Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-03-11
Illinois a Slave State .

distinguishes her, the most infamous of all the
States the Union.
South Carolina mas now bow her head, and hang
her harp upon the willows. Illinois goes be-
yond her, in unconstitutional, nhospable inhuman,
God delyiug legislation, and stands up before the
civilized world, as the cyno>ore Of those Republi-
can States, from which nations may learn the way
to be infamous, without knowing how to think
shame.
This law Of Illinois permits shareholders to car
ry their slaves through the State 1t confers upon
them the right Of transit, which the Doughfaces of
New Y ork were anxious to confer upon Lennon
and hts slaves. The 'hee soil' Of Illinois cannot
now, Under any circumstances, become free to a
slave. i his master carries him into the State, he
can hold him. Ifhe enters it, himself, he can be
seized imprisoned, and finally sold again into sa-
very, to reimburse the great republic Of Illinois
for the trouble Of deriving him of his liberty.
This, however, IL only one Of the abominable lea-
tures Of this, Called law.
any colore1 citizen Of Massachusetts or any 9TH
er free State, having fourth part Of negro blood
IN his veins enters Illinois and remains there for
ten days, he is liable fine of fifty dollars; and if
he does not pay said fine, he shall be sold at auction
as SLAVE.
Think of these things, and think of the provision
of the Constitution, which says that the citizens of
ihe several States shall have all the rights of cit-
zens ia each of the States. The legislature Of Iii.
n9is assumes the right to dispose of the liberty OF
certain of our fellow citizens, in direct defiance Of
this Constitutional law; and it will not allow them
to pursue their legitimate business, over the borders
OF Illinois. The Constitution is pleasant fiction,
out there. They read it in law libraries, but they
do not put any confidence in its statements or prin,
cples. The human auction block the yoke of bond
age, and the slave pen, seemingly more german
TO the aspirations and principles Of Illinois democrat
cy, than the principles Of the Declaration Of Iude.
pendence, the institutions Of freedom Illinois
is now, by her own act, a slave State
The Boston Courier Attributes this circum-
stance to the Free Suffers and Aboiioniss. -
The Courier SAYS it is consequence of anti stav-
ry agitation. One would suppose the Courier to be
joking, it possible for that paper TO indulge in
such pleasant pastme But as it cannot nke. of
course, it is terribly in earnest when it makes This
charge Il says that Free Sellers and Aboionists
have encouraged slaves to away, until Illinois is
burdened with negro parpers, aud that it is to pro-
tect herself, that that Commonwealth makes her
present stringent statute. OF course, the Courier
considers the Legislature Of Illinois jusfabe in the
course it has pursued and probably would be pleased
il Massachusetts would sell into slavery the whole
Irish population of our State, because Irish crowd
our almshouses in tenlod greater proportion than
colored paupers do those Of Illinois. The buman-
ty, JUSTICE or Christianity OF the act does not seem
TO occupy The Courier's attention for moment If
il pays in Illinois 10 do this thing then, according TO
the logic of the Courier she has sufficient right and
cause to do it.
The Courier thus explains the philosophy of DR.
Dewey's declaration, that he would send his mother
to slavery if the law provided he should do so; and
it also lets US the holy, pious pure, benevolent
source from which has issued all those clerical ex
pressions Of admiration for slavery and The Fugi-
tive Slave Law, which have rung from the pulprts
for The last three years.
DIR Dewey SO hates slavery, that he would send
his mother into it to abolish it; and DR. Dewey's
clerical confleres eager to abolish slavery that
they cannot give sufficient xpresson to their admir-.
alton oil the laws made to sustain it; neither can
they find language bitter enough, with which to
stigmatlze those who profess TO believe that Gods
law is higher law Than the slave law
The Courier says, that the legitimate consequent
&c Of bearing testimony against sin and crime, is the
increase thereof, and, of course, it must also main
tam the converse Of this proposition which is, that
the legitimate consequence Of encouraging crime is
lis dlminullon. According 10 the Courier's moral
philosophy, the Savior OF men was encouraoino
wickedness,w hen he rebuEed the Scribes and Pbar-
asees, and called sinners TO repentance.
l he inference to be drawn froIn the reasoning Of
the Courier, is, that if he had acted like those emf
inenl Christians, DR.. Dewey, and Daniel Webster,
everybody, in these days, would have been as good
as he could be, and freedom humanity and mile-
eial gladness would have filed the world with their
glorious presence.
But We understand why The Courier wishes to
throw the responsibility Of this law of Illinois upon
Free Solers asd Abolitiopsls. We know the Sc.
cret OF Its present stupid mode of reasoning Ii still
Possesses one spark Of human feeling, and some
sense OF shame. IL knows that Daniel WeEster's
9Th Of March speech begal the Fugitive Slave Law:
the Fugitive Slave Law begat the two Baltimore
platiormsi and The two Baltimore platforms b,eat
the recent Slave Laws of California and Illinois,
The whole brood of tyranny and oppression are
traceabs to the ftnpendous apostacy Of The Courers
idol, and il knows IT. 1t is this account, there.
fore, that il denounces this act Of injustice and cru.
city az Tho work Of Free Sellers. II knows where
She guilt belongs, but is too cowardly to own ii.
Does the Courier know that there is an armed
expedition now on lis way from the United States 10
Japan, 10 call the japanese to account for law sim.
liar TO that Of Illinois, but far less atrocious, mas
much as il does not apply TO their own counirymenl
we should like for the Courier to tell US whether
'he friends or enemies Of slavery responsible for
ine Jaw Oh Japan. II it does not know, we would
ADVISE 4 to Consider the subject.
WIN Dc sad day Cor the world when there are
not men IN H. good enough and brave enough 10 do.
nounce and defy uojus, laws We tros, n God Inn.
such day Of shame and saInes. will nsvsr ,h,o,s
It's shadow on THIS continent, not~itbs,sad,,n ~.
responsibility which the Cauri., .a,,, % -