ON WAsHIsGToN CRY.
In the Clipper of yesterday morning find
letter, dated at this city the 18th instant from
which make the following extract:
Yesterday the slavery excitementin Congress re-
ceived an increased impetus from the discovery and
arrest of several more slaves who had been decoyed
away from their masters, and were concealed about
this city Several were found upon the premises
of r. s. Coke, lawyer Of distinction. concealed
under the floor of his wash house, and under cir
cumstances that have made him at least object of
suspicion. He Of course disayows all knowledge
| OF, conneXion with, the transaction, and is in
| dignant at the suspicious heaped upon him. These
discoveries made through the voluntary con-
fesson OF one Of the slaves, who surrendered him
self up day or two since, and who does not hest
tate TO say that the worst enemies OF their they
have ever found are these abolitionists.
"They not only decoy away the slave from his
master, but they advise and prevail upon him to
steal the means from his master to pay the aboli-
ton thieves for running them off This has been
disclosed by several slaves who sick of their bar
gain, have returned to their owners in this city
and vicinity; and yet these the p.ilanuiropists!
who preaching and praying at the corners ofthe
streets, and, like the Pharisee of old, thanking
God they are so much better than their neigh
bors whom they are robbing.
| "if this condition of things is permitted to
tnue by the authorities and the citizens of Wash
| ington, the seat of government will not long re-
main here. Many of the southern men now, for
the first time, prepared to vote for its removal
to point west of the Alleghany mountains
1t is the centre of Abolition movements of the pres
ent day. Not only is the leading Abolition press of
the country, with circulation of nearly eighteen
thousand, published here, but greater facilities and
more security ia offered in running off slaves from
their masters than can be found in any free State
in the Union This state of things will not be much
longer tolerated; and if the District of Columbia
poets any more appropriations from Congress, for
its improvement, the citizens OF Washington must
purge themselves of the incendaries who are so in
dustrousy employed in enticing from their own
| ers and running oil slaves"
| We have to do only with the last paragraph in
the above quotation
The authorities and the citizens of w ashin gton'
do not ''permt' any such practices de-
scribed; but have, with vigilance and vigor, put
forth all their power to prevent them. This is
known to every one who knows any thing of our
city
The threat TO remove the scat of Government, with
theavowal of possessed by the writer that
'many OF the southern men now, for the first time,
are prepared to vote for it, is in keeping with the
former declaration What point, east or west of the
Alleghanics is free from conflicting views upon
the slavery question, and where ia the locality for
the seat of government from which "abolitionists'
or ultraists of any type can be excluded Is it by
the act or will of the authorities or citizens of
Washington that the leading paper complained of,
or any other great journal is published here And
if they ought not to be published, where shall
we find authority for their suppression We know
of no such power save that claimed by the advo-
Gates of mob violence, the exercise of which, our
neighbor is assured, respectfully decline, al
| though precedents for the practice of it may pos
sibly be found.
The writer states, that "greater facilities, and
more securty,is (are) offered in running off slaves
from their masters than be found in any free
State in the Union.' We will not impeach the
sincerity Of the writer; but will ask if any other
person believes the assertion he has made?
! The threat contained in the last sentence and
the implied denunciation of our city, only merit
notice in so far they offensive to the justice
and dignity of Congress.
We aware that editors DO not endor sc all that
correspondents say; but anonymous writers either
have no responsibility, or the editors who propagate
their writings their sponsors. How far the con-
ductors of the Clipper approve the iberal unjust,
and malignant defamation of a city from which a
goodly share of their supports obtained, it remains
for themselves to reveal and they doubtless the
party most interested in the revelation.