New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-09

"A taw- made crime, VINCE the'e Is ho H''O
sin in breaking than in smuggling laces or cigars
Logic and common sense are entirely on the SIDE
Of the sIavetraders as against Congress the judges
and the Doctors in Divinity. And the movement
which will soon be on foot. if the Slave Power do
not receive speedy check, for the rehabilitation
Of tie slave-trade on its old footing, can meet with
no serious opposition from any National Conserva
tive of any party ard OF consecutive ideas The
fight if any, will be between the planting and the
breeding States.
We must do the United States officials the jus
tice to say that they perfectly logical and con-
sistent in their conduct in these premises. Some
thing more than eighteen menths ago. few weeks
after the burning zeal be had shown in the kdnap-
ping Of Anthony. Burns, Mr.. Distriet-Attorney
Hallett of the Boston District, had an information
laid before him as to a vessel called the Mary l..
Smith. which made it imperative upon him to
issue warrant against her. II was proved that
she had on board the materials for slavedech and
large quantities of water-casks and beans for the
stowaee and foddering Of great number OF ne
proes. She was boarded within the harbor by the
Deputy Marshal and the Lieutenant of the Revenue
Cutter. But the pilot refused to bring her TO- on
the ground that the Deputy Marshal had no porsr
10 stop the ressel and as he had no sufficient force
the Marshal had to take his leave aud go about his
business. The pilot, Jacob II. Lunt. and the ship
builder, James L. Simpson, at whose yard she had
been repaired, were indicted for resisting the Mar
shal in taking the vessel to sea. Distrct-Judge
Peleg Sprsgue, however, in admirable keeping
with bis antecedents, if not with his precedents,
ruled that the pilot was not bound to stop the vessel
10 enable the Marshal TO make the arrest So the
men were acquitted Imagine pilot brought before
Judge Sprsgue for the ofense of carrying ship to
sea with a fugitive slave on board for whom
Deputy Marshal had warrant Aud imagine At
torney Halet, with the revenue cutter at his SER
vice, and the posse Of Boston at his command,
sending only two men after vessel with fugitive
slave on board But there is vast difference be-
tween one negro entangled in the machinery
of the mill that g1inds out attorneys and judges,
and five hundred away in Africa But, though the
pilots refusing to assist the officers in the service
of their process was Ofense, was it none on the
part of the ship builder to help fit out a pirate
ship And was there no owner who could be
called to account because of her. Does anybody
suppose that sOmebodym'ght not have been brought
10 condpn punishment if the United States officials
really cared to do it
Well, the Mary f. Smith proceeded on her voy-
age and took in cargo of five hundred negroes, OF
which one hundred and eighty died on the passage.
She was taken off the coasto Brazil By Brazilian
ship -ofwar, and of the three hundred and twenty
negroes then on board sixty died Immediately, leay-
lug only hco hundred and forty alive of the fire hun
bred wretches originally stolen! These wholesale
murders might have been prevented, had the United
States authorities at Boston taken the hundredth
part the pains that they put forth to make sure OF
the sacrifice of one fugitive from Slavery. The
wretches who planned the crime, and who were
accessory before the fact by the aid they rendered
toward its completion, might even now be exposed
at least, if punishment be impossible for crimes like
these in Court where ga sympathy for the OF
pressed" is held TO be a disqualification for the
Jury-box. AS it is, we suppose the owner and his
accomplices 60 to church every Sunday and walk
the streets of Boston with heads erect, undsturbed
by the vision
"Ofthose nourl full spectres sweeping
CHASTITY DER the hated wave"
and without the idea of punishment ever crossing
their minds As, indeed, why should ii Has not
the history of the last six years been teaching
them lessons which they have merely put into
practice in their own way With such encourage
ments it ia no wonder that the slaye-trade is -four
ishing, and pirates snap their fingers in the face of
United States officers And whose fault is it, alter
al