Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-10-12

home of hapess misery and agony. venr af,or ve,p
after we shall have mouldefed into dust. and will h
sending up the prayer of agony, because vou hav
solemnly wied that il shall be So New York 8,
stands upon the record, and long as the history
this government forms part Of lie archives of time
New York will stand in this position UPON tie bao,
4 of the counirys history Ybu gave up the who'll
100000 and said YOU. were Indifferent 10 be sur
you had some prejudices but you conquered them
You had something which you thought was principle
but you mistaken.
Well, having had the controversy, and having DIV
en- up the whole would suppose that would have
been the end of it, and that the South would be sat
isfed. Two parties claim parts of this same piece
of land, and one gives up every inch of il to the 9TH
err and is there anything left Yeg, yes The
South is not YET satisfied. They found you in civ.
ing mood and they ask something more You gave
them up the 500 900 square miles for slave pasture
and they said to you this is large country and we
shall find it very hard to keep our slaves on it, and
you must give a fugitive slave law by which
we can reake them easily whet thoy fun away
Well" says New York, " HAT is reasonable,
think yoH ought to have that" Laughter And YOU
sat down and made the new Fugitive Slave law. =
What next do they ask "Give up the right of trial
by jury" New York is sober about that Her peo-
pie have some long standing preudices upon that sub
IeC'' Dut you Ihlst give lnem up. - very well,
let them go Qets see, this is conpron.i5e, ain t
itD New York would not give them up, unless it
was compronise-But it is a compromise, aud let
them go.'
Says the South, there is that old fashioned thing
called the writ of Habeds Corpus 1t is an ugly thing
/ IN the way of catching slaves, Give that up
" hat is an old thing" answers New York, (which
our fathers and great grand fathers brought from Eng
land with us, and our people always had supersti-
tious reverence for it,. I" No natter" says the
South, " it is bad Thing in catching slaves Give
1t up. 1t is compromise, you know" And so
you gave up the trial by jury, and the right of the
hdJeds corpus. Is there anything else - say YOU
ifor we do not seem to have any thing else to give"
Laughter go yes" says the South, you know
we must have amongst us those who make it their
business TO catch runaway slaves and who carry on
their business to perfection They have blood hounds
to catch slaves at much day. Now these hounds
are good around plantation, and serve the purpose
very well, but it is difficult to take them far from
home. We cant take blood hounds from Mississippi
to New York" "And what do you propose to do
about it ~ says New York g O,il1 That y6t riion
of New York shall be the blood hounds for us-.that
is all. [Great laughter You must agree whenever
called upon, no matter what you are about, to give
up your employment and join in the pursuit." Says
New York, 81 did not think of this at first TLaugh-
teri But guess give that up too and put it
into the law" So all good citizens are commanded
TO aid in the prompt execution of this law. Now
you begin 10 think the South has got through No!
What then! "Why, you must make fdelity.iadhd
OF goou ferIosd~t A. r .--i-;sian church.
es. Every man who wants TO maintain his standing
in the party in the church, and be respected by all
good citizens, must swear by the fugitive slave law"
" WELL" says New York, "pcH go Hr' laugh
teri
These are the things which you have done, and
how does it operate! Suppose man in the slave
States has lost slave and let suppose that slave
is a white girl. o yes, you say, suppose case
which has no existence" Not so. l hav eseen girl
slaves white any child in this house, and you
will when they advertise them, the advertisement
will say that they will undertake to pass for white
and unless examined very critically they will deceive
if it were possible the very elect" [Laughter.l
Well let me suppose that one of these slaves es-
capes, and to carry the case along to show the con
trast, suppose horse has gone off with it, The
owner Of these two pieces of merchandise finds out
that they have made their way out here into Onondaga
county. The owner TO set in operation a sys-
TEN Of measures by which he may rcake them legal
ly. lie goes 10 the Commissioner, and this Com
missioner reads 10 him the law-it is very plain
law He gets description of the slave accurately
describing the age, color, hair, marks, how many
teeth knocked ont, how many toes and fingers cut Off
etc With this record authenticated just the fugi-
tive slave law requires, he prepares power Of Attor
ney for his agent, or goes himself When the papers
are prepared, he says, esquire, have lost horse,
ALSO" The squire informs him that nothing is said
in the law about taking horses, but certainly 1t can
not be any m0te difficult to take horse, than it is to
take girl, and he thinks it will be abundantly safe
10 describe the horse just as he did the girl. He
i
girl, | can the horse also" Well, he goes with
these papers to New York. He finds the horse first,
and he goes up to the person having him in possession
and says, I'll take that horse. | have the record
here all made out exactly according 10 law the Flu
gtive Slave Law" But the is not disposed to
give up the horse quite readily. He says (" that
is the fashion Of taking horses here in New York.
You must have trial of the title by jury, or you
cannot have him." Says the stakeholder, SIS that
so 7" He begins to find that is so, and that he
not take horse out of New York upon such papers
as that No, no New York. in the plentitude Of
her power dignity and regard for the sacred rights of
property, protects horses, and throws around them
the shield of the trial by jury and horse can be
severed from the husbandmans pillow, or taken from
the harvest field, except upon trial by Court and
Jury. God bless New Yotk for the with which
she protects her horses. Laughter. Well, my
friends, the h6rse is safe thanks the integrity OF
the law and he shall contnue to be your servant to
do your work just as long as you please.
! That being disposed Of, he takes from his pocket
another bundle of papers and says, 81 can take the
girl at any rate" Now you feel abundandy strong,
as you have saved the horse you laugh at the very
idea that man can take witness-God only knows
I who-carry him before somebody called a magistrate
God only knows where-and fix up his papers, and
then to the State of New York and take
away child born on the soil and entitled to its pro