Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-06-13
Maine Laws and Massachusetts Ordinance.

as the following extract from the Boston Dol,,
Adrersiscr, of may 10th, VIII also undeceive any
Of our readers, who may have formed similar
conclusion -
Yesterday morning thcro sailed from this port
splendid packet-ship, Iearing the noble name of
Daniel Webster, which fifty belongs to SO fine a
vessel y ct SO many hpe ships sail out of
haTbor, that the reader may inquire why we
make this departure the occasion FOR such con-
spicuous notice. aEs4 WYE
among the crowd Of human beings On board
that proud vessel was one poor woman, with an
infant daughter. Her passage, and that Of her
child, were paid by the rich and powerful Com
laonweaith Of Massachusetts. She left our free
and happy shores unwilling and reluctant. She
went away against her own free will, constrained
by force Of the civil authorities of the State.
Her cries, as she begged not to be thus cruelty
banished, were, are told, most piteous and
such to cause the accidental witnesses of the
scene to burn with indignation.
ssIhe offence of this unfortunate woman for
which she was thus violently and ignomniously
expelled from Massachusetts,, was the fact that
she born in Ireland, and is called pduper
Her infant daughter, who unconsciously shares
her mothers fate, is native of the Common
wealth of Massachusetts; but she too, partakes
of that hard lot Of poverty for which il has been
reserved fr Massachusetts, 70 make a crime. and
a crime which Massachusetts Furnishes as no
other crime Is punished in America, by banisl-
:. The name Of this victim to Know Nothing
Intolerance was Mary WiuIns her infant.
bridget, Is but few weeks Old. Abvnt thirty
| five pauPsrs. perhaps more, were sent away at
the same time, in the vessel, at the expense
of the State. These facts We learn from eve
witnesses of the scene, AMI from other certain
and authentic sources "a information
:. Our readers are aware that .herc exists upon
/ our statute book law which authorizes any
Justice Of the Peace upon complaint, by war
rant directed 10, and 10 be executed 10y amy con-
stable, or any other person there designated, To
cause any paupcr b. removed ont of the State
to any lace beyond the where hc belongs, if
the Justice thinks lruPer, ami lie may be
niently removed; and also that independently of
this provision of law, practise has arisen by
which tie Commissioner OF Alien Passengers
undertakes, even without the warrant of JUS
tice Of the Peace, to send back paupers IN cases
which he sees fit, aud pay tie expenses from
money in his hands belonging 10 the State
Treasury. a rrEg
8 On account Of the temporary absence Of the
Commissioner of Alien Passengers, and none Of
the gentlemen in his Office being possessed Of the
facts, unable to state which of these two
methods was employed the lreiext Of author
ity for cfscctinS the rendition Of the unfortunate
creatures who sailed yesterday in the Daniel
Webster nsr can we state by what Justice of
the Peace. if any. the warrant was issned. But
the facts that they were sent away and that the
State paid their passage, and that the piteous
cries of this poor woman with her cliild were
such as to attract the attention Of the bystander
as she was led on board the yessel--tlesc facts We
have certainly aSceTtained.D ~
And this tragedy was done, not mini you well.
in paltry fishing village. where decayed lumber
and every garbage Of tie sea make The fit atmos-
pherc for purblnd prejudice this was done in
the enlightened Boston, whose pulpits have the
best sounding boards in the world, and whose
schools are the most bcpraised of all American
institutions A grrlshot from Faneuil Hall, in
those famous waters once black with Lfmlosi tax
ell tea, this decd was sloEe. in broad daylight.
with city of nearly 200 900 Christians looking
on. Well says that jealous and fearless friend of
truth, the editor of tie Adreniser:-
:. No vigilance committee rallied at tie rumnr
of the embarkaton Of Mary Nillar.s. No
Young and enthusiastic counsel hurried 10 Iroffer
her tEeir s. rvees. Judges not solicited at
unseemly hours for wrts Of labeas corpus; amt
nothing was said about the ,le hoRnc reISsgids,oo
in her ShcrilIs and coroncTs were not plagued
with processes taat they did not like TO SerFe.-
The quiet of the city was not broken only a few
heart-rcnding cries disturbed tho silence Of Lcng
Wharf on Monday evenins-tle deed was done,
the woman embarked, and yesterday NOR
ming the vessel sailed with her living and unwil-
ling freight"
friendly hand, and her hair crisped before her
seizure, she would have been in Boston STILL La
boring for her infant child's support. But being
a white person, and born in Ireland She was
banished peremptorily from the predincts of
State, which, but for the emigration Of which she
was an cstray, had not yet began to fit out slips
like the Daniel Ifebsier. Our chivalrous Rel,ub-
lie insists on having only the picked men and wo-
men of Europe If there is poor, or infrm-
or sick, 70 the hundred, he she is to bo incon-
tnently turned adrift upon the high seas. Not
even 80 per cent. of health and yigor, win satisfy
our wide awake economists The -hundrelth
individual must be also sound and serviceablet TO
her adopted conntry,' or woes the day She is
caught about Boston.
down there. There are &C, 900 natives of Ireland.
living within one hours walk or drive of the spot
from which Mary Williams was torn shreking
away under tie new kno y-Notlins reginse-
They produce, on an average, one with another,
male and female, sap 81 per week they sustain
the retail trade of Boston, 30 almost the wheic
amount of their carnings-expendng, say S1Oo,~
600 week. Take half. or quarter that sum for
one wear out of the Boston trade, and what be-
comes of itla Tale the co, 600 out Of the Boston
population, and where will the city stand in the
census of 1862 And yet ii is in such city.
where, with all their numbers and industry. they
are as powerless Negroes, and Car less popular.
that some Of the most vigorous sous Ireland ever
reared will insist on staying. To a city where
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