The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-24
THE LATE RESCUE.
From the Boston Courier.
he Effects or False Doctrines.

The preaching of sermon has seldom been fol-
lowed by a speedier or more pointed practical
moral than has happened in the Of the preach
ing of the "higher law doctrine by Messrs. Charles
Summer, Theodore Parker, George Thompson, and
their coadjutors- We apprchend no one capable
Of discerning the connection of cause with effect
will undertake to deny that the illegal violence
Gently witnessed in this city is the direct pract-
cal consequence OF what has been taught in the
public speeches Of the individuals above named.
The public will hcnccforth be at no loss in what
manner to appreciate the labors these gentlemen
They have given our community pa1pable taste
Of that "higher law" which they have been SO
eager to bring into fashion at the expense Of public
order and the general veal. BY their works ye
shall know them.
X We mistake if these events do not cause ma rkcd
rcvulson Of feeling among large portion OF those
who have hitherto lent their influence to the Anti
Slavery party. The public press is rising up as
one man to rebuke the spirit of resistance to law.
Some of the most rabid Of the Free-soil prints OF
this State, 1t is true, are to be excepted. These
litter shout of high cxultation at the triumph of
the mob, and assure their readers that the mob will
put down the law, in the same way, whenever they
please-Drovided there be a negro in the case; and
this, they inform us, is exactly what they want.
With the exception of the small number Of fanatics
who talk such delirium as this, the mass of the
people in Massachusetts, will, most certainly, be
found on the side of the law and the Constitution.
Believing this, we cannot help viewing with deep
modification the effects of the late outrage in Great
ing the impression at the South that this was the
work Of the people Of Boston. This impression is
question was neither done by them, nor ia 1t sane
toned by their approval. The inhabitants of this
city are firm friends to law and tho Constitution,
and they will raise their hands to defend the law
and the Constitution whenever called upon 30 to do.
But it is the peculiar misfortune Of the late illegal
proceeding that it was certain, from the first
Inent, to be magnifed, and infamed, and overcol-
ored in the representations of which went abroad.
so as to create the belief that the whole city in
the transaction. In this manner great and unde-
served reproach has come upon Boston. The south
ern journals depict abolitionism as bearing full
sway here, in the same manner disunion is lord
ing il over every thing else in South Carolina. OF
course this Is quite untrue; but we must for time
at least, rest under such an imputation plain
statement Of the facts will show that the mischief
makers among US are comparatively few in num-
Der; but the sorest of all social evils is, that mis-
chief makers, in all communities, more potent
for evil than the same number, twice their num-
Der, of we'll disposed citizens are for good md that
a hundred innocent persons must bear the shame
and suffering caused by the wrong doing Of one Of
the wicked.
Some of the journals at the South have questioned
the prudence of President Fillmore in issuing his
proclamation. They express doubts whether the
nature Of the case called for notice 30 grave and
emphatic. There may be honest differences of
opinion here, but we do not see how, under the ex
listing circumstances, the President could have
done less and we havo the strongest reason for
believing that the best advice was taken the
casion, and that the practical results of the step
were calculated with all proper deliberation and
foresight. Let US look for moment on the face OF
the matter. Mr.. Fillmore had avowed his deter
mination, the First Magistrate of the Union, to
| zee that the Compromise measures were carried
out to their full accomplishment. He regards the
execution of this design as a measure Of the very
deepest importance to the people of the United
Statesa measure essential to the preservation OF
the Union and the prevention of intestine discord
and civil war; In this opinion he 10 confirmed by
the Judgment of the wisest and most intelligent and
| most patriotic men of the country. What then is
| he to do when an event takes place which seems
lAwless violence? Is it not his plain and unques
tionablc duty to call the public attention to an &C
80 threatening to the welfare of the country? Car
any thing be more proper in such case than thu
very thing which MIR. Fillmore has done in renew
ing his assurances of fixed resolution to execute
tho laws, and to meet every new danger with suf'
| hcient remedy!
| The course of the President in this instan has
been justified by the consequences, which even
| now perceptible. The southern people made
to understand that the formidable resistance to the
law at Boston (or such the late affair appears to
them) will not cause the Chief Magistrate to swerve
from his duty, to abate single particle Of his
zeal and resolution in executing the Compromise
measures. The effect of the proclamation will be
to counteract much of the mischief caused by the in
| famed and exaggerated shape in which the story
of the Boston riot first appears to the eyes of the
people of the South.
From the Boston Daily advertiser.
Tho Presidcnt's Proclamation.
| yesterday, expresses the opinion that the Presi
dents proclamation, issued in consequence Of the
| assault on the deputy marshal of this district, in
the court house Of this city, and the rescue of
prisoner from his custody, and calling all we'll
disposed citizens to aid in the execution Of the laws
is unnecessary and uncalled for" In this opin.
ion, undoubtedly, all those concur who are also o
opinion that the law for the surrender of fugitive
slaves ought not to be executed But those we'll
disposed citizens who of opinion that the lawful
execution Of no law Of the United States ought to
be resisted by force, and that further example Of
successful resistance in the city should be at all
events cffectually guarded against, we believe
concur, with few exceptions, in the wisdom of the
measure, and rejoice that such step has been
taken to protect this city from tho further stain
upon its character which would be inflicted upon
it by repetition Of the outrage of Saturday last
At any rate, we arc sure that the measure meets
the cordial apProya! not only Of great numbers Of
citizens, who believe that without this precau-
ton there would have been nothing TO apprehend
from the repetition of act which has inflicted
deep stain upon the character of the city, but,
far as we are informed, with very few exceptions,
Of the great mass of those who are desrous that
the recurrence of such event should be cffectu.
ally guarded against.
From the same.
The DESTRUCTION OF THE TEA BosToN HAIR
son.-The New York Tribune inquiries for copy
of the proclamation issued by tho provincial GO
vernon of Massachusetts, in consequences of the de-
struction Of the tea in Boston harbor. II the I'i
chusctts Bay, authority which must be salts
factory on this point, it will find that no procama
ton was issued on that occasion. II the Tribune
proposes to institute parallel between the attempt
of the British parliament TO levy taxes in America
and the attempt Of the Congress of the United
States to carry into effect the provision of the Con-
stuton for the surrender of fugitive slaves to their
masters, and 10 extend that parallel to the
adopted in consequence of the resistance 10
those measures, il may be disappointed to find
that in the former the royal governor was Of
opinion that tho issuing of a proclamation would
be Of no avail.
Prom the Boston .Adretiscr.
Decislon OF Mr.. Commissioners Hallett, In
the Case or Elizur Wright.
At the opening Of the court yesterday morning
in the of the United States vs. Elixur Wright
which has occupied two days in its investigation,
MIR. Commissioner Hallett delivered the following
OPINION:
This examination, as it comes before me, is
preliminary inquiry, by force Of the act of August
tel Tax