Worcester daily spy., 1851-12-01
kidnapping.

1t would seem, at one time, that this country was
overpowered with respect for the the abstract theo
res of law, and that she did not know how to dis.
tress herself enough inthe performance of her loyal
duties At another tune, it would seem that she
did not sufficiently know how to exhibit perfect
indifference towards those duties. At one time we
have commissioners, marshas, police officers, udg-
es, and all "cooD CITIZENS putting their pre-
cous lives and lungs in jeopardy, in their endeav-
ors to execute the ''Fugitive Slave Law" Just
because 1t is lar; and, next day, perhaps, we see
the same loyal people folding their arms, and pooh
pooh-ing when they told that sacred law has
been violated, in the person of one of their own
citizens, in South Carolina or Kentucky.
Calvin Fairbank, clergyman, was seized on Sun
day, the 10Th Of November last, at JeffelsonviIle,
Indiana, by several persons from ne State of Ken
lucky, and in the face of that fiction called lato in
defiance Of his struggles, of his protesations of his
appeals to the aws of Indiana, and of the presence
OF sheriff of Indiana, he was dragged from that
nominally free State, forced into skiff. carried
across the river, and thrown into gaol in Louisville
The legal preliminaries to an arrest, which we are
taught to believe are intended as safeguards
to personal liberty, totally neglected in the ease
OF this man. There was no warrant issued. either
by magistrate of Kentucky or Indiana, to arrest
him. The sovereign State of Kentucky did no,
inform the sovereign State of Indiana, of its nten-
ton to apprehend Calvin Fairbanks and, of course.
the sovereign State of Indiana did grant to Ken
lucky the privilege OF kidnapping within her
borders
If Kentucky gave her sanction to the creatures,
who seized, without permit warrant, free Amer
lean citizen, in Indiana, and who carried him forci-
bly, IRON ttat State, then she guilty of trespass
N the first place, and Of violation of the Consti-
tuition of the u S. in the next, crime which might
make all the loyal blood of all the Silver Crews rise
up in mutny. This poor man, citizen of New
York, lies in the gaoI at Louisville Ky.,
charged with offence against the laws of that
Slate, Of which he is only presumed to be guilty,
because in years gone by he did assist one Lewis
Hayden TO escape from the House of Bondage The
suspicious and vengeance of slaveholdng Kentucky,
in this case, set defiance the independence of
Indiana, and the Constitution of the United States,
and the whole affair is tamey submitted to as a mat
ter of course. both by Indiana and the General
government.
slave, when the "law" cries seize him, instantly
consents, with becoming submissiveness, whenever
it seems good to the nsolent minions of the Slave
power, to make fiction and farce of law. This is
the kind of advantage we have purchased by the
Compromise measures. 1t an advantage, very
much like that of the dupe, who, in gambling with
sharper, consented to lose, when the dice turned up
odds, and was willing that his opponent should win,
when il was There can be no compromise
with this Slave power, that is not to the delriment
and disadvantage OF liberty, and every day and
every circumstance in this connection proves this
SERIOUS ACCIDENT. At Marlborough. on
Thursday lad thirteen years of age, named Will
liam,R. Stevens, while about to pass from adderto
NOW of hay in the barn, fell upon a ptchfork, one
Of the prongs Of which entered the left extremity Of
the bowels, and came out about two inches TO the
right OF the umbilicus. A part Of the omentum was
forced through the skim His father was near. and
drew out the fork, and it is hoped that he will
recover.
APoTHEcARY's BLUEDER.-The Lowell Jour
nal says that an apohecary Of that city, day or two
I,,;n Il