The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-14
m. rusitive-SIavo Case and Murder at Christiana
PenGsyIvanin

Penal ylvania
Our readers will find ia our columns the particulars oil
his horrible tragedy, as stated in the Baltimore Clipper
is the natural fruit OF the spirit OF fanaticism which
las been cherished for political ends by such politicians
Governor Johnston-the man put forward by the wings
Pennsylvania merely because he has not scrupled to
lend himself to the aboitonsts and who has stimulated
lis followers resist the execution OF the law providing
or the recovery OF fugityes from labor. This man hold
his pocket the law which would have enabled the mar
hal in such case this, to have put the runaway ne
oes in Jail but, under the pretence OF love OF liberty
md OF that hgher-law philanthropy taught by Seward
New York he sets at defiance the nunctons OF the con
tution and commits crime UNNECESSARILY greater than
The foreign invader does when he amongst us as
sajling boldly our institutions United as our people al
vavs will be against the foreign invader, his assaults
npotent, and recol only on his own head But such
enemy as Governor Johnston, located in the interior oil
our SYSTEM is like the in the heart OF the noble
oak, which the OF hundreds of years could not up
root but which finally breaks, perforated by the
consumer Of its strength If the logic which Governor
Johnston relies to refuse the State as and the State
hory to the service OF the stakeholder in the recovery
Of his property be upheld by the people OF Pennsylvania
he people of the South will be without defence against
the Vaccinations of the aboltoniss the provision of
The constitution declaring that the fugitive from service
shall be delivered up, claim of the party 10 whom such
service is DUE will be dead letter; and the South will
have no other alternative but to fall back on the great
principles OF seIfdefence. which authorize individuals
and nations to protect their inalienabe rights.
But why shall express surprise at the success of
Gov Johnston in arraying the senseless victims of his
ambition against the sacred acquisitions Of the law and
The constitution Could it be expected that the eminent
leaders Of the wing party should have been employed for
years in stimulating the spirit of abolition and higher
la,rism without producing practical opposition 10 the
laws9 1t would be reasonable TO suppose that the
trees will bear their appropriate fruits as that the
missionaries who preach interference with the sacred OBJ
legations Of duty and law should not produce actual vio-
htions Of those obligations.
1t was no longer ago than the 2sh OF February, ls4s,
tina, the present Postmaster General introduced the fol-
lowing resolution into The Congress OF the United
States:
Rssolrsd That the Committee the Judiciary be- and
they hereby, directed report this House, with all
convenient speed bill repeating all laws of Congress- and
abogang as far they operative or In force In the
District OF Columbia. all laws of the State OF Maryland
which authorize require the courts officers
the aed States OF the said district within the Dis
uc Of Columbia to issue process for arrest, commit
the jail the said District any runaway other slave or
fugitive from service coored person claimed such,
except due complaint and proof OF, conviction
for crime misdemeanor, the commission Of which
by any free white person would authorize in the same
the arrest commitment, and detention OF such
white person In like charged with convicted
thereof"
This resolution was preceded by solemn declaration,
that forbdding the jals OF the United States TO the use
Of the marshals in arestng and combining the ogitves
from service in conformity to existing laws not n-
consistent with the duty OF Congress- and ought TO be
done, because the practice epugnant 10 the feelings
Of majority Of the people Of the United States.
Are not the outrages recently committed the natural
suit Of Mr. Halls assertion that Congress had the right
the negroes free in the District OF COLUMBIA flor
that is the plain English OF the resolution we have quoted
and the aboitoniss of Pennsylvania be blamed for
carrying out the doctrine that Congress and the States
should interpret compact Of the constitution in such
manner 10 spare the feelings OF the tender
Fred Douglass aud his British allies II you demonstrate
with one Of these highera~ gentry, he round with
scon and points you the President and his cabinet who
entertain, did entertain, late as February Is4s the
same monsous doctrines that enforced with the
scybes and guns OF the iniurae mob in Chester Where
is The evidence that Mr. Hail. the present Postmaster Gen.
era not active he in 1s4s in urging the
aooonss TO battle and murder flor such is The inevl.
table effect OF his doctrine that the constitutional power oil
ne federal government ought not TO arrest the black
when afugive, unless he has committed so crime which
would arrest the white nan and that the as OF the United
states ADD OF the states ought not be used for the
naement OF the slaves unless they have committed some
crime which would authorize the confinement OF a white
man uhder Tue same Circumstances Where is the evil
dence that Mr. Corwn still countsraclinr the moral
influence oil the Compromise, by telling the free soers
that he and the President are as unchanyed "a ave, IN
ne'r determination to stand by the negro as father
would BY bis childen 1t is easy 10 persuade these a.
hacs that the oath OF the President and his cabinet n
execute the laws is only an OATH which does not inter-
iere with the constitutional right Of the anti slavery
men 10 maintain their organization and TO obstruct the
operation Of the laws by the thousand subterfuges
winch the technical forms OF the law permit-par.
ueularly when those forms in the States are TO be
paced IN The hands of such good friends as Gov
elnor Johnston, Governor yinton Governor Hunt, and
governor Winthrop, all Of whom are in the confidence OF
Tue President and his cabinet, and well know how to
cherish and direct that msapped sentiment which in
oe language OF Mr. Webster is to give the largest liberty
e people OF all countries and Of all coors-whte vel.
low, and black
Fortunate indeed it is for country that the period
smear when the people Of our land can put into all the
departments Of their power both the national and State
governments, who are not soiled and contanna ed
W such vicious and conuping doctrines those which
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