Washington telegraph., 1851-03-12
THE PROCLAMATION.

THE lION.
President Fillmore's Proclamation, COM
mandng the arrest of all persons engaged
in, and assisting tie mob which rescued
a fugitive slave from the u. 5. Marshal
at Boston, is most vehemently, unscru-
puIously. and withent shadow of reason.
denounced by the dsunion and nulifica-
ton press Notwithstanding the Presi-
dent has discharged his duty faithfully
and with alacrity, they express unqualified
dissatisfaction of his course, and charge
him with conniving at the outrages per-
petrated agains, the laws. Their censure
is as unjust as II is ridiculous. 1t certain
~ cannot be expected that the President,
at distance of hundreds of miles, can
disperse mobs before they have assembled,
or punish offenders before the offence has
been committed. In this matter he has
acted promptly aid in accordance with
the law which makes it his duty to issue
Proclamation before calling upon the
military TO assist the civil authority. The
.5d section of the act of 1895 enacts:
That whenever ihe laws Of the United States
shall bo opposed. he executou thereof obstrict
ed in any State, by comb nations too powerful
be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings by the powers vested III the mar
shall by this act, it shall be lawful for the Presi-
dent OF the United States to call forth the militia
Of such State, or any other State or States, to
IoIl an1p lie la w,
be duly executed.
Pr0UiGed, Gl31aYs, That whenever it may be
NECESSARY, in the judgment Of the President, to
the military orce hereby direcied to br called
forth. the President shall forthwith by proclamation
command such Insurgents to disperse, &c, &c
Surely there is nothing like want of
decision or delay in his proceedings. He
has taken the preliminary steps required
10y the laws, and we doubt not will see
that they are faithfully carried into eject
We have yet TO see the first Union naan
who hesitates to declare his utmost con-
fdence in the determiA alton Of the Presi-
dent to enforce tire provisions of The
fugitive slave act, at all hazards. Those
whose anxiety leads them TO ex-
press doubts of the honesty of his in
tentions, betray wish that he would
hesitate to discharge his duty, rather than
u fear that he would do SO. No Union
Press expresses any fear that the rights
of the South will be jeopardiZed by
MiIlard Fillmore. They do not doubt
his integrity, his honesty, or determina-
ton to enforce obedience to the laws.
The civil authorities of Boston are Justly
censurabie for not aiding i'll suppressing
the unlawful assemblage, aud preventing
tie violation Of the law, but surely it is
not jus. to censure the President with
their delinquency. The Proclamation
may not restore the fugitive to the pos
session of his master, but it doubtless
will bring the perpetrators of the outrage
10 punishment aud compensate the owner
tor the loss he has sustained. We pub-
lish the Proclamation in other column.
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The following dispatch from Boston on
the 10Th nit. appears in the n. Y. Fri
buue: 1t is we'll ascertained fact that
more warrants have been issued Icr the
arrest of fugitive slaves.
The colored citizens are aware of this
state of things, and it is believed are
thoroughly organized and armed.
4 new military association is about
being formed here, to be called the Lib
erty League. More than 100 of the
influential aud able-boded young men in
the city are pledged to join it. The as
sociation is opposed to the slave law and
the aggressions of slave hunters.
ShsdracA, the fagitive, is by this time
safe in Canada. He left this by private
conveyance, and reached ,be house of an
abolitionist, in certain town in the wes
tern part of Massachusetts, on Sunday
morning. There he WAS Welcomed
George Thompson, the English Abo-
litionist, recently met warm reception I
at Springfield, Mass, where he attempt !
cd to make !, sppech He .syos Savorely |