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patriotism and good sense of the people of Mas
sachusetts, we might feel some alarm at the
bill noticed in the following article. As it is,
we think events will show that it is only the
insane ebullition of small faction in the Bay
State, whose fanaticism, though noisy and VIC
lent in the extreme, is perfectly harmless.
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
Nullihcation proposed I'm tho Massachusetts
Legislature.
In the Senate of this State, on Friday, MIR. Buck
ingham, in the name of joint special committee,
introduced bill for bringing the judicial authori-
ties of Massachusetts into conflict with those of the
United States. 1t il, VIC believe, measure the
most factious and disorganzing in its character Of
any which has ever been introduced by the sane
ton of committee into the Legislature of this
State 1t is of the character of Mr.. Colver's
ton passed in Faneuil Hall-"Consttution
Constitution-law aw-we will not allow
fugitive slave TO be taken from Massachusetts"
The bill ia entitled can act in addition to an act
further to protect personal liberty" It would be
easy to show that the sole purpose of the proposed
act is to prohibit, by penalty Of fine and imprson
ment, the execution of provision Of the Constitu-
ton Of the United States, when attempted in the
forms and by the process authorized and prescribed
by an act of Congress. 1t contains no provision
whatever for the protection of personal liberty in
any case, or in any mode other than by rendering
nugatory the provisions and objects Of the law Of
the United States to which it refers. II cannot be
denied, therefore, that it is proposed for
the express purpose of bringing the judicial autho
rites Of tho State into collision with those of the
United States, by encouraging a resistance to an
act OF Congress upon matter in which the juris-
diction OF the latter is unquestionabe inasmuch
that jurisdiction is conferred by the Constitution in
the most explicit terms The title of the BILL to be
descriptive OF its object and of the sole intent of it's
movers. should be "to prohibit, by fine or imprison
mcnt the execution of Of the Congress of the
United States for carrying into effect the second
section Of the fourth article of the Constitution of
the United States"
The object of the bill. although intimation of
it is given by its title. Is obvious that of
the of South Carolina in 1884, TO carry into eff
feet ordinance of the State convention ''to null
lily certain acts of the Congress OF the United
States" The bill does not propose, did one Of
the acts Of the State of South Carolina on that
casion, to authorize the Governor to call out the
militia to resist the execution of the United States
law, but it proposes to do what s intended pro-
duce the same effect-namely, by prohibiting any
officer or other member of the volunteer militia of
the Commonwealth from serving on any requisiton
Of the United States marshal, for enforcing the ex-
ecution Of the Law, under heavy penalty, and
thereby interfering with the authority of the Presi
dent of the United States, TO command the services
of the militia when called into the service Of the
United States. II also forbids any corps Of such
militia serving a requistion for the execution Of
the law, on penalty Of being disbanded.
There other provisions Of the bill. which it is
unnecessary to specify, designed exclusively AZ AZ
tording the means Of resistance of the law Of the