Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-03-01


will nd impossible by their mere ererou OF power TO carry
INTO enect TINS article Of the constitution and the law referred
70 ne purpose force it, they call the
posse con'"dlus The very highest power which sheriff
mas Is IN vain for them federal agencies
as ana mpotent means TO perform the duties OF their
Offices Why you attempting by auxiliary egisla-
ton TO do what To breathe life into an extinct article Of
the Constitution Of the United States You supply
rom ume 70 m from session to session. acts OF Legislation
70 compel people who opposed the constitution to OBJ
serve Ito resort the army and navy 10 military force
compel czens TO do the duty which honor honesty, JUSTICE
and good faith had previously imposed upon them per-
ecy VAIN mas been said in consequence OF the SEN
tmen which obtains in some of the Northern States and
especially in Massachusetts, with the limited number of Off
GERS and the limited power which they the
munity to enforce this article of the constitution Sir they
are reconciied by casuisty violated they
rec0nced TO by the pulpit they reconced to by de-
signing Pohcians and so long the question OF slavery
forms an element OF political sgtaon You might well at
tempt to hush the winds by saying to them "cease." As
said the other days you might we'll expect to keep
nsc quiet BY singing luabes undertake in this way
compel reluctant people to do their duty.
i has been said that this law has been executed in good
faith Allow me to make remark this connexion, and
! repeat i from what said by member Of the other
house Fifteen thousand slaves have escaped and in the
free states How many of them reclaimed under this
any other law would just as soon have the law Of 1898
% the present law for purpose far regards the
csmaton Of fugitive slaves. said when this law was
under discussion The Senator from Kentucky has alluded
W
ton to Indiana Why, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, and
Of the other States have the conclusions while
protesting philanthropy at BREATH to exclude these
pie from their borders. cast their policy.
Their policy keep all coored people, bond Free
It matter of policy that they have consulted than
thing eise They have avowed to be their policy that
they will allow black enter their borders hereafter
and The time will when every black who has
capd from bis master into the State of Ohio will be
pelN, not for any thing like regard for the black mar,
but lom policy. and policy which is likely to be
INTRODUCED into California These persons would have been
to have been left slaves than to have been educed
philanthopc advertisement that they will be free.
Theybave been in the nominal position Of fremen only to
be cruAed, degraded, and excluded from employment
spesk Of the in Boston mob Of negroes.
Gentlelen may speak Of it they please, but is symptom
thus fa that they will take the part Of the fugitive slaves
long ashley can, not with view protect them ultimately
when ny Free but to exclude them from employment
This verac in Boston whave been communicated Through
here through speeches such have been
deiveredV the honorable Senator from New Hampshire,
which h excused the ac to every Southern State in this
Union Vby, gentlemen absolutely holding spark
powder magazine. | do not know that they sue
coed in exiting the slaves Of the South to instruction,
but it will dssatisfy them, and the becom-
ing every 10y dissatisfied with their condition al
though it absolutely certain that their condition will
be worse oder the system Of policy and miserable philan
hropy wh& has been preached and pacticed in Of
the free Sttes-nfney worse. | am the friend Of the
black compared with Them and he is hypocfite who
undertakes preach in favor Of degraded when in fact
he takes of them than would do not know how
far this law operate but will say that if slave Of mine
escaped wod not go through any course Of litigation to
reclaim him sand if be had escaped former time and
CURED stas, would let him stay than disturb
him So far regards the free people of color who have
gont to the Nrlh the of them would be glad
back know it. because have had experience the
sues was the myself of sending some fifteen to
Ohio and think they would be glad to come back
Tn consequences Of such this in Boston is not
me to the particular act ITSELF but its consequences
now rvadng this community and creating disturbance and
dlssatacton among these poor degraded creatures which
gentleen cannot My friend from Virginia has
very popery said that when the States will not execute this
law, tht when the people the Commonwealth Of Massachu
sets to it. is perfectly vain rely upon Federal
Legislation supply what the constitution imposed upon them
as dut, will give up that it duty imposed
on the pope of the States themselves TO surrender ugves
from abG Never it expected that should have te
to he army, to the navy to the militia, and to pro-
csmaton to supply this piece Of Legislation and that pecs
Of legislation and preach to the country that the law will b
fxacged fsay il lint preaching say tnrre WIN DC ba
very few in which yuu reclaim slave, for TIL
reson that you detect where he u.s. because person
in The free States will conceal him, will throw all impeachment
10 the way his apprehension and after his apprehension
you have to go through of litigation to reclaim thu
property which the constitution required the States themselves
deliver up The Of the property, seems is e
depend on the physical arm of this Government The
army and the navy to be invoked to enforce an ar
cle Of the constitution, because runaway slave has gone
Boston, Now, what the situation of this Government when
negro can produce such of things such dis
cussons as this and can make such issues is symptom
Of the times and just certain as am speaking, the notion
which the abolonss intoxicating is increasing, and the
power coming down upon the Southern States with the
certainty Of descending We may for while be still
long the persons interested make the arrest
may sleep for while the apprehension and the hope but
1t is deusve hope He who looks further than the pre-
sent into this question chooses disguise from himself that
we are walking upon prcpce These dangerous people
have acquired powerful control the public mind in the
non-slaveholdng States In respects they have ac-
the balance of power and many of them aspire to the
highest hono of the country and attain them Am to be told
ia the face OF all this that institutions are safe do not
lieye word Of it, And should not have been true to my
position here had not proclaimed my convictions on this
subject. ,
As regards this matter of recovering ugves, would say
in Justice to Pennsylvania that believe she the sounde
81 ali the -avcholdng States this subject except The
Northwesern States believe This law has never beer
tested in the interior Of New York. and other nonslavehod
ing States has been enforced in the city Of New York
and there was reason for that The city had intimate
intercourse with the South and il their interest to pre-
serve friendly and commercial relations with it. AS have
said is not this case but you sowing the seeds
dissatisfaction and of danger among the blacks DO not say
that il will become very formidable that the dangers are
likely to any great influence, but is poverba among
our every day and every year the
Of these poor is becoming more and more dcu
! Il is notorious in my own State.
We saw the Federal bound to protect ant
we say ncenday pamphlets ought not 10 be disseminated
| WIN the speech Of the Senator from New Hampshire
an incenday pamphlet and publish it at our own ex
pense and il goes all the country, and will be read b.
your authority. You may 60 through the Northern State
and YOU will find thousands who applaud his sentiments
while there will be scarcely hundred who will sustain
the honorable Senator from Kentucky in denouncing him
DO no, say that that the in all communities wis
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