Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-10
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MONDAY. MARCH 10, 1856.
Wonnrsrnp. March 4. 1856.

WORCESTER, March 4, 1856.
alessrs Editors Il see, by your paper of yes
terday. that the Cincinnati fugitiyes have been
returned to their masters in Kentucky You
merely stated the fact without comment. In to.
davis Shy see no mention of the case al ALL l
expected you would come out in long editorial,
cursing Governor Chase of Ohio, as you did Gov
ernor Washburn, when Burns was taken from
Boston. Tor not interfering in his behalf. Gov
ernor Washburn was elected by the wing party
who helped enact the fugitive slave 6ll--what
more could we expect of him Governor Chase
is a Republican, a member of party which re-
pudiaies the fugitive slave law yet, by his allow
ing the fugitives to be returned Peaceeo'y' ne
helps execute the infamous law
If Governor Washburn deserved sueh Segefe
censure (which think he did much more does
Governor Chase merit it, because OF their amer.
ent stand in politics As you said with rega ar 10
the name of our friend, the editor OF TX Iran-
script, /" Let justice be done, though TIE heavens
fall" rr"- JUSTICE.
The above was received at the time of its
date, and has been inadvertently laid aside
till this time. We are at loss to know
whether the writer is in earnest, and writes
according to his sober convictions, or whether
he is not disposed to be little ironical III
view of the striking contrast in the two cases
referred to. If he is in earnest, we can only
recommend to him, in future, to understand
better what he is about, before he attempts to
write or the public eye; for two cases more
dissimilar than those referred to can hardly be
imagined.
We do not suppose that "Justice" could
ever have understood us to wish Governor
washburn, as Governor of the State, to OPP
pose illegal force, or violence, to the rendition
Of Burns. If he did, he entirely misinter-
preted our sentiments. We never uttered a
sentence that would bear such an interpreta-
tion. Of course, we should not ask or wish
it of Governor Chase.
Let us state, then, what our objections were
to the course of Governor Washburn, and
then see whether Governor Chase has made
himself liable to the same condemnation. II
he has, then he shall receive it at our hands,
as unsparingly, and with as good will. as it
was administered to Governor Washburn.
What, then, were our grounds of complaint
against Gov. Washburn; They were, irst
that he declined any assistance, or his coun-
tenance, even, in the service of the civil
process of the State. which, under the provi-
sons of the personal repleyin law, might Sc
cure to Burns the right of trial by jury; Sec
ondly, that, while commander in chief OF the
militia of the State, he suffered that militia to
be called out, without any proper legal au-
thority, in violation of the constitution and
laws of the State, and to be placed under the
control of officers of the national government,
to overawe the people and the constituted au-
thorities of the State; that, while it was his
duty, to stand by, and guard the rights OF the
State with the most jealous care, and see thai
no right was iniringed with impunity, even in
the slightest degree, he dir, by permitting such
usurpation, by others, of his authority, con
sent to the degradation of the State. and give
his sanction to the illegal and violent enforce
ment of the most atrocious, bloody, and un-
constitutional law, that ever dlsgraced the
ulu11eu, SUR vIrrt 'sruvs I4elr .rN e ro1
biuUu was consummated, and the miserable
and guilty instruments of the atrocious act
held carousal in honor of their success, Gov.
Washburn was there with them, making set
speech for the occasion, in which he thanked
them for the, alacrity with which they had
consented to outrage the public sentiment,
and the laws, even, of the State, and become
the blood hounds of slavery. We did feel
this, keenly, as a further degradation of the
State in the person of her Chief Magistrate,
and we expressed ourselves Acknowledgements
in c,vsiag, as intimated by Justice" but in
the indignant terms of freeman, conscious of
the wrong inflicted upon him and upon the
State.
To all this, is there any parallel in the
Ohio case? We see not the slightest. The
supremacy of the law in Ohio, has been ac-
knowledged and respected. The Sheriff Of
Cincinnati, by virtue of Ohio law, took the
fOgitives from the custody Of the United States
Marshal, carried them before the State Court,
and held them, without interference, till, by
adjudication of the State Court, they were
returned to the custody of the Marshall. No
Ohio militia, either with or without the con-
sent of Gov. Chase, were brought Quito over
awe the people and the civil authorities. No
Martial law was proclaimed and enforced in
Cincinnati; and Gov. Chase has, neither by
word or deed, done any thing to sanction. the
enforcement Of the atrocious law. The par
allel. then, fails altogether, and if I" Justice
wishes Gov. Chase cursed, he must do his
own carsing, so far as we are concerned.
We had no desire, ever again, to have al
luded to the painful facts, connected with the
rendition of Burns, to which reference is
made above. But, when called upon, as we
are, by one, who, whatever may be his pro-
LESSONS, now, we judge, by the tone of his
remarks, to be one who fels sore at what we
said at the time, we can do no less than
put the case fairly before the public, on its
true basis.
AtchisOn and siringGeIIOwlOn the Stump.
These two illustrious luminares of the ma
tional administration, and chief executors Of
the Pierce policy in Kansas, it seems, are on
the stump in Missouri, drumming up recruits
for another invasion of Kansas. They were
present and addressed the border rufiians Of
Plat Co., assembled in Convention at Platt
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