Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1852-09-13
he Fugitive Slave Law.

r The Fugitive Slave Law.
y ut test question at the South seems to be,
3 he two Platforms is the sounder on the
lave Lawl and about this question the,e
be diversity of opinion, even though the
I'D plainness of our language seem to
ia exhausted by the trainers of the Wing
For our own part, we hesitate not to
at either Platform, if carried out in its
= import" is strong enough for us. Both
= rms. if literally construed, will subserve
and guarantee the rights to the South,
bted by the Constitution. Butwhen gen.
r TX which is the stronger platform, which
: Explicit, and which is the least liable to
uction and perversion, we have no hes
: saying that the Wing Platform is the one
i Dmptly, fully and conclusively meets and
- whole question, and by the 'tfnaity"
button, removes forever all cavil or pos
l. construction. That Platform declares that
promise measures, including the Fugitive
y, are received and acquiesced in by the
ztty as final settlement in principle and
4, of the subjects to which they relate,
the Wing Party will maintain them, and
their enforcement until time and expe-
all demonstrate the necessity of further
n, to guard against erasion of the laws on
and, and the abuse of their powers on the
BIT impairing their present efficiency to
tt the requirements of the Constitu-
The Democratic resolutions, (for it took
! Pver the ground,) will be found in another
TO which the reader will refer, and though
that if carried out in their proper import,
4 broad enough, still, even the most casual
Mil perceive that they are wanting, and
lily wanting, in that clearne,s, perspicuity
I istakable force of expression, which seals
he mouths of those, who would attempt
the resolutions to suit their own purposes.
4 ist what we should expect from Mr.. HAL
d Just what we have received. He knew
d present party purposes, it was necessary
nt Platform upon this question, which
hit it proper to leave such phrased instru-
that when he, "uho lcas opposed to Slavery
d1rm and color, and in taror Of Freedom and
ba tohereper man kpes throughout Gods
4 !" or they ''rho ioathe the Fugitive Siare
hould see proper TO renew their internal
), they might be able to explain away and
If not destroy, the apparent meaning of
solutions. Such is not the case with the
solution. 1t is plain, obvious, palpable
lclnsive. No art or continuance, no subtle
|asoning, no ingenuity of construction, can
or impair ii. Ii has but one meaning, it
e no other. Such, too, was the design Of
|or. 1t came, not from the hands of the en-
Union, a leading disorganizer, one who had
his party once, and who, when opportuni
!. will do so again-but it eminated from the
d the heart Of son of Virginia, one, who
er been traitor to her interests, who knew
hts of his State and the Union, and who de-
d to provide for them. The resolution
plainly The success of his efforts. There is
rt ssion in Mr.. Scorr's resolution to which
m is made BY some. 1t is that portion which
plates additional legislation, &C., when
i'd experience shall have demonstrated its
". There are some who would have these
-petual and eternal, were it possible. Made
hey must be irrepealable and unalterabls.
III not insult the reason of our readers by
against this position. 1t is TOO absurd to
n attention. We have heard of the claws
Modes and Persians which alter not" but
heir laws were irrepealable. their nation
N blotted from the annals of existence, and
of the far distant past only. Such must
the fate of any people, who pretend to wis
ough to fathom the dark depths Of the fu-
i'd to enact for an age independent of them,
circumstances of which theya ignorant.
can bind posterityl" We are forcibly re-
of remark of the late SYDNEY SMITH,
lioh we shall close this article. He says:
hear any man talk of an unaIterable law,
y effect it produces upon me, is to convince
he is an unalterable fool"
l man becomes perfect, when society is i'm
and finished to such degree, as that the
to-day should be the law of tomorrow.
and mutability of men and
re blotted out of our vocabulary, and the
d the name pass away together, when we
be men, and are transferred to a state in
iere is emo varableness nor shadow of turn,
hen society has arrived at that state in
avs are not necessary to protect the good
rain the wicked, in other words, when laws
nan government have ceased to exist, then,
till then, can laws be immutable, for then
| have ceased to be.
,REcK AND Loss OF LiFE.-The Mobile pa
ltion report that the ship Erin Go Bragh,
,ton to Mobile. was wrecked on the south
opposite. the Shell Banks, during the late
SHE has no passengers, but her crew of IS
c all lost but two. This is the report Civ
no such ship appears in the lists on that
The ship, or a ship, called "Erin Go
has sailed from Liverpool bound for Pana-