The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-22

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CsscsSuAys, "Wednesday, April l6
'rus AHz1-6LAvERv CoHvxH-Ioa Al Cixcu
HATt-ADgouRxMsHr.-The Anti Slavery Con
venA>n lat evening adopted resolution de-
eIArinR tae Fagitve-aiave law fragrant outrag.
spoa ~ rights al the federal Constitution, sne
therefore Il y "A act against which the socis
sad political in6uenee OF al the people shouit
be arrsyed. Cassius n. Clay, OF Kentucky
was called upon, and remarked briefly that the
FugiHve-slaye law ought to be repealed. Ad
jouFned till tomorrow morning.
TAursdsy morning The convention having
reassembled, the following resolutions were dis.
cussed ut length, and finally adopted:
Resolued, That in view Of the present condi
ton Of the slaves. this is no time to sleep. II
b time to wake, and work, and live anew in the
cause. It 10 the time TO do and suffer. and, il
need be, die 1t il the tune for every one who
claims 70 be friend Of the slaves, to lay his all
upon the altar, and throw himself into the thick
est Of the fight and instead Of being discouraged
by untoward events Of these times. lay himself
out To do still more. neither giving nor taking
quarter, until slavery shall be not only circum-
scribed in its limits, and defeated in its demand
with regard TO the Fugitive slave law, but actu-
ally and really abolished from the land.
Resolved, That tue recent delivery of Sims to
his ciair ant IL demonstration Of the utter and
hopeless subserviency Of the national Admins
tration to the siaye power, and the readiness OF
the sulinR politicians Of the country to place the
whole North under the despotism of military
rule 70 further the slave power.
Resolved, That whatever are or may be our
different views and opinions about political par
ties, We are united in the declaration that any
man who votes for the friends of the Fillmore
kidnapping law, ought to be regarded as po-
litical enemy to God and humanity.
Resolved, That the North is to be held re-
ap0nsible for the existence Of American slavery
Tho people of the North are the real slave
holders. They HAYS the power to strike tn
system instantly dead 1t exists only by their
difidence, and therefore there can be no hope
Of peaceable extinctiOns in this country until
the public sentiment of the North has been rad
ically and fundamentally changed.
Z RESOLVED, Tha: we consider the Fugitive
slave law nothing in treaty compared with the
institution which it was passed to uphold. 1t is
therefore no mark Of the true Abolitionist
merely to oppose and seek to repeal, or even to
disobey that law, but all men are bound to strike
at the root whence that springs, and not to rest
contented until they have destroyed the life Of
the parent ITSELF
Several other resolutions were adopted, but
the above includes all the leading points. The
thanks of the convention were returned to the
persons who labored in behalf of the fugitive
slave In Boston.
This afternoon the constitutiOnality of the
law was discussed, and the same subject is un-
der consideration this evening. The convention
is expected to adjourn sine die tonight
FRAUDS IN FREIGHr.-- The New Orleans
Crescent Of the 4th instant, has the following
comments:
"Such of our merchants and others who are
in the habit of receiving goods from the North,
and fail to use the precaution to measure the
packages in which they are put up, before pay
ing freight, are often made to pay twice as much
as the bill Of lading could justly demand. The
goods are measured at the North, just before
going on board Of the ship, and either so care
lessly, ignorantly, or fraudently, as to entail
heavy losses on the consignee. If the thing
were not of such frequent occurrence, and the
amounts involved, in many cases, 30 onerous, we
should strongly incline to the belief that it was
partly the result of accident; but, under exist.
ing circumstances, we cannot persuade ourselves
that it is not, for the most part, the work of de.
sign. 1t bears peculiarly hard on merchants up
the country, who receive all their goods from
the North through this channel, which are often
sent directly from the ships to the steamers al
the levees, thus precuding their agents here
from testing the accuracy of the freight bills
when appearing exorbitantly high. The con
signees Of the ships here are not at all to blame
and do all in their power TO correct the evil, bu,
notwithstanding the frequent reclamation made
on them by the overcharged, and the commune
cation of the facts to the culpable parties, the
thing continues Of almost daily occurrence"