Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-03-08


the resolutions of the Convention Of the State Of Georgia
"The trainers Of the ecatution declared in imine the
purposes to be accomp:hs BY il in the following term.
more perfect union, estabis justice, domestic
quality provide for the common Defence promote the general
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United States Of Auerca. The ople Of each State, beco
ing party to that instrument are Untitled all the benefits
obligation abstain from ali psco nconstent with thsir
enjoyment by tine other pariea L 4 nominaed iu the bond
that the people q no one ssss 'h. s. dse The ssc = s-
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q 6sr sOsai sy.ss, md ~ no way nodying sseting
the press propagate their destructive doctrines and
excae within her limits spirit Of disafecon among
her citizens and characterization among her slaves socie-
ties which have boldly entered the political seized
upon the balance of power, and obtruded their anst-
cism into the halls Of Federal Legislature. There
of hostility ncessantly proposed and dis.
eussed to the interruption Of the Legitimate business. Of eg-
aton day by day uttered against slavery and
slavebodes agan. conederstes and their institutions In
apparent It oreshadowed in the able and patriotic
sage proceeding from the executive to the Legislative depart
of the State Of New York in the 1886 Iii by the
active nterposton Of conservative public opinion, and if
that be insufficient then by Legislative enactment II the
ward OF this insane crusade 10 ever to be stayed
measures
Mr.. President, while my willingness to wait the
operation of this law until the e1pemen. shall have been
fairly made while express my readiness to arm the Pres
dent with any additional power which may enable him more
eectuay to enforce it, Of the representatives OF the
people Of Georgia. desiring give effect 10 the opinions Of
that people, expressed convention legimaey assembled
conventions let say representing the conservatism OF
that State composed Of anxious and devoted to the
preservation Of the Union can be found in her broad and
extended msI am bound to say that the obstruction TO the
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hostility to the institution Of domestic slavery which exists
in the free States of this Union nit that observation
There free States in the Unon and there are Senators in
this chamber who by their fidelity the compromises Of the
constitution in this particular entitled to respect and
admiraton and for one BY freely and cheerfuy
corded them limit this observation, then, to those free
States in which societies exist who are engaged in agatng
the question of slavery which has existence in their own
limits and whose sole purpose 10 destroy the repose and
harmony Of their sister States limit the observation those
States in which those societies exist and my proposition upon
this subject is that there is feeling existing in those States
which hostile 10 the enforcement Of this law, and which will
continue to ntepose obstrucions to It's enforcement the
consequences of which may oresee have said thai
am willing to wait the action the General Government to
ascertain whether by lis agency these distractions can be
moved But Of the existence Of that feeling there can be no
doubt If you your attention to the particular case
which has brought tho subject before ask does any
doubt that this outrage was insgated by white men Does
any believe that handful Of free negroes would have
conceived plan execute this rescue, in open daylight
aided and uncounseled by white mem Why, sir, all the
esidence In the cas conadics such ssupposon. shows
that white men were seen IN the that white stood
the door crying these infurate people, Como
come on The evidences that several white PERSONS have
been subsequently, arrested and bound over for trial for their
participancy in this matter. sa
But apart from this evidence If you look to the proceedings
these societies. Of which the State Of Massachusetts,
to be the headquarters you look at their published proceed
ngs and their press you look to the declarations issued
from their convences and from their pups-for these
read hese ignorant easily liable be imposed upon
you will see the absence Of any evidence connect white
with this particular transacon the and origin Of
these obsrucons to be found in feeling
of hostility domestic institutions, which exists in those
States and though not disposed to mpute TO the peo
pie of Boston, the people of Massachusetts body, any
disposition resist the law which manifested by this par
cular portion Of their people and although hear il repeat
edy said that that portion Of this people too insignificant to
be enabled produce ultimately any effect that they will be
put down by the Of great majority Of the people,
yet have say that in instances OF recent occurrence
they have been found in sufficient numbers in Boston to evade
obsruct the execution Of the law And although will
not include the people of Boston Of Massachusetts in the
declaration of disposition by force evade the
cuon of this law yet the evidence is patent their own
public records and abundany patent in this transaction, 10
show that they in communion with those who DO resist Its
enforcement in their hostility to the law itself That such is
their feeling, al hough they may not be disposed to manifest
by forcble resistance is abundanly evident Why, what
is the referred by the Senator from Virginia the other
day, fbdding the Of their as, and nhbing their oi-
GERS from giving any assistance to the enforcement OF the
law Why should Massachusetts refuse her as to persons
arrested under Federal authority Why should she conne
that refusal persons arrested under this particular law, eav-
ing her as open others arrested under Federal authority
shall be tod perhaps that that law passed under diff
srent auspices and remote period But that law remains
upon the statute book Of Massachusetts, Surely must be
considered expressing the feeling Of the people OF Massa
chuses on this subject would not be suffered to remain
II this not the Legislature Of that State in session,
why is it repealed What them il these these
bers Of abolition societies, their agents and emssaes and
these poor deuded coloed people whom they leading
astray they that law remaining upon the statute book
Of Massachusetts, which fobds the of the as and the
Of the officers ofthat State into execution
law similar provisions the OF $780, what they
infer but that the people of Massachusetts, their feeling has
been expressed by the Legislature is in unison with their
But the evidence of that feeling does not stop here
The Senate will recoect the incidents connected with the
Of the Crafts They will recollec that responsible
agents. from the State Of Geoga for the purpose of
claiming these ugives, met by every possible
which miserable pettifoggng ingenuity could devise, that
actions sounding in damages, ns ued n the Of these
fugitive slaves were brought against the persons sent
amounts that but for the precauon which they had used Of
taking letters from respectable mercantile houses in Savan
nah, well known in Boston, they, the pursuers of these
fugitive slaves would have been themselves in the
prisons Of Massachusetts, though open the confinement
of fugitive slave they would have been imprisoned in
the jails Of Massachusetts, from inability give security
the enormous amount required
But desire to inquire, with view to show what the
evidence sods TO the feeling Of that community whether
under the law Of the Slate Of Massachusetts in an action
sounding in damages, Is in the power Of the plsnt fix
the Of bail which he will require or whether follow
ing the provisions of the law Of England which exists in
of the States Of the Unon the amount of bail is not required
to be fixed by judges order II this so and the amount
Of bail ten, twenty, thirty thousand dollars which
was required in that case was fixed by order Of Judge in