Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-06-01

on the false charge OF breaking open Jeweiier
shop, dragged off to the Court House, and there
kept Under strong guard through the night.
The next morning he was brought before Com
missioner Loring, ia Lecturer in the Cambridge
Law School y for a hearing, when sundry
Southern certificates and affdavits were produced
to prove Burns Slave, who absconded from his
master last winter. By this time, the friends
alike of Burns, the rights Of humanity, and the
laws of Massachusetts, for the first time becom-
ing apprized of what was going on, promptly
repaired to the Court House, supplied Burns
with counsel, and presented so determined a
front for securing him the trial which the laws
of the state guarantee in such cases, that they
at length procured an Adjournment of the trial
to the next day.
Meanwhile the news few in all directions,
everywhere producing the deepest excitement,
and everywhere eliciting the indignant response
-" No NONE FuGITWE SLAVES OFT OF BoSToN "
And the result was, that, about ten O'Clock on
Friday night, a large and excited crowd, gath
cred round the Court Heuse, assailed and forced
open one of the doors; when the hireling gangs
of the Custom House, who had been procured
to guard the alleged Fugitive, deliberately fired
upon the crowd: but instead of hurting any
one without, killed, by their careless shooting,
one of their own number within, a Custom House
teamster, by the name of Batchelder. This
seemed to produce pause on both sides, and
the best opportunity of rcscuing the prisoner
was lost : for in a short time three military COM
panies, ordered out by the mayor to preseve the
peace, including an Irish company, who were
known to be on the side of dcpotism, arrived at
the scene of action, when the crowd sooa drop
ped off, and at length wholly disappeared.
While these things were Transporting, an i'm
mense gathering of more than 5000 of the best
men of Boston and vicinity, in pursuance of u
call circulated the day previous, assembled at
Fancuil Hall, and organized by the apointmcnt
Of George r. Russcll, President; DR.. S. G..
Howe of Boston, and eleven Others from the
neighhorins towns, Vice Presidents, and w. l..
Bowdich and r. Morris, Secretaries. After u
number Of bold and determined speeches from
Theodore Parker, Hon. T. w. Bird and others.
all breathing spirit of defiance to the uncon-
stitutional and'despotc Fugitive Slave Law, at
tempted to be enforced fresh on the daaninr
outrage just conslmmated at Washington, DR..
Howe offered the following resolutions, which
were passed unanimously, and with u will:
Resolrcd, That the people of Massachusetts
having declared in the first article Of their Con-
situation, that Z" all men are born free and equal
and have certain natural, essential and naien-
lights are roclnnly bcand to stand by their
declarations, by refusing to recognize the exist
cnce eff any mpn as a slave on thcsoil of the old
Bay State.
9 That the perfdious seizure of Anthony
Burns, in this city, on Wednesday evening last,
en- the lying pretence of having committed a
crime against the laws Of this State-his i'm
prisonment as an alleged fugitive slave in the
Court House, under guard Of certain slave
catching ruiians-and his ontemplatcd trial as
Il piece Of property tomorrow morning-are
outrages never to be sanctioned, or tamcly SUBJ
mtted to.
g. That the time has csme to declare, and to
demonstrate the fact, that no slavo-hunter can
carry his prey from the Commonwealth OF Mas
sAchusetts. -
t. 4. That, lin the language of Algarnon Syd-
ney.) 90 that which is not just, is not law, and
that which is not law ought not to be obeyed -
., That, leaving every man to determine 70,
bimself the mode oil resistance, we are united
In the glorious sentiment as our Reyolu tionary
fathers Resistance to tyrgnts is obedience tu
Cod
i. That Of all tyrsnts who have ever cursed
the earth, they are the most cruel and beastl v
who deny the natural right of a man to his own
body-of II father to his own child-of hus-
band to his own wife whose traffic is in bu-
man flesh and blood and in broken hearts: WIN
defend chattel slavery us u divine institution
and who declare it to be their unalterable pur-
pese indefinitely to extend and forever to perpet-
uate their internal cppessien.
7. That as the South hes decrced, in the late
passage Of the Nebraska bill, that no faith is ia
be kept with freedom 50, in the name of tie
living God, and on the part of the North, VIC
declare that henceiorth and forever, no coinpro.
mis4s should be nadewith Slavery.
s. That nothing 50 well becomes Faneuil Hal
as the most determined resistance to bloody
and ovcrshadowing despotism.
y. That it as the will of God that every man
should. be free we will as God wills; Gods will
be done.
TO- That no mans freedom is safe unless all
men are free.
To all which, we heartily respond amen, and
sincerely hope to hear that in this, and every
other case of the kind, all those resolutions
have been carried out to the letter. After the
late outrage at Washington against faith, free.
dom, and the will of the people, we say, with
one of the resolutions of this fearless and nat.
riotic meeting-not alone from Massachusetts
bat from the whole free NORTH, let no slave.
hunter hereafter escape with his prey! Let moi
another slave be carried off to the pirate South
no, not one We have sworn to support the
Constitution, but we have never sworn to sup
Psrt soch oatrages upont as this Fugitive Slave
Law. And whatever hesitation we NAV have
had before, about the duty of acquiescing il
tha' law, We have none now and we hone t,
sec 1t trAmpled pndcr foot by the insaltcd peopl,
lii eN cry Stale from Maine to Missouri IT, !;
time tie South had began to taste the fruit o
The tree Of their own planting. We have writ
tn what we have written.
LATER OF THE BosToN SLAVE CAsE.-After tn,
friends and counsel of Burns had wholly (ailpt
of any aid for him, through the different lega
processes that had been got out, they finally in
d"ccd Commissioner Loring to adjourn the hear
ing to Monday. In the mean time, they hac
obtained terms for tie purchase of the freedom
of Burns, Of the claimant, Suttle, who promised
to let him go for $l2OO-which, in very few