Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-13

can trust the people, Nonsense, said he, |
you know it's humbug. Yon can't trust the
people, | believe, If Massachusetts elects
Gardner three times over, l shall be half con-
verted to Richard Danas opinion.
1T the anti slavery spirit exists, let it speak
out in Massachusetts, as it hiss done in Wis
consin. Go and elect man for Governor
who will march the Massachusetts, militia
down TO Boston before another fugitive slave
snail De taken out of the city, CHEERS 60
and elect man who shall replace Chief Jus
tce shaw with somebody that shall declare
the Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
You have nominated Mr.. Gardner. Suppose
he Is elected this fall. Chief Justice Shaw
wants to resign; he has said to Gardner that
ne VIII resign whenever he finds any body to
take ms place. Two gentlemen of the bar
nave oeeh applied to, and have declined a
third IS named-the Professor of Law at Fl ar
ward College; the man who. within six
months read to his pupils an elaborate aron-
ment to prove the Fugitive Slave Law ron.
stltuhonal Suppose Gov. Gardner re elect
ed; suppose Chief Justice Shaw, wearied
with years and sickness, and Prof. Joel Parker
IS made Chief Justice. The office is for life.
You have got another incubus on the state
1t is most critical period Our Supreme
Bench is to be filled within wear or two.
Massachusetts has not elective indees She
has judges fol- life. Henry ]. Gardner NAV
die, and be forgotten; (thank God for the
blessing ofdeath !)-but he may leave behind
him Chief Justice that may last for forty
years, and plague our children in years TO
come. Watch this central power of the gov
eminent, that lies behind the judiciary. We
shall never redeem Massachusetts until we
conquer the Bench. We want a Governor
we want succession of Governors, that shall
fill up that Bench with John A. Andrew. of
bingham, [cheers, with John W. Browne,
OF Boston, renewed cheers,) and men of
that stamp lawyers, who have not vet parted
with their hearts; men, who recognize Coke
and Blackstone but who also recognize the
Higher Law above. Give us such Bench
as that, and, for once, do not care what YOU
do in Congress, for / will make this little State
so hot that no stakeholder shall ever set foot
upon it, and no fugitive slave in the coun.
try, even If he comes from the extreme point
oil Florida, shall ever find the climate too
cold. Loud cheers
The Judiciary, Mr.. President, is the KEY to
the Government. When the Stuarts wanted
to subdue England, they began with the Bench.
The Slave Power Of this country long ago
subjugated the Bench. The first effort Of
Massachusetts toward freedom will be to Sc
cure the anti-slayery independence of the
DSHGH' why ulQ not caleb Gushing and
Franklin Pierce send file Of United States
troops to take Mr.. Booth, who edits paper in
Milwaukee? Why did not the District Judge
issue his warrant, and solder up that broken
Prison of his Why does not the Cabinet at
Washington endeavor to subdue the State of
Wisconsin will tell you why Because
Chief Justice Smith, the Mansfield of Ameri-
ca, stands on the threshold of the State, and
beneath a judge who knows what State soy
eregnty means, the United States authority
drops powerless. We want such Judge, and
IN order to that, we want Governor.
Perhaps l have spoken as long as 1 ought
+" No no" ego on, go ON y but entreat
you, do not think us tedious. You do not
live in Boston, all of you. You have not the
daily nauseous sight OF Legislature and Gov
ernor all winter. You do not know what it
is, when fugitive slave stands chained in a
Boston Court House, to have the solemn, dis
heartening conviction that there is not an Ex-
ecntiye officer in the State who will do a Mas
sachusetts act If we could only have taken
that Court House, and carried it round the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts-if we could
only have taken that Governor, as he stood on
the platform at Faneuil Hall, and wanted 20
strike, but dared not, and daguerreotype him
IN every town of the Commonweath-vou
would not inAict him upon us again.