Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1855-05-25
From the Boston Post.

not
'oJ;ng the most it can out of the refusal of Gov.
= Inor to comply with the portion OF the abolition
u'l.;os who demanded the removal OF Judge Lonng. |
1 # he remembered however, that the most proml-
Le. If the abolition leaders-leaders whose words
ne"' law with freesolers-who are ready to go all
arc .bs IN q sectional crsade-such R. H. Dana
sl$SBanks-such presses as the New York Evening
an 1 and tie Boston Atas-were strongly opposed
Ios ,5S removal of Judge Loring. This act however
%.,o;seworthy in itself, therefore, is hardly test
Eafavpr of Governor Gardeners natIonaism
lat other public acts be looked at When Gov. |
.Liner was put in nomination by the secret order,
o5e Allen, OF Worcester, in a speech, designed to
guSb from him abolition votes and thus defeat his
I,'fon, charged as follows:
He has indicated by speech and vote the fugi-
100 slave law, and gone as far as any man IN the
"oonweath in support of the compromises"
Nv Gardner in q letter dated Boston, Oct 30,
,gs4 and addressed to Hon Charles Allen" vindi-
tss himself from the charges made in Mr.. Aliens
spcb He denies them in general and denies them
particular Here is a sentence -
lit is not true that am, ever have been, IN ia
m Of the fugitive slave bill | never voted for
nan who favored it. knowing such 10 be his views,
nd must very much change before ever do.
aver by word, act or vote favored its passage, and
an an advocate of its essential modification, or in
leu thereof its unconditional repeal. Returning
ram Canada last June, read in the cars that there
r,as q petition for It's repeal at the Exchange News
Poom and on my arrival, before even going to my
,lacp OF business, FASTENED 10 the Exchange and
.gned the petition"
Mr. Gardner goes on infinitely to defend himself
from the charge of " being Nebraska man - and
,g.es how at a meeting of the whig committee, he
ale a speech and offered resolution to the effect,
tbot the whig organization should call a conven-
.n of the oppOnents of the Nebraska bill, without
tincton of party to nominate fusion candidates for
state officers, as was oohe IN OhIo' vermont ana
5,her states
hn 81
The man now held up before the people as embo-
linent Of know nothing nationality Such were
he declarations which it were absolutely necessary
make, in order to take the abolition vote. Nobody
denies that they accomplished their purpose. The
aLoIitiOnists voted with rush for Mr. Gardner and
he led into being the most thoroughly abolition legis-
AZURE ever convened in this commonwealth.
From the candidate pass to the Oficer-from
the man to the governor. His inaugural was so
completely abolition as to raise peans IN the free-so
camp. He again and again denounced the repeal Of
,e Missouri compromise and he declared that by
every sacred and holy duty; the country should
nanfully demand the restoration of the broken
compact" He told the Legislature that 3" the oft
,.peated cry of disunon heralds no real danger to
their ears;0 and he submitted whether additional
legislation is required" to secure the habeas corpus
and the trial by jury.
In our comments on the gOyernors's message, on
the day after it delivered remarked that IN
ri" suggestion, as TO habeas corpus and the jury trial,
the free-soilers in the Legislature and out of it will
zee recommendation to take action against the u-
olive slave law such action as will array Massa-
lusetts against the general government Such a
rlpOse cannot be too strongly depreCated.r Let
he most complete, reasonable, outrageously absurd
and shameful measure ever passed by State Iegis-
AZURE testify to the truth OF prediction.
1t is easier to call evil spirits forth than it is to
control or exercise them. AS Il candidate for Office
Mr. Gardner pandered to the reasonable elements
,ra+ro al CHI NV md oh
TO her sister States; will he as governor rebuke it =!
He must act with the solemn responsibility of his po
sron in the face. What will this action be
In the inaugural address there was some saving
ADVICE which abolitlOnsts have not chosen to follow
Scupulousy avoid such action the governor said,
as asserts looks to the maintenance of any rights
not clearly or consttutOnally ours - and this was
sad IN connection with the suggestions as to the ha-
beas corpus and Jury trial To this is to be added
The tact--if we remember rightly that MEMBER
# the legislature, Mr.. Gardner worked and voted
against Il bill of similar tenor with that which this
egjslaturC has passed.
Now as the governor and COMMANDMENTS chief of
he forces of Massachusetts, and with the awful res
possibility of the immediate future before him, will
he assent to the ground that it is of the clear
and constitutional" rights OF Massachusetts, 10 sub
stute its laws, to claimants of fugitves from
service labor, for the laws laid down by the Con-
gress of the United States Does not the personal
liberty bill look direCt y-cerainIy to the mainte.
nance of this position Can there be doubts as tc
hrs point in his own mind Is it not the life and
soul Of the bill Yet all such state action as this
the supreme court has pronounced null and void.
Again: the Legislature that passed the DILL have
declared also, that the fugitive slave law is uncon
'uuuOnal; that it is, of course, law, is null an(
void And this bill looks to the maintenance of th
position. We pass by the great, inherent, inalena
Die reserved rights of revolution which the people o
massachusetts, have, and which is civil war, blu
ask has the State "clear and constitutional RICH
10 PeaCeaby annul law of Congress which it ma,
pronounce unconstitutional The governor, in hi
message relative to the removal OF Judge Loring
7s of the act Of 1850, that " the large majority O
Juriss and statesmen of the republic had pro
1unCed it constitutional" Now this personal liber
bill looks to thoroughly annulling this act of 1856
Governor Gardner prepared to sanction this?
TIA" clear and constitutional right of this State
this?
This is no ordinary law and the occasion is no OF
-nary occasion. Such are the volcanic elements be
heath aud around us that there may be at any me
nent an explosion. TO-m0rrOws sun may rise upo
me case OF a claimant OF a fugitive slave and lG
he terrible perseverance, the fierce Drawing, of las
aEs fanatic herd of abolition traitors say how read
hey are to push officials on to extreme measure;
even to the Spilling of blood Is the governor read
10 say that he will head such movement as woul
yeopen resistance to law Will he not shrink fror
he formidable work Will he not rather be consist
s"' With this legislative action and follow the word
We nave cited from the inaugural; veto this bill
reason and infamy, and thus " scrupuousIy avoi
'lch action asserts or looks to the maintenance
1y rights not clearly and constitutionally" belong
0g to the state.
SUPERIOR Contributing to the large number {
ases on the State Docket only Monday and Tues
Jay were given TO the Civil Docket, and yesterda
n1s devoted to the trial of Sylvester Chavers fire
oman OF color, for the murder of her husband
rTsnFy Chavers, free man of color in March las
mango, and the defence by C. G. Wright, and Wn
wright, Esqrs About 8 o'clock, P NJ, after .