The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-08
ON the Washington Union.

From the Washington Union
The FuUitfve Slave case and Murder at
Christtana, Pennsylvania.
Our readers will Ind in our columns the
articulsrs Of a horrible tragedy, as stated in
he Baltimore Ciippcr. 1t is the natural fruit
+ the spirit of fanaticism which has been cher
shed for politic:l ends by such politicians as
Gov. Johnson-,he mian put forward by the
Wings of Pennsylvania, merely because ne has
,ot SCRUBBED 10 lend himself 10 the Abolition
SIS. and who has stimulated his followers 10 re-
list the execution Of the law providing for the
.ecoyerv of t1ritives from labor tbs man I
holds in his pocket the law which, would havel
enabled the Marshal, IN such case as tins, to /
have pnt the runaway negroes in jad;'bD', un-
der the prptcnce Of love Of belty and Of that |
hiqher-law philanthropy taught by Seward OF
New York, s,ats at dcfi1nce the tnlunctIons
of the constitution, and commits crime i'm
greater than the foreign invader
does when lie comes AMONGST US nssaling bo-
iily our institutions United as ur people al
WAYS will be against the foreign invader, his
assaults are impotent, and recol only on his
own head But such an enemy as Governor
Johnston, located in the interior of our system is
like the worm in the heart of the noble oak
which the storms Of hundreds of years could
not uproot, but which finally breaks, perforated
by the unseen consul ner Of its strength. 1t the
LOGIC on which Governor Johnston relies to re-
fuse the State jaiis and the State authority to
the service of the STAKEHOLDER, in the recovery
of his properly, be upheld by the people o!
Pennsy lvania, the people Of the South will be
without defence against the Vaccinations of the
Aboitionists the provision ot' the constitution
declaring that the fugitive from service shall b..
delivered up, on claim Of lle party 10 whom
such service IS due, viii be dead letter; aud
I, e{1 a5s hfit -,
fall blck On tn great principles Of self defence,
which autAorize individuals and nniiuns 10 pro-
tcct their inalienahle rights.
But whE shall we expires surprise a The sue
cess Of Gov johnston in arrayjny n" seas less
victims of his ambition against the sacred
QUESTIONS OF the law and The constitution
Gould it be expected that the eminent leaders
Of the Wing party should have been employed
for years in stimulating the spirit of abolition
and higher id1rism without producing practical
opposition to the laws? 1t would be as reason
able to suppose tn It the trees will cease to bear
their appropriate fruits as that the missionaries
who preach interference with the sacred obi
CATIONS of duty and law should not produce ac-
tual violations of those obligations.
II was no longer ago than the 18th of Febru
airy, ls4s, that the present Postmaster eneral
introduced the following resolution into the
Congress of the United States:
" Resolred, That the Committee on the Ju-
dietary be, and they are hereby directed to re-
port to this House, with all convenient speed, a
blll repeating all laws of Congress, and abrocat-
ing, as far as they are operative or in force in
the District Of Columbia, all laws Of the State
Of Maryland which authorize or require The
courts, officers, or magistrates Q! The Uptca
States, or of the SAID district withjn the Dislac
Of Coluabia, h issue process fat the arrest, .,
iisl ,if Il at
away or other slave or fuGit We ffom service, OF
cqi"red person clp.msG as such, exc pl on dus
Complaint and proof Of, or a conviction '"r
some or me or inisdemelnpr, the comun's sinn 81
which by any free white person would author
re in taa same manner the arrest, com.nit
lncnt, and detention of such white person
in Lke-.srrrrr charged with convicted
thereof. s-...e.r Is
This resolution was preceded by a solemn
declaration, that lurbiddng the jalls of tbs
United Suites TO the use Of the marshas in ar
resting and combining the fugiiives from ser
vice, in conformity to existing laws, was moi
| inconsistent with the duty of Congress, anc
ought to be done, because the practice was re-
pugnant to the feelings of majority OF the
people of the United States.
AT. not the outrages recently committed the
natural result of Mr.. Halls assertion that Con
gress had the right to set the negroes free II
the District of Columbia for that is the plan
English Of the resolution we have quoted ant
can the Aboitionists of Pennsylvania be bames
| for carrying out the doctrine that Congress al'
the States should interpret a~o"lnpact Oh th'
constitution in snchsa manner as 10 spare TN
4 c..Ji,as~of~ tie tender hearted Fred. Douglas
hand his British allies If you remonstrat
with one Of these hlgher-jaa3 gentry, he turn
round with seorn, and points you to the Presl
dent md his cabinet, who entertain, or did en-
4 tertain, as late as February, l@43, The sam
In0nstrou5 doctrines that are now enforced wIt
the scytheS and guns Of the lnturiated mob !
Chester. Where is the evidence that Mr.. Hal
the present Postmaster General, is not nov a
active as he was in lSi5 in urging the Adolf
tonsts to battle and murder? for such is th
inevitable effect ofhi doctrine that the constitu
ftional power of the Federal Government ougt
not to arrest tao black man, when a fugitive
unless he has committed some crime whlc
| would arrest the white man, and that the jail
iof the United States and of the State ough
not to be used for the confinement Of the slave
unless they have committed some crime whic
would atithorise the confinement of whit
man under the same circumstances Where
the evidence that Mr.. Corwin is not still cour
terac.ing the moral influence of the comprr
mise, by telling the Free Solers that he an
the President are as unchanged as ever in thei
determination to stand by the negro iathe
would by his children' II is easy to persuad
these fanatics that the oath of the Presidaf
and his cabinet 10 execute the laws is only q
cath which does not interfere with he right
the anf-savery men to mllntain their prEanzI
ton, and to ohstrdct the operation 81 the law
) by the thousand subtertpges which tn" techn
cat io-ns Of the law perlnit-parttcularly whr
those forms in the States are to b. placed IN III
, bands of such good friends Governor John
ston, Governor Vinton, Governor Hunt, an
Governor WIntiro,, all If whom are in he cor
iidence of The President and his cabinet, an
well know how to cherish and direct that uni
applied sentiment which, in the language
Mr. Webster, is to Civ. the largest liberty
The people of all countries and Of all colors-
white, yellow, and black. aa
i Fortunate, indeed, II Is for our country III;
The period is near when the people of our Ian
can put INTO all the departments Of their powe
in both the national and State government
: nen who are not soled and contaminated
such vicious and corrupting doctrines as thos
= which have made anti-slavery political elt
ment of power 1t is this element which vii
! ates Whiggery as party and it can never
. eradicated from our system as long as the me
/ il has placed in power remain there. Their el.
va,ion was fatal symptom. which no fairwe;
Their treatment can relieve. Their influence
obi ed, by law of its nature, to act throug
the media by whiel it acquired ascendancy.
: came up through Aboltlonisn and anti-slaver,
, ism, and il must 90 down through them Il,
, fircted through that medium. their nadeuC
viii ever shed a disastrous light upon the trr
principles of our constitution. Out Of that il
5 iiuencp Gi!pl,inia'h, Garduerism Christian
r nurd"rs, and Cnba pr"elamai,ons vii come,
, despite even # conscientious III ,rts the pa
| ii The President Ia stop them They come
Inevitably out Of the present organiz itl"n
r iVhiggery as yermin d. from the material bod
, when in the course of dissolution
Fortunate, we say, it is that he people CT
iapply the remedy before il is too late to pr
vent the disruption of our Union; and tn
Pennsylvania, re -echoiny the voice which come
to US from Mississippi and oil the South, vi
say to Gov Johnston that the executive pow
Of the keystone Of our Federal Arch will !
longer be used TO uphold the Abolitonists
their schemes Of disunion-a voice which is a
ready taken up by the whole Democratic part
and will not, we trust, die away until the d"
trines of Washington, Jefferson, and Jacks'
are aOa,n restoreH md har and peace on,