New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-25

settlement is an ordinary and everyday occur
renee; and in principle there Is no difference
whatever between sending from Boston to New
York or vice versa. nd sending FROM Boston to Liy-
erpool or Dublin. Nor does there seem TO US IN
point ofjustice or humanity the slightest objec-
ton to this procedure. Begesrs says the Proyerb
cannot be choosers Paupers must be content
10 be supported at the public expense at such
places as they have legal claim upon; and this
return or the right of it. of vagrant paupers TO
the place Of their settlement is essential to the
due working Of the great humane provision
which gives to each and all the right to live and
to be supported somewhere.
But, SAYS The Adreriser, THE TRIBUNE makes
" it convenient to confine its attention chiefly to
" the women and &c neglect the native-born child
of Massachusetts, for whose Punishment from
her native State it is difficult to find any ex-
"cuse." BY the law Of settlement common TO
this country and to England, it is only adults who
are able TO acquire new settlement. Minor
children follow the settlement of their parents.
What camor The Adrertiser would have made
if the child and mother had been separated, the
child kept and the mother sent away
Nor is the assumption which The Advertiser
ascrbes to us, that the woman was pauper in
her native country. at all necessary to justify
her removal. If by residence, payment of
and other legal prerequisites she had acquired
a settlement in the United States, of course she
could not have been removed. But until she
acquires settlement here her claim to sup
port is upon the parish whence she came and
where her legal settlement il; and why should
our charity be exhausted on person who has
legal claim to support elsewhere
The Massachusetts, procedure for removal ac-
cording to The Adrcriser is this:
IF makes complaint to Justice Of the Peace
that b ia psuper and belongs TO some place ont of
the State, the statute gives the Justice power TO
cause TO be banshel thither.
The Adrertiser adds that the fact that b
"really is pauper or that comes from that
place need not be proved" Perhaps not,
if those facts be admitted; but if they are not
admitted, then We apprehend the alleged pauper
or any of her friends, or any volunteer defender
of oppressed femaes-even The ddrertiSer for
example, which so distinguished itself
in the case of the Dorchester nuns-is
at lull hDeftt 10 sue "u' wiz VI
habeas corpus and to have those questions
fully tested according to the ordinary process of
law. If the Massachusetts, statute, after giving
the summary power of surrender, had further
provided that no habeds corpus shall ever issue,
and that on appeal no hearing should ever be
had, but that the Justices certificate should be
final and even conclusive, then the resemblance
to the Fugitive Slave act would have been
complete and The Adreriser's charge Of theo-
retical cruelty would be well founded. As the
case stands, The ddreriser will be justified in
saving its tears and its ordinations for use
if The AdrertiSer's regard for the Federal Con-
stitution will permit it there to use them
when Mr.. Edward G.. Loring issues his next
saye-catching warrant.