Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-03-08
PennsyIvania and tho Declaration OF In
dependence.

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PennsyIva nia and the Declaration OF In
dependence.
Some time ago, the City authorities Of Philadel.
phia proposed to the old thirteen States, meeting
of delegates to celebrate, in Independence Hail, the
signing of the Declaration OF Independence; and to
take measures for the erection of a monument TO
commemorate that suspicious event. Perhaps the
proposition was made in good faith, and the city /
fathers of Philadelphia did mean that this demon
stration should be renewal Of the protest of
country,s fathers, in favor Of the rights Of But
ii that such meeting would be a satire
and nockery, until Pennsylvania learns appreci-
ate the principles Of that immortal documenl-until
she has the courage protect her citizens from the
inroads Of Southern banditti, and redress the
murders which perpetrated IN nockery Of her
sovereignty and power. Instead Of iaduIging in
"reminiscences of national glory, and mounting rhe-
torical tropes in honor OF sublime traditions, it
would, at this moment, much better become the
of Philadelphia 10 assist to redeem their State from
the insulting tyranny Of Maryland, and then go and
weep penitential tears by the grave Of Joseph C.
Miller.
Until Pennsylvania in some respect compensates
outraged humanity, Tor her passive permission of
that most horrid and atrocous deed of bIood-gut
ness, and until the North huls back, in dirty
tiers to the South, the fragments of the Fugitive
Slave Law, such meeting Philadelphia proposes,
would be aothing more than Keen, biting, trench
ant satire, on which it is reserved Tor the
generated future to re-afirm
1t will be remembered that on the 29h OF Decem-
bor ro;scraant caiiad Thomas McC,r #
Elkton, Cecil County, Nd, and other rutfans by
him employed, entered the house ofJoseph c. Md
Ter, West Nottingham, Chester Co., Pa, and took
therefrom free colored girl, named Rachel Parker,
and carried her to the State of Maryland, there to
sell her to slavery. 1t will be rccoected, also that
Mr.. Miller followed them to Baltimore, where he
instituted legal proceedings for the recovery Of the
girl; that, on his way home with his friends, he sud-
denly d,sappeareds and, when found, was suspended
by the neck to the branch of tree, stiff and dead.
coroner's jury, in Baltimore, declared that Mr..
Miller committed suicide, and with this verdict
Maryland demanded that Pennsy should be sat
isfed. But the wife, and children, and klnsmen, and
friends, of Joseph G. Miller, who could not so philo
sophicaly appreciate political afinties and exigen.
ces as Governor Biger aRd Governor Lowe, were
not satisfied that the husband, father, and friend
who had passed through life with honor, should res
in his ntimely grave, with the foues bots upon his
ers, and fkey have OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, too, il
digging up from the grave Of the murdered man. the
evidences of deed so foul, so cruel, and SO afro
cious, that language is too weak TO express its mag
nitude.
1t has been demonstrated that Mr. Miller was de
coyed from his friends, was manacied, poisoned
with arsenic, and then hung upon tree by the fends
which slavery alone could train and ncite 10 do 81
demonacal a deed. Physicians of high character
and eminent talent, in Pennsylvania, have, afle
most careful analysis, sworn that this man died frou
poison, and that fhe did hang himself, as alleged
by the coroners jury Of Baltimore, it must have beer
after life was extinct
Governor johnson demanded from the Goyerno,
OF Maryland that McCreary and his aids should BIZ
given up, to be deak with according TO the laws o
Pennsylvania, for the invasion of that STATE and the
abduction and murder of its citizens Goyerno,
Lowe, of Maryland, refused and now Gov BigIer
whose FIRST official act was to pardon Albert the
kidnapper, has rolled his official ernine over hi.
eyes and ears and will neither see the degradation
his state, hear the cry for Justice that comes from
the widow, the orphans, and the friends Of the mur
dered man.
fit state, truly, is Pennsylvania to take the lead
an demonstration in confirmation of the principles
OF the Declaration Of Independence. Let her read
that instrument! Let her nwardly digest its glorious
eternal truths, and then let her rise in her dignity anc
might and establish them within her borders. Unit
she does SO let her stand by the graves of her sons
slaughtered by manstealers, and learn humility anc
rhbdesty ftom their fate, and behold her own weak
cowardce.
PREsIDEkT MAKING.-The Boston Atlas has =
Geographic despatch from Louisville, Ky., saving
that 'all the delegates elected to the Wing Nation
al Convention, from Kentucky, are in favor Of the
nomination of that old war-worn veteran, General
Winfield Scott.
The Atlas may please itself with such kind of in.
tegence for little while longer; but General Scott
will not be the Wing nominee. The South knows
Willard Filmore's subserviency to It's interests
too well to hesitate for mornent in giving its pre-.
ference to that ilusrious dough-face, who is undis
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