Worcester daily spy., 1851-09-30

The MAssACRE.-Ihere Is much mourning
over the ''horrble massacre at Chrisana, and not
a few Northern presses writhe as if the Union were
TO be rent by it. Horrible it was. The shedding
ofbood is always horrible. 1t was horrible that the
master should be shot when attempting TO rob aaoth-
er of his liberty. 1t was horrible that he should be
there with bowie-knite open and pistol in hand TO
do such execrable deed. But, with all this,
there is not in all Hunkerdom who would
aave whispered word of condemnation If Gorusch
and fifty like him, had been shot down, while at
tempting to force open the house of "a lciite man.
There are some things settled in this land OF ours
and IT not, 1t is time they should be, for our own
and the general safety. Every mans house is his
castle. Such is the common law Such the conyic-
tion of every Saxon heart, and so strongly is il
rooted there, that Saxon arm will fell whoever
may invade it, be the cost what it may. 1t was
Chatham who said ''the house of every man Is his
castle. may be hut, poor and lonely, and tumb-
ling to the ground The storm may penetrate it.
Every wind Of Heaven may enter it. But the King
OF England cannot; the King of England dare not;''
and the sentiment is thoroughly English and
American as any sentiment can be. Every man
may maintain his house against intruders, or against
oiflcers OF the law serving civil process
Now Gorusch, from all the soberer testimony, vet
more from the internal evidence, incident to these
cases-Gorusch and his party, not only sought, ON
free soil, to rob man of his freedom but dared, on
free soil, to storm his castle TO do it, The doors of
the house were broken open before shot was fred
upon them, and the leader was killed, and several of
his associates dangerously wounded in this act
Now, where the crime The killing was in self
defence; and, If white men had done it against COL
ored men, while so acting, there is not "a bunker,
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific, who would not have
SAID, 'they were rightly served.''
we must not lose our senses in our servi!ty, nor
IuSfIc in I -
Boston, on all sides, during the Slave Cases there,
that the house Of Fugitive could be entered and
neither U. S. Marshal nor U. S. Commissioner at
tempted 1t. There were warrants out against Will
liam and Ellen Craft large rewards offered for their
recovery; every stimulus impaired to the United
States authorizes to seize them. 1t was known
where they lived, and that they were in their own
house But not a man broke open their door, not
an officer dreaming of serving the warrants upon
them through such violence. Shall we, then, sur
render this sacred right to give the save-hunter vet
more power! Shall the press, or any portion Of 1t
call the defence of ones own home, outIawry, or
the killing of the assailants, treason?
1t is neither. If Gorusch and party approached
tlrng, or threatening to fire, and broke open the
door OF the house Of the black men, as is now ad-
mItted, and were shot down in the act, and on that
spot, there is no law human or divine, which can
make this shedding of blood crime. There is no
man, lnat hOlds TO The doctrine OF selfdeence, who
would not kill any such invaders of his home
But how this case reveals the enormous iniuuity
OF the Fugitive Act. Every attempt to execute it
has done that Every attempt has displayed more
vlvldly Its outrage upon humanity and justice. No
matter what has been done-whether The avarce of
the master has been satisfied by money, or whether
the law has executed its work, and sent back the
fugitive to eternal savery-this act has been felt
more and more to be, as it is, an insult to liberty,
ana disgrace to the land. But this late develop
inent at Chrstlana, has, beyond all the cases which
have occurred, developed its huge enormity.-
uorusch and party, counted upon success; they
knew the utter degradation of the negro: thew
thought he was like worm, upon whom they could
set their foot at will; and, standing upon this Fugi-
i've Law, encouraged by its spirit, and the spirit Of
those who framed it, and who now seek to carry il
out, they violated right which no King OF England
would dare do-they broke open a mans house
with intent, by violence, to bind him. and bear him
OFT as slave. They were killed in the ATTEMPT
In their own blood was written the fact that mar
can never be so debased to lose all the attributes
OF his manhood; and, instead of whining and with
ing over this hOrribe massacre, let eveIy citizen
o worthy the name, turn to the cause of it and bay,
manllness enough to demand the remedy. Let tn,
demand be, the Repeal Of the Fugitive La,c, tha
we may rid our records of a statute fit only to h,
framed and executed in the bottomess pit, and ou
> country OF acts of inhumanty which will blot owe
It's very name with iniamy, among those, the worlC
e over, whose humane sensibties are not scared b,
e ayarlce, or steeed by ambition Cleveland Tru
Democrat.
RAILROAD AccIDENT.-The steamboat train O
the Boston and Providence Railroad came IN con,ac