Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-24

SENATOR GARRETT DAv1s.-Ths valiant
Kentucky senator has recently taken Massa-
chusetts under special discipline In an elab-
crate speech, last Tuesday, he alluded to her
personal liberty bills, and incidentally to the
attempted rescue of Anthony Burns from his
kidnappers, in 1854, and continued as follows
Mr.. DAyIs-Which side of this contest did
the senators from Massachusetts then take?
There was Il war threatened. There was an
instruction. There was an armed rebellion.
A lawless mob of about ten thousand people
assembled, with arms in their hands, to resist
and TO defy and to trample upon the constitu-
ton of the United States and the law of con-
greSs, and to defeat the marshal, tho officer of
the United States who was there present to
execute the law. What did the president do {?
He determined that the law should be execut-
ed, and it would have been executed although
it had lain Boston in ashes; and it ought to
have been executed, though it had wrapped
that noble city in general contiagration. 1t
would have been less wrong and less evil
to the government and to the American peo-
pie that Boston should have been wrapped in
flames, and should have been left in smoul-
dering ruins, in the successful effort to exc
cute that law, than that the law should have
been defantly defeated by an armed mob.
have understood that the senators from Mas
sachusetts sympathized with the mob and its
| resistance Of this law. | never knew that this
hero of the present war, and of the execution
of all the laws of congress [pointing to Mr..
Wilson of Massachusetts impelled by sense
of patriotic duty and by his martial ardor, had
| appeared, with sword and shield, to back the
marshal of the United States in the execution
| 90 I hot
either of them did perform or attempt to per-
form that high, patriotic duty.
Mr.. SUMNER was in my seat here.
| Mr.. DAyIs-Did you not give your sympa-
thy to those who resisted the law?
Mr.. SUMNER-My sympathy is always with
every slave.
Mr.. DAvIs-That is a frank acknowledge
ment. His sympathy is with every slave
| against the constitution and the execution of
the laws of his country If that is not a sem
timent of treason, ask what is? l suppose
the other gentleman's sympathy was in the
| same line.
| Mr.. WMsoN-Mr. President
Several senators-Say nothing.
Mr.. WmsOS-Only a word.
Mr.. Clark do not think you suffer any.
Mr.. WILSON, have no idea that l am
suffering any. l have not felt so. 1 did not
interrupt the senator for the reason that ]
did not wish to interrupt his speech, because
l did not think the interruption would shorter
it, Claughter,) and in the next place wanted
to hear what the senator had to say about thi;
matter, to hear it all through; and as he ha:
had his say, and then has come finally to re
mark that | do not say anything about it,
wish simply to state that on the night of that
mob was twenty miles from the place of it
and knew nothing more about it than the sen
ator from Kentucky did, in any way, shape, o.
| manner.
Mr.. DAvIs-Well, sir, am happy to hea
that disclaimer. Still will put another ques
ton to the senator. l ask him whether h
: ever did anything to uphold that law in Mas
sachusetts.
Mr.. WILSON, think not.
1t is to be hoped that the Kentucky senate
was satisfied with the frank answers to h
n catechism.