Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-02-28

oner, lawfully holden by the Marshal or Depu-
ty Marshal OF the United States and other scan
dalous outragcs did COMM, in violation of the
lawi Now, there fore, to the end that the au
thorlty of the laws may be maintained, and
those concerned in violating them brought to
immediate md condign punishment, | have Is>
sued this my reclamation calling on all wei!
disposed citizens, to support the laws Of their
country, and commanding all officers, civil AM
military, who shall be found in the vicinity of
this outrage, by aiding and assisting by all
means III their power in queling tn $ and other
such combinations, and assisting the Marshrl
and his Deputies in recapturing the above nam
ed person. And ] do especially direct tn, 1t
prosecution be commenced against all persons
who shall have made themselves aders or abct-
tors in this flagitious offence; and do further
command the District Attorney of the United
States and all other persons concerned in the
administration or execution of the Laws of the
United States, to cause the foregoing offenders
und all such as have assisted them, or have har-
bored or concealed such fugitive contrary to
law, to be Immediately arrested ana proceeded
with according to law.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the lIni-
ted States, this 1eth day Of February, 1851
LIS. WILLARD FILLMORE.
DANIEL WEBSTER, Sec'y of State.
Willard Fillmore and Daniel Webster think
the occasion calls for this manifesto! Long be-
fore its implied censure of the Law-lovng and
Law-obiding City of Bost n had reached that
City, Mcssrs. Wright and Davis, who were
supposed to have had some agency in promo
ting the escape of SIIADRAClI, were arrested
and held to bail to answer for the offence, and
the City Authorities of Boston had passed the
following Preamble and Order:-
CITY OF BOSTON.
Is BOARD OF MAYOR AND AID RMEN,1
Tuesday, Feb. Is, 1851.
Whereas, This Board has learned with deer
regret that the integrity ofthe laws and the dig
nifty of the Commonwealth and city, have bc"r
greatly impaired by the forcbc rescue and alb
! ducton of prisoner from the hlnls of an off
Ger of the United States who had him in legu
custody, therefore it is
Ordered, That the City Marshal. under thu
! Instructions of the Mayor. be directed, when
ever he shrll he properly informed by public
officer of this State, or the Unicd States thu
there is danger that he shall be unlawtuly OBJ
structcd in the performance of Is official du
! ties by Il mob, and that he needs his assistance
Immediately to repair to the place where /
is unprecedented said riot will be had. and there
faithful and truly, with the whole police fore
under his control. use the same, in the mos
energetic manner possible, in support OF th
law, and the maintenance of the public peace
The City Of Boston was thus little ahead {
the President and Secretary of tate, in effort
to maintain Law and Order Folks that thin
resistance to the avs will be tolerated j
Boston, or anywhere else in New England
will learn an ms ructive lesson from thi
instance
- But all this is super sublimatcd nor
sense. President tilmore's Proclamation or
dorscd by Secretary Webster, is about as ar
propratc to "the crisis as dose Of Brunc
reths pills would be to relieve" the money
m1rkct. Anybody that supposes that forcibl
resistance to LAW will be tolerated in an
part of New England, Is as green as a COOS
pasture. When New England people wal
examples ofthe abnegation of Law and Const
tutlonal Rights, they 90 South And it is lit
tie remarkable that the General Government
SO prompt with its Proclamatons, when an III
prcmediatcd assemblage of negroes hustl,
one of their fellow blacks out of the hands
the Law, in Massachusetts, when no word
Proclamation or Rcmonstrance has ever com
from the same quarter against the unlawful an
unconstitutional imprisonment of Free Citlzar
Of Massachusetts because they happen to b
colored people, by South Carolinl his is
great country!
but New England stands by the Unio
whether her own citizens are treated lil
Slaves at the South, or Southern Slaves al
treated like ireemen at the North. Whit 81
cannot legally remedy she will endure. Pres
dent Fillmore and Secretary Webster needn
agtate themselves moment in anticipatil
forcible resistance to Law in New Engan
We recommend them to send George Thonl
son, the British emssary of ianaticism, back
England, and to issue a commission de i,nt
tico enquirrndo" in the case Of Garrison, Qunc
Smith & Co., and they will do more, a thousaI1
by issuing sublime Procamatlons on The occt
sion of the accidental escape of all the SllA
DRACH SIMSES in the world!
q The Meeting of the Directors of Il
; Rutland and Burlington Railroad, which W.
held in Burlington Yesterday, WAS adjourned
Boston whittier the Country ID r'crors went til