Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-06-02
From the Washington Union. May %. 1854.

Abolition Mob and M,4rdcr In Boston.
The Constitution and LaUs Of the United States set
at defiance.
1.-The fugitive slaves of the United States are among
the heroes Of age IN sacrificing them to this foul
enactment of Congress, should violate every
tmen of hospitality, every whispering of the heart.
every dictate of religion. There are many who will
never shrink at and Notwithstanding all the
atrocous penalties of this BILL from efforts to save
wandering fellow from bondage; they will offer
him the shelter of their houses and if need be, arW
protect has liberty yforce.
''From humane. just and religious people. shall
spring public opinion to keep perpetual guard over
the liberties Of all within our borders nay, more,
like the flaming sword Of the cherubim at the gates
of Paradise turning on every side, it shall prevent
any slave hunter from ever setting foot in this Com
monwealth. Elsewhere he may pursue his human
prey he may employ his congenial bloodhounds,
and eEut IN his successful game but into Massaoh-
useits he must not e."-Ertracts from the speech
of Senator Charles Sumner Boston, Oct, Of 1850.
! On Friday morning last the Nebraska bill passed
its anal reading in the Senate of the United States
but not before Charles Sumner the author of the
above deliberate nvocations to violence against the
laws he had deliberately, and before God, syor to
obeY. had proclaimed his determination to have the
| fugitive Slave statute repealed, and had soemny
pronounced HE maledctions of the New England
church against it, and had asserted in terms that the
law should never be executed in Massachusetts. He
and his cOnfederates had previously organized the
New England clergy against the Nebraska BILL in
address ful of wiful falsehoods and ncendiary ap
peas, and it was fitting that he should close his
TRADE against that measure, Friday morning, first,
by defending the three thousand ministers of the Cos
pei whom he and her domestic demagogues had de
ceved into the belief that it their duty to speak
s. in the name OF Almighty God " against an act of
legislation and, secondly: by invoking the populace
of New England TO RESIST THE LAW OF CONGRESS TO
THE DEATH.
! 80 Infamous this speech of the abolition agi-
tator and incendary that Judge Douglas rose in his
place. and in substance declared it to be an vocation
to civil war predicting that if blood was shed in
consequence OF the harangue, the dark deed would be
laid at the door of Sumner and declaring his opinion
that Ia the event OF rising against the guarantees of
the constitution in Boston, he hoped that the punish
ment would not fall upon the misguided instruments
of fanatcism, but upon the reckless and nhuman in
sgator to riot and 10 murder. This rebuke terrible
and sudden, and overwhelming as it was was felt to
be fully deserved by nearly every American citizen
on the floor of the Senate.
This was on Friday morning. and on the following
5 Saturday morning. the appeals of Senator Summer
had produced in his own city of Boston their appropri
ate and expected results The following dispatch
received in this city yesterday morning about IL
O'clock tells the story:
In consequence of an attack upon the house
last ght for the purpose of rescung fugitive slave
under arrest, and in which one of my own guards
was killed. have avaied myself of the resources oil
the United States, placed under my control by lete
from the War and Navy Departments in 1851, ant
now nave Two companies OF troops from Fort indie
pendence, stationed in the house Everything
is now quiet. The attack was repulsed by my owr
guard. "WATSON FREEMAN,
!, gu. S. Marshal Boston. Mass"
In reply TO this message, President Pierce, with
characteristic promptude returned TO Marshal Free
b man the following emphatic answer:
g YOUR CONDUCT Is APPROVED. THE LAW MUST Bl
EXECUTED"
: At whatever hazard and in the face of every con
sequence the law of the land will be "executed anc
s enforced" The present Chief Magistrate knows hi
e duty. and will discharge it, matter how assailet
{ or threatened. He elected to the high position
he holds as the avowed positive, and fearless advo
cate OF the constitution and the known friend
the rights of the States and he took his seat in tn
presidential chair procaiming his cordial approval
the compromise measures of $780, and his fixed reso
luton to execute and enforce the fugiiyeslav la,
i in the following language:
Is 1.-The held OF calm and free discussion in our countr
is open, and will always be so, but never has bee
and never can be raversed for good in spirit of seq
tloEaIlsm and uneharitabeness. The founders {
the republic dealt with things they were presente
to them in spirit of self-sacricing patriotism am
" as time has proved, with comprehensive wisdom
which it will always be safe for US 10 consult Ever
measure tending 10 strengthen the raternal feeling
of all the members of our Uniou has had nv hear
felt appreciation To every theory Of society or GO
o. eminent. whether the offspring of feverish ambitie
or of morbid enthusiasm calculated to dissolve II
1t bombs of law and affection which unite u.s. I sha
Is nterpose ready and stern resistance believe III
involuntary servltude, it exists in different Stat
OF this confederacy, is recognised by the const,utio