Washington telegraph., 1854-08-02
Connecticut Running Mad.


fanaticism of the people of most Of the
Northern States is urging their Legisla-
tors. No folly is too absurd and no iniqui-
ty is too sinful for abolitionism since the
termination of the recent fugitive slave case
in Boston. 1t balks at no barrier of law or
constitution 1t is attempting, under the
lead of impous ministers and insaney am
bilious politicians, to place the foot of the
Northern Goth upon the people of the neck
OF the South. 1t is stark mad rattle
snake in August is not more venomous.-
We have nothing to expect from it in the
future, unless sense of truth and Justice
should succeed the prevailing madness and
folly. The State of ofConnecticut is placing it
self at the head of the hosts of fanaticism ::
ard resolution has gone through its house
of representatives providing for an amend
ment of the constitution of the State in pla-
cling negroes, in the exercise of the right of
suffrage, on a footing of equality with white
persons. Nor is this all. The speaker has
been requested to invite negro preachers
to open the sittings of the House with
prayer in conjunction with white clereymen
of the Theodore Parker stamp. As there
is no accounting for tastes, we have no sort
of objection to the adoption of these customs
in Connecticut. Indeed. since the LAND of
wooden nutmegs'' has lost all of its Young
men by emigration South and West, the
Legislature of the State ought to improve
the social condition of the negroes, it ought
to make them equal to white men. The
Legislature ought not to stop until every
distinction of law and caste between the ne
gro and white citizens of that State are abro-
gated. No outsider will object to the
manner in which these matters of taste are
adjusted. But the folly must stop here
The people of the South will hardly submit.
to other legislative acts proposed by Con-
necticut. They will certainly retaiate
whenever such laws as these are found
among the statutes of the free States the
State of Connecticut has passed a bill, pro-
viding that hereafter no JAIL courthouse, or
other public building of that State shall be
used for the custoody of fugitive slave A
bill is also before the same body, which in
flicts fine of FIVE thousand dollars upon
any person who shall lay claim to fugitive
slave in that State, and shall fail to make
his claim good That such legislation is in
open defiance of the Constitution and
amounts to practical notification of the
fugitive slave law, and is intended as fla
grant insult to the South, there can be no
question 1t beats the notification coutem-
plated by South Carolina 1t renders the
Constitution of the United States inopera-
tive in the wooden-nutmeg State and it re-
peals, at the same time, law of Congress-
Connecticut is furious, Her acts of in
sanity will doubtless be declaration of war
against the United States, and the annexa-
tion of Hayti to the sovereign State of Con-
necticut. But seriously, and badinage
apart, the spirit which prompted this legisa-
tion is in the highest degree unpatriotic, in
cendiary and treasonable There can be
no excuse for men who thus deliberately
perjure themselves, and there ought TO be no
liberation for them On the part Of any right
thinking man in any section Of the Union
When Abolition fanaticism carries men to
such pitch of folly and crime, it. is time
for Aboitionists themselves TO begin to con.
slider whether there is any point at which i,
will stop-whether there is anything too
high or holy to escape its profane and pol
luting touch. The vileness of Abolitionism
every day proves itself to be boundess and
fathomess. These Connecticut Legislators,
however, have the credit of having gone
deeper into it than any other set of mad
men on the continent They are welcome
TO all the glory of the work they have done.
Memphis Eagle q. Enquirer.