New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-04-23
MASSACHUSETTS, MALIGNED.

Daniel O'ConueIl used TO say Of himself that he
WAS "the best abused man in the British Empire"
W. must say that we think our sister Common
wealth of Massachusetts the best abused State IN
the Union AID we must say that she does no. Alto
pether deserve the bad character that her Southern
ssters give her, nor the treatment either. IL was
but the other day, as our readers will reeOllect,
that a Massachusetts, officer was dispatched to MIS-
sissippi 1--WE think II vas, but we will change the
renue freely if il was anywhere else) armed with
tie necessary paper, in pursuit of criminal who
bad obtain ed certsin goods Of Boston merchan! on
false pIetencts. The Governor of Mississippi, as
was his duty finding the documents oil right, Issued
his executive warrant for the arrest and removal oil
the off nder. He was accordingly arrested, and
YVES on the point Of turning his face toward the
Pepitentiary st Cbsrle,town, when the patriotic
citizens of the town which boosted OF his citizen
chip got word Of the affair, and proceeded 10 de-
liver him az once out Of the hands OF the spoiler.
Ibi, they did On the ground that Massachusetts re-
fuses 10 give up fugitive slaves, and therefore 1t
was base wrong ,h,t Mississippi should surrender
eyadipg l.rceners. And so deyouring was the zeal
which ate them up, that they could hardly be with
held from making an example of the miscreant who
had been rent in pursui, Of their fellow citizen and
it was only upon bis making the most humble &C.
acknowledgements of bis crime, burning the eItrsdl-
ton papers, snd promising never 10 do the like
again. tia, he was allowed to escape back to Mas
.schu,etts in a whole skin, to report progress TO
Gov. BsDks.
Now. had this act of "wild Justice" been put on
the ground that no ofeuse h.d been committed in
the eyes of Ahsisipp there might have been
something 70 say for it. The obtaining Of goods,
.. of money, by false pretenses, Is but another
name for Repldation-a wel-kno~n and highly
valued Domestic Institution Of that Commonwealth.
We can easily imagine that nothing could be more
revolving TO tie moral sense OF Mlsslsspplan than
the suggestion that there wss any great inproPuetg,
much less Any legal guilt in obtaining goods for
southern consumption Of Yankee traders, without
the ,upeIhuous extravaganza Of paying for the N.
II "hase is the slave that pys," as Ascent Pistol
cav. be is, how much b.ser the master, if be can
help bimself' Had the opinion Of Chist-Jussce
Lynch, in passing sentence in this case, been
placed on these grounds, il would have
been ineligible and consistent with the
pIeeedents and antecedeuts Of the community
where no held ais Court. But to rest the juis
uent and execuEen on the refusal of hassachu-
setts to give up fugitive slaves TO their masters,
d,plAy, either gross Ignorance Of facts or grOsser
indifference TO them. Has the fame Of Mayor
Bgelow and Marshal Tukey, who Pu. q chain on
the Boston Court Hou.e, and compelled ChjefJus-
tiee Shaw and his assistants 10 crawl under it on
their bellies, never reached them Have they
never heard Of Commissioner Curtis, aud Tom
Sims whom he sent back; and how Mayor Bigelow
and his Marshal escorted him, At the head Of the
police Of the city, at daybreak, TO the place Of bis
embarkaiOn. while the Boston Bng.ie-thense
termed tie Sims Brigsde-wss bivouacking in no
10" sacred pace than Faneuil Hal, ready to
interfere in case the sacred rite we're diaarbedf
Has the fame and the fate Of Judge Lonng and
Of Anthony Burns, wto was escorted az high noon,
with tuck Of drum and blare of trumpet down
State street BY the whole Lines Brigade, headed
by the Cadets, the body guard Of Governor WsAs-
burn himself, which thence received Ne ssnoIAts