The republic., 1851-04-15

tally defeated-the compact i broken"
The Disunionists are hard to please; but
nothing is calculated to give them less pleasure
than the fact that the Fugitive Slave law has
been executed in the city Of Boston, and that
SIMS has been surrendered to his master 1t
disturbs the arguments of notification. 1t
shows that law may be enforced where 1t is
unpopular, and opposed Gf you please) to the
sentiments or preudces OF the people. II
shows that the Federal Government is compe
tent to maintain its own power and dignity;
and that the laws which have been upheld in
Massachusetts may also be upheld in South
Carolina. All this is at war with the theories
of the Disunionists. Mr.. RHErT and his asso-
ciates have pretended to think that any law
may be successfully resisted to which a snlal
portion Of the people of State entertain re-
pugnance. They have discovered their mis-
take.
which governed the time and manner Of SIMs's
removal from the court house to the brig Acorn.
We are entirely confident, however, that the
proceeding was in no wise affected by the con-
siderations alleged in the above paragraphs
from the Press. Knowing the temper and feel
ing of the citizens of Boston, we know that
her '.people" and her "mob" were resolved
upon sustaining the authorities and executing
the laws; and that it would have been easier
to stimulate riot to expel the abolition incen-
diaries from the fremont Temple, and infict
summary punishment upon their ringleaders,
than to mise even popular tumult over the
surrender of the fugitive. They are entirely
mistaken who imagine that any considerable
portion of the people of Boston have manifest
ed any other interest in this affair than that
which originates in determination to carry
out the law. A few sympathizing old wo-
men, one OF two half crazy clergymen, here and
there amateur lawyers, to whom an appearance
at a judges chambers was novelty and luxu-
ry-with score of bankrupt politicians, made
up the staple Of the assemblages which have
recently sought to overawe the administration
Of justice in Boston. These people made all
the clatter and clamor that were trumpeted
through mischievous and desperate Abolition
journal of that city, to be caught up and re-
echoed by the Abolition and Disunion presses
Of other quarters.
We have no doubt that in the State of Mas
sachusetts there is unrefecting and blind
hostility to that constitutional provision which
contemplates the surrender Of fugitives from
labor. We have no doubt that in some quar-
tiers of the State it would readily break out into
violence and excess. This, we think, has been
demonstrated in that portion of the Common
wealth which has returned such pestilent re-
preventative as CHARLES ALLEN to Congress.
But this hostility has been, to great extent,
fashioned and stimulated by trading polti-
clans, solely for personal ends and objects.
They are in the excitement for good or evil.
They consider their advancement involved in it.
They have staked their fortunes on it, They
are ruined and bankrupt utterly if it dies
out. Therefore it is, and only therefore, that
we should apprehend any danger from the
sentiment to which we have alluded in any
quarter Of Massachusetts,. In the city OF Bos-
ton, however, all this is different The class
Of politicians in question is inconsiderable in
numbers and power. The press of both sides
is conservative, with one or two exceptions.
Public sentiment il conservative. The citi-
zens of Boston understand that bargain is
bargain, and are willing TO abide by the cove
nants into which they have entered. They do
not regard it as sufficient reason for violating
the law and the Constitution, that they "love
liberty better than bondage" This was
| equally their sentiment when they entered into
the compact. Under the Constitution they
have SO far waived their love of liberty as to
covenant for the surrender of fugitives from
labor; and they have done this with their eyes
open, on full deliberation, and with perfect
understanding of all the responsibilities they
have thus assumed. They will execute the
constitutional provision, in this regard, in spite
Of the rawlings Of fanaticism and the menaces
of sedition and conspiracy.
From the argument of the Press, one would
suppose that SIMS had eluded arrest, had
availed himself benefcially of legal pettifog-
ging, or had been rescued before OF after trial,
end that therefore the constitutional compact is
broken. Now, SINS did not elude arrest, did
not profit by any delays or impedments of the
law, and was not rescued, and could not have
been rescued at any expense Of life. The "peo-
pie" and the "mob' of Boston would have en-
forced the execution of the law, if the ''thou-
sands" of sympathizers invoked to rush with
arms to the rescue had obeyed the mad invita-
ton of the ruffians and incendiaries of fremont
Temple. This is the only story that SIMS will
have to tell to the Disunionists on his return to
Georgia; and we apprehend that they will be
more disappointed by it than even his colored
associates.
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