The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-25

delivered 40 on demand and upon proof Of identity with
out any litigation whatever, How is il now single
runaway negro has II IN his power TO call INTO exeruon
the very highest powers committed to the President Oh
the United States,
will make another remark in connexion with this
subleci--l do II with hfm belief oil Its ruin that III
Boston, in the community OF Massachusetts, yoa may
throw much blame on the marshal as you ihihA
proper, but the federal ofcers Will nnd mpossoe oy
their exeron OF power to carry INTO shee h.s At.i-
Gle of the constitution and the law referred 70 Tor the
purpose of giving force 10 H. II they cannot Call Out the
pose eooaauS, the very highest power Which asheIn Q,
H. shall has, is IN vain Tor them 10 resort 10 federal
agencies limited and lmpoent means 10 perform the
duties of their offices Why. you now attempting by
auxiliary legislation TO do-wha' To breathe life into
an extinct article OF the constitution OF the United States
You to supply from time TO lme from session 10
sion, acts OF legislation TO compel people who op.
posed 10 The constitution to observe Ito resort TO the
army and navy, TO military force compel citizens TO do
the duty which honor. honesty justice, and good faith
had previously imposed upon them 1t is perfectly in
van as has been said 10 consequence of the sentiment
which obtains IN some of the northern States, and espe
caily IN Massachusetts, with the limited number OF OH
GERS and the limited power which they exert over the
community, to enforce this article of the constitution
Sir they are reconclled by casulsy 10 see II vo
lated; they reconciled to by the pulpit; they
reconciled 10 IL by designing polilicans aud long as
the question OF slavery forms an element OF political agI
taion, you might well attempt To hush the winds by
ing them Cease" As said the other day, you
might we'll expect 10 keep maniac quiet by singing
ulabIes as TO undertake IN this way 10 compel eluc
tant people TO do their duty
It has been said tina, this law has been executed good
faith Allow me to make remark in this come xion
and repeat il from what was said by member OF the
other House Fifteen thousand slaves have escaped and
in the lice States How many OF them reclaimed
under this or any other law would Just soon have
the law OF 1898 as the present law Tor any purpose, so
far regards the reclamation of fugitive slaves said
SO when this law under discussion. The senator
from Kentucky has alluded to Indiana and other
States What Is the fact IN relation 10 Indiana? Why,
Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa. and some OF the other States,
have TO the conclusion, while protesting phan-
hropy at breath, 10 exclude these people from their
borders cast no censure on their policy Their policy
is to keep out all colored people, bond or free Ii
matter OF policy that they have consulted than any
thing else. They have avowed it to be their policy that
they will allow no black man to enter their borders here
AFTER and the time will come when every black who
has escaped from his master into the State OF Ohio will
be expelled not for any thing like regard for the black
man. bnt from apocy and policy which see is likely
to be introduced into California These persons would
have been better have been left slaves than have
been seduced under this phlanhropc advertisement that
they will be free They have been in the nominal posi-
OF freemen only TO be crushed degraded and excud-
ed from employment
Gentlemen speak of the case in Boston as a mob of
negroes. Gentlemen may speak of il they please
but symptom thus Tar that they will take ihe part OF
the fugitive slaves as long they can, with view
TO protect them ultimately when they free, but To
exclude them IRON employment This very act in Boston
will have been communicated (through speeches de
vered here, through speeches such have been de
ivered by the honorable senator from New Hampshire,
which have excused The acD to every southern State in
this Union. Why, gentlemen are absolutely holding a
spark over powder magazine DO mol know that they
succeed exciting The slaves of the South
recon, but will dissatisfy them and the creatures
becoming every day dissatisfied with their condi
ton; although is absolutely certain that their condition
will be worse under the system OF policy and miserable
philanthropy which has been preached and practsed in
some of the free Substantially worse the friend
OF the black man compared with them and he hypo-
cTle who undertakes to preach in favor OF degraded
race when in fact he takes less OF them than
would. do not know how far this law is 10 operate
but will say that il slave OF mine escaped, would
no, go through any course OF litigation TO reclaim him
and If he had escaped at former time, and acquired
1tus would lei him stay than disturb him So far
regards the free people OF color who have gone TO the
North, the most OF them would be glad to back
know u, because have had some experience the sub
ect was The myself of sending fifteen to
Ohio, and think they would be glad TO come back.
The consequences OF such an act as thus IN Boston are
not limited to the particular act itself, but its
quences pervading this community, and cr,a
ting disturbance and among these poor
degraded creatures which gentlemen cannot measure
| My friend from Virginia has very properly said tina,
when the States will execute this law that when
the people of the Common wealth OF Massachusetts are
to it. is perfectly vain to rely upon federal
legislation TO supply what The constitution imposed upon
them duty. will never give up that II was duty
imposed the people of the States themselves 10
render fuguyes from labor Never was ii expected that
we should have to resort TO the army, to the navy,
TO the militia, and 10 procamatons, TO supply this piece
of legislation and that piece Of legislation and preach 10
the country that the law will be executed, cay 1t is
4 but preaching ! say there will be but very few cases
IN which reclaim slave for the that you
cannot detect where he is, because persons the free
States will conceal him. will throw all impedncnls in
the way OF his apprehension and after his apprehension
you have TO 60 through OF litigation TO reclaim
The property which the constitution required the States
themselves 10 deliver up The recovery OF the property
II seems, is depend the physical arm OF this gov.
eminent The army and the navy are TO be invoked 10
enforce article OF the constitution, because runaway
slave has gone to Boston Now, what is the situation oil
| this government when a runaway negro can produce
such state OF things such discussions this and
make such issues Ii IS symptom OF The tunes; and
Just as certain as am speaking, the notion which the
is coming down upon the southern btaes with the
talny OF descending screw. We may for awhile be
s as long as the persons interested may make the
rest We may sleep for awhile the apprehension and
the hope, but II is delusive hope He who looks fur
her than the present into this question chooses 10 dis
guise from himself that walking upon precipce
These dangerous people have acquired powerful
troll over the public mind in the savehoding States
In respects they have acquired the balance of power
and many oil them aspire 10 the highest honors OF the
country, and attain them. Am 10 be told in the face
oil all this that our institutions saie' do not be
eve a word Of it; and should not have been true 10
my position here il bad not proclaimed my convictions
| on this subject.
As regards this matter of recovering furves would
say in Justice TO Pennsylvania that believe she is the
soundes Of all the savehoding States this sub
ect except the north western States believe This
law has been tested in the interior OF New York
and other States II has been enforced
in the city Of New York. and there for that
/ The city had more intimate Intercourse with the South
cal relations with As have said it not this mere
case, but you sowing the seeds of and
OF danger among the blacks. do not say that IL will
become very Formidable that the dangers likely
acquire any great influence, but IL is proverbal among
our oversees that every day and every year the