Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-11-19
sLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL PRINTING.
The Fugitive slave Lav---Yhnt Shall be
Done With ftt

H6oNs, E~yeelvlng Hooks, 6e., dc,
The Fugitive slave Lay-ryyhHt Shall be
Done With ltf
Under this head the N. Y. Times publishes
a plan for saving the Union, putting a stop
to all agitation Of the slavery question, and
restoring peace and harmony to the belliger-
ents who are upon the opposite side of Mason
&Dixon's line. This plan, says the Times will
Eat once save the STAKEHOLDER from serious
loss, and yet respect the moral sentiment Of
the North, which will always render it inn
possible to return all fugitive slaves The
plan ais simply to provide by law Tor paying
TO the slave holder the value O fugitive slaves,
instead Of restoring them" And this will be
done "by giving the owners such indemnity
as is equivalent to the value of the slaves, less
the expense of recovery under the Fugitive
Slave Law" In brief the General Govern
ment would pay to the Shareholder whose
slave or slaves shall have escaped to the
North, oue-half or one-third their market
value, a proportion too small to endanger a
laxiy OF care on the party Of owners and
ovsrseers. This, the Times says, will " give
to the South and to the country an assurance
of a spirit OF compromise and couciliation
which, at the present moment will be Of in,
calculable value to the cause Of Union"
We for one are willing to accept the Times
plan for settling The "vexed question: with
some amendments. We would a thousan / times
rather be compelled, in COMMON with the rest
of the people, to pay the value of a runaway
slave to his owner than to be compelled to
hunt him up and deliver him to his MASTER
but the Times should remember that lit is a
poor rule that don't work both ways If
the Southern STAKEHOLDER can constitutionally
claim damages for his runaway chattels, on
the ground that that clause in the Constitu
ton inregard to the rendering up Of "persOns
held to labor or service" is not observed by a
portion Of the North, then another class Of
our people, with equal prOpricty and force, can
clam damages for the violation, by the Vhois
South, Of that clause in the Constitution
which says ethe citizens of each State shall
be entitled to ali the privileges and immuni-
ties of citizens of the seyera States"
It is notorious that this clause q is not at all
observed at the South, particularly in the
would-be-seceding States. If a citizen Of the
North visits the South and announces that he
isa Republican, or that he voted for Lincoln,
or dare express an opinion at variance with
the prevailing sentiment on the subject of
slavery, he is ordered to leave the State or is
tarred and feathered, and his property is des-
troyed, or he is hung to the nearest tree with
out the semblance of a trial, as was done ia
the case Of that devoted Christ an minister,
Rev. Mr.. Bewley, in Texas and that unfor-
tunate .aId defenceless woman, Mrs Ensier.i in
the same State. If a Press undertakes to
speak out against slavery in any Of the slave
States, it is sacked and destroyed by a mob,
and its proprietor obliged to fee for his life.
IF a Northern man visits the South and orders
acopy ofthe Cleveland LEADER or n. Y. Trib-
une sent to him, it is destroyed by a South
ern Postmaster on the ground ofits being "an
incendiary document" and this too, in def
ance Of a law Of Congress requiring Prst-
masters to deliver all mailable matter to
whomsoever it is sent If a Northern mer-
chant sends his ageut to South Carolina or
Georgia to collect bills against Southern mer-
chants, the debt is repudiated and the hap
less agent is ordered to leave the State, cloth
ed with a coat of tar and feathers, because he
is suspected of being san AboIitionist."
The above are merely samples Of the yio-
lations Of the rights of Northern citizens at
the South that have occurred, and are now al
most daily occurring, the victims being de-
MED even the protection Of local laws. 1t
win be seen that that clause in the Constitu-
ton guaranteeing protection to citizens Of one
State going into another State, is clearly vi
olated in every Southern State, and the sub
jects of these prosecutions have never been
able to collect damages, owing to the resist
ance of both mobs and authorities to having
the cases brought into Court.
The amendments we would suggest to the
Times plan are as follows:
When a Northern man is tarred and feath-
cred by a mob of Southern shareholders for
opinions sake only, let him be allowed the
sum OF s., 900 out of the National Treasury.
When a Northern citizen is hung on sus-
picion Of being aan Abolitionist let his
widow and heirs be entitled to, say, $40, GOO
damages.
When a Southern Postmaster refuses to
deliver a Republican newspaper to a sub
scriber on the ground ofits being an simeon
diary document let the subscriber be allow
ed, say $500 damages.
When a newspaper Office is destroyed for
.prOmulgating Republican doctrines, let the
publisher be allowed damages to the amodnt
he may have suffered.
When a Northern BOOKSHELF. is denied the
right to sell his publications in the South, let
him come in for his damages whatever they
may be.
With these amendments attached to the
Times magnanimous plan for settling the
"vexed question: we will cheerfully and
gladly accept it.
Expulsion Of Northern GIeu from the south.
The telegraph made brief mention of the
expulsion from Charleston, S, c.. of Mr.. VIM