New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-04
The RnHisiYe EnW.

Beau Brummell was once asked to indi-
cate the best joke he had ever heard in his
life. After considering a minute, he said
he thought it was bequest of five pounds
left by man in his will toward paying off
the British National Debt.
The Beau lived in one Of the darker
ages. Had he been blessed with the day
light Of 1850, he would have confessed that
the passage Of the Fugitive Slave bill
(omong cthers) expressly to settle the
Slavery question was joke entirely ahead
of his. And the vehement assertion Of
Messrs. Duer, Bush, sc. at Syracuse that the
entire Slavery agitation, present and future,
had been settled, quoted, put to sleep, by
these measures, went even degree beyond
the other 1t was carrying absurdity to the
verge of the sublime.
Hoc Slavery agitation has been buried by
the passage, among others, of this Fugitive
Slave bill, the Telegraph and the journals
already begin to show; though as yet only
very few Of the thousands of fugitives
from labor in the Free States have been
reached for under it. Yet already Massa
chusetts is deeply agitated by the effects eff
this bill, and our own State begins to be
conyulsed by it. Pennsylvania, Ohio, In
diana, will soon be ablaze with it. Not
many Members of the House will henceforth
be elected from the Free States unpledged
to its repeal; while any general or system
ATTIC attempt to enforce it's provisions will
obviously be met by concerted evasion if nos
by overt resistance The law never can be
enforced, even to the extent Of returning to
Slavery one-tenth of the fugitive Slaves now
living in the Free States. 1t will be very
difficult TO enforce it at all fifty miles fur
ther East or North than this City and of
the thousand to fifteen hundred fugitive
slaves living in Massachusetts, we don't be-
)ieve twenty could be reenslaved without
costing as many lives. In fact, unless the
Rev. Moses Stuart should be moved TO write
another letter to Daniel Webster, proving
from the Pentateuch the moral duty of re-
storing Slaves, We don's see how the law is
to be enforced in New.Epgland at sll. 1t
seems to have no friends there. Even the
Hunker Democracy, who make a point Of
defending every other iniquity, seem to fight
sby of this one. 1t don't promise to pay.
On the whole, we reckon this law will have
to be repealed or very essentially modified.
I'VE deny that the minority threatened or bul.
lied any body at Syracuse IExPfess'
pay What do you mean by threatened
or bulllcd? We have no time TO waste on
verbal cavils. You know well that the ma
iority were repeatedly told, in session and
Gus Of it, before meeting..and after, g If you
indorse Gov. Seward, the Convention will
be broken up and the Wing party divided"
That was predicted, if you cavil al threat
ened,' before any Delegate reached syra-
cuse and in this City after they had all
started. Il wss the staple Of Mr. Duer's
demand that the Convention sheuld take the
extrsordipary course of passing resolutions
first and nominating candidates aReFward.
We bad it for breakfast, dinner, supper and
night-csp. The direful perils of bolt were
perpesuslly flashed before the eyes of Gov.
sewara's friends. We call this threatening
and bullying; yeu may csll it consolidating
and srsDqullisiBg if you please, Changing
the meme don's alter she thing