The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-03-21

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The publc were Yesterday treated 10 dne specimen
~ ..ss,t en- and tts wool got up by o. the hall
crazy abolionists OF this eity-wbether io theAoWh
amusement or with The hope OF breedigs dlsainace,
we cannot say but the only result OF Was 10 ifgh,eh
,hs nso,le al New Bediod. and show thai some loikr
are very easl ~ made fools OF The substance OF me al
fair was follows; Two individuals UNDERSTOOD 70 pe
long To the Commouw eah newspaper started rom ibis
city on mai may be called "negro-panc ekpeduyn
They made rapid Journey TO New Bedford where usrS
arrived early on Sunday morning lhey we"' pn nns
daiey as we are informed, the house oil hr hoansy
French and told him the following Tousng story M
Patrick Riley, the United States deputy marshal hau
chartered steamboat al the navy yard IN Chafiesowh
put a hundred armed board, and de+pa chei hef
to New Beiiord--or somewhere eise-'o NUM- io' ius
tive slaves o.,
There was not one word of truth in the story. Bal
Mr. Rodney French being man OF profound wisdom.
ne yer thought TO ask whether Il was true OF mol ne
slraghiway TO place called Liberty tiali rang us
harm bell and threw the whole town into CONSERVATION
The rest we describe in the language OF those VINO
got up the whole affair The Commonwealth oil yes'ef-
day says:
..The be on Liberty Hall wa. n,oed lately tolled, and
contmu, 10 sound the about honr The peo-
ole uraed out hat the mater The news wa
brd AZ Liberty Hail. and solved pou b,
tween SIX aud seven hundred coioIed en- Nens' many ~
whom are fugitves and determined to stand by
one another and live die together The colored c1sn,
abandoned ieir separate places OF Horrhp and
IN body berry Hall this was done a, the recommend
aon OF most wealthy AID influential ciuzens
Al the opening Of the meeting IN The forenoon nonney
FRENCH esq announced that what The citizens OF view
Bedford had been lear oil Tor some tine past nag
now almost become TACT NO longer ago man i 9
poininent Boston. He purchased il by a pledge Ihs'
be could and would iest iog'use slave IN ms cry II
Mr. French told audience tue about tho
the excitement great The i'm preston
here is intended TO remain IN The onte
bay, TO be used by the new deputy marshal VINO Pho
OF prison ship, there being Other means OF ho'u
inp prisoner The name Of the oilicer is Bill Rus
SELL said 10 be tool for any desperate WORK ne hoe
and reading been visited by hundreds duTnl
The day. who are anxious to learn something oi 'ne par
uculars.
The New Bedford Mercury OF yesterday shows tina
journal to have got sssucked in up to the thin
impuden, hoax It's EXPLANATIONS OF too lud
Tor mortal gravity TO Withstand But there IS one
little sly bit Of cool calculation mixed up with all lh
fright which cannot resist the temptation 10 copy
Alter deplong with all sort sol dismal eoqaence the sal
fate OF the blacks OF New Bedford. now exposed TO al
invasion from Mr.. Patrick Riley in steamboat, th'
Mercury suddenly finds comfort for them IN happ.
suggestion, thus Those who single cannot d.
better than 10 engage in whaling!'
Would not any bet odds that the writer oil this ha
something 10 do with the whale fishery himself ~
oraons OF Demosthenes were saldio smell OF oi oei
tainy the philanthropy of the New Bedford gentleman
smacks strongly OF blubber
The Mercury attempts to keep up stout heart amids
its lrepdaons, and declares that The fugitive slave
law canno, be orcbIy resisted, yet the New bedior'
people will contrive 10 defeat II somehow We know
. not how otherwise TO interpret the following rahe
obscure passage "A physical force IS TO be deprecated
but whatever straagem energy and law eau DO VIII b
done"
Now, when people are laboring under unsettled
OF the brains that they jump out OF bed at 81
O'Clock cold Sunday morning, ring The alarm bell
and keep whole tow in all day long, be
cause they hear cock and bull story from crazy aboli
| ton ne wspsper office, really think the people whit
have been so netfabIy gulet ought 10 try whateve
s,raagem and energy do" to put little common
sense into their own heads before they waste any NOR
of their eioquence upon great political questions.
One word more respecting this despcabe trek. In
Common ealh, knowing that the whole would be ex
posed within twenty -four hours, prepared for II IN tn
following style:
1.-THE bunker papers will doubtless gay that none wa
ken and that The hundreds of iugitives New
Bedford have been needle sy in state OF distress
the naughty aboiuo lists
Cool enough But if the trick is played many time
more will it no, be likely TO damage the professions
reputation" of that print for getting up negro panics