Worcester daily spy., 1851-04-07

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no appeal, and whom no legal process can rescue
There Is no judge, no jury no appeal, no wn oil er
ror, no habeas corpus,-nothing bat the simple Will
| OF this young man, who has absolute power 10 send
him into slavery forever.
But it is even worse than this, fellow-ctzens. II
this young man, sitting there the judge OF his fellow
man, had power to pronounce upon the question, II
would be great deal better than 1t IS; but ne has
but little dscretion; he has, IN fact, his hands tied
MS arises from the tenth-he most atrocIous sec
ton of the fugitive slave bill, which makes it conclu
sive evidence that man is a slave if simple paper
with certain seal upon it, ffom the State of Geor-
ga, be produced before the magistrate. don't know
II this Is generally known, for tell you that the
odious features of this fugitive slave bill not learn
ed IN day. They develOpe themselves IN fresh
| light every hour. This tenth section provides that
any man may go before any Judge ofany State in the
Cnion-he may select judge, too, OF the lowest
character, experience and attalnments, and make
oath that certain person, his slave, has escaped
from the State He can do all this by an agent if
he prefers. In the absence of all contradictory ev
dence, the Judge will almost certainly be satisfied
that the statementi correct he issues his certificate
and incredible as 1t may appear that certificate, thus
obtained, on erpGrte testimony, out OF court, and be-
fore any Judge, whether sober or not, is conclusive
evidence of the slavery and escape OF the man. 1t
Is binding, and the magistrate here, or elsewhere,
cannot hear any evidence to contradict 1t. In the
case now pending In Boston, no evidence has been,
or can be, received to prove that he is not slave
1.-The paper brought from the State of Georgia settles
that. No evidence can be received to throw doubt
upon the alleged escape from Georgia: the paper
ctusiUey proUes this The only question open to the
commissioner is that of identity; whether he IS the
man named in the paper | have no doubt, ladies
and gentlemen, that you think must be mistaken,
but assure your that all that have said is perfectly
true, and by reference to the papers you will hnd
that 1t is Not title of evidence can be recev-
ed as TO the facts of slavery escape; he only
tests the identity OF course they have got the right
man; whether he is slave or not is a matter of no
consequence; that question cannot be looked into;
and so with the matter of escape. The onl matter
lett Is the identity, and of course any man who had
seen could describe him, and the thing is settled.
tell you, that the commissioner who ries this case,
and may send the fugitive back to slavery never
or will know, whether he was ever slave, and
whether he really ever escaped. All that he can
know, Is that he is the man charged IN the papers
sent from Georgia.
And, fellow citizens, the men who came from
Georgia to swear to the eentlty of this man, carry
upon their countenances stemped receipt for cruel
ty, and Il think may be excused for saying) for
perjury also Just go and look at them, and think
you would admit that you would not trust your life
or fortune to rest upon the word of one of them
They represent class of men that cannot be found
out of the Southern States. They are a sample of
the men employed by SoutIerners as save-hunters,
slave buyers and sellers, whom they themselves dis
pIse, whom In the streets Southern gentleman new
er recognizes, but simply employs, as men have en-
ployed spies and lnormers, evils necessary to the
maintenance of their system. Such meu can swear,
and are ready to swear away the liberty of any on
Fellow-cllZens, YOU and feel save; and yet there
Is no more legal protection for than there is for
the fugitive at Boston. (Sensaton.) Any man, so
inclined, can make oath either in Georgia. or Texas
or elsewhere, that Charles Allen or John NJ. Earle
have escaped from state of slavery, having been
slaves, and these questions cannot be tried here Or
course do not think that such thing is possible,
but put it to show what the law is, and that we do
not feel safe because of the existence of law or from
any protection that it will afford u.s.
Our limited space compels US considerably to abrdge
the verbat report of MIR. Danas alb address that we
had prepared. Mr.. D. then proceeded to say that the
best efforts would be put forth to save the poor fugitive
Sims when first seized had made some resistance and
inflicted slight wound his captor. This was a
criminal assault and they to see if they could not
punish him for it, They intend give him his choice
OF Imprisonment for year in Charlstown, Mass.
or OF a life Imprisonment in Charleston, S. c. They
meant to which would prevail.-the criminal pro-
cess OF Mass or the civil property process of the
U. ;. They had been refused a writ of hqbeas corDus
but they WOULD with stronger force and more influence
apply again
Another fact had been developed by the evidence ia.
ken in the morning. TIE mate of the Boston vessel in
which Sims arrived in the habor had testified in the
witness box that Sims had come from Georgia, hid
away IN the orecase, and that he had been seen when
attempting to leave the vessel. He stated that they
had detained him prisoner board intending to take
him back to Georgia, to slavery. They had idaapped
Sims within the jurisdiction of Mass. There was a
law that met that case, and Monday morning they
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the vessel accountable for this kidnapping pro-
cess. He, (Mr. d., however, afraid that as il was
IN Boston, and amongst, and by Boston merchants
chiefly that this thing to be tried, that it would
tail, although the proof was complete that the law OF
Mass had been violated. He was the more afraid
that such woul be the result, nasmuch as this same
merchant, the owner Of the vessel, had been already
once guilty of the offence, in which the poor fuo
tive had by his cOntrvance and orders been carried
back into slavery and the Grand Jury had refused il
that case to find true BILL although the District At
torney had told them that upon their olths thew were
bound to find bill. This merchants name was Jobr
II. Pierson, and he had doubtless SO acted in these
cases, to get favor with his southern customers Jus
as was coming up the cars met on the street Pres
ldent Quincy, whose head is bowed with the snow o
oo winters lie stopped me, and it was indeed refresh
ing TO Ind one aged venerable man of the upper cas
OF the city of Boston, who has his heart in the RICH
place lie told me that his heart felt mortified ant
degraded. When the law passed, he said, | did thinL
e moral sense OF the community would not enforce it
sad that II never would be. But now | find tba
my fellow citizens not only SuJniSsive to- but tha
they are earnestly active for its enforcement The Bos
ton o 1871 is not the Boston Of 1775 Boston has now
become mere shop: place for buying and selnt
goods; and suppose also Of buying and selling men.
ms was the dark view of the case. He had little
nope Tor Boston; was not in 1851 il was in I775
ihey must come to the heart Of the Commonwealth. I,
Worcester, and he felt that heart beating warm abon
nm al this moment. (Cheers,l