The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-01-12
VOL. VIII.

NEVER AGAIN TO DISTURB THE PEACE or on.
CoMMUSlTY.'
What must the members Of the Sunrer,,
Court OF the United States say TO such Ian.
guage!p '1'''
If gross Misrepresentation were libel H..
would say that the editor of the Union va.
guilty OF fiagrant libel. The whole of tl
invective of Mr.. Summer is directed against -.
"SLAvE HUNTER,' and not against the man
"judge or magistrate called uuon to exec,,.
the law This the Union, if it read the snoo.l
from which it quotes, must have known
We transcribe the passage entire. as Il st,rI
in volume 2i page 4Os of the same edition ~,
Sumner S Orations and Speeches from wb.l.
the Union Processes to quote.
From humane, just and religious re.,,,.
shall spring Public Opinion, t. keen rcrn.,
ual guard over the liberties of all within,
borders Nay more, the flaming sword og,r
cherubim at the gates Of Paradise, turnjn, .
every side. it shall prevent any SLAyp
HUNTER from ever setting foot in this C,..
monwealth. Elsewhere he nay pursuc hi b.,
man prey he may employ his eongenial ll.,I
hounds, and exult in his successful game r.,
into Massachusetts he must not como An
yet again | say, counsel no violence Iv..lI
not touch his person. Not with wbin. s,,I
thongs would scourge him from the land H.,
contempt the Indignation, the abhorrep.. r.
the community, shall be our weapons Of dan.
Wherever he moves, ne shall find mo- bog..
receive him-no table spread to nourisb l.;,,
no welcome to cheer him. The dismal lot a.
the Roman exile shall be his. II, shall T..
wanderer, without roof fire, or iraier. Me-,
shall point at him on the streets anu on III,
highways.
"Sleep shall neither night nor day
Hang upon his pent- houS, lid.
He shall live man forbid.
Weary seven nights nine times nine
Shall he dwnde, peak, and pine"
"The villages, towns, and cities shall r.D,.,
to receive the monster they shall yonit him
forth, never again to disturb the rcroso Of III.
community
From all which it appears. that M
Sumner has not much more liking for I,r-
Hunter than many Southern gentlemen. Re-,
ollect all this invectiye is directed agair.,
the S'dUe Hunter-the words in the vo)pm.
being printed in large capitals-and vet the
Union suppresses this fact, omits the prtiop
of the extract in which Stare Haaieri ey
pressly named, and says explicitly that Mr..
Sumner is speaking of the man called upon
to execute" the law, whether he be Judge or
magistrate
The very next paragraph to this inyteti,e
shows so CLEARLY the meaning Of Mr. Sumner
that it seems impossible to excuse the rnos
on the score Of ignorance. The feelings he
says, with which we regard the Slave Hunt
er, will soon be extended also to all merccnary
agents and heartless minions, who, t11lt
any positive obligation Of lar, become part
of his pack. They are rol,mteers, and m
such, should share the ignOminy of the Cha
Hunter"
No one can fail to sec that the subjects
denunciation in both passages arc, not those
who are under positive obligation Of law
to interfere, but mere volunteer slayc-catcbcr,
But to exclude all caviI and expose fuly tn
grossness of the misrepresentation Of the
Union, we extract from The same speech 'rrl
page 405 of the same volume, precisely wha,
Mr. Sumner did say of those called upon to
execute the law, whether judge or magistrate
"Did the same spirit which inspired the f,.
theirs inspire our country now, the marshall
and every magistrate who regarded this Law
as having any constitutional sanction-lg1rH
resign, rather than presume to execute it,
This, however, is too much to expect from all
at present. But wiH not Judge them. r.
iheir opn conscieneeS ,OiH iedce them. Sure.
ly, no person of humane feelings, and with
any true sense Of justice-liying in land
where bells have tolled TO church. whatever
may be the apology of public station, can fail
to rccoil from such service
Now, remember, the Union in full view OF
this discrimination, which Mr.. Sumner draws
between those who are called and those who
are not called upon to execute the laws-'e-
tween the Magistrate and the slave Hunter
represents the vehement invectivc hurlei
against the latter, as having been aimed at tie
former, carefully emitting from its quotations
anything which would lead to a knowlej-" H
even suspicion of the Truth, as it isl
THE UNITED STATES AND MExIco--A de-
patch from this city is Published in various
Northern papers which states that treaty
with Mexico has been negotiated by General
Gadsden, and is now before the President the
first article of which provides that Mcz'o
shall give to the United States such a bouni
ary as will, enable Us to protect her from the
ncursions of the frontier Indians the second
provides for right Of way for a railroad 90
the Pacific, Gas a means of forming a coinmcr
.ial barrier against the attacks of the indians
the third provides for an abrogatiOn Of the .eG-
ton of the treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo when
guarantees the defence Of the frontier in con
'ideration of money given, which Is to be N
full of all past depredations; the fourth FRO.
vides for the specific enforcement of the Tchl'
antcpcc right of way; and the fifth contains an
proposition 20 the second article 70
the effect that Mexico shall cedc to the tnlted
States a boundary which will include the route
known in Lieutenant Parke's map az licrt
Col Cookies wagon route, extending nearly"
the 3lst parallel, and going due west, 80 ~ 10
give us large access of territory ana
taking in the whole Of TIC peninsula OF Lover
California, including Sonora, upon the Paym'h'
by the IT, States to Mexico Of fifty millions :"
dollars.
Doubt is thrown upon this statement ~
other writers, but we arc inclined TO think there
is some at least plausible basis for 1t.
ELIHu BURRITT-This learned and eloquent
aantleman is doing a good work in persistlng