The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-03-28

was TO let boat from man-of war come along
eide Of a merchant vessel. but no one to board
Der unless invited We shall be glad to see what
the Ere. Oh proposition 30 our government is.
We wish see this vexed question settled, but
have not much hope OF a Just proposition being
msde to us by any European Power.
Treason I'm ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS her People
DISTINGUISHES!
Under the specious pl a of personal liberty
bills a strenuous effort is being made by the
abolition crew in several Of the State Legisla-
iuree, for the passing of enactments the object
of which is to punish with Imprisonment for
various 'erms, from life down to three years, any
citizen Who as federal officer shalt undertake
to carry out, in the performance of his official
duty, the constitution of the United States and
the laws enacted by Congress-
Foremost among these northern disunionists
are the black republicans of Massachusetts, and
for the past year they have been making strong
efforts to get up popular manifestation, to be
presented at the present session Of the General
Assembly. The labor of the year has eliminated
and is given in the Boston N5erator of the 25th
instant, the rest of the black republican prints
being either afraid or ashamed to make the
figures known to their readers The list of peti
tons comprises 1876 towns and 1876 names, and,
says the Libermor.-" Unquestionably. hey repre-
sent the great mass Of the people Of Massachusetts,.
whose names could have been readily obtained
to the petition, if it had been presented to them
with the same promptness in every town that it
was in such places as Danvers, Georgetown, Hub
bardston, Leominster, Milford, Natick Arlington,
&c.n
In view Of the fact that Massachusetts, accorl-
ing to the census of 1850, contains 1922 towns
and 994,5l4 Inhabitants, it seems to us a little
exaggerated to claim that less than one half of
the number Of towns, and little over one aud
u half per cent of the population, should claim
unquestionably to represent the great mass Of
the people of Massachusetts,. This will appear
the more singular when it is remembered how
these abolition petitions are gotten up. The
favorite mode of operation is through the clergy
and the sunday schools, and the great mass of the
signers are foolish women and children of tender
age. 1t is these political schemes on the part of
fanatic sectarians that is destroying true religion
ia New England, and making it hotbed of
spiri,ualism, freeloveism and all the other scan
dalous isms of the day.
But let us analyze the Li5ermors tables of the
numbers that unquestionably represent the great
mass Of the people of Massachusetts little
further. 1t names seven banner towns as worthy
of special commentator, from the number ofpeo
pie in them ready and willing to overthrow the
constitution and Union of the United States
The first Of these is Danvers, an Industrious and
thriving town near Salem, with a population OF
800, which gives 1889 petitioning disunionists
Next in rank comes Arlington, farming town
Of Plymouth county, whose people beguile the
long winters by making boots and shoes; this
gives 629 disunionists out Of 269 people. But
the true banner town of disunionism in Massa-
chusetts is Georgetown, celebrated in Essex
county for The benighted condition of its inhabi-
out of 1852 inhabitants. Natick, the home
Senator Wilson, gives 3s2 out of 2,744; Hub
bardston gives 507 out Of 1925; Leominster 4lO
out of 3,l2l; and Milford ass out Of Sl9. Such
are the true representatives of the whole people
Of Massachusetts, according to the black repub
principal cities and towns turn out ON the dis
union question.
Boston, with population of 136,SS1, could
only muster 1856 disunionists: Salem, with
20,064, turns out 459; Lowell, with 1888
people, has only "a and Newburyport, with
q o1,or,o To- a c. Sc, &c
other important towns, until the Liberator's list
dwindes down to Westford, with l,472 people
and 2 disunionists, to sign with the Rev. George
M. Rice, and Westport, with 1895, which can
hunt up only one poor, solitary, foolish fellow
to add his name to that of Abram A. Clifford.
Waltham, the home of Gov. Banks sends up the
names of GA disunionists out Of 1894 while 1876
towns could not find one foolish chap in them to
sign these reasonable petitions.
The LiJeator finds fault with the Massachusetts
Legislature for having taken no action on the
subject, and admonishes them that the eyes of
the people are upon them. Now, as the journals
of Massachusetts have not dared to protest
against this barefaced assumption on the part of
few traitorous fanaticss to represent the people
of that State, we, in the name of the freemen of
Massachusetts,, do protest against it, and assert
that this reasonable faction does not represent
the people of that commonwealth. Massachu-
sets is prominently manufacturing and ship
owning State. Her industry finds its reward in
its present free access to every market in the
Union, and her ships find their best employment
in carrying Massachusetts manufactures to the
ports Of the Southern States, and conveying
the cotton and tobacco of those States to the
other markets of the world. We protest that Mas
sachnsetts, more than any other State, is bound
by the golden chains of industry to the great
scheme Of freedom of material intercourse and
exchange which the federal constitution estab-
fishes and protects; and that her people are not,
and never can be, disunionists, the LiJerator and