Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-03

and his gang Of two hundred meu, armed with
swords and pistols, and by 200 United States
soldiers, all under cover of nine-pounder,
| which commanded the length of the street!
And thus was the Fugitive Slave Act en-
! forced.
Suppose Southern People weigh the conse-
auenoes OF this transactionf IL this offensive
interposition Of the Federal Power within q
sovereign State, a safe precedent Is this con-
slant resort to Standing Army, to enforce
an odious Federal enactment, favorable to the
stability Of republican institutions? When the
People Of the FREQ States, forgetting all their
divisions shall have united, and assumed the
possession of the Federal Government, and an
Anti Slavery Administration shall have com
mand of the army and navy, how. will they
like the precedents furnished by Pro-Slavery
! Administrations
| Mr.. Suite ha. got his fugitive back, but ut
what cost? How many Northern People have
been conciliated? How much opinion has
been manufactured in favor Of the Fugitive
act? How much Of the opposition to the Me-
braska Bill and the Slave Power which die
tated it. has been disarmedl How many Con-
servatives have, been won to the Cause Of the
shareholders? Their old allies in Boston hung
their heads for shame. Not voice was heard
in apology for an act, whose enforcement is
4 felt as disgrace and humiliation. All over
the free States, tho Indignation aroused by the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise, has boen
blown into fame by this last demonstration
We ask, in all earnestness, is it decent, il it
| SAFE is it Democratic, to keep on the Statute
Book an act 30 revolving to the States in which
it il intended specially to operate that it is i'm
possible to enforce il, unless at the point Of the
Federal Government, amidst tumnlt and blood
shed 1t needs no prophetic eve to foresee
that if this thing is to DO continued, the Fed
cral Government will become a stencil in the
nostrils Of the People, and tho States be driven
to fall back ON their extreme rights. Nothing
now postpones this catastrophe, but the con-
seriousness, on the part Of the People Of the
free States, that they have the power, by an
appeal to the ballot box, to secure the control
of the Federal Government, so that until they
have tried this they are responsible for the I'M
just and oppressive exactions upon them, and
have no excuse for resorting to revolutionary
remedies.
10 Tho Washington municipal election
takes place next Monday.
ESCAPE OF CoNvIcTs-We learn from the
morning papers that yesterday morning, be-
tween six and seven O'clock, two convicts es-
capped from the Penitentiary of the District Of
Columbia, by climbing over the great wall.
They are Frank Camper and Joseph Ale
mander. The former is u young, vindictive,
and cruel wretch, and was convicted in 1850
for the wilful murder of Raglan, on 4 street,
and was sentenced for eight years The latter
is a. shrewd, intelligent expert, courageous, and
good-looking fellow of thirty, and was from
Baltimore, and figured in the robbery of plate,
Sc. from several citizens, and was arrested on
his return TO Baltimore. Soon after clearing
tho building, they cast off their convict dress,
retaining only their drawers, and it is said,
made towards the northwestern part OF the
Island, and were last traced near the old Man
sion House. After having clambered up the
wall of the Pcnitentiary, next the water, by
means of an iron bar crooked on its end, they
found boat hook on the wall, by which they
slid down to within few feet of the ground.
u The Memphis, Charleston, Milledgc-
vile, and other Southern Conventions, have all
been self constituted Southern Legislatures,
looking exclusively after Southern interests,
and sometimes talking loudly of disunion. Of
late, however, there is more talk in the South
Of nationality. Tho nation now annexes slave
territory, extends the area of slavery, and
catches and restores fugitives from slavery.
The Yankees are n very useful people. The
shareholders cannot spare them. The Union
| is safe now.