The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-06-21
For the Express.

Ma EniroR:
find in the Dubuque Daily Tribune of the
Q h inst, a commun cation signed Liberty"
which m; tits passing notice. /, reads as .ol-
lows
SLAVE BURHs AND MS ENEMIEs.-Gent'e
men H. l.okIrg "v-r the Herald AID Express,
notice that your paper has been assailed by The
clustering Street pro Slavery men. and the lib
cry loving and law abiding editors OF the "Sa-
tame Press, and "Auxlary Wing Print -
Don't bother yourselves about what hese ca
lu,nniaiors and body selling. Slaveh"ld ne adv"-
GATES may say in relation t. your well written
and truthful articles, which bear upon their face
Gods Fl ly Truth Youi honest and indepen-
dent Course up N this late Boston outrage, will
De and is sustained by the intelligent portion OF
community, who know how to appreciate such
sentiments.
Be not run off the track by the bullying and
street brawlers, who glory IN Burn $ capture
| and return to slav ry, nothing else can b. ex-
pect-d OF those men, who Cypress their T. How
men, because Of their color. God IS with you,
and vengeance will yet be His. So say the
Holy Scriptures.
Dubuque, June 9th, 1854.
| venture a picayuae, | could guess, if |
should try right hard, who the author OF the
above is, but have too much respect for his age
and his inirmities to tear the veil from his face
| He is unqnestionably descendant Of the Puri-
tan Fathers, and has been reared in that rigid,
and to a considerable extent, supersti,ous school
of morals, where damaged calico and wooden
nntmegs pass for more than their face, while
Southern property is ruthlessly and practically
seized and confiscated by the reasonable pro
selytes of a higher lao dogma where stat
ute law and constitutional authority are only
respected and obeyed so long as they conform
to the prevailing prejudices of that peculiar To-
cality and where the meanest and most mer-
eennry slavery that ever existed in the contract
ted and eonceited judgment and perverted ano
prostituted Imagination Of any people - the
slavery Of classes and creeds, of money and
ignorance to such an alarming extent
that the poor, ,oretched, unhappy, neglected
ragged and debiltated Free Negro hath mo-
where to lay his head, or a respectable place il
which to worship his God and where the si1
pence il held in such ever penetrating reverence
that he who is beautifully supplied with th
article, may eschew every thing which bears al
affinity to int lIgence, the laws, of men o
brutes, the world and its elements-politicaI
moral, physical or mental economy. and yet pas
for a distinguished New Highlander. Oh, wha
sins do these pious fugi,ves from -eason, an
followers after Seward, Sumner and Greedy
commit, in the name of God and liberty! Th-i
inhuman and mercenary philosophy, based upol
an erroneous idea OF the character and purpose
If Divinity, and of the blessings to be derive
from constitutional government, is part of thu
delectable code Of moral and legal absnrdite,
obscurites and iniquties, which shed dark an
} snmbre light over the supers,itious and benign
ed region Of New England, in its earlier histo
~. The days Of " Blue Laws" have passed
but unfortunately the superst,ious and bigote
fanaticism which characterized that period. st,
, feeds upon the fruitful soil which gave it brit
, The conduct of the Boston rioters, in the
: resistance to the laws of the land and the con
stitutonal authorities Of the country, is excuse
, as christian act, meritiag the Divine approba
q ion Was ever Divinity more scandal ,us
outraged, than by this fool hardy cor espondel
who attempts to make Him the justifer of mi
/ raj treason and coid bloodrd murder? " he
i such sacritigious folly IN the Nineteenth Ger
: tury!
A Law ABIDING CITIZEN