Worcester daily spy., 1851-10-18
SPEECH OF
HON. HORACE M ANN

ConrentseR,
[PHoNoeRApR1C REPORT by DIR. sroNE>]
CcoNcLupED.]
THE ONLY vALoRoUs EXPLoIT OF THE
PRESENT ADMINISTRATION.
The only vaiosous exploit of this ad.
minislFafon was the issuing of pro-
ciamalion, when one Southern slave, from
among three millions, escaped from the
house OF bondage, aud found that pro-
tectrun under the British easigu which
was denied TO him by the American Gag:
and thss right to a trial by Juey, under
Monarchy, which was deaied him 10y a
Republic. Or, if any other act should
be added to the preceding, it was the
Presidents letter 10 DR. Collins, of Geor-
gia, offering the army and navy Of the
United States 10 catch one poor white
wotHan, Ellen Crafts and her husband,
and retura them to bondage (Cries of
shame, shasne.)
THE DISGUISE THROWN OFF.
In another passage of the Wing address
all disguise iscast off,and it is openly decia-
Texas, wfi4l territory enough for halt a do
zen more as large as Massachusetts, and len
millions OF dollars in addition to thar, and
the statutory permission that slavery NAV
go into New Mexico and Utah, and even
that abhorred enactment, the Fugitive Slave
Law, are only 'factitious and imaginary
grounds" of complaint The Free Soil
party Is condemned because it takes anv
notice of such <'factitious and imaginary
causes" A three penny tax on tea was
real grievance--oHe fit 10 be resisted INTO
Blood, TO be Historically recorded, and to
which we are not ashamed 10 refer hen de-
scantlpg upon The honor of our fathers.
But such iargesses 10 slavery as kings could
not afford 10 give, and the robbery OF an
entire race Of all of IFS rights yes, and with
authority, too, 10 make US help commit the
robbery--ihese are 'lactitious and ima-
ginary" causes Of dissnli nlisfaclion.--Men of
Massachusetts Moral and religious men,
Lovers of freedom and Of your country,were
you prepared for this.
DEFENCE OF THEE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.
But the address goes still further. 1t goes
lnto an elaborate palliation of the Fugitive
Slave Law itself. 1t first attempts to shift
the question by asking the Free Sellers
what they would do with regard to the con-
stlttonalprovlsion respecting escaped slaves.
The views Of the Free Soil party on this
point, and their purpose of fidelity to the
constitution have been sci forth hundred
times. In further answer, therefore, to this
question, it is only necessary to remark that
the Free Soil party will do what they say;
and not pass len long years in asserting and
protesting, and resolving, aud calling earth
and lleageu to witness their devotion to free
dom, and chen disayow all they had ever
ayowed, and forswear their oaths.
Let me read 10 you The disparaging and
contemptuous remark of the address, and
OH that great palladium OF human liberty,
the trial by jury; :" is nothing meant" il
graEely says, ''but the substitution OF a ver-
dict OF jury, for the decision of aludge?"
Nothing but what? "The verdict Of a jury
Tor the decision of judge" that is of a
commissioner And are the persons that
prepared that Address so nearly stone blind
as not to recognize the infinite difference
between tie verdict of ajnry and the decis-
aon of such commissioners as Messrs. In
graham, Smith and Nelsen2 Ingraham, of
philadelphia, sent a aau InlO bondage when
the alleged claimant refused to receive as
;seon as he saw him; knowing that all his
family, and all dis slaves and his neighbors
would see that he had no right to bin.--
Smith, OF Buffalo, gave a certificath to car
ry Daniel 4Rio slavery, when not single
item or particle, ar title of legal and adnrs-
sible evidence svas before him as proof; as
was afterwards shown by Judge ConlSlin, of
the United States Ceurt. Nelson, of New
York, foroed the facts in Bolding's case, 10
bring them within the law which he him
self had laid down, as much as ever frau
dulent book keeper ferced balances to COW
er embezzlemeni. Sims, instead Of having
conmen law notice, and time to send for
evidence, was seized al night on false and
trumped up charge of stealing. Daniel was
knocked down by the claimants agent, with
club tunbed and tortured Upon hot
stove, his scalp Torn open, and then compel
led 10 90 to trial, whale, as described by an
witness, he eaf dozing, unable TO talk with
his counsel, the blood slowly oozing out oi
his mouth and nostrils- Hamlet, Long, and
Boiding were sprung upon as retnorselessly
as tiger springs upon lamb, and carried
10 trial without l,eiBg allowed TO 20 TO iheiI
respective homes, to bid farewell 10 theiI
families. An alleged slave has lately been
-~tasfeR ffrosff Pennsylvania, who was seized
in The night, tried lin the night, and carried
away in the samenight, with kout any oppor-
tunity fot preparation, for counsel, or fol
defence. The kidnspper, Alberti, now lies
in Pennsylvania prison for carrying away
molher aud her child; but the moihe
and child are now groaniDg under the lasf
of a Southern taskmaster. Had this vilair
Albert, and his accornplices, been detected
while tile victims were still IN his hands,
suppose he would have carried Them before
Mr. Commissioner Ingraham, aud had th'
wrong legally recti6ed-the blackness o
the crime judicially washed away.
These are butspecimens of what the Flu
gitive Slave law has already done, before