The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-25
From the Neto York Commercial Adv0tiser.
Message from the PRECEDENT.

The associated press have received by telegraph
message from President Fillmore, given in an.
other column, to the United States Senate respect
ing the recent rescue at Boston, twill receive the
unanimous approval of all who can forget party
differences when national interests are conserved.
lts effect, we predict, will be salutary throughout
sive field Of suggestion than the individual case Of
rcscue which clcited it, and shows how carefully
the President and his advisers have weighed all the
bearings of tho law in question, and the possible
contingencies which might arise during the in.
teryal between the adjournment of this Congress
and the assembling Of the next. A perusal OF the
message will satisfy any intelligent reader that the
Presidcnts acknowledged irmhess In administra-
ton 10 not greater than his calm elaboration and
discretion.
This manly expression Of the views Of the Exec
uve will naturally be very distastcful to factionists
Of all shades. II leaves the ultraists Of the Soutf
| no pretence for agitation or discontent-no grounc
OF accusation against the North for breach Of cove
nant or unwillingness TO fulfil constitutional obi
CATIONS. For the Presdent represents the North a.
well as the South and he spenks for the North
when he gives the heart cheering assurances that
while he il President the law shalt be supreme un-
less the whole force Of the country proves made
quate to its support. The South, we apprehend.
will not be ungenerous enough, after such decla
ration that made by the Preseent-so freely con-
CURED in too by those who the anti slavery
feeling in the free Statesto the North gene
rally Of opposition to the law, Of unfriendlness
10 those for whose benefit it framed, because oil
any individual or local failure 10 execute It, Bos
ton, for instance il doing all in her power to show
that her people did not participate in the recent
rescue OF fugitive, by arrcsting and holding for
punishment all concerned in the outrage.
The President has given a significant warning,
less TO the active nbolitonists of the North and
to the colored population, assurance that their
violent opposition TO the laws Of these United States
will never be tolerated. Ofcoursc the aboltionsta
proper the resistance by force men, and those who
have denounced the law unconstitutional, wick
ed, and unjust, will vent their wrath upon the AID.
ministration, and chafe with anger at the restraint
put upon them. They have long been hemmed il
by the force Of public sentiment, and will now
effectualy be held in check BY the proclamation o
the President. They have now the distnct assur
ancc that the crushing weight of the Federal Gov
| ernment will be rolled upon them il they attemp
resistance to the law. Those who could counsel tn
negroes to shoot or murder the officer of the Gov
eminent who sought TO arrest them might and mus
have made up their minds to defy public opinion
But it is another thing to defy the power Of the Uni
ted States Government. for that power weldsa kline
| of argument to which minds who could counse
others to evil above most others, likely to listen
Seeing what the issue may be, they will keep on
Of the scrape into which they have sought to lcae
unfortunate negroes.
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