The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1851-01-01
The Fugitive Slave Law.


The exhibitions Of fanatical fury which this
righteous and constitutional law has occasion
ed at the north, are quite sufficient to excite
in the bosOms of all true soutl erners, feelings
Of the most bitter hostility for our northern
brethren. This demon spirit of abolition
has torn away one by one the pillars from
under our temple Of liberty and equality, and
is now directing lie utmost fury against this
last prop this ''chief corner stone." This
Jaw, founded in the primitive history OF the
country long before the formation Of the
Constitution or the establishment of our In
dependence, is guara ntied TO US by she letter
Of the constitution, and all the compromises
resulting there from and the whole history
Of Congressional Legislation upon the SUBJ
ject, and sustained by the good sense Of intel
igenl men Of all parties; and yet no law ever
pet with such malignant hos lilitY. i had
it's origin with our puritan fathers, the PEG,
pie who founded the States & the institutions
where their good old moral notions. are now
repudated. with so much bitterness by their
degenerate sons. The law is Of New En-.
gland growth, and venerable with age being
about two hundred years old; for as we'll as
we recolect it was established about the
year 1868 in the Massachusetts, colony; this
violent opposition to it therefore, indicates a
very depraved condition Of moral sentiment
ameng the defendants Of the Puritans.
TIE whole Of New England is banded a
gainst it. Vermont dares TO 90 so far, as
to oppose the legislative and judicial arm to
the execution ofthe law. The religious So
cieteS, thrOughoutlhe free states, preach up
crusade against Il, and in all their Assem-.
b'ies pass resOlutiOns,vrging resistancetO it.
and demanding it's repeaAe A number of the
religious paper denOunce it in the most an,
measured terms; as anti christian, a relic
Of baIbarism. The recent elections there
exposes strong, almost resistIess current Sf
public feeling against it. A large number
Of the recently elected members to congress
from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New
York are pledged to its repeal.
The "suRsrior conscience, higher law
gentry, receive "daily accessions to their
numbers, Of such as" would sooner see the
Union dissolved, than have the torch Of the
incendaries, whom the Gazenovia Conven
ton commissioned to apply to every home
stead in the South. extinguished BY the ef
forts Of Federal and equal Union. The
inHammatOry address Of this blasphsmous,
FAnd atrociously criminal assembly Of con
vicls, thieves and runaway negroes at Gaze
nOvia, calling upon our slaves to commit all
the crimes known ia the calender, helps
wonderfully to sustain the fury Of these in
sane bigOis. and swells the popular Clamer
for repeal
We do not believe the present Congress
viii dare 70 pander 90 far 70 ianaticiam Is %
interfere with ihs law, 80 as 70 repeal or
kmodiry Il. Bot The storm Is evidently com
linz, i Is almost 4. hand, and every consider
alton dear 70 fFeSmsn, calls upon u 70 pre-
pare for /. Unless we act and oct now,
sf our sails and cass anchor; shipWrsck =
Amos. certain. we observed modera.
lhion. and wish still to b dslibeFates bus The.
Tine seems fat approaching when we en-
i Ionaer remain inactive, ben he alleE