The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-15


acceptance by that defiant privileged State You remem
Der how i vas solemnly stipulated that r,ah and Nes
soms into e aon Il Soa hm SSS
States and, finally how the privileged class highly
offended and exasperated were brought accept this
compromise their part by nent OF the then
obsolete fugitive slave Of l7e3 with the addition of
the revolving features OF attempted suspension Of the
habeas corpus absolute prohibition Of the trial BY
jury an effective repeal of vital rules of procedure
and evidence; and the substitution Of commissioners
N pace OF courts Of justice in derogation Of the
ana ostenatious'y this compromise was associated
With the time honored forms aud soicmnitea Of the
Missouri Compromise-how II wa declared not the
result Of mere ordinary legislation bat contract
with mutual equivalents by the privileged with the
nnpriyeged class, irrepealable and unamenda.
constitution and tho Union You all remember
how, Notwithstanding your protests and mine, it
Mas urgently, violently, DANGEROUSLY ratified and
rmed full fair final and perpetual adjustment by
the two great political conventions Of the country repre-
and hove %s heroic 81 e an. Dha ss at %
rejected to bring into the Presidency one who might
more SAFELY be trusted to defend and preserve and estab
Nevertheless, scarcely year had ped before the
privileged class using some Of representatives
Of 1850 but tie compromise of 1870 and the ordi-
nance OF 1857 and Obtained virtually the declaration of
congress That all these settlements, so far as they were
ADVERSE 10 the privileged clsss unconstitutional
usnrpatons Of legislative power.
do not stop to sgmatizc to characerze these
sggresons Of what use would It be 70 charge perddy
when the losses we deplore have resulted from
imbecity andecowardices do not dwell as Others 80
often and so Justly do, upon the atrocous usurpatonof
the government Of Kansas by the Shareholders Of Mis-
souri, nor even on the bar barous and tyranncal code
which they have established to stae freedom in that
nefarioas connivance Of the President with the
usurpers. Nor will draw into this picture,
already too daIkly shaded, the personal humia.
tiens which daily come home TO yourselves in the
conduct of your affairs You commanded by an
to the members Of that privileged class their fugitive
slaves, under pain OF imprisonment and forfeiture Of
your estates You mny not ntepose between the armed
STAKEHOLDER and the wounded slave to his being
murdered, without coming under arrest for treason nor
may you cover bis naked and acera'ed limbs except by
stealth. You have fought twenty years and with but
partial success for the constitutional right lay your
monstrances the table OF Congress You may tell
the freed slave who reaches your borders that he Il free
without being seized by federal court and coniemned
without trial, or even accusation TO an imprison-
ment without bail or mainprzc, and without limitation
OF sentence. Your representatives In either house OF
Congress must speak with bated breath and humbled
countenance in presence of the Representatives OF
privileged class lest justice be denied TO old soldiers
when they claim their PENSIONS your laborers wien
they claim the performance OF ther contracts with the
government. The President Of the United States is
reduced TO the position OF deputy OF the privileged
class, emptying the treasury and smarshaling bat
taiions and ships Of war to dragoon you into the
execution OF the fugitive slave law the one hand
while he removes Governors and Judges at their com
mand who attempt to maintain lawful AMI constitutional
resistance against them in the Territory % Kansas The
Vice President of the United States and the Speaker Of
the House Of Representatives, safe men whom the
privileged class can trust In every case The Of the
Judiciary, OF the Territories and OF the Foreign Re-
laons intrasted In either house assured supporters
Of that class Protection is denied to your wool while
II y Freely given TO the Shareholders sugar Millions Of
acres OF the public domain freely given to Alabama
for railroads and even as grauities while not dollar
can be obtained to the rocks o egate and tho
sands of the oversaugh the bars in lake st. Clair
in the mouths OF your lake harbors. Canada lying all
along your Northern borders must not even be looked
upon. lest you may lust afert while millions upon mil
lions are 1ovshed In war and diplomacy to annex and
spread slavery over Louisiana Florida, Texas Mexico
Cuba and Central America. Your liberty OF speech
where Is it, You may not without severe rebuke speak
OF despotifm in foreign lands lest the slave overhear
you the plantations Of the privileged class or the
foreign despot visit them in retaliation, Tor your
asailipg sympathy. The National flag, the
biem Of universal liberty covers cargoes of slaves
over hem IN foreign ports Judges Of the United States
Courts safe under the protection OF the President
senate charge Grand Jui les in advance of question
that Obnoxious and unequal federal Laws constitu
tiona and obligatory; they give counsel TO legislative
bodies how 10 frame laws which they viii sustain instead
Of waiting 10 review those laws when enacted. They
convert the writ Of freedom to engine OF slavery and
they per,ert the power Of punishing Irregularities
med in their presence into the machinery Of tyranny
as odous ns that Of the Star Chamber The privileged
class In Virginia mprison your seamen in their ports in
retaliation for the Independence Of your Executive au-
tho'cs; and you already in doubtful struggle for
The tight 10 exclude the traffic of slaves from your
borders
will only ak, in concluding this humIlating re.
learo whether there Il Ia this privileged country
privileged clnsswhcther II docs not sando endur.
ing fonndationwhcther IL Is not growing stronger and
aironger while tho urpryeged class grows weaker and
weaberY-wheher s further growth and extent would not
there Is any hope TO arrest that growth and extension
hereafter II the attempt shall not De made now
The change that has become at last necessary is
easy 10 be made II IL The whole number ~
SHAREHOLDERS Il only $50 o5eone hundfeith part OF be
entire population Of The country. II you add their
PARENTS children. immediate relatives and Deepen lens
they arc two mions-oue fifteenth part at the American
people. Slavery l. not and can be perpetual. II
will be overthrow either peacefully ana Lawfully under
this constitution or IL viii work the subyers0n oi the
constitution together with Its overthrow. Then The
SHAREHOLDERS would perth In the struggle The change
can now be made without violence and by the agency Of
the ballot box The temper OF the nation Is just liberal
orbeaIiug. II viii contribute any money and endure
any sacrifices 10 effect this great and important change
indeed, half made already The House of Representa-
Fes Il already yours, as II always must be when you
coce to have II. The Senate Of the United states is
equally within your power " you only win persisteny
for two years 10 baye Il. Notwithstanding al the wrong
that has been done net another slave state can now
decisive effort, and you determine what states shall
be admitted.
The viii exists because the evil has become abe
and the necessity ofa remedy universally acknowledged
what then Is wanted Organization Organization
Nothing but organization.
vontion 20 nuspciously begun without organization
Certainly not Are you apprehcnye NJ f,luic because
tie revelation Is not everywhere and at all times equally
successful Was there ever revelation that equally
successful at all times and everywhere Certainly not
Do you say that you cannot abolish slavery Ia The prv
legged sia'esg We have need purpo.e constitu
tonal power duty to Do Providence has deyoiyed
ihst duty others and the organic law leaves y wisely
10 them We have power TO prevent The extension q
slavery in the territories Of the union, and that f.
enough 10 you doubt that power Did not the state
men 81 1881 know The bounds ~ constitutional power
riiores Il The Union WHO Il r. no. any foreign
state y Is not any q fhe American States Il s not ,ae
people tie territories II the Congfess Of the whole
United states; and their power there Is supreme Are
you afraid that the privileged class viii DOT subn
Tie privilege class human ard they vie. They
know just well how 10 submit TO just authority
fimly aud eonsitutionaly exercised, they d
how 20 extort unequal concessions BY terror from
tnid men. Can the privileged csss live without Union
any better than yaa cam They would remain and
wfsrgle with yOu hour II they could do 20.
Car they hore 10 obtain another Union ayorl BE
10 them this u this should be oyerthrownf VIII
they destroy themselves that they may simply DO harm
70 your lid any privileged class commit such alb
ufd suicide this Are you alone tie keepers ~ the
tnonS Have not the privileged eas interests as great
10 MAINTAIN in the Union, and their Obligations 70
nsintain II difeie from your own
How shall we organizer The evil u a national one.
The power and the Influence and the organization Of the
privileged class pefvade all parts q the Union SHOWS
no north, south, east, west. II u stronger to-
day the bay of FAN Francisco, surrounded b. fee
men, than Is Chesapeake Ray surrounded by slaves