Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-09-03

another Victim
Commissioner Nelson, Of New York, has added
another to the cataos of infamous destined
live in the contempt Of posterty. He delivered Bold
ing on Monday into the hands of ''his claimants as
their illegal property, and lest any attempt should be
N de to retain him, upon writ Of habsas oorp.s he
granted certificate Immediately the bIoodhounds to
take him; who instantly removed the ''slaye.'' The
friends Of Boiling intended purchase him even at the
enormous put upon him By the contemplate cow
ards who assumed 10 claim him, but in addition to the
exorbtant thus cruelty demanded, they insoIently
stipulated that the unfortunate MAN should be removed
South Carolina before he should be liberated This
the committee would not consent to, and the eonse-
quenee IS the dragging of this from wife and kind
red and the consignment Of him the tender mercies
Of the nhuman slave driver and brutal oyerseer.
We have been always taught that the negro race and
the coiored people Of this country were its pebans,
bu, the fate Of Bodng shows that the boasted aristo-
crazy Of skin is not sufficient protection from kidnap-
ping, or exemption from slavery. Bolding is declared
By several eminent psychologists, possess tint of
African blood He exhibits some traits Of the physical
developement Of the North American Indian but Of the
African ne possesses no attribute. His skin is airer
than thai Of the saviour of the Union,' Daniel Web
ssr; his har is straight and be is altogether man Of
superior physical and mental qualities vet these fcti-
tous ds;inctinctons have been totally insufficient to as
this Caucasian one hours deiverance from the
persons who have set up a claim to his person.
Ii is immaterial to Us, however, whether Boding i:
Caucasian African, We recognize no ariztocracy o
skin or blood. We plant feet upo the platform
Of common humanity, and denounce an outrage com
nitted upon individual Of the race as an outrage
committed against humanity To deliver up this mar
TO another man. upon the presumption of his being
chae. in the face Of his manhood, is to utterly repu
diate the invoIabity Of human freedoms and to set W
among irresponsible despotsm whose throne j.
brute power. Let the slaye claimer show us the al
legged slaves acknow edgment fowed' service signed
by his hand, or let him produce his certificate OF
ownership attested by the sign manual of Almighty
God, before hearts broken aud the dearest family
ties riven asunder at his word
The wife of BoIdng, beautiful young woman, fairer
than many that white poets have sung OF as 'lr was
IN the Court Room during the examination of evidence
relative to the Ownership of her husband She ex
hibited much feeling but sustained herself with the
hope that he, TO whom God had joined her, would not
by man, be torn from her. Poor pebeian victim of al
arstocracy Of pae-laces; what could the Holy Scrip
tures that morality, truth, and justice which ar
amongst its divine precepts avail against omnpoten
dollar? Her husband must be sacrificed, that money
rusted over with the blood and verdgrs, and tears
Of murder, oppression, and lust, might drop into tn
pocket of some chivalrous South CaroInian. And We
in the face of this insult to freedom in fee State
those miserable dough.facedWhigs talk about submisso
to the Fugitive Slave Law; and demand that Fillmor
and Webster be deifed for settling" the question
slavery. We trust the people of old Massachusetts,
least will remember that not to make the Mort
hunting park, and perpetuate the accursed fruits
slavery that this Union was established. We rl;
they will remember, at the polls, that God requires
account Of our conduct towards our BROTHER and that
drag from his home and vile, for no crime, is a
outrage ntolerabe in the sight of heaven and of Chri:
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