New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-06

Burns f1se md learns fEst the StE r-ii"''' -
swtru ~ Isciiugs the Federal Cover ln s0'
Tat the United States soldiers. in time Of Pro0in
Descs walked through the city Of sc7efsig' s'at
AIMED wifi b,f cartridge and at any iustsn' read!
70 :, cot down il, citizens for the moment loses siee'o
eyervothcrs timcrt than Indignation, thsts people
anx STATE should be- c0vsrdly IS to permit 81
9e,ecrston; be feels az once contempt for sucn pu
sIl,ninous csndnct and sscribes it, in his temporary
sel..eer. 70 the degrading influence Of free ias'Sa
ION. He feels and Knows that southern S'iIs
,rorld mot submit TO such humiliation. for w'h u
wou,d ~ Welded the protection of the minority
AGAINST tse majority: in other words the s5hry OF
te soutb TO hold in check the superior power OF the
North.
The southern man hss feeling Of contempt for the
free States because they permit their citizens to be
ncoustitrtionaly imprisoned at the South, and in de-
Rance of the plaines principles Of the Constitution
not only deprived of the most sacred rights, but Often
for 10 crime sold into neverending seryitoie. na-
tiy, citizen Of lork, voter ut the pole tax
payer under the sacred guarantee that citizens of
each State shall be entitled to tie privileges and
.irnmunies Of citizens of the several States, goes
TO any southern port and if bis skin be dark, be is at
once imprisoned, until the speedess means can
be had for sending him away, or possibly by
connivance of the authorities be may be sold
for Jail fees, aud be doomed to Slavery
Ncw-Ycrk powerful as she is. and should be, makes
DO Efficient appeal in behalf the victim: she cannot
get the President and the Federal authorities to back
her in sustaining her claim, and there is no power
exerted to reach and remedy this violation of the
rights Of a sovereign State. But when the people Of
the South demand "a fugitive" and upon right
founded on questionable construction of the Con-
tiiuton enter northern State, its people it's arms,
its Court Houses are all called into successful
question: and, according to the southern fiction not
to obtain the rights Of one of their citizens but
of absconding money
When Judge Hoar, one of the most estmnbe men
OF Massachusetts, was commissioned by that old Com
monwealth to go to Charleston and New Orleans
an agent to protect the citizens Of Massachusetts,
under the planest clause Of the Constitution, his per-
sonsl rights white and the official ambassador Of
a sovereign State as lie was, not respected; his
mission was scoIed at and amid the hootings and yell
lings Of an infatuated msb, he escaped from death,
the Mayors Of the cities named with difficulty re-
sranng violence and announcing that after specified
time he would be left to destruction As he passed
through the armed fends who were clamoring for his
life for daring to assert tho rights of the free citizens
of Massachusetts in the city Of Charleston, it per-
bsps the protecting presence of his fair daughter that
saved bm from violence. But why were not the public
squares of Charleston and New Orleans enfaded with
clnnonl Why were not the State and Federal troops
armed and paradcd through the streets of these south
em ctes7 Simply because their people declared that
the intent of Judge Hoars visit in riolation ola
municipal ordinance, which superior to all other
laws, for the protection of the peace and quiet of
Charleston and New Orleans, and therefore superior
in that instance to tle Federal Constitution
If southern States and corporations make laws
for their local protection, if they successfully
defy the power that is much invoked to carry out
the Fugitive Slave Law; if they claim that their
peace and safety demand the sacred Observance of
these local ordinsnoes-woud it be treason in the
cities Of the North to initiate their southern brethren
and pass laws that would suppress civil connection and
instruction Have the northern States and the north
EN- people 10 individuality, and is the Federal Govern
ment only ncgro-cotchng agency for the benefit of
the slave States against which every assertion of
northern rights is impossible Or is the example of
the South one which the North is TOO timorous to
follow