The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-21
The Proclamation.

We said yesterday that the Presidents Pro-
ciamation would serve as sop for the Southern
submis sionists-and subserve that purpose, if no
other. We had little idea, at that time, that the
same declaration would have been made stimuli
taneously by the Northern organs of the Com
promise, as an apology for the President. The
New York Commercial Advertiser, one of the
most subtle supporters of the Compromise, the
Administration, and Governor HUNT and Mr.. FISH
partly flesh and partly fish, but staunch to
the party and the spoils, speaks thus: Hear its
exposition of the "one good effect"-"the prin-
cpal design" of this proclamation.
The issuing of the proclamation will hare one
good efect,-rchich zoe cannot but think must haze
been its principal design--that of giring the
South assurance thai President Fillmore, North
ern man as he is, and his cabinet, wih North
ern man at its head, ,cU enforce The lap al al!
risks in every Slate of the Union !; and perhaps,
too, it is well that the opportu ity of publicly
manifesting such purpose has occurred before
honorable senators and members have returned
TO daily intercourse Uih their constituents. And
though we cannot think such document was
needed to overawe a court room full of coored
@
ence upon certain senators and members who,
in a momentary and spasmodic resusctation,
have sought to disturb the peace that was so evil
IDENTIFY and so happily spreading over the corn-
try In its local application we sincerely hope
the proclamation will have its due efect-that is to
say, that if there were other white men partici-
pating in the Boston disturbance than the two
already arrested-if any officer Of the city or of
the United States failed in bis duty-that he or
they, jointly with the colored men who actually
rescued the prisoner, will be actually brought to
merited punishment. Let the Executive and the
law be maintained, whoever goes to the wall.
These gentry seem to believe that the guilt
bity Of the South, like the treachery of the
North, is boundless-and that every gull-trap
however clumsy, will serve their purposes
An evidence of the real feeling existing, not
only in Boston but throughout the State of
Massachusetts, is furnished by the following
paragraph taken from the Worcester Spy Af
ter stating that the fugitive Shadrach was prob
ably safe in the British dominions, as he had
been heard of 100 miles from Boston, makes
the following cool statement:
On Saturday. as his rescuers were passing the
NeVeEC mousse, WUcIt tlt hScut VI TIE
was supposed to stop, they halted and gave
three cheers for his escape, three cheers for
Garrison and three for a person in the company
who had given efficient aid. He was taken to
a house in Cambridge street, and kept there till
midnight, and then removed from the city, His
place of concealment was extensively known in
the city, but no attempt was made to arrest him.
Senator JOHN DAVIS, of Massachusetts, in his
place in the Senate, made declarations substan-
TALLY TO the same effect, concerning the feeling
in New England which were confirmed by Mr..
HAMLIs, of Maine, in voice audible throughout
the chamber.
And yet partizan presses have the effrontery
to pirate about the injustice of making the
people Of New England responsible for the acts
of ga few fanatics ard negroes"