New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-16

and wickcdenactment. The Fugitive Slave BILL wheit
continues uurepcaed must bemade letter, not by
violence not by any unconstitutional activity OF heI
yenton; not even BY hssiy conflict between junsd.c-
lions. hut bv an aroused Public Opinion which IN lis
irresistible might shall blast with contempt, indignation
and abhorronco all no consent TO be Its agents mus
did our fathers blast all who became the agents OF the
Stamp Act and surely their motive was small com
rared with ours. The SlavC-hunCT who drags ms We
i'm from Africa is loathed as monster; but DEFY
any acuteness of reason 10 indicate the moral dlv'
enco between his act aud that of the >lave-hnner who
,lras. his victim from our Northern free soil. lew
pnny persons calling themselves the Congress OF te
nied Staoe with the titles OF Representatives ana
senators. cannot turn wrong into nsht-cannoi chan
n man into thing-cannoi reverse the mrcverslole
law of GOd-cannOt make him wicked who hunts
slave on the burning sands of Congo or Guinea, and
make him viriuOus who hunts slave III thc coldef
sfrecis Of Boston or NcW-lOrk. Nor can any acule-
ness of reason distinguish between the bill of sale from
the kdnapper, by which the unhappy African was
originally transferred in Congo or Guinea, ana the
certificate of the Commissioner, by which, when once
again in Freedom, he was reduced anew TO bondage.
The acts are kindred and should share kindred con-
dtmnation.
One mans virtue becomes a standard of excellence
ior ALL aud there is now in Boston simple ciiizen
whose example may be lesson 10 Commissioners,
MaIshals Magistrates, while i fills all with the beauty
If generous act refer to Mr.. Hayes, who resigned
his place in the city police rather than take any part IN
the pack Of the Saye-hunier. lie Is now the door.
kceI er Of the public edSe which has been honored
this winter by the triumphant lectures on slavery
Better be door>eelcr in the house OF the Lord than
dweller III the tents Of the ungody. For myself lie.
say that can imagine office, no salary, no con-
sheraton which would not gladly forcgo rather than
become in any way agent for the enslavemeni of
my brother man. Where, for me, would be comfort OF
soiaee alter such work In dreams and IN waking
souts IN solitude and in the street in the study Of The
olcn pooA and IN conversation with the world, wher-
ever turned, there my victim would stare me in the
ia.s WINE i1om the distant noefeds and sugar-pan-
,atoh OF me South his cries beneath the vindictive
Iesn' ms means a. the thought of liberty his
nov, ass IhNshed away-would pursue me, repeat
mg the tae OF ms fearful DOOM and sounding-forever
soandlng-in my ears, Thou art the man" Mr..
President may no such terrible voice ever fall on your
soul or niue
Yes, Sir here our duty is plain and paramount.
While the Slave Ohgarchy, through its unropealed
Slave bill undertakes enslave our free soi we can
only turn for protection TO Public Opinion worthy Of
shumane, just and religious people which shall Keep
perpetual guard over the liberties Of all within our
borders; nay, more which, like the flaming sword Of
'he eherubm at the gatee Of Paradise, turning on