The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1868-05-12


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lent, a bin under the direct violation q which
that horrible tragedy sas enacted within our own
commonwealth, within the sight Mr. Jhiei-Jus-
tee, y your own beautiful city when Margaret
Gardner with her babe dashed upon her breast
pursued BY the officers 81 the law, in her Wild
frenzy forgot her mothers affection ia the joy she
felt at sending before the appointed iime BY her
own hand the ppoiiesz soul d her child back to
her God who gave Il, rather than allow il to be
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der American Law; bill, nevertheless, by the
American people even Oh that day when Anthony
Burns walledi IN chains under the shadow ~ Bunk
er Hi, where every turf beneath your feet is
soldior's scrulehcr," and where sleep the first
Just martyrs ia the cause Of American indcpend-
ence, to be tried before s magistrate in a temple
surrounded itself with chains and guarded with
hayonets, and yet the people stood by and said
Let The law be executed until il be repealed Talk
to me about the American people recognizing the
right Of any president to set aside The law. Who
AAEn Aitt AAAnM ears stAsAI t4Ato
Of 1862, the terrible blasphemy was uttered in the
platform q the party whose representatives to-
day insist the executive prerogatye To set aside
your laws, and annihilate your government, that
all discussion in Congress- and ont Of Congress,
touching this very fugitive slave bil should be
suppressed. The body that adopted that resolu-
ton should have remembered that there is some
thing stronger after all Than the resolution by
partsans in convention assembled. They onght
to have remeded that. God is not in the earth
quake or in the fire, but in the STILL small voice,
speaking to the enlightened conscience Of men,
and that voice is omnipotent. God knows that
for the honor Of our common country would take
the step backward, and cover the nakedness and
the shame OF the American people in that day of
American disgrace. They nominated their can
ddate for president, aud he accepted their terms,
and was carried into the presidential chair by the
votes Of all the states in this Union. With such
record as that with such law, offensive to the
judgement and conscience of the people Of the
United States, and of the civilized world, execut
ed, how dare gentlemen come before the Ameri-
can Senate and tell us that it is the traditional
policy Of the American people to allow their laws
to be delied by any executive? deny it. There
is not lire in our history that does not give fat
denial to the assumption. Itneyer has been done,
never.