The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-27


swhie hs had to say to his former friends and
a'es coed bye He>would rather die than follow lheu
in amy such rule Of action.
fsben upon h N to defend tie Stass OF wSih hc was
representative He regretted that his prsecesssr Wa
not here to discharge that duty rsther than himself
Thi memorial was signed by over twenty aut hunfre,
OF the men of p ston Its signers wrtc the bone ane
Eipew Of the active business men of tbas city Ue
nothing in their petition either extraordinary or wrong
They simply asked for the of au nc, OF
onh Tour years old which act In addition 10 hs one
which mad been in force fifty years. Was there
treason in this Was it treason tc ask In ga
reaian act OF its makngy 1t was said shat there
Ntfe circumstances attending 1t which gs,e to Il
g'ta'er Ior ance. II ST. BY men who had ac
quesced IN the compromise II 1850 Of which
.ns ac' was one, but who moved to ask fur the
rsfa a this obnoxious law because Congress had re-
pesieo previous and long standing compromise The
speai o. the Miss our compromise he begged
she gentleman had created depth Of feeling 10 the
iree states entirely unrrt cedented and which would
Tor years to come 1t true that in
under this law, recently arrest made that an
ahray or riot took place and a homicid committed but
Il should be mbered that the constu ional author
tiles of Massachusetts and Boston took that matter in
band and disposed of it. Sudden tumults and aHrays
and voercs had occurred in other places than In ston
biz odshed riots or treason II was not rot IN recen
HAD It's Sgners such objects in view they would not have
.f' their petition open to the public gaxe at the Mer
chants Exchange expo to examination by the friends
AM n. opponent OF its prayer The feeling exist
m at the North was such had been inessed
before 1t was wide spread and unive rsal IT perveded
all professions and occupatons life The action o.
Congress at this session had produced feeling Whole
for tetonns against the repeal Of the Missouri com
mise He would soy to Senator's with all respect that
'he, gone too far to e cergy Of New England
sItke the sentiments OF the whole people they live
was for its repeal He supposed there would always
e found party i'll Massachusetts, ready and willing to
execute ~ olt its execution was against the sentiments
o. the people lie would say to the Senator that the
time bad gone by when any threat of dissolution Of the
Union, consequent upon the action of the people
OF the free States upon any measure, would deter
item from doing what they conceived to be right
Threats o disunon has ceased to be argument with
item either for or against any measure. The North
was devoted to the Union. They would adhere to It,
They would 60 with to wbs soeyer extent it was ex
tended but they did believe that this Union could be
dissolved Dsuniop was an i'm possible thing Why was
II that Congress- while extending the Union all direc
mGIs had nssi.etea the great ding igament Of
that great work and said that he bad no connection
with the meeting which had adopted the address,
though he fully agreed with the sentiments it uttered
Mr. JONES asked the Senator say how mar of these
seners who said to be the bone and snew Of Bos-
Was rot large number or them with treason in their
nc ana s.ives in hano engaged in the recent mob
Mr. RoCKwEI-I do not know that one was so en-
geged.
Mr. osEs asked If Wendell Phillips and Theodore Par
ker no had melted ignorant and infatuated people
TO resist the law and the constitution which they had
not courage or maniness enough do in person had
they nothing to do with these riots and these crys for
reIsal AS TO the clergymen Of New England he had
nothing to say. He never quarrelled with women or
cerpymen. pe transferred the fight with them to the
Senator Of Illinois. But he asked the Senator il he
believed the Union could last day after the repeal Of
the fugitive slave lawf
Mr. RoCKwEII-I have said already that dsunion was
an impossible thing.
Mr. JoNEs-I the Senator supposes that the South WIN
stand Ike and submit have their property tn
Een from them in violation of the constitution he is
much mistaken and knows very little of their character
The Union, without the constitution, would be worse
than slavery. Scorer than submit to such degradation
ano humiliation he would himself apply the terch to the
temple Of our union and perish in the ruins If the Sem
aorexrected fugitive slave law pealed or the
Miss our compromise restored, he might expect enjoy
long lifetime Neither one or the other act would the
Senator ever see
Mr. RRoDnrAp (dem) of Ga, said he dill not know
whether this quarrel between old friends ought go
or to stop For twenty Tennessee and Massachu
seits had been politically associated Presidential
elections. Tennessee had refused Gen. Case
lcr who refused to pledge himself against it
might secure Massachusetts If this quarrel end
Senate ,rght to take up other business NV 'A'
Mr. SUMNER, ree soiD of Mass said that he would be-
sn ~ ansxsTqg We the question whether the Union can
Unien could not exist without an act-law he Could hbe
call i-wbich outrages all principles Of humanity and
right did the Fugitive Slave law then the Union ought
not 10 exist he would ne not faow the d Senator to aS from
that Senator hrics had he slain his foes and thrice he
slew the slain. He sincerely hoped the people of the
North were not to be intimidated cajoled into
Abandonment of those great principles of freedom which
they han long been devoted TO- He hoped there would
be q backbone preserved to the North. He entirely
agreed with colleague the character of the
oralste Among them were those who had acquiesced
in ,be compromise measures OF 1850. there there
also those engaged In great mercantile interests 1t was
their great interest," which, in tho history Of England
twice checked the humane efforts of Wbeorce to break
up the African slave trade. II the same great in
tcre-t which, from sordd motives had, in the constitu
tion Of the United States kept for twenty years, the
the American people He had spoken against the Fugi
tive Slave law here and elsewhere. He free to
il For doing he would not throw himself upon
the judgment Senate fresh from the passage Of the
Nebraska act but would throw himself upon the judg
o. M ag % he n ss sn
avowed again the sentiments therein expressed He re-
fe1ed to the sentiments expressed in Faneui Hall by
Ctis, Adams ard others, preceding the revolution in
which they held that resistance to slavery obedience
t. Cod short distance from that sacred edi6ce, said
he and between and the court house where the dis
gushing rets of sacrificing human being to slavery
lately performed the spot which Arst mostened
by American blood in resisting slavery and among the
Grst victims was coored person. Near Boston
Concord and Lexington where that res'tan was
pated and it received its crowning glory at Bunker HILL
lie parallel between the resistance to the
stamp in 176e and the fugitive slave act Of 1850 He
further ,cntende that II former harmless meas
ure when compared with the latter.
Mr. Burr Err (dem Of c. said that his idea on this
question that there ought not to be any necessity
for o fugitive slave law Under the constitution, each
State OF itself ought to provide for the rendition of all M
gitves from labor to their masters. This certainly
The design Of the constitution He had listened to the
Senator who had presented the memorial and pleas
with bis There calmness and sincerity
ebosr his rks which required for them the highest
an Intense feeling at the Nor on this subject. While
he had objection to reference of the memoris he
in all frankness desired e if the hres
which he burning at the North, net to be
extinguisbed, what good Is TO he accomplished by re-
not to be repealed that will no. sat any person Who
demands IT'S repeal He urprscd to hear the other
Senator Mr. sumner indnige in such rhetorical displays
and bad TASTE doil credit to his own, that Of the
Senate His speech unworthy Of the Senate and Of
sch olar If he bad kept II wblsonger, and dressed 1t
up little it might have answered for Fourth of July
Grafton in localities He would remind the Senator
when Otis spoke in Fsneuil Hall, when Hancock acted.
and when Adams wrote they did so as the Representa-
ves Of sla, ehodipg state The appeals m"de in those
Gays Of Boston and Massachusetts, addresses to
| slaysholding States The of Massachusetts of
that day slavehoders and gentlemen. lie regret
| ted much the character Of the Senator's speech.
There great difference between 1t and that OF his
colleague One a calm, honest, sincre expression Of
belief and opnionthe other was false rhetoric declama
ton and incentive to rouse the worst Of the
infatuated people Of certain localities If the issue
come Indicated and the contest to be be-
tween the North and the South lot come and be divd
ed at once Let IL be considered argued, and disposed
Of calmly and without exciting appeals, dressed and
rhetorical display snch made by the Senator to-
cav He wouo like to ask the Senator If Congress re-
paed the fugitive slave law ywoud Massachusetts,