Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-10-02
The Christiana ARRAY.

The Boston Courier, whose editor seems to
have been taught moral philosophy by some
more than ordinary obdurate Thug, attributes
the late fatal ARRAY near Lancaster Pa, to the
higher law. He does not attribute the death
of Gorsuch and his son to their inhuman attempt
to possess themselves, by force of arms, of the
bodies of men better in all respects than them
selves, or to the natural tendency to defend
themselves, their life and liberty, which all men
possess. 1t was not an unnatural aggression
upon eternal rights sanctioned by Congress, and
resisted by men of the race of .AttltckS. first
martyr of our Revolution that caused the death
of Gorsuch and the youth he had bred slave
holder 1t was 10 none of these causes that this
awful incident in the history of kidnapping was
attributable, says the honest Boston Courier
1t was to the Higher Law We are not sur
prised that the Courier should pursue this strain
of indictment; but that it should be believed. is
only possible where editors like him of the Bos-
ton Courier have any influence over the popular
mind. 1t was on account of the reactive forces
produced by the execution OF an edict so cold
blqeasd,so Inhuman and SO atrocious that we
oelieVe satan himself would blush to claim the
paternity Of it, that this fatal ARRAY took place.
ana we are not surprised at it. Our wonder is,
that more of them have not resulted from at
tempts to reduce our colored brethren to a con-
dltlon, to which, we solemnIy aver, no power
under heaven would passively drag US. 1t is
ordained, in the providence of God, that retribu-
ton shall come upon the tyrant, and that the
cruel laws of the despot shall come to naught
1t is higher law that sanguinary edicts can
not be executed without bloody instruments and
fatal issues. We could prove this by the crimi-
nal history Of all nations for it is an inevitable
consequence, sprngng from the eternal founda-
tons of human nature, and not local or legal
accident. If the Boston Courier means that the
deaths of Gorsuch and his son were negatively
in accordance with the higher law we believe
it. But when he positively attributes those
deaths to the instigatons of men who believe
that God governs the world Independent Of
Daniel Webster or Benjamin F. Hallett, he
states what is false, and what he knows to be So
Gorsuch and his son came with an armed band
of men, to seize upon peaceful, unoffending citl-
zens of Pennsylvania ; and in accordance with
the prophetic warnings of Scripture, 'they per.
J shed with the sword They died by the wea-
pons with which they sought to STAY their breth.
rem. They did not come to arrest alleged
slaves, depending on the law as their only in.
strument and protection. They came with
rifles and sabres to execute an edict more cruel
than even swords or rifles, and the result we
have seen. The attempt of the Boston Courier
10 throw the responsibility of this fatal combat
upon men who did all they could to prevent the
passage OF the abominable law which was the
immediate root OF it, is as mean as 1t is coward
y and false; and only shows that the Wings
shrink from sustaining the legitimate effects o.
their own acts.
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II sets at defiance all the rights of man, and all
the obligations that he may contract in society
1t drags him from home, wife and children, ir
defiance of liberty, humanity and Christianity
and at the same time, its authors drag liberty
humanity and Christianity forward in support o.
its action. This law must be repealed 1t is
pregnant with death, desolation and anarchy
. Force of arms cannot facilitate its execution
the force of general conviction of its Justice
is alone able to render any law efficient. W.
: emphatically Charge the deaths of the GoFsuch,
}, to Daniel Webster, Willard Fillmore, the Boston
e Courier, and the bunker Wings of the North -
They charged the instruments of death in the
form of the Fugitive Slave Law; they, of al
men, should be silent when the bloody fruits n
their legislation cumber our streets. We hone
the people, who are always right in their SENT
e ments, however much mistaken they NAV some
8 times be in their opinions, will remember the
authors Of this cruel, bloody and atrocious law
and will give to them their reward by forcing
them soon 10 behold its unconditional repeal
: To cure disease, we must eradicate its cause
e To render law acceptable to a civilized com.
munity, we must baptize it with the spirit O.
justice. When the editor of the Boston Cou.
rier expresses himself ready to become an auc
tionabe chate at the word of Daniel Webster
g. Co.. then we shall believe that this fugitive
3 slave edict can be peacefully executed, but no
, till then. 1t is deed of injustice, and is the
parent of bloody deeds, and must be repealed
Worcester Spy.