The republic., 1851-04-17
From The Bost0n 7tanserip<.
The Peace and Dignity OF the Common
wealth.-NO. XIV.


The Peace and Dignity OF the Comnson-
wealth.-No. XIV.
Since the publication of No. XIII. l have
been reminded that our worthy mayor has ad-
mirably performed his duty since the arrest Of
Sims. This is not to be contradicted. have
profound reverence for the jsu sutm cuique.
A deserter, placed er abundant ca,tteia in the
very front ofa section of eight tried and trusty
soldiers, and urged forward by the pointed ad-
monition Of their bayonets, pressing a tergo
upon sensible but sightless part, would sure
ly do his duty. Ay, our worthy mayor is do
ing his duty now, and, had he done it always,
a great expense of money and modification
would have been spared for the city, whose
finances have always been his chief care-at
the spigot.
Had he done his duty always, instead of Civ
ing comfort and encouragement to the enemy,
by his reasonable talk, as reported by the
Earl of Worcester, then the keen and refined
sensibilities Of the editors Of the Dedham
Gazette, and of the Commonwealth, and of the
amiable veteran of the Galary, would not have
been sorely exercised by the sight of those
chains around the court t-house, which, by the
way, are no more of novelty than the bars Of
iron before the Duke Of Wellington's windows.
"The atlas was, we believe the only paper in
Boston that considered the proclamation Of the
President unnecessary and uncalled for."'
So say the worthy editors of that paper, in
their number of March 25, and | believe the
statement is true and farther believe that it
is of very little importance to the present. or
any distant age, whether it is true or false.
They also say:
We were glad 10 find our views endorsed by
the President, a. communicated by Mr.. Webster
to the mayor of the CITY,"
There is an air of innocence and verify about
this assertion that is irresistible. II may be
imagined, by such as are not in the secret, how
truly the President and Mr.. Webster will be
surprised to find that they, or either of them,
have recently endorsed the paper or the vie,cs
of these worthy editors.
These worthy editors then verify believe the
outrage Of February 5 TO have been the work
Of can ordinary mob" and the proclamation of
the President of the United States "unneccs-
sary and ,nacalIed for" and they are "happy"
and "glad' that the '.4tlas was the only paper
in Boston" that SO considered it. They covet,
exclusively, the on,is or the GLORY, whichever
it may be. The poet has anticipated their oc-
casions, and provided motto for their journal:
"a alias tracturus vertice cGlum.'
The assertion of /" the only paper " that an
outrage, clearly premeditated, as we shall
show, with reasonable purpose, was Fan or
dinmy mob" and that the proclamation of the
President was "unnecessary and uncalled for"
and the continued persistence in these asser-
tions, may find parallel, perhaps, in the case
of Bayle's Lucilia, who, to the very moment of
her Gccoalchement, swore by all the gods and
goddesses that she solemnly believed her diff
fculty arose from dieting too freely upon len
tils-she could imagine no other cause. Like
our worthy mayor and these worthy editors,
she "hGd not the shadow Of suspicion" It has
never occurred to these editors, for moment,
that the late outrage had any connexion what
ever with any reasonable purpose, to prevent
the execution of law Of the United States;
for, If it had, no sane person would call it "a,
ordinary mob
Was this outrage an ordinary mob? Before
we have done, am much mistaken if there
will be found an editor in this Commonwealth
who will maintain, with any credit to himself,
that it was an ordinary mob, or that the pro-
clamation of the President was ssunnecessa,y
and u,acalled for''-the editors of the Boston
Atlas, the only paper, always excepted.
When ant-savery was young and very wee,
and before it acquired those habits of intemper-
ance which have SO disfgured all its original
lineaments that its first parents would never
recognise their offspring, it was brought up to
reverence the word Of God, to obey the COM
mandments, to respect the Sabbath, to give
honor to the civil ruler, and to yield obedience
to the Constitution and the laws.
How changed is it now! The Bible is de-
signated as a ''popular" and '.tashio,,able''
book. The Sabbath is publicly denounced, and
and openly desecrated-the clergy,
as body, are held up as knaves and impostors-
the Constitution is worthy of no better treat
ment than to be trampled under foot-the laws
are viewed as pack-thread in the path of an
abolitionist, and are to be broken whenever he
wills-the righteousness of perjury and treason
is taught from the pulpit by certain arrant
scoundrels calling themselves the disciples Of
Jesus Christ, and ministers of his Holy Gospel
bad citizens, of all colors and callings, assem-
BILE together, and formally resolve that ii is their
bounden duty to dissolve the Union as soon as
possible-the officers of the law are impeded in
the execution Of their duty by menace and in
sult-prisoners, lawfully in their custody, are
rescued with force and arms by black and white
mobs, instigated, aided, and abetted by black
and white lawyers and clergymen-slaves are
gravely counselled, by deliberating assemblies,
who pass and publish resolutions to that effect,
to steal the property and take the lives of their
masters, and Of all public officers who oppose
their flight.
There is nothing here set down which will
not be found in ertenso in the anti-slavery and
anti Sabbath publications of Garrison and his
infamous disciples.
1t is not less matter of curious inquiry than
it is essential to present discussion, to con-
slider how this extraordinary change has been
wrought. 1t is the workof some twenty years;
and, like other monsters, has attained its pres
ent enormous and revolving proportions by de-
grees. 1t did not spring forth at once, fully de-
veloped, from the brain of Garrison, or of any
one of the early projectors, like Minerva from
the brain of Jupiter. There was at first no in
citement Of the slaves against their masters
no incendiary attempts upon the peace Of the
slaveholding States-no recommendation to the
slaves to take the money and the lives Of their
masters, or to murder the officers of the law
who attempted to arrest their flight-no disre-
spect for the Bible-no contempt for the laws
no thought of a crusade against the clergy-no
proposal to trample the Constitution under foot
The orgies Of these bad citizens have excited
too rnuch ununi nu1od fs,o,,f md ..J:...I..