Worcester daily spy., 1851-03-27
The secretarys Dispatch to the Mayor Of
Boston.


one of those tricks Of State which seek to palm
off shallow cunning by an air of solemn grav-
ity. Flattery, coaxiug, and sanctimonious
cant constitute the staple of that vast State
paper which the Common Council of Boston
have deemed so important to order 500
copies TO be printed for the special edficaton
of 10000 inhabitants
The whole letter of the Secretary-intendcd
to conceal what is deepest felt, and to make a
show of what is least cared for-betrays the
uneasiness of its authors position the disap-
pointment of an infatuated hope, and an anx-
iety such as naturally haunts a traitor to the
cause of freedom and humanity. That letter
when duly pondered, is both proof and an
admoniton that no intellect is great enough TO
protect false heart, and that no elevation TO
power is high enough to make it safe for its
occupants first to betray, and then to insult
freedom in Ler favortc abode.
Every step the Secretary takes, whether
private or official, is blunder, as every one
must be, ill he steps out of public life into
his political grave, so surely and gnominious-
ly dug by his own hand. His folly, which al
the first was u matter of corrupt choice,
thenceforth became matter of sheer neces-
sity; aud he can now no more do without it,
than a man Of upright P, incipes can do with
out wisdom. His ambition, which, like the
eagle, should have scared high in the purest
atmosphere, has stopped to the base contest oil
championship in behalf of that foul bargain
which, under the name of Compromise" sold
free territory TO Slavedom, and took its pay in
the infamy of continental slave catching
Having staked all his hopes on that die, he
feels that he has now no alternative but TO
cling TO vicious consistency, which every
day drags him further and sinks him deeper
into both moral and political mire. Having
consented to become the Lord North of more
abominable tyranny than that which shut up
the port of Boston ia IVA, his position is like
that of the head of the British Ministry, OF
whom Lord Chatham said, They have
brought themselves where ordinary inability
never arrives, and nothing but first rate geni-
uses in incapacily can Ieach-a situation
wherein there is nothing they can do which
is not fault. They have wantonly called up
conflict of high and sacred jurisdiction"
We shall barely glance at that aspect of the
Secretary's letter to Mayor Bigelow, which
presents the head of the national cabinet as a
public prosecutor, opening, in his high official
capacity, the rescue cases for trial before the
District Court now sitting in Boston. How
heart full, how intense his love of justice! The
Secretary, in his painful solicitude for convic.
tions, could not trust even his well-beloved
''young Mr.. Lunt," whose fidelity to the cause
of slavery has been ripening for a score Of
years, and is now ruddy in the warm rays Of
Southern sunshine The "godlike," in his
impetuous love of justice, must needs rush
forward in his official strength, transgressng
all common rules OF legal decorum, to anlici-
pate "young Mr.. Lunt's" too arduous duties,
sezing the very time when he knew the iuries
Of inquest and trial were about to assemble,
10 impress them with the anxiety felt at Wash
ington for the conviction and punishment of a
handful Of men who did but initiate the hero
ism of better days, in rescuing fellow free
man from the most atrocious slavery! What
could be more out of place, at such time,
than such letter from the Secretary of State
TO the Mayor of Boston. to be opened before
the authorities Of the city, and published TO its
citizens, and to the assembled court and juries,
while those very cases were the immediate
matters Of Judicial inquiry
We pass over the Secretary's haitery and
coaxing in the name of President Fillmore
merely remarking that if, instead Of a Webster.
ian contriyonce, it had been wholly the small
cunning of the President, the hook is quite
too naked to be swallowed for its gliding and
that, even fethe great majority of the citizens
Of Boston, so coaxingly bepraised by the
Secretary, should be enticed by his blandsh-
ments from the old fashioned love Of liberty
which gave to that city, among all nations, its
highest glory and its brightest renown, the
great majority of the people of Massachusetts,
are too quicksighted, and too deeply rooted
in their attachment TO freedom, not to hold in
Just contempt those canting establishments
and their purblnd author.
The Secretary, as If quailing under the re-
action Of his pronuocianen1o Of February l5il
ia the name Of Mr. fillmore, bstrnys his ankle
tyto sootlseihe ndigneat:feeling so justly excl