New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-05-22

and studious observation Of man, that al her phe-
nomena became intently explored, and her grand
unitary laws finally unfolded. And although
science necessarily explodes the splendid faiIacy
to which she owes her life, she yet preserves
too grateful a sense Of her indebtedness ut
terly to balk the honest vision which she has
disciplined and chastened. For in the very
attitude Of proving that the realm Of nature 10
wholly fnite, or subject to law, and therefore ln-
capable Of harboring divinity she refers us awayto
the only worthy, because infinite, realm OF the d.
vine inhabtation, namely the realm OF ideas whose
true geography lies all nclosed within the mIrac-
ulous soul of man, and whose merely reflected
splsndor it is which furnishes the life Of our senses,
or il seen in the forms of the natural heavens and
earth. Comte appears to regard the instinct IN
question as simply subsevient to science. lie
supposes that having begotten science, it will
henceforth be swallowed up in it's offspring. But
this is the sheer derium of materalism. Science
is the boundlcss servant of humanity. 1t doubt
less corrects our instincts, or affords them ampler
range and expansion but decidedly this is not to
annihiate but rather to give them the utmost pos
slble authorization.
RENDITION OF THOMAS SIMNs. By THEODORE PAR
New.York G. s. Francis 1 Co.
Another stormful rem onstrance against
the sins of the day from the Boanerges of Boston.
In treating the theme which calls forth his merry
iuvective. Mr.. Parker certainly does not march to
the music of flutes and soft recorders" but
rather to the militant strains oftrumpet and drum
He throws down his steel glove into the ring def
apty and rushes into the red combat with exult-
ing shouts. The occasion was one to provoke his
keen intellectual wrath. 1t was the first annver-
sary of the surrenderng OF fugitive slave IN Mas
sachusetts, under the provisions of law, which
in common with multitudes of his cOuntrymen, he
regards with unmngled detestation-an anniver-
sary, says Mr.. Parker, "of great crime, "a
crime against the majesty of Massachusetts
law, and the dignity Of the Constitution of the
United States; of great wrong,--a wrong
against you and me, and all of US, against the babe
not born, against the nature of mankind; Of
great sin-a sin against the law OF God wrote IN
human nature, sin against the infinite God. 1t
was great crime, great wrong great SIN, on
the side of the American Government, which did
the deed on the peoples part it was great de-
feat your defeat and mine.'
Out of the rsn house of bondage, man, guilty OF no
crime but love of liberty, fled to the people OF Massa.
chusctts He came to us wanderer and Boston took
him In to an unlawful Jail hungry and she TED MIN with
felons meat thirsty she gave him the gall and vino
ear of slave TO drink Naked and she clothed him
with chains sick and in prison. he cried for helper,
and Boston sent him marshal and commissioner
she set him between kidnappers among the most infa
NOUS Of men, and they made him their slave Poor ana
In cbanr the government of the nation against him. he
sent round to the churches his petition for their pray
ers the churches Of commerce. they gave him their
curse he asked of the sacrament OF freedom, IN the
name Of our God and in the of their Trinity, the
Trinity of oney,-Boston standing as godmother at
the ceremsny-n the name of their God they baptized
him Slave Said the Ne x.Eagand cnu IS Of com
name Of the gold eagle, and OF the silver dollar ana Of
the copper cent |
After describing the previous dark days of Bos- |
TON by copious induction of historical facts, MIR.
Parker thus speaks of the
EFFECTS OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE BILL.
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Bill sad even.
to the coored citizens OF the State At that time there
were 1875 persons of color In Massachusetts, In thir
ty>six hours after the passage Of the bill was known
here five and thirty colored persons applied to well
known phanhropist in this city Tor counsel beIUIe
laws of Massachusetts could not be trusted to shelter
her own chi dren: they must flee to Canada. rms
%seets ' res. in the EMO, ment Of liberty Then il
ought to have been changed and read, This arm,
once hostile to ran ees VITA VT bert NOV"
The word commissioner has had traditiona ma
tree ever since our visitation by Sir Edmund Andres;
1t lost none Of its odious character when u became
again ipcarnate in kidnapper. With Slave Act CON-
nissonerste execute the bill, With such ruling as we
have known on the Slave Act BENCH such swearing BY
"witnesses the slave stand, any man freedom ~
The mercy of the kidnspper and his commissioned
attorney The one can manufacture q" evidence" or
"snlarse ii, the other manufacture claw" and, with
such administration and such creatures 10 serve ls
wish what colored man was safe Men in peril have
keen instinct of their danger the dark browed mothers
In Boston, they wept like Rachel for her nrstoorn rc
fusing to be comfoted There was no comfort or tnem
save In fight that must be In the winter but into
the winter of Canada which to the African what our
rude climate is to the goldnch and to the
Some of the cOlored people had acquired little
propertv they got an honeet living; had wives and
children and looked back upon the horrors OF slavery
which it takes womans afsctionate genius to paint,
as you read her book looked them things Tor the
memory for the imagination not as things be suffered
aQsin But the Fugitive Slave Bill said 70 every black
mother "Ths may be your fate the fate OF your sons
and your daughters" 1t was possible to all; probable
to many; certain to some, unless they should nee.
II was dark bill for them but the blackness of the
darkness fell the white men The colored men were
only to bear the cross; the whites made It l would
take the black mans share in suffering the Slave Ac,
would rather take Hancocks than Huskes share Of the
history of the Stamp Act This wicked law has deve
oped in the Africans some OF the most heroic virtues
in the Yankee has brought out some OF the most dis
graceful examples Of meanness that ever dishonorec
mankind.
THE RENDITION.
You remember still the last act in tais sad tragedy |
the rendition of the victim In the darkest hour OF the
nisht of the eleventh and twelfth OF April the kidnap
pers took him from hs Jail in Court Square, weeping
As he left the door, Two kindly men went and pro-
cured the poor shlverng boy few warm garments Tor
his voyage will not tell their Names perhaps their
charity was treason" and "levyng war;" Both OF |
the men were clergymen, and had not forgotten the
great human word Inssmuch as ye have done II unto
one of the least othese my brethren, ye have done
unto me-" The chief kidnappers surrounded MT;
Snms with troop of policemen, armed with naked
swords; that troop was attended by larger crew OF
some two hundred policemen armed with clubs They
conducted him, weeping he went, toward the wa
te.side they passed under the caves OF the old State
House. which had rocked with the eloquence OF James
hnEn manly tread both