Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-03-20

in the last resolution to himself and others, by
reafirming the Baltimore platform, which de-
cIarod the Compromise measures Of 1850 a
final settlement Of the Slavery question: and
opposed further agitation Of the subject.
at is evident there is strong feeling setting
in against the Douglas bill. Revolutions en-.
dorsIng it would have been introduced and
adopted, had not those in favor Of it counted
noses, and found the result would he failure.
The fact that il was not done argues some
thing at least for the feeling in the party
against the bill.n
The Puritan Recorder, a long-established
weekly, published at Boston, is the organ OF
the most conservative class Of New England
Calvinists IL delights in proclaiming it's con-
servatism, and hes distinguished itself Us q
friend Of the measures Of 1850 to which the
name of Compromise was then applied At
present it takes. as decided a part against the
Nebraska fraud as Garrison's LiberGtoy.
New York EUening Post.
How many New England papers or periodi
GALS are there, not in the receipt Of patronage
from. the General Government that do not de-
nounce this scheme Of infamy? Past pledges
are forgotten by tho South. Past receptions
cannot be forgotten by the North!
ny-A subscriber desires us to print the fol
lowing form Of petition.-Ed. Era
TO the Senate and House of Representatives IN
Congress.
We, the undersigned, inhabitants OF Seneca
county, State of Ohio, and citizens Of the
United States believing that the God-given in
alienable rights to life, liberty, and property
are recognised and guaranteed to all persons,
in the fifth article of amendments to the Con-
stitution of the United States, So, therefore
respectfully pray your honorable bodies to pro-
hibit by legal enactment the violation Of said
rights in all Territories organized, or to be or
due process Of law as defined by the sixth and
seventh articles Of said amendments.
RESCUE OF AN ALLEGED FUGITIVE SLAVE AT
MILWAUKEE,.
KENosHA, WISCONSIN, March -, 1854.
To tie Editor of the National Era,
We have not probably had one fourth the
"noise and confusion" that 30 unfortunately
prevented Gen. Cass from replying to the inter
rogatories of the Cleveland people upon the
subject of harbor improvements, but there has
Wisconsin, consequent upon the arrest of q
man near Racine, on the Lake under the Fu-
gitive Act Of 1880 The Marshal came down
from Milwaukee day before yesterday and
made the arrest. Notice was given by tele-
graph to the colored people Of this place, and
they armed themselves, and patrolled, during
the night, the different avenues Of travel lead
ing south and west from this city, to intercept
the parties, should they attempt to 60 south or
west with the fugitive. The Marshal, howev-
err, took his captive to Milwaukee, and placed
him in the Milwaukee Jail.
Upon these facts transpiring, public meet
ing was held OF Racine, and one hundred men,
as we are informed by telegraph left on the
afternoon boat for Milwaukee. Upon their ar
rival in the latter city, they were joined by q
large force Of citizens of Milwaukee, and all
proceeded, arm-in arm, without noise or cOnfu-
sion, to the Jail, broke it open, set the captive
free and indeed sent him home to the bosom
of his family, where he will unquestionably be
fully projected.
The iberating party was composed of first
class citizens, and they carried with them no
arms OF "weapons of warfare;n but such was
the moral force of the company, that all oppo-
sition was overcome without bloodshed, or the
interchange of single blow.
The Nebraska bill has awakened senti-
mcnt here, not noisy or vehement but deep
and that viii DO enduring. The Fugitive Law
and the introduction Of the Nebraska bill have
done more to weaken the moral power with
which the South held the North in the protec-
ton Of their institution, than thousand years
of SHINING in the line Of Slavery could other
wise have DONE
The mantles of Washington, Madison, and
other political Elijahs of the South, must have
fallen upon sad race of politicians in the
slave States. They have no science in states
manship. They may be compared to the blind
Samson who pulled down the temple upon.
his own head. III. W.. s.