Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-02-23
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WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY %. 1858
A model thinker Govern or.

kidnappers can come north from mason anu D'"'
on's line and kdnap, steal, and murder, Pennsylva-
mans il they please, and Governor Bigler will lie
quite reasonable and easy about it. II the State
officers should apprehend them, and if the Judiciary
should try them, aad condemn them impr sonment
for kidnapping or killing any free and independent
Pennsylvania, Biger will make it all right in a
trice. He'll pardon them right away, and feel glad
Of the chance to do so, If they kidnap and murder
and get out Of his jurisdiction, ''his exceency' will
feel quite released, and will seek to disturb
them
He has exploded that idea about the magistrate be-
ing "error TO evildoers and praise to those who
do well - He has shown that this notion, with great
many other notions, borrowed from books which are
written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, about rulers
and magistrates, aye mere ictions. He has demom-
moustrated that magistrate is a peljmer and an
abeuer of murder, mansaugher, and treason.
model governor this-and origi al governor. Is not
he! But let turn to proofs Of these grave al
legations. 1t is grevious thing to be able prove
them in the face of theories of religion, and of
political prescriptions. But it is more grevious
still, to know that there many amongst us, who
sustain this person in his deeds Of shame.
In the month of April, 1852, a man named Will
liam Smith was set upon by TWO ruflians from Mary.
land, while he pursuing his business in the
wood yard OF NJ. Sener in Columbia, Lancaster Co.
Pa. One of these rufians, named Ridgey, drew
pistol and deliberately murdered Smith, then fled to
Maryland.
Do you suppose that Gov. Bigler ordered an in
vestgation OF this to take place, and sent
requisiton to the governor of Mary aud to deliver
up Ridgey? No, he did not, He paid not the least
attention 10 it. The governor of Mary land, prob
ably more OF Journalist than the worthy Bisler de
puted two lawyers TO investigate the matter. They
found out hat Smith was respectable man, that
he owned real estate, was a good husband, and
spectacle and respected father They found out,
toe, that the laws of Pennsy lvania, theoretically,
took cognizance OF the crime of murder, and that
Ridgely was indctable. They went TO Gov. Biger
however, and he made it all right. He ddnot con-
slider it murder, 1t was just accident. Rdgely
might draw his pistol, couk it, and taking delber.
ate aim, fire, but then it only niger, and,
of course, was nothing but an accident. In the
words of the Maryland deputies, ''Governor Bigler
convinced that It was an accident and SO the un-
fortunate affair settled.''
In December, 1851. several ruffans from Mary
land, stole from w. Lancaster, Chester Co., Pa two
free girls, Elizabeth and Rachel Parker. Joseph
c. Miller, an honest, respectable farmer nterposed
to prevent Rachel from being sold into perpetual sla
very, and he was murdered Gov. Biglcr never
made the least movements either to rescue the girl,
or to do justice to the family Of the murdered man.
Rachel Parker lay, for year, in Mary land Jail,
and J. C. Miler's corpse laid in an untimey
grave; but VIM. Biger was easy about these things
The mother of the girl, and the widow and orphans
OF Mr. Miller might go distracted, and might demand
that he, the governor, should vndicale their coun.
try's laws, but Bgler was not 10 be moved by them
and he did nothing about it. The kdnappers f
Rachel Parker have now been indicted for mar
stealing, by the Grand Jury of Chester Co.. hut the
governor has not made any attempt secure theiwo-
man thief, Macreary and his accompcies. He proba-
bly, regards the indictment as nothing more than a
legal fiction.
About a fortnight ago, a person called "Commo-
dore Mayo" an officer in tae American Navy, at
tempted to kidnap man, named Richard Neal.
from Pennsylvania; and though detected in the act,
and prevented from concentrating his yillainy Big.
Ter has not sought to disturb the heroic reyeries
which must dignity and solemnize Mayo's presentre.
tirement. He has sought to ascertain the ex-
act extent Of his right 10 steal Pennsy lvaniaos.-
Commodore Mayo had no claim upon Neal, for SER
vice or labor. Meals wife and children had once
been "held" by Mayo; but he had soll them, and
he had the price of their blood entered in his cash
book, and had probably gembed it away. He vas
a mean, malignant "Commodore," however, and
wished to get the husband Of his late slave. woman
into his power, to sell him, doubt, and he stole
him. lie came into Pennsylvania and seized the
man under false pretences. He was detected when
on the Threshold Of slavedom, and fed. But he
did not need to lee,-Goy Bigler has TOO high re-
spect for "Commodores' who are shareholders and
man-stealers to question their right to tample
on the sovereignty of Pennsylvania. and steal and
kill as many of her citizens as they please. Com
modore Mayo bad only TO remember, that Albert,
who was found guilty Of being habitla man.slea.
er, and was sentenced 10 the penteniiary for ten
years, for kidnapping woman and her child, was
pardoned by Bigler. The Governor who refused to
vindicate the dignity and sovereignty of the State
whose laws he swore TO maintain, and who took no
action in relation to the murders Of Smith and Mil.
Ter, the kidnapping Of Parker and Neal, allowed
bis congenial sympathes 10 flow out towards Alber-
IL, the kdnapper, and he opened the prison doors,
and sent him forth again to kidnap
Did we not say truly, when We stated thar this
man had exploded the ancient ideals Of "lhe magic.
rate.2" A Roman heather, named Seneca, speak.
ng to you'll, in the pages Of the classics, says
hat the greater man is in power above Others the
more he ought 10 excel them in virtue; and Cyrus,
who was Persian heather, and despotic emperor,
declared that one ought to govern, who was not
etter than those be governed. Iflhese aphorisms
vere TO be construed facts, in relation to William
IigIer and Pennsylvania, what an unlathomable
mount Of neanness would be found 10 belong 10 the
tizens Of the once virtuous State Of Pennsylvania
We take comfort in the assurance that this IL not The
CT, however Il il very deporable, truly that 10
ese days, the meanest Of men do sometimes get to