Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-06-17


, might be expected. The law is and for all
practical purposes will ever be, dead letter
incapable OF being executed to any extent use
tul 10 the South, because it Is not sustained BY
a sound and honest public opinion The people
of the North have unbranded respect for good
and wholesome laws. The most humble Justice
OF the peace III New York may, on proper cause
issue his warrant against the most distinguished
AMI powerful; and a constable, il his precept so
direct, may take hun without riot or resistance,
and lodge him IN the county Jail. But under
your Fugitive Law, your process, which Iuns IN
the name or twenty four millions OF people, Is
not sufficient without an armed force, nor always
with, to arrest trendless runaway slave.
The South is told by the Norh, that the Fugi-
tive Slave Law shall be observed and executed.
Let the State Of Pennsylvania, which IS very
particularly sound upon this subject. be taken as
the best instance Of Northern State faithful to
the Compromise. The recently elected Cover
nor of this State, in mis- inaugural, says:
81 The loyalty OF Pennsylvania 10 the national
Union cannot be doubted She will maintain
and execute, in letter and spirit, the several ad-
iustments measures, as passed by The late Con
gress, on the subject OF slavery"
There is a little surrlng here of the " Wins
key Rebellion " but let that pass. The pas
sage reads well, and sounds well. Pennsylvania
is for the Constitution and its Compromises.
What State is not ?
But further: la maintaining the Compromise,
she will not disturb the law fixing the boundary
of Texas, and giving that State $l0O0OOOO
for the law is a fixed fact, and the money paid.
She will not eject California from the Cnnteder-
acy; she will not repeal the law establishing a
Territorial Government in Utah she will not
re establish slave market IN this District and
we all know that she will execute the Fugitive
Slave Law, because she did so at Chrstlana,
and the way she did it is a caution to persons
pursuing slaves under difficult circumstances.
But, practically, what is this gnbernatorlal
rodornontade OF Pennsylvania worth to The
South In the city OF Phlladeph your officers
cannot arrest a fugitive without first getting
hun into custody on false clsrge OF ar offence
against the State laws. AZ Chistiana your
marshal and his posse are driven at full speed
through a corn-Held, and the claimant shot dead.
At Harrisburg a fugitive is arrested in the
might, and tried before daybrPak, for fear Of the
popnace and at Columbia the officer, unable
10 make an arrest, Kills the negro and then runs
away. And yet the Governor tells us that the
people OF Pennsylvania are sound upon the sub
jet, and upon such souadness her favOrte son
Is Commended 10 the support OF the South.
The difficulty Of enforcing laws against the
convictions, the prelndces, if YOU please, OF a
people, is not confined t. the North. Listen to
The following. taken flom recent number Of
the National Ihieiiigenc@
DR.. Thomas Hunt, who killed ]. w. Frost,
in duel last summer, ut New Orleans, was
brought up for trial on Thursday last, with the
seconds, on charge of murder, wnen Judge
Lqrue refused to sit in the case, and excused
himself, Judge Buchanan was sent for, but he
was engaged Judge Strawbrldge was sent
lor, and he was udsposed. The district at.
torney then said that he could not try the cnse
without q Judge. He therefore entered a not.
pros, and the accused was discharged"
The circumstances Of the case are unmpOrt-
ant to my purpose. It's sufficient that no court
could be found even to 60 through the forms of
trial Of person charged with murder, when 1t
was justified by popular opni n.
When the Compromise as a political test
shall have had its brief day, when the people
shall look in vain for its wonder working power
Of qnieting agitation, when they shall find the
promises OF benefit TO the North and South
alike false, depend upon it, the South, yes ST
The South, WW ask for q repeal or modification o
The Fugitive SinUe LnU. And this Compromise
as it has been described, is SAID to be a settle
mant, final settlement OF the slavery question
with all Its adiuncts; and the North Is told thai
1t must hereafter forever hold It's peace. A
question which the Almighty has established il
the trosts and SHOWS and chilling winds OF the
North, compelling industry, making slave la6O
Improbable, and, greatest of all temporal bes
sings, making white labor respectable and i,
l.ne burning heat and rocking u,i8srpaS,af 1b
profitable, is settled, is 1t, By Congressiona
enactment Believe it not. As it was the
BEGINNING, and is now, so 1t ever shall be 4
onestlun-au open question, deOatnhle and
debated queston-not for any mlschev0us pur-
pose of disturbing the quiet OF the South. II
never has been debated for such purpose at the
North. Not for the purpose OF making 1t tes
Of patriotism or party fdeli,y-it has never beer
moved for that purpose at the North certainly
not for impairing the constitutional rights OF the
South, or avoiding the constitutional obligations
OF the North. No discussion for such an ohJec
has ever been sprung by the North. But when
ever and wherever this question assumes
shape which shall involve the substantial, con
sti,utional, and individual rights Of Northern
freemen, then and there " we will debate witt
YOU upon this theme until our eyellds will nj
longer wag."
The Compromise certainly has not suffered
by the modesty of its supporters; for the worIl
is gruvey informed that it has saved the Uno
of these States. Partisan assurance can no tur
Their 90 Such a draft on popular creduty
nowhere accepted at the North. Proud OF tn
history of the past, confident in the promises q
the fitme convinced by every days report tina
our Government is the admiration of the worIt
our country the hope Of the good among all ma
f tons the North has rested quiet In The stron
5 belief that the Union has never been IN danger
! aud this belief was confirmed when they wer
e told that it had been saved BY the Compromise
l. for when patient is cured by pill of brea'
lie inference is strong That bis dsease was rathC