The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-06-03
NO. 283.

ed Governor OF this State in his inaugural,
says:
The loyalty Of Pennsylvania TO the nation
al Union cannot be doubted She is now. as
she ever has been, for the Constitution and
its Compromises. She will maintain and exc
cute, in letter and spirit, the several adjust
ment aspassed by the late Congress
on the subject Of slavery
There is little slurring here Of the Whis-
key Rebellion" but let that pass The pas
sage reads well, and sounds well. Pennsylva-
MIA is for the Constitution and its Compro-
misses What State is not
But further: In maintaining the ComprO-
mise, she will not disturb the law fixing the
boundary of Texas and giving that State
Sl0000,000; for the law is a fixed fact and
the money paid She will not eject California
from the Confederacy; she will not repeal the
law establishing a Territorial Government in
Utah she will not re-establish a slave market
in this District and we all know that she will
execute the Fugitive Slave Law. because she
did 30 at Christiana and the way she did it is
a caution to persons pursuing slaves under diff
hcult circumstances.
But, practically, what Is this gubernatorial
rodOmontade of Pennsylvania worth to the
South 10 the city of Philadelphia your officers
cannot arrest fugitive without first getting
him into custody on false charge of an Of
fence against the State laws. AT Christiana
your marshal and his posse are driven at full
speed through a cornfeld and the claimant
shot dead At Harrisburg a fugitive is arrest
ed in the night, and tried before daybreak, for
fear of the populace and at Columbia the Off
Ger, unable TO make an arrest kills the negro
and then runs away. And vet the Governor
tells us that the people of Pennsylvania are
sound upon the subject, and upon such sound
ness her favorite son is commended to the sup
port of the South.
The difficulty of enforcing laws against the
convictions the prejudices if you please OF
people, is not confined to the North. Listen to
the following, taken from q recent number of
the National Inteiigeneer
'Dr. Thomas Hunt, who killed j. w Frost,
in a duel last summer, Mt New Orleans was
brought up for trial on Thursday last with the
seconds, on charge of murder, when Judge
Larue refused to sit in the case, and excused
himself Judge Buchanan was sent for, but he
was engaged Judge Strawbridge was sent for,
and he was indisposed The district attorney
then said that he could not try the case with
out Judge He therefore entered mol. pros,
and the accused was discharged"
The circumstances of the case are unimport-
ant to my purpose. 1t is sufficient that no court
could be found even to 90 through the forms
Of trial of person charged with murder, when
it was justified by popular opinion.
When the Compromise as political test shall
have had its brief day, when the people shall
look in vain for its woodworking power OF
quoting agitation, when they shall ind the
promises Of benefit to the North and South
alike false, depend upon it, the South, yes SIR,
the South, mil ask for repeal or modification Of
the Fugitive Sldpe LaW. And this Compromise,
as it has been described, is said to be a settle
ment, a final settlement, of the slavery ques-
ton, with all its adjuncts; and the North is
told that it must hereafter forever hold its
peace. A question which the Almighty has
established in the frosts and SHOWS and chilling
winds of the North, compelling industry,
making slave labor Improbable, and greatest
| Of all temporal blessings, making white labor
respectable and in the burning heat and reek-
ing miasmas Of the South, making white labor
reluctant if not improbable, is settled, is it by
| Congressional enactment? Believe it not AS
it was in the beginning, and is now, so 1t ever
shall be question--an open question, de-
batable and debated question-not for any
miscbievous purpose of disturbing the quiet OF
| tut OUutH. ~ utNCI DtSh soi ouNf
purpose at the North Not for the purpose
Of making it test of patriotism or party
fidelity-it has never been moved for that
purpose at the North certainly not for i'm
pairing the constitutional rights of the South,
or avoiding the constitutional obligations of the
North No discussion for such an object has
ever been sprung by the North. But Whenever
and wherever this question assumes shape
4 Ill L.. ,tuta,. al I'm
tional, and individual rights of Northern free
men, then and there I'VE will debate with you
upon this theme until our eyelids will no longer
wag
The Compromise certainly has not suffered
by the modesty of its supporters for the world
is grayely informed that It has saved the Union
of these States Partisan assurance can no
further go Such draft on popular credulity
is nowhere accepted Mt the North. Proud OF
the history of the past, confident in the promises
of the future convinced by every days report
| that our Government is the admiration Of the
world, our country the hope Of the good among
all nations, the North has rested quiet in the
strong belief that the Union has never been in
danger and this belief was confirmed when
they were told that it had been saved by the
Compromise for when patient is cured by n
pill of bread the inference is strong that his
disease was rather imaginary than real.
There is something peculiarly lovely and in
terestng in the character Of little child so
much 80 that the more il il studied the more
interesting does it become.
The Saviour Of the world loved little chill
dren, and selected one as q model for his follow
ers Few persons, comparatively, give its char
htol. IN nd Fam
seem 10 think Christ meant what he said when
those words fell from his lips" Except ye be
converted, and become us little children" &C.
Let us take n glance at the character Of q
little child The present seems oil with which
it has to do no sad regrets Of the past cast a
gloom over its cheerful spirit No anxieties rs
TO the future no distracting cares, distressing
doubts OF forbdding fears, ruffe the stream
of happiness that glides on aud on in that joy
Gus heart No sense Of guilt darkens that sunny
brow, no burning tears Of shame dim the
brilliant eyes, which speak Of purity and in
nocence within. The child is happy, and as
free from care as the little warbler that fits
through the heavens
II is true n tear, nay, many tears are seen
upon its cheek ut times; but they are like the
droppngs Of the sunshine shower. An object
Of terror may present itself, and cause alarm
but mothers kiss and soothing tone can drive
it oil away. The child may have to. walk
through the dark, but it matters not how thick
the darkness; If it be held by a parents hand,
there il not doubt but that arm is sufficient
ly strong to protectt Should dangers threaten,
let IL but nestle in the bosom which gave it
life, and all is well But the sweetest trait in
all its character is its humility, Of which we
have not time or ability TO speak II is also
docile, teachable In short, Il is such as we
must become in spirit, TO inherit the kingdom
Of God.
To the eloquent divine, the far-famed philan-
thropist, the man Of towering intellect, the self
ccnceited parsonage who esteems himself moth