Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-24
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only remains that Congress should now sit
and hearken to it, without correcting the
wrong, as the ancient tyrant listened and
granted no redress to the human means that
issued from the heated brazen bull, which
subtle cruelty had devised. This l call the
Apology of technicality Inspired by tyranny.
The facts on this head are few and plain
Governor Reeder, after allowing only five
days for objections to the returns-a space OF
time unreasonably brief in that extensive
Territory declared a majority of the mem
bers OF the Council and of the House of Rep
reseDtatives duly elected" withheld ce TIL
Gates from certain others, because of satistac-
tory proof that they were not duly elected,
and appointed day for new elections to sup
ply these vacancies. Afterwards, by ormal
message he recognised the Legislature as a
legal body, and when be vetoed their act of
adjournment to the neighborhood of Missouri,
he did 1t simply on the ground of the illegali-
ty OF such an adjournment under the organic
law. Now to every assumption founded on
these facts, there are two satisfactory replies
first, that no certificate of the Governor can
do more than authenticate subsisting legal
act, without of itself infusing legality where
the essence of legality is not already; and
secondly, that violence or fraud, wherever
disclosed, vitiates completely every proceed,
ing. In denying these principles, you place
the certificate above the thing certified, and
give perpetual LEASE to violence and fraud,
merely because at an ephemeral moment they
were unquesuoned. This win not do.
Sir, am no apoogst for Governor Reeder.
there is sad reason to bel eve that he went
TO Kanzas originally us the TOOL of the Presi-
dent; but his simple nature, nurtured in the
atmosphere of Pennsylvania, revoked at the
service required. and he turned from his pat
ron to duty. Grievously did he err in yield
ing to the Legislature any act of authentica-
ton; but he has in some measure answered
for this error by determined efforts since 20
expose the utter illegality of that body, which
he now repudiates entirely. 1t was said of
certain Roman Emperors, who did infinite
mischief in their beginnings, and infinite good
towards their ends that they should never
have been born, or never died; and l would
apply the same to the official life of this Kan
zas Governor. Atall events, l dismiss the
Apology founded on his acts, as the utterance
of tyranny by the voice of law, transcending
the declaration of the peJlantic judge, in the
British Parliament, on the eve of our Revo.
luton, that our fathers, notwithstanding their
complaints, were i'll reality represented in
Parliament, inasmuch as their lands under
the original charters, were held sin common
socage, as of the manor of Greenwich III
Kent" which, being duly represented, cur-
red with it all the Colonies. Thus in other
ages has tyranny assumed the voice Of law.
Next comes the Apology imbeciIe, which is
founded on the alleged want OF power in the
President to arrest this Crime 1t is openly
asserted that under the existing laws OF the
United States the Chief Magistrate had no
authority to interfere in Kanzas for this pur-
pose. Such is the broad statement, which,
even if correct, furnishes no apology for any
proposed ratification of the Crime. but which
is in reality untrue and this, 1 call the Apol-
ogy Of Imbecility.
In other matters, no such ostentatiuus i'm
becility appears. Only lately, vessel of war
in the Pacific has chastised the cannibals of
the Fyee Islands, for alleged outrages on
American citizens. But no person of ordi
nary intelligence will pretend that American
citizens in the Pacific have received wrongs
from these cannibals, comparable in atroclty
to those received by American citizens in Kan
Zas. All, sir, the interests of Slavery are not
touched by any chastisement of the Fejees
Constantly We are informed of efforts at
New York, through the agency of the Gov
eminent, and sometimes only on the breath
of suspicion, to arrest vessels about to sail on
fereign voyages in violation oG our neutrality
laws or treaty stipulatious. Now, no man ia.
gest that the urgency for these arrests was
equal to the urgency fpr internositnn against
these successive nIVAsionR IRON Missouri -
But the Slave Power is not d sturbed by such
arrests at New York
AT this moment the President exults in the
vigilance with which he has prevented the en-.
listment of few soldiers, to be carried off to
Halifax, i'll violation OF our territorial sove
reignty, and England is bravely threatened,
even to the extent OF rupture of diplom attic
relations, for her endeayor, though unsuccess-
full, and at once abandoned. But no man in
his senses will urge that the act was ANYTHING
but trivial by the side of the Crime against
Kanzas. But the Slave Power is not con-
cerned in this controversy.
Thus, where the Slave Power is Indifferent
the President will see that the laws are faith
fully executed; but, in other cases, where the
interests of slavery are at stake, he is con.
trolled absolutely by this tyranny, ready at all
times to do, or not to do, precisely as it die
tates. Therefore it is, that Kanzas is left
prey to the Propagandists of Slavery. while
tht whole Treasury, the Army and Navy OF
of the United States, are lavished to hunt
single slave through the streets of Boston.
You have not forgotten the latter instance !;
butI choose to refresh 1t in your minds.
As long ago as 1851, the War department
and Navy department concurred in placing
the forces OF the Unifd States, near Boston,
at the command Of the Marshal, if needed,
for the enforcement of an Act of Congress,
which had no support in the public conscience,
as believe it has no support in the Constitu-
ton; and thus these forces were degraded to
tie loathsome work of slave hunters. NJ re
than three years afterwards, an occasion arose
for their Intervention. A fugitive from Vir.
gnia, who for some days had trod the streets
OF Boston as fireman. was seized as a slave.
The whole community was aroused, while
Bunker Hill and Faueuil Hall quaked with
responsive indignation. Then, sir, the PTesi-
dent, anxious that no title of Slavery should
suffer, was curiously eager in he enforcement
OF the statute. The dispatches between him
and his agents in Boston, attest his zeal. Here
are some of them
BosroS, May q, 1854.
To the President ofthe United States:
lneonsequenceo an aick upon the Court House. last
night for he purpose OF rescuiug fugitive slave. under
arrest, aud In which one OF my guards killed.
have avail myself VI theresources The United taes
placed under my control by letter from the War Navy
Departments, in 1851, and now have two companies Of
troop, from Fort independence, stationed in the Court
House. Everything is now quiet The attack was re
pulsed by my own guard,
United States Marshal, Boston, MSS.
WASHINGTON, May 27, 1854.
To Watson Freeman,
United States Marshal, Boston, Mass,
Your conduct approved The law must be executed,
. FRANKLIN PIERCE.
WASHINGTON, May 80, 1854.
To Hon. B. T. Hallett, Boston, Mass,
what's the state Of tile Of Burnsi
SIDNEY WEBSTER.
Private Secretary ofthe President.l