The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-20
From the Albany Argus, Sept. IL.

InfamOust
On Saturday on the receipt of the first intelligence OF
the murderous outrage Lancaster (Pa.,O the New
York Tribune said .... ....,.. uu
cit an occurrence which all must depore and yet it
Is the legitimate fruit OF the law which authorizes the men
hunters to pursue their prey the soil OF freedom
- The wond that hhen' 50 ts resistance has bee"
made to ITS frecntion
And on Monday il reiterated its attempt to excuse and
paIiate this outrage, and excite the blacks and their
white allies still further resistance OF the law, In the
following language:
"A great deal is expressed al the result, be-
the United States Had two Of the resisting negroes fallen
instead, paravey little would have been thought OF IT,
and we presume no arrests would nave been deemed ne
cesss s -, w.. dssn,v sboctsd At the b,oodsbed
which taken place any but CANNOT hod the
negroes guilty Of The crrms Of murder They acted against
that la,u august orgin-namey, the a,o Of
Natus. They defended inaenable righ--naney., the
human decree annul the authority Of the
individual defend it, and 10 defend II, ne think advisa
another into his personal properly or
or0ng for that other refuse to be SO treated NO aaue
of nrans making abrogate the first and mantfest
sttnet of uat,us that the creation of the Hghe,
Po~r II sufficient tor lesis 10 declare that
certain individuals aud ought be the slaves OF certain
Others for slavery is OF law in the pure and
eeyated sense of term, but oil violence and by VIO
ia s.d m@p@sateG justice AufHoRizED TO kE
SI5r 1T. Wound II not IN truth have been worse murder
dom = - s'0S' 0Se'' ''0
Z" We trust that this melancholy may be with
its liking upon this enactment among us the
character bears other civilized countries. Let ii
be as it ,s-shanIeiu and inhuman Tor, as W.
have said before, thus stay one OF Its legiim ate
lrgi In the southern Sstes where slavery hon,e
boodshed is equent circumstance ia attempts at recap
la bringing the fact SOIL II is
that It's most hond accessories should come with L. Bu
Tor slavery things would be but the fugitive
save law, they would not be IN The ee States"
We ask the attention Of all lovers OF law and order
all good citizens who venerae the constitution, and who
depecate violent resistance to laws passed in conformity
TO ito ponder upon these reasonable declarations
Observe lie positions OF this lncendlary print:
The wonder is that tle resistance has been made
10 the execution OF the law"
1--WE cannot hold The negroes guilty of murder"
3" lhey acted under a law august and dylne-the law
oil Naure"
No statute ran abrogate the first and manifest instinct
OF mans nature Tor that's the higher law"
" In the eye of impartial and unsopbiscated justice
they were AUTHORIZED 10 resist The iap."
This etrdy is Of the legitimate fr1its of the law Z"
In all the raat and violence OF mad and evil phloso-
phyall the Jargon OF school of empires which, wiser
and better than It's age sets itself above all obligation,
statutory moral, and AIMS at notorety mischief
through means at which all good citizens revolt-we
have seen nothing which surpasses this exhibition OF the
Tribune. II is bold and shameless an invocation 10
disregard the laws, TO resist them by violence 10 shoot
down those who legally charged with their execu
ton, 10 commit crime, and to involve its perpetrators in
Its conseq all this under the sace ,ous guse
OF an august and DUNE" inspiration OF "the first and
manifest instinct OF mans !-as has been exhibited
IN an age when political imposture, socialism and
frantic or calculating fanaticism, make open declaration
under the shadow OF the "hgher-law" manifestation, oil
Dau designs IN the WOrstmanner. III would Afford
relief to this dark picture, # il could be supposed be
mistake hallucinaton, folly an idosyncrasy but
no enc doubts that II is deliberate and calculating def
ance OF all the obligations OF law and duty which form
the bond OF civilized society.
Hateful as these exhibitions are-surely and speedily
as would infct upon the black and white m1rderes
and their accessories complete and condgn punishment
they ought to be regarded less criminal in the OF
the law, and by every consideration OF just morality,
than those who, IN daily manifestations, instgate them
10 not, resistance OF the law, and assassination Theu
the real perpetrators they the real of the
negro and bis They, standing at dstance-aIool
from harm, and careful not TO bring themselves within
the vortex of the awuge their ns ruments on TO deeds
OF violence, and 10 atrocities that bring them TO conse.
quences from which no higher law" nor any false
philosophy incendary provocaves Of their instgators
can rescue them
II il should be SAID view OF the course OF the Trb
that the wonder is that the laboratory from whence
II issues were not demolished and its pestent sheets
scattered to the wind ramped under foot by an indg
nan community how Justify would ts editor and his
workers incendlarsm denounce such morality and such
regard for the law How feelingy would it declam
against that higher law" which might lmpe an indig
nan people to iniict summary justice upon the real
authors and omenles Of these OF murder and
rage, and who seek to paliale them when the legit-
mate fruits OF their neiarous teachings al Lancaster
else wheIe become intoerabe
The New York Tribune i a leading wing journal. 1t
is organ of that party We will not do all those who
claim the appeatlon oil wings the injustice TO believe
that IN the PRONUNCIATION oil such sentiments and in its
abors OF violence and outrage, It has their sanction
acquiescence. But not its and efforts the ole
guaie fruits" OF the creed and action of that party III
not ITS dctum is not It's doctrine Of violent resistance 10
the law natural result ot the higher law 7" and do they
not party stand upon ground in this State and in all
the northern States, which affords the Tribune its ali
men and encouragement, and the OF af alton
and approval
I AMARTIvE's History of the Restoration OF Mon