New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-05
4 WORD TO ANTI-rUcITIvE LAW MEN


Ii behooves the Anti Fugitive Law men Of the
North to be wary in their conduct. They comprise
twcntiehs of the people in England and
NcW.IOrk, and an immense ma Ority IN the remaining
free States With this overwhelming preponderencc
of numbers they are able to accomplish any purpose
in regard 10 that enactment, that they choose Let
them not preeiItately throw away any Of their ad-
vantages by indiscreet conduct If they intend the
destruction of the present nhuman act in regard to
ugitiye let them set about it deliberately and system
aticaly. Ii cannot be done in freak of passion,
by tumuluOus assembages of unarmcd and morgan
lied men. But there ways in which that result
bereached. There are two agencies that accom-
plish it. One is the State Governments, and the 9TH
er is the organization of voluntary associations to re-
move the machinery by which the law is enforced
Either of these agencies will accomplish the object
and drive the slave hunters from the soil of the free
States.
We entertain no doubt that it is the intention of the
principal Nebraska leaders to precpitate bloody
contest with the people of the free States, whenever
they are able, under the CLOAK of putting down the
Aboltonists 1t is their design TO enforce acquies-
cence to the rule of the slave power by the bullets
and 5ayonets Of a nercenary sodiery Indeed this is
10 secret whatever. The widely circulated organ of
Slavery published in this City the Satanic Press,
openly declares thata sacrifice Of liberty is be made
"bg the scme measures that are used in monarchie0l
'.eounfries." Our columns, few days since, con-
tanned the announcement that southern member of
Congress and an exc Governor of Virginia, applied TO
the President to send United States troops to Dos
ton Doubtless Ex-Governor Smith desired to have
these from the South, and be Offered by the slave
drivers. Otherwise they might not be depended on in
desperate struggle of Freedom against Slavery.
Senator Douglas in his speech on the night Of
the final passage Of the Nebraska bill by the Senate,
in abiding to possible future resistance to the march
of the slave power to entire dominion over these
States declared his readiness to meet the friend OF
liberty on the ISSUE He used this insoent language
toward the friends of freedom in the Senate who had
dared to denounce the schemes of the conspirstors
and to boldly picture the real opposition in the free
States to the encroachment of Slavery:
Every murder that shall be committed, every drop Of
blood that shah be she'd every crime that shall be pepe
rated must rest with all Its guilt, upon your souls ana
only regret that the penalty Of the law cannot fall upon
the heads Of the nsgaors instead Of the instruments who
suffer themselves TO be acting under their advice.
He here coolly assumes that murder is to be COM
mitted that blood is to be she'd that crime is TO be
perpetrated in consequence Of the infamous schemes
he and his southern cOadutors have been concOcting
and of the issues he and they have raised on the sub
ect of Slavery. And he plainly intimates that the
people Of the free States have got to submit to all
the acgressions Of the Slave drivers, or be mown
down by the bullets of military force He only re-
eret that the friends Of freedom in the Senate cannot
be the first to fall in the contemplated butchery.
Mr.. Toombs has asserted that bloodshed is Deces-
ssry baptism Of all radical changes in a State, and
that it is to be expected in the present crisis.
Such are the sanguinary and atrocious views put
forth by the Nebraska leaders, from which, we shall
be blind indeed, not TO detect their diabolcal pur-
poses They mean nothing but conquest of the Anti
Slavery sentiment of the free States, BY force and
they are ready to pursue that object by the means
that tyranny has resored to, in all ages OF the
world to crush out the spirit of liberty. Let not the
friends Of freedom in the North. then, permit them
selves TO be precptated into any premature struggle