Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-06


among public men in Washington, that the re-
cent display of very rampant abolitionism
with its characteristic attendants, in Boston -,
will do much to awaken the solid mind of all
the North, to the necessity for adopting syste-
matte measures to counteract the propensity
for isms which has SO afflicted New England of
late years, though never before rendering hui
man life and property so prccarious in that
quarter, as at pr esent. Boston's boast since the
foundation ofthe Government, has been her con-
servatism. That is, that it has stood the shock
of every attack from that day to this, without
for an instant being driven to the wall by any
other influence. Oflate years, however, many
of her most cons ervative minds have run into
the extreme of transcendentalism, which
backed by the idea of Boston's perfection in
all things, apparently SO got the upper hand
of common sense among them, for the time
being, as to generate the impression there that
her recent progress in newlightism, was safe
and sound progress. The result of the Shad-
rack slave case trials there, however, demon
strated that the jury box of Boston had become
so crazed with the prevalent isms, as to render
it certain that neither law nor Justice could
be relied on to hold sway in her courts in any
case wherein question involving New Eng.
land popular prejudice might be on trial For
half century, her press and book writers
have boosted that the resting place of law and
justice, under any and all circumst ances was
just there-which boast the Shadrach trials
proved to be unfoundsd. The Sims slave ease,
too, proved to the world that however we'll dis
posed large majority of her citizens might be
towards the due execution of all laws among
them, there is an element in Boston's popula-
ton, which makes the enforcement Of statutes
repugnant to that element almost as difficult
and uncertain there, as in portions of New
England where newlightism reigns supreme,
The circumstances attending these two trials,
awoke the 90 solid men of Boston," to compre-
bend the fact, that notwithstanding the self
adulation of Boston writers concerning Boston,
life and property are far safer in every parish
or district Of South Carolina, and law and JUS
tice are far more certain to be administered
by any South Carolina jury, than in Boston;
to cry down South Carolina for years past, as
a sort of second Algiers. The Shadrach and
Sims case warnings, however, walked up Boston
conservatism to the necessity of vindicating
the city's reputation in the recent fugi-
tive slave case occurring there; more es-
pecially after it was seen clearly in tho muir
| der of Batchelder, that the ismatic element in
her population was determined to carry out its
plan of substituting the dictates of its own
passion and prejudice, under the name of con-
science, for the deliberate judgment of the ex-
perienced and sworn officers of the law.
We have before explained the ciroumstanc es
leading US to believe that, last week, the great
excitement in Boston was in favor of securing
the due execution Of the law, and we may add
that it can hardly subside before it results il
| a concerted and powerful effort on tho part Of
| those in Boston who have much to lose by
anarchy, to speedily repress the growing ten
dency of affairs in New England in that dires
ton. 1t is undeniably true, that large pro
portion of the clergy of New England, including
| nearly all connected with one idea sects-sect
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lions, because their creeds are cut to suit neigh
borhoods and sections only-are rapidly verg
ing to practical infdelity. Thus, they set u,
| their prejudices Of the hour, DIS the sod the,
worship for the hour, and thus run mad, afte
first this and then that ism; not few Of them
though regularly ordained Christian ministers
uniting with avowed infidels in denouncing tn
Bible and Christianity, because they do no
justify and encourage them in submittin,
themselves wholly to the government of thei
own reason, in all such cases, by-the-by, 8
perverted as to induce plain and moderate mel
to regard them as almost insane enough +
make it better for society that they should b
locked up in mad houses, rather than suffere
to further infect the weak minded and enthu
siastic, who, under more sensible teaching
would be excellent members of society. Thi
disease of pe-fectionist- madness has been won
derfully on the increase in that quarter of lat
years. 1t first developed itself, if we remem
Der correctly, in the rise and progress of tn
chronological IGN. Anti-masonry was ais
its offspring. Second Adventism also was it
| Nhiiu. Dc Wcii DIS w Ouudu HISut
ism, and Abolitionisrl Indeed, every one
flea mania with which New England has bee
afflicted iu the last twenty years, may be traces
to that same Pandora's box. Steadily the
have been enciEcling largo masses under thsi
influence, the current ono of the day haviD
more devo; ees or victims than the one whicl
last preceded it, and tho same towns, in tn
same S ates, which were inoculated worst wit
the former, being sure to be inoculated ais
with the latter.
The result SO far, has been to at lengtl
Az AIKEN the cOnserv alive mind in the North t
the fact that without some check or balanc
is fostered in the Governm ent of the Unite,
STATES, passion and prejudice will not lon
hence come to hold undisputed sway over al
New England in place of law, right and JUS
tice. New England conservatism is beginnin,
to see that what it has been in the habit o
denouncing Of late years as the slavery ele
ment in the Government Of the United States
the influence of the SOuth-is, after all, thei
only safeguard against ultimate anarchy ant
mob rule, worse a thousand times over, thar
any despotism now existing under the name o
an organized, civilized Government
SO we shall soon have Boston standing forth
the defender and friend of the South, becaus,
1t will realize that the South must uItimatel,
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