The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-05-01

Pile or any portion of them have eschewed all sectional
controversies But sir should be unjust to northern
friends well as faiihess 10 my constituency IT, did not
accept behalf OF tine President and the South the cha
lenge Of the senator from New York With that view
must revive bitter recoeciions.
Is il proof of disregard Of constitutional obligation
TO break or seek to destroy the solemn aud sacred CONF
pacts OF the constitution Among them, and without
which the Union would have been formed and the
destruction OF which the Union can never survive was
that securing 10 us representation OF breehhs OF
slaves Massachusetts, has twice by her egsature-oEce
by unanimous vote-called for amendment of the
stitution abolish this representation guaranteed
by that instrument The South would thereby lose twenty
of her representatives and the North would swell her
majority in the other branch OF Congress nom hfy-three
seventy four votes. What end has Massachusetts in
ton Is for self defence it TO nure to despoi the
South Is there neither injury nor insult offered OF med
compact with the South And will the senator from New
York his denial that Massachusetts has shown
| any disregard OF her constitutional obligations.
Rendition Of Fugitive Slaves.
Another constitutional compact is that requiring the
rendition OF ngitpe aapss The constitution declares
that the fugitive slave shall be delivered the claim Of
his master The language is plain, unambguous and un-
equivocaL The purpose and the manner Of its execution
are beyond doubt and brought in question
til the discovery of that higher ao Of which the senator
from New York is prominent advocate and exponent
The gtveave act of 1893 looked to the agency Of State
officers and State tribunals for its execution. Massachu-
sets and New York. together with several other northern
States had previous to 1850 virtually nuhed mat act
specially contrived to defeat the objects of the constu-
tiona provision and congressional Legislation. The pro-
of recovery made slow costly and embarrassing,
and trial by jury of the fact Of servitude required
The Supreme Court of the United States declared those
acts in conflict with the federal constitution The same
States Immediately after passed acts fobiddng their cit
from aiding in the recapture of fugitive slaves and
imposing heavy penalties upon the master for any dis
turbance of the peace in any attempt to recapure his
property. - 9@@ ."@.@.
Those acts of the States rendered the Of the
fgtveave law of 1850 necessary for the protection of
property. But that has in like been virtually
annuled by the legislation of several of the northern
States Massachusetts, the model Commonwealth has
only virtually nuhed the act of Congress- by her late
legislation, but menaees with Acknowledgement any lawyer
who appears for the claimant OF the slave menaces with
Impeachment any judge who Issues warrant certificate,
holds the office OF commissioner under the federal
law and menaces with infamous punishment any minise-
rial officer officer of militia who aids in its execution
Failure of the claimant establish his claim by verdict of
jury, empaneed under the direction of State officers,
paid of the State treasury, and counseed by State
attorney hired for that purpose subjects that claimant TO
heavy fine and confinement from one TO five years in the
penitentiary Thus in contempt of the compromises of
the constitution the decisions of the Supreme Court OF the
United States and that of Massachusetts, the Shareholder is
by her legislative enactmen denied bis constitutional
rights, and menaced with infamous punishment for their
unsuccessful assertion the seduction of southern slaves is
encouraged and their reclamation according to the
preme law Of the land, is forbiddenl
Slape-stealing Organizations.
Is it surprising sir that under the fostering legislation
States companies of ayeseaers should have been organ
lied in the vehodng States with branches IN Cam
ada who make the theft or robbery OF our property both
their business and their boast Their predatory ncursons
rob annually according to the estimates OF distinguished
members of Congress from the South OF slave property OF
the value of 100000. .as - ...s# .
But this estimate is certainly far too low. The New
York Times the mouthpiece of the senator from New
York. boasts that since the passage of the fugitvesaye
law of 1885, $4,000 slaves have escaped from the southern
States of the value, it says, of S35o0oo00 "The most
valuable slaves those who escape exems this honest
editor And he adds, What interest in this country can
survive an annual loss of 81 0000o02 Here is emancpa
ton without the help of abolition And these punderng
forays of thieves and robbers which committed ny any
foreign power would in the days when the Union existed
in ,pyt as wen MS form have aroused the whole people,
North and South TO war and reprisa not only escape All
punishment or rebuke but receive the countenance
and encouragement of State legislators, state governors
and their senator's on this moor !. . ,
The champion and friend of the senator from New York
boasts and chuckes an annual loss oy thet OF -
100000 of slave property take his estimate as more re-
liable than those hern because his associations
doubtless afford him Information we cannot procure Inc
senator from New York. perhaps can endorse ms enas
statement And the senator from New Hampshire lAlr
HALF men tons with il-dsguised JOY and triumph the eX
pendure of $4,000 by the government In recapturng
Anthony Burns from Boston
Ma,sachu,etts, Now and Thon
But sir Massachusetts, shall not be tried upon the te
mouy or convicted by the verdict Of southern men nene
shall she be acquitted by the partial and preIuocea uag
nent of the senator from New York BY her own NOUN
shall she be accused and by ber own Judgment snail sue
which in le43 covcnanted with Plymouth,
New Haven and Connecticut TO restore runaway slaves,
uson mere certificate sent from those colonies and Sc
cured for herself the mode Of recure OF her runa
ways-Massachusetts which in 1903, by legislative enact
ment restrdn,d the manunisson OF negroes by exacng
bonds Of the indemnify the town VA Whch no
lived from all charge for about the negro liberated DC
cause Of his sickness lamenes other nhrmy ana pro-
vided further In Of manumssion pphom sad pona
for putting the negro to work for the beneht o d
Masac chusets which In 1907 punished Win hne ana l
prisonent the harborng entertaining OF asaye WITH
ont the masters whose own son.
Nathan Dane drew up and introduced into the Continent
al Congress that provision in the ordinances o. lst tor ho
return OF fugitive whose own State
Ia lTss adopted the provision for the return
Of fugitive provided by the federal constitution with
ont single objection and with the approval OF her
parot son. General which IN ll58,
In view of that same provision in the federal constitution,
passed nhibng negro slaves from taryng 10 her
limits for longer time than two months, and PROVIDED,
in case Of violation Of IT. punishment with Stripe
Massachusetts, whose SON. George Cabot as senator from
that STATE assisted in fugidvesaye Law Of
1893 whose representatives in Oc~gress voted for the
same and whose SON. John Adams, as Vice President OF
the United States ,ioned the sameNassaehnsett, whose
represcn ayes and senators in Congress voted for law,
suggested by the John Adams and approved BY him
as President Of the United States, empowering and Tga
inq the chief Justice OF any district into which slave
might fee to his apprehension and
testing against the fugvesave law as abhorren 10 her
people yet resolved M
That while Massachusetts, entertans these views oi that
law .he claim. no right he federal conbmon 70 ma"
hfy, disregord forciby rssisf The pror'''os@ h o
0orgrsss that she has already, when snch Kht was
claimed by the State OF South Carolina expressed hed opn
upon H. and ss rsaHirn' dha rseds meyokoomg
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