New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-30
cor. GARDNER AND THE MASSACHC
SETS LEGISLATURE.
corr.spooaene. Of The " Y. Tribune

BosToS. Monday, May y, $50.
While Gov. Gardner is censured by the liberia
press Of the North for refusing to remove Judge
Lorinc and for subsequently yetoing the Personal
Liberty bill. and is therefore by many placed on
the side OF the slave power and in hostile Po-
sition to the expressed viii Of the people Of
Massachusetts,, let US do him justice for the pro-
pressiye steps which he has taken. The excite
meut consequent upon the later movements oil
Gov. Gardner has caused men 70 forget that one OF
tie uobest Anti-SlaveTy acts Of the recent Legs
lature has received his entire approval. refer To
the resolves con cerning the Fugitive Slave Act,
and aude to them with more pleasure at this
time from the fact that The Daily Adrertiser OF
this CITY recently asserted in its ecstatic rejoicing
over the refusal TO remove Loring that the Gov
ernor believed the Fugitive Slave law to be cOnsti-
tutonal.
The following resolves may be found on parch-
ment in the office Of the Secretary of State, ap-
proved and signed by Henry j. Gardner;
REsoLvFs CONCERNING IHE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT % lss.
Feyorcd lrssmuch there i neither power granted %
the General Government in the Constitution Of the United
STATES for The q any law By Congress for ne return
States ssahst The passage Of avs upon thai su5ee tia, The
Fugitive slrve Ac; direc violation q he tenth article Of
Amendments the Constitution Of the United states which
declares that The Ho sssted to the niied states
BY the Constitution nor prohibited BY Il 70 me are re-
Resord That our Senators Representative Congress
ons repsa Of the Fugitive slave Act oflsso which
ae to The The provisions Of the National vonuton and to
the dictates OF the Christian resion, infrcton equally Of
the supreme law Of the sndr and Of the higher law Of
God in ccn.ouance Herewith.
Gov Gardner rcrised oppr0rsd and signed the
above resolves and the editor of The Boston Daily
Adrertiser can witness the parchment at the Sec
retarys Office any time he will call. VIII he cor
rect the falsehoOd he has published, that a" Gov.
"Gardner believes the Fugitive Slave law to be
constitutional
There is another Anti-Slavery feather in Gov.
Gardner's cap which ought not TO be plucked He
signed the &" Act in amendment of an act concern
Sc ing Public Schools which is that " In deter
Ginning the qualifications of scholars to be ad.
mitted in any public school or any district school
in this Commonwealth, no distinction shall be
made on account of race, color, or religious
"opnions of the applicant or scholar
Still another. He expressly declares that be is
glad the Personal Liberty bill passed over hxleto
that now it has become law, he shall - it
the force of his official station by execue4s~ to
the letter, if ever occasion requires 1t.
And better still, Gov. Gardner was present at the
celebrated lecture of the Hon. Arson Burlingame,
which was endorsed by Gen. Wilson. and which
las since created such sensation throughout the
South wherein Mr.. Burlingame declared in favor
ola repeal of the Kansas Nebraska bill the repeal
of the Fugitive Slave bill abolition of Slavery in
the District of Columbia non-extenson ID slave
territory and in favor of putting the General Gov.
eminent actually and perpetually on the side OF
Freedom. At the close of the lecture the Gov
ernor in conversation with gentlemen on the plat
form Endorsed every word uttered by Dir. Bur
liDgame.
One word about the Legislature which was pro-
rOgued one week ago. Interested politicians have
made it the mark for many dirty and unjust filings.
But it will stand upon its record. Although it
was not the longest session ever held it executed
third more work. The journal will be nearly
double that Of last year. 1t passed fifty more bills
and resolves than any of tspredecessors, embrace
ing among them one measure that has absorbed
weeks upon weeks OF the attention OF Legislatures
for the past ten years. 1t has done more for the
people and less for corporations than any previous
body that ever assembled in the State House
more for humanity and freedom and less for the
L" Eetrogrades' and the slave power As an evidence
of this 20 10 the record and you find first gori-
Gus law for the protection of personal liberty.
Second, the ProhibitOry Liquor Law. Third a
law providing that married women shall hold
property acquired in their own right for
their own sole use and benefit, and free
from seizure for their husbands debts
Fourth. Opening the Free Schools of the Common
wealth 10 all applicants without regard to race or
coor Fifth, the resolves concerning the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, given above. Sixth,
the resolve in favor Of the Massachusetts School
for Idiots and feeble-mnded youth. Seventh. the
law to protect the rights Unmarried women against
the drunkenness, excessive drinking, idleness,
"debauchery, prohgacy or other like causes Of
g" their husbands &c. Eighth, abolishing impris-
onment for debt Ninth, making Jurors judges of
the law and the facts. Tenth, TO secure to me-
chanics and Others payment for labor and materi-
ais by them expended. Others equally noble might
be- added, but these viii suffice.
Tie news from Virginia Of the supposed cleo
ton Of Wise is welcomed by all except few OF
the Natives" who know and serre only the
South. The Anti-Slayery portion of the American
party are reoiced az the success of Wise. 1t is a
significant omen of the future which Massachu-
setts Know Notbings well understand.
Speaking OF Virginia reminds me of laconic
teleersphic correspondence which took place the
day after the knOw-NOthings held their recent
State Council in this city between the editor of
the Know.NothiDg paper in Richmond, Va, and
the editor of the kn0w-Nothing paper in this city.
Here il is, without names:
RICHMOND, VA NAY, 1854
Il that you passed resolutions 10 your State Council
yesterdaJ sboonzns The Order IN Massschgse and elected
Henry Wilson and Hsny Gardner delegates to tie Ma