The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-15

ftnasudesa pisee ef patsh wosay Nh Joseph \
coef q many oqium. ne ssAms Of vAieh ara avsry.
where visible "a gsoviae wider and rider. A
large portion ~ The Britisk'snpirs which makes
such figure GA shs maps, consists Of barren,
worthless regions, like Hudson Bay. New Abb
on. and Caledonia, whose frozen soil and incle-
ment climate UNFIT them for the abodes of civil
lized man or the profitable application Of human
labor. Others are occupied by men Of different
races. Of lcoIors, languages. and religion which,
50 far from having any common bond Of union.
are kept under subsection by force or fear, and
only sympathize with each other in hatred of their
common masters. The extremities of the empire
20 distant from the centre, and 80 widely diff
fused, that the blood cannot circulate through
them without exhausiing the heart by unnatural
exertion; and the dependencies Of England are
daily becoming little better than millstones about
her neck So far from administering to heathful
vigor of the mother, they are silently draining
the vital fluid from her bosom, and exhausng tn
parent, only to gather strength TO enable them fn-
ally to resist her authority Canada, which
will probably soon drop from the parent tree,
costs England half million sterling annually,
and there is not of her colonies since the phi
lanthropic experiments in the West Indies, that
adds anything to her real strength wealth or pros
perity. There 10 neither continuity or cohesion
in her dsjointed empire.
| But this 10 not the worst. She il diseased nj
home with the most incurable of all maladies--
disease Of the heart-rendered everyday more
dangerous by the weakness and infrmites of age
which have impaired, If not entirely destroyed the
principle Of renovation. A large portion of the
people of the united kingdom are laborng under
the. impatient feverishness Of hopeless poverty,
aud disaffected to the government to which they
distinctly trace great potion Of their privations
in system Of taxation that swallows up hall
their earnings. They are sick, and sore, and dis
contented with the present state Of things, and
their only hope in the future is drawn from re-
forms, which will only be productive of disap-
pointment, because they do not strike at the roo,
the evil. The truth il, an old, decayed and cor
rupt government, comprising the accumulated
abuses of ages, cannot be reformed. The founda-
tons are too weak to sustain new structure, and
the only remedy is to pull it down and begin at
the base. Reform will not do; there must be a
revolution, such as cannot be made out of sugar
pIumbs and rose water. England is now keeping
up the semblance Of her ancient vigor and spirit,
insulting and bullying the weaker States in all
parts of the world, most especially in Central
America, but at the same time, an innate con-
seriousness Of weakness is shown in her extreme
solicitude to prevent European war, where she
would come in contact with her equals. Such a
war would add couple of hundred millions to
her present debt, and probably render the bur-
dens Of the people intolerable. At present they
are kept down by the bayonet and an army of po-
lice, aided by their own want of arms, and the
spirit to use if they had them. As for the United
States, they have nothing to fear from England,
except her intrigues, her wheedlings and her phi
lanthropy. Just now her most potent allies are
the negroes and Musquitoe Indians.
| Ma BucKMcHAM's REpoRr-We have re
ceived from Hon. ]. w. Graves the report which
was lately made to the Senate by Hon. ]. T.
| Buckingham, chairman of the special committee
on the subject of slavery. We should be glad to
publish the whole Of il; hut must BE- content at
| this time with the following forcbe and indig-
nant expression, which is worthy of the true
hearted author boston Post.
| Considering this law as unjust in it's nature,
| wrong in it's principle, hostile to the designs of
all just human laws, deeming it in the highest de-
gree unconstitutional. in general and in detail, we
do not hesitate to declare that we consider it an
Infamous and wicked statute, a law not fit to be
made and not fit to be kept II is disgrace to
the age we live in, reproach to he nation which
glories in the name of democracy, and foul
shame to the people that profess a religion, whose
great practical rule Of conduct is, to edo unto
others we wish them TO do to u.s." Your COM
mittee lack time, as well as language, TO express
the adherence and loathiug which they feel for
this law. Yet, isfhe iap Qfthe land, not official
ly declared unconstitutional. Unconstitutional, as
we believe it. inhuman and wicked, as it unques-
tionaby is, it is still la,c, and forcbe resistance
to 1t is legal mIsdemeanor. Its results most
disastrous. The innocent citizens, who have fled
from home, and found home and reared families
among us, are forced to fee, and to seek in
monarchy an asylum from the injustice and cruel
ty Of republic They fe. for liberty from Amer
lea to England A queen 3 diadem protects Chris
tan men from the save-driver's whip, tender wo-
men from masters lust; and ew-born babes
from his thirst for gold. The save-hunter pro-
| fanes the soil Of Massachusetts,, seeking whom he
| may devour. His presence spreads terror among
the coored people of our State. He is hawk
among doves,-a wolf, hyena, among lambs
II is with deep modification, your committee con-
fess, that persons found in this city, who
sent to sell their professional services to the base
purpose of enslaving en;--that among them are
found persons whom this Commonwealth has
honored with the commission Of justice Of the
peace, men who trampIe under foot our own con-
stitution, in their efforts to enforce this wicked
law. We confess we deem il no less C, ime
against nature and humanity to ensave fugitive
than to steal free man. To our judgment. the
illegal kidnapper on the coast Of Africa, and the
Legal maD-hunter in Boston, belong to the same
class of feons. They differ, however, pecifcaiy,
and we think the native species far worse than the
foreign felon, whom all Christian governments,
and onr own among the number, have denounced
as pirate. We say this advisedly. We have
studied the action, have analysed it's motives and
| have examined its excuse. But while we gladly
fold the mantle Of charity over the shame OF men,
whom poverty and ignorance conduct to crime,
we can find no pail iation for the bdeous spectacle
of citizens Of Massachusetts, and even officers in
her service, in the very city Of the Pilgrims, seek
ing TO ensave a man. Let turn off our eyes
from spectacle so ghastly and dsgraceful.
TERRIBLE AccIDENr.-Just as the ten o'clock
train on the Potchartroin railroad was in motion