The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 1

NO UNION WITH ELAVTHOLDERB mw 7 A I I OUR COUNTRY IS THE WORLD OUR OUNTRWBTTTNr A TIT! ATT MANKIND 5 'mA and the that i Our inso We Ntt time 5 and we presume receives a much larger sum for his valuable aid from his British employers under present circumstances We marvel that so enterprising an agitator against slavery does not extend his operations to that portion of our Union which labors under the curse he is so determined to Extirpate 'In his speech he expresses his' admi ration of the ethics of Barclay and dray men Why not afford us 'of the South an opportu nity of testing the vigor of a system of abating po litical nuisances somewhat of the same nature but much tnore efficacious than that of the porter men We know nc better subject on which toillustrate duf system than this pestilent vagabond whom a foreign government and people have sent to this country to act in concert with our own domestic traitors tor the subversion ot our Constitution Union rom the Washington Union THE OREIGN EMISSARY We were told when Thompson first arrived he was a mere looker on and did not intend to take part in the political affairs of the country but now he avows his determination to oppose the fugi tive slate law and to enlist in a general campaign with his abolition brethren Who ever heard of such impudence in a foreign renegade He is en deavoring to assist enkindling the flames of civil war arid to break up and destroy the Union This ugitive Slave Bill question involves all these mo mentous considerations Are the people of Massa chusetts willing tube insulted further by this imper tinent intermeddler who Ins been brought over as he confesses to get targe audiences because he is a foreigner 1 Garrison Phillips Abby Kellev red Douglass Rev Mr Parker had completely run abolition aground they could not even collect a negro audi ence and to put a new spirit into their sinking cause they have procured this clown of Parliament Thompson They have followed the example of other hmnbuggers first one piece of machinery and then another after the first is worn out The aboli tionists tried Thompson first It was a dead fail ure It was too early in the campaign of abolition ism He was hissed off the stage and escaped from the back door of the theatre He decamped from Boston and left the coast clear After some time they tried the Amazon Abby Kelley then Rev Mr Parker with red Douglass in his train and now Monsieur Tonson's come again How much they will make by this lust turn of an old game re mains to be seen Thompson was not inclined to rom the Richmond (Va) Daily Express GEORGE THOMPSON THE INCENDIARY The New York Express entertains not a doubt that the mission of this miscreant paid for as it is according to his own acknowledgment with British gold is but a part of a plot which has been in pro gress many years to separate one portion of the country from the other in other words to bring about a dissolution of the Union Thatit is a mat ter of the highest importance 'to the manufacturers of Great Britain to produce such a catastrophe can not for a moment be doubted and that the almighty rides over every consideration of justice hu manity and the hopes of in the bosoms of cer tain persons scarcely admits of a question By ef fecting a separation between the North which man ufactures cotton and the South which grows it they would bo enabled to overthrow the former pos sessing as they already do the advantages of supe rior skill and enabled as they would thus be to en ter our market with only the same amount of duties laid upon 'heir fabrics The editor of the Express who is a member of Congress and it may be added a very distinguished one too professes to entertain not the smallest doubt that if the matter could be ferreted out it would be discovered that the immense circulation given to some of the abolition speeches delivered during the last session of Congress was paid for in British gold These speeches and other appliances used by the abolition pariy Jrive excited the nation to a degree ot intensity ordering upon trenzy cise mon of insurr Hamlets There is rom the Richmond Whig George Thompson the Abolitionist readers are aware of the reception which this lent miscreant met at aneud Hall in Boston rejoice that the people of that city have manifested so noble a spirit and that the hired agent of a for eign government though dignified by a seat in Par liament should receive so signal a rebuke for his impertinent intermeddling in our concerns The New York Courier and Enquirer in an able article on Monday lifts the curtain and exposes the real de signs of England in her encouragement of this mous agent Thd same article contains also some precious revelations in regard to the New York Iler ild We shill offer sone comments in our next paper or at tin early day In the mean time Thompson it appears is disposed to beat a retreat having found his reception rather warmer than he expected rom the Charleston Daily Sun George Thompson the Abolitionist The Northern nn Ijrrfl are filled with romwL nn re ception of this individual at Boston With all the hvpocrisy imaginable they denounce him in unmeas ured terms as an intruder while they advocate the very principles he preaches They call themselves i rec ooiiers uui io mm iney give me uinie iuo i litionist The difference is about the same is that between gangrene and mortification Rev Theodore Parker The Portlaifl Eve ning News savs thit the Rev Theo lore Par ker of Boston after unting in marriage tie fugi tive slaves William Crafts and the colored voman with whom he lived as his wife drew forth a digger and presented it to Crafts admonishing Jim to it with the blood of rather than suffer himself or wife to be captured This larker is memorable for the establishment some time since of a new religion in which the precepts ana doc trines of Christianity were treated rather caval erly We suppose this matter of wholesale murder re commended to his disciples is a legitimate part cf his lb rom the Washington Union Negroes at a Premium 1 The following para graph from the Boston Atlas shows that negroes ire looking up in that region This Me Grawvile College must have been hard run for a Professor to deprive Mr Loring of Boston ol his student aid the Bar of Boston of this ebony ornament I We pre sume this college is one of the pet institutions Senator Seward and his abolition confederates in tie Empire State William Allen a colored young man law stu dent in the office of Ellis Gray Loring Esq hasbeer appointed to the Professorship of Greek and Rhetoric in Central College Me Grawville New Y'ork Mr Allee is also well known as a lecturer upon the ori gin literature and probable destiny of the African race 1 rom the New Orleans Daily Delta THE GEORGE THOMP RECEPTION IN BOSTON Our good Union loving friends in Boston hav ing succeeded in nullifying the ugitive Slave Bill put the Georgia slave catchers under bonds for 10000 and transmitted the fugitive Crafts to arc now solacing the South with sugar plums in the shape of resolutions speeches and spice in the form of a bit of a row a cheap and facile manifestation of mobocratical feeling got up on the first appearance of George Thompson an imported incendiary and hireling agitator We have no doubt this event will be heralded through the South by the compromisers us a most satisfactory display of the love of the Union which fills the hearts of the good people of Boston Such manifestation possesses an advantage which doubtless constitutes no small recommendation with our good brethren of it is very cheap We know nothing easier to do in a great city th in to get up noise and con at a crowded public meeting Hissing clap ping bellowing singing and like displays in a large crowd are very contagious It is easy too to in dulge these tastes al night without incurring any re sponsibility it when it comes to acting talking or voting in open day these cat iwaiihng sibilating hurraing fellows be found Tnosc who love sentiment may be a Untied with these displays but they restore Mr negroes nor will they diminish the abolition majority in Massachusetts or the Chinees ofPliillip for the Governorship The mob the cottonocratical clerks mid warehouse men may raise a hubbub in aneuil Hall but the fanitics can them at the polls or in the courts i Thompson and Garrison were not listened to in the meeting nor was Daniel Webster listened to in the election though Gun Downs was very confident he would be and as we are well satisfied he ought to hive been Which is the greater defeat it Thompson id his ay for the Chronotype the next day published an edition of 10000 copies so tliei atonement was no great affair after all Thompson instead of a hundred hearers had irianv thousand readers 5 We think the Englishman and his friends nrc badly 'treated If the people of Mass ichusetts vote abolition they ought to be permitted to apeak itThe latter is certainly the 'more innocent modus op erand 5 Thompson gets two hundred pounds a year to ag itate in Englund 'He has come here in the" nick of rom the New Orleans Picayune 1 GEORGE THOMPSON AGAIN George Thompson the intrusive British member of Parliament who came to this country on nn: anti slavery tour and was run outof taneuil Hall by the people of Boston had better fortune nt Worcester Mass Surrounded by a clique of New England Abolitionists Im harangued in that populous place at considerable length in' abuse of one half of the United St ites and in to the whole American people Every outbreak of his insolent haired of the Southern States was applauded by the traitors and cravens there present to confess and glory in their own baseness It is pleasant however to learn that those myrmidons of an impertinent foreigner were nobcitizens of the place but the old train of Garrisopites who have so long pestered the people of Boston with their disorganizing and revolutionary doctrines and who went to Worcester to get the op portunity to make an Abolition demonstration which they were refused in Boston Loud complaints these pharisees ide about the inhospitality with which Mr Geo Thompson hail been treated and they held him up as an injured martyr for conscience sake By the by here is a good opportunity forthe Brit ish Government to try the efficacy of tliedoctrine of national responsibility which Lord Palmerston put into practice with so much vigor against Greece in the recent and famous case of Don Pacifico at Athens and the still case of Dr Rally against Portugal The grounds of his demand againstKing Otho which demand he enforced by sending a fleet to blockade the ports while he nego tiated was that every Government is responsible for the people it governs in their treatment towards British subjects The Greek Government was com pelled to piy for the damages done to Don house and kitchen by a mob because Lord Palmers ton contended that iti wasi its duty to repress vio lence and protect a British subject He is now prosecuting a similar demand against the kingdom of Portugal for damages done in the Island of Ma deira to a certain English Protestant missionary who had violated us the Portuguese say the law of the place in attempting to mike proselytes and had suffered imprisonment and received rude treatment from the populace Lord Palmerston not only demands payment for actual losses 'but indemnity for loss of the fees which the reverend gentleman supposes he might have made by the practice of medicine during the time he was in confinement and modestly sets down this item at £4300 some twenty one thousand dol lars The British oreign Secretary says that Pur tug 0 must pay now as Greece was made to do some time since because itsG'dvernment did not protect a British subject against popular animosity Well Mr Geo Thompson is a British member of Parliament who has thrust himself into the local and social controversies of this country outraging sand insulting our institutions jf you please to call them our prejudices' and he has of Bdst'on and suffers dam age at least in loss of time and in the failure to fulfil the engagements he has made with our domestic incendiaries Here is a first rate chance for the application of the Palmerston doctrine in a manner winch wiljnot be supposed to be a mere extortion from a weak fourth rate power Undo Sam is big enough to take care of himself and being so we shall probably not a fleet oft" Boston harbor demanding satisfac tion foGeorge injuries and damages for loss of detention nor of a requisition upon the ederal Treasury for indemnification to Geo Thomp son for delays and obstructions in the earning of his wages Lord Palmerston 'will probably discover another sort of national law for this case At all evenis we hope our Eastern brethren will continue in spite of the Palmerston code to keep Mr Geo Thompson in the same sort of trouble and see what will come of it either by the interposition of British cannon of British diplomacy according to the Greek or Portuguese precedent In the meantime it is only charitable to wish that Mr Thompson may find his way safely back to his own country awakened to the" tardy knowledge that there are more room and more need and more thankful subjects there for bis zeal injbehulf of humanity in attempting the eman cipation and elevation of the countless thousands of white laborers there to whom the condition of the African slave in this country would be freedom and luxury and it is tins pre ent wlion tne whole country is in a state etion that the member from the Tower has chosen to enter upon his mission a degree ot cold blooded insolence about this man that an American cannot think of without exasperation and if the people of Massachusetts retained one spark of the Revolutionary spirit they would deal with him in the most summary manner The Express very justly says that if an American emissary were' to land in Ireland for the purpose of stirring up one part of the population against the and were to make any attempt to carry out his nefarious project he would assuredly be hanged for his pains But the other dov Mr Whitnev a lecturer on elocution wen Known in this coui'mj attempting at Dublin to give an audience some idea of the eloquence of Patrick Henry and reciting his Jnlivnrnil in £ivri if Will Wifi) Plirln nil WAS peremptorily ordered to leave the ishtnd And yeti this alien enemy with the wages of his Infamous trade in his pocket is allowed to proceed through the State of Massachusetts without any check save what is found in the disinclination of a Boston au dience to hear him speak He suffers no personal inconvenience whatever he goes at large and when he cannot find listeners he publishes his in cendiary harangues and sends them through the land on the wings of the press We ask is tie re no method of dealing in a summary way with such a caitiff? Are there no statutes against incendiaries to meet his case? Can it be possible that the laws of the United States cannot reach alien enemies plotting in the midst of us to destroy the Union and receiving the wages of their iniquity in foreign gold Is the Government so inefficient that it must allow agitators in another country to form what schemes they may for our destruction and come here to execute them without being able to prescribe any method of redress? We know not whether there he any law to suit the case but we do know that if there is not there ought to be In the meantime we trust those citi zens of Massachusetts who are always professing so much zeal for the Union do not intend to let the scoundrel who has come here to assist in destroying it go altogether without the reward he has labored so hard to earn They can take the law into their own hands when it suits their purposes Can they not teach this insolent foreigner a l(son on the integrity of the Union? Is there no tar in the Bay State? Do their geese (they have plenty of them) furnish no feathers Are there no rods to be found in that section of the Union? Does Judge Lynch preside only when Southern men come to recapture their fugitive slaves? Does the hide of a Parlia ment man claim immunity from the execution of his judgment It is vain to talk about hospitality The hireling scoundrel who lands upon a peaceful shore for the purpose of introducing fire and sword into the land cannot claim the right of a guest lie is an enemy the worst description of enemy He is entitled to nothing at the hands of those he would betray but punishment proportioned to intended of many years up to the present hour I trust I have learned so much of the Gospel of the Son of God that wherever an individual of the human race is found I ffook upon that person a iny brother without regard to his national origin And by these cherished sentiments I hope I may be directed to the latest hour of my life To your first inquiry) 'JAefier I am opposed to the extension of slavery I reply that having for many years regarded the whole system as a great moral social and political evil inconsistent with the spirit of our republican institutions and dangerousto the well being of the Union I am in the language of the New Hampshire Legislature of 1849 and unalterably opposed to the 'further extension of slavery over any portion of American soil now Believing also in the language of the same Legis hture that Congress has the constitutional power tj prohibit the introduction of slavery into any ter rtory now I am in favor of the use of that pow sr in the territories recently acquired by the United States where legal enactments in the organizationf territorial governments have not rendered it ab solutely impracticable To your second inquiry Jhat are my views in rialion to the present ugitive Slave Law I am free say that while I recognize the validity of the dause of the United States Constitution which ovides that held to service or labor in cne State escaping into another shall be delivered tp on claim of the person to whom such service or hbor may be I cannot but believe that theresent law contains provisions not arranted by tie letter of the Constitution nor necessary to car re out the spirit of its requirements It does seem me that the framers of that instrument when they giarantied trial by jury all crimin il: prosecu and in suits at common involving nore than twenty dollars did not intend to deny the rsiht to such a trial in cases involving the liberty (fa person for life Inasmuch as the present law denies? this right to all persons claimed as fugitives from andlso imposes obligations and services aipon the people of the free States which in my judgment neither the Constitution nor Conscience requires atheir hands I cannot give the measure my sup port Regarding many of its provisions ns tinpre cdented oppressive and liable to be perverted to tie enslavement of free citizens I shall whitever station I may occupy favor all proper peaceful and constitutional measures for its repeal or essen tial modification Ardently hoping th it this and all other questions which now disturb the irmnny of otircoinmon coun try and spread a dark cloud over this glorious Union may be settled in a in inner worthy of a Christian and Republican people) I am with the highest respect Your fellow citizen JOHN ATWOOD To JIov John II White ami others When it became understood that Mr Atwood had written a letter for the public eve containing sen timents 1 ci Law it is said that he was immediately summon ed before the political Sanhedrim of the Democrat ic party at Concord to answer the slavery cate chism and after being subjected to the teachings and influence ot this council of doctors for a while he finally gave in his ndnesion to Bial and sub scribed to the lower law doctrine The change of opinion whicn he so suddenly experienced he communicates to the public through the cohimiimof the Patriot That paper is highly delighted with th? result and in introducing the letter speaks for itself The letter below is frank explicit and to the point It ex presses his honest sentiments and is the result of his second sober It is as follows To the Editors of the Patriot: Gentlemen Having had my attention called to a letter purporting to have been written by me and addressed to John White and others and pub lished in the Independent Democrat of this date I wish in justice to my political friends and myself to make a brief explanation I had received the letter from the gentlemen spo ken of and intended to make a well considered and candid reply Down to riday last the original was within my control and not in the hands of the gen tlemen who wrote to me and at that time I was making modifications and had others to propose in my reply But having become satisfied that the de sign wa)s and that the effect of the correspondence would be to create agitation I deemed it my duty not to put forth the substance of that reply without more careful and deliberate consideration of the present attitude of the country and of all the meas ures of which the ugitive Slave Law formed a part With this view I destroyed the original let ter which was in my own hand writing fully be lieving that no copy of my rough draft was in ex istence wish now distinctly to state that what I said in my unfinished letter of the ugitive Slave was said regarding it as an isolated measure I believe that there are features in that law to which many persons in the free States do not give their cordial assent Still it was not passed as a single measure but formed a link in a series of measures of compromise and concession Regarding it in this liht and in view of the im minent dangers which evidently threaten the perpe tuity of our Union and the peace of our beloved country I shall stand by those compromise meas ures as a whole with a firm conviction that such is my duty as a patriot and a Christian I wish this to be distinctly understood to be my unalterable posi tion as a candidate before the people of this State I ain with respect yours truly JOHN ATWOOD New Boston Dec 19 1850 These letters must be considered as very remarka ble productions remarkable not only as being ut terly repugnant to each other but more so as com ing from a Rev gentleman who professes to be governed by conscience and to act like a Christian Such a somerset committed by a professed and am bitious politician would not be a matter of so great surprise as when it is done by a man who has led a comparatively modest consistent and honest life If the evil genius that beset him did not offer to give him all the kingdoms of the earth for his fealty il is nt least very evident that a temptation was pre sented perhaps in the character of chief ruler of New Hampshire which he was unable to resist The manner which the letter to Col White is at tempted to be glossed over and explained as being hastily composed and not intended to be presented as a reply to the interrogatories addressed to him is a device too shallow to deceive Whether it contained the honest convictions of his mind may not be an easy thing to satisfactorily determine ut the averments of both the Patriot and Mr Atwood that it was a hasty and unfinished production are not under the circumstances entitled to much cred it if the facts connected with it should warrant a different conclusion 1 IV All remittances are to We made all letters 'eUting to the pecuniary concerns of the paper are to be diroetd! (ust paid) td the General Agent Xj? copies will 1)0 sent to one Address for tex ubtLVRS if payment be made tn advanced (Advertisements making less than a square in terted three times for 75Cts ono square for $1 00 iff The 'A gents of the 'American Massachusetts and Ohio Anti SlaverySoeieties arc au thnrhcd to receive subscriptions for the Liberator in'tncial Jackso Ellis (jfilir "tjiHUN'O Edmcnd Quincy Samuel Vll PitiLLfps This Committee is responsible onlv tor the financial economy of the not for any' of its debts' 'J ft? 4 I tiu 5 other men but: because the temptations pf ayarjea and ambition to which they are exposed sre tK great for) the mere virtue ofordinary 'meiwuAnd nothing but the fear ofpopular resistance is adequate) to restrain them AsJhis thegrpat study? of many of them seems tobo to ascertain the utmost limit o( popular acquiescence Once in a while: they tuia? take that limit go beyqndit s' 1 1 i qyrtftur Lrhn Bay State) bp 1 if evidently an ''organized movement throughout the country to make the peopltf'bolievo that the Union of the States is on the eve ofbeingi dissolved i withJand: growing owt ofthe tmo political tactics Rre tjnion mect ings in the principal cities in the freoStitesJ Great er political humbugs fin opinion fweres never manufactured for tdoY ee South 'doeaithreaten LiwIiat then? It no new thing fonit to blustereand threaten 'Sup pose ih itensawhich by the way it does not It did once and what did it make out bf it Hartford Convention disunion and Smith Carolina nullification have left an odor about: them that the waters of oblivion will never wash outm ThaiNish i ville Convention which has just closed will hereafter be as offensive in the of all truepatriots atj nullffication and Hartford Convention federalism jrThese Union meetings had their origin inVash' ington They were coacocted by ambitions men) men who cannot ride into jwwer in their cal ommbusses and therefore want to get tho aid oL sections or fragments of other Vparties wTyler tried to break up the old pirties and form a new? one toi elect him to the Presidency It failed' 1 Webster is! now trying with tint aidof)some Demncratsi who do not neem to have their eye teeth cut or are reaHy prepiring to leave the Democratic rty to Ido the same thing and he will meet with equal Are thefreemm of thi Northlo be frightened' by ft the bullying and blustering of their Southern friend? We hope not Are they? to provelhemselves than dmigh faces Are they willing tobe anbrnis sive tools of politic il knives and fvill uns 'dor nit believe it Bat the South will dissolve' thei Union if we not aid thnnt in reclaiming fugitive slaves Have they nmother redress If Wo violates the law we must suffer the pendty'Did uwichu setts threaten disunion? when citizens wast mobbed in a Southern city she threatened dis union bee lose her free citizensuire treated as crim inals and slaves in Southern ports? We proposeditbf try tho'Constitutiunilityiof ondtofbAeir local a law under which they imprisoned the of Massachusetts uBut they appealed higher l'iw thDmo5 and drova our agent out op the St tie Did see then cry disunion and Unionmeetingsin favor of susuiningtho lawsofchal Union? Whit does the Smrth'thinlc'lheiNorth' made of? Do they think th'it'iwe love moneybef ter than liberty We are sorry to say that there much? ground for tint opinion They threaten our corn merce and Mr Webster takes np thb cry and tings meetings are weaporisused ilvtlieir Unholy We respect the la we would not violatet The power for the repeal of bad laws is in the We hope they willi neyer resist any law by violmice But who are these mpn who Jiave slichbu Mread'of the higher law? and law? Men af the South'! who defend duelling) who delight? in shooting at? each other wha glory in bowie knives and'worohipf and men nt the North )whoburrif convents resist the post office Ik ws by fotce break up the meetings of peaceable citizens and glory and riot in all sorts of mob law when it can be used ta? put down anything which is: likely to spread truth vindicate justice and expose them to thd pith ishment they deserve Pretty fellows that' are 'sure ly to set themselves up ns i the law and order party D' and get up Union to sustain the laws and I the Union I If the South would be respected it must respect1 the Norths If it would be protected in its edits it1 must remember that the North has its'rightSf and means to maintain them' in spite of the threats of theSmith or the traitor of the North We nothing to do with their peculiar they can get along without us we must try td gdt' along without Jhem ftIf thejr prefer slavery we' mean to be free If they refuse1 to our schoolmasters we must try to do without their Sltfv catchers If they wish to dissolves the Union let them do it''iWe are willing to be ongood terms1 if they cost too much But 'if they seriously A think they can do without us let them gowd will 1 make the best of it They can have slavery till they get enough of it They may constitute an empire oft slaves surrounded by free States jjTJiey may shut: their eyes to the Sun cf Liberty as it rises in the east and sets in the west They may abandon free trade and establish the protective raise their own cottonahdmanufacture their own and consume their own tobiicconnd chsw 1 their own hemp and uso it for halters or any thing else They may work together sArado to aether glory in hery together and dieMnnJ got down to posterity together wjth jtfUhe 1 renbw that their peculiar policy (wjll gjvUemvrhey have nothing to fear from ihe action of New Eng Lind or all other free Slates Theicjiorst jenemyi own limits Let ihgiji aenso of their true The North wHI nothing to make their situntion niore critical or bujr densome but it will stand by jtsrights)4h9CQABti tution and tbeyUnion come what ipay cptne iJt wjll do its duty' and bide the consequences Hi The Common Council or Chicago 'and uoiTiftfe Slave Law A special meeting b'flhoJ Common Council of the' city of Chicago was held on the 26th ultfor the purpose' of takiffA fiirfT action npoirthe various resolutions before thnCbodv on the subject of the ugitive Slave Law The res olutions (forbidding the officers of the1 city'from en edging arresting fugitives) heretofore adopted and afterward reconsidered brought tip fof notion0 and the following preatnbla and adopted in their stead bynyote often to threes1 Whereas the ugitive Slave recently' passeil by Congress is revolting to our inoqil sense and an outrage upon our feelings of and' huniafnity because it disregards all the securities 'which "the Constitution and laws have thrown around jersonal) liberty and its direct tendency is to nlienatethtfpeo pie from their love and reverence for the Govern 1 ment and institutions of our country therefore) Resolved That the) Supreme) Court iHe United States solemnly adjudged that State are under nd' obligations to fulfill duties imposed upon them as such officers acts of Congress we do not therefore consider it our dutypor tho the city officers of the city of Chicago 'tos aid or as 1 sist in the arrest of fugitives' from oppression' an'd by withholding such aid and assistance we dof not? believe thatoor harbor appropriations will be with beld onrrailroadinjuredourcommerce destroyed1 or that treason would be committed against the Gov ernment ti" 41 irt Iv wmi Am THE UGITIVE SLAVE BILL f'f Extract from a very able pamphlctrp recently pub lished by Bela Marsh 25 A Defence for ugitive Slaves against the Acts of Congress of 12 1793 and September 13' 1850 by Lysander The Right of Resistance and the Right to have the 'Legality of Resistance judged of by a Juryt If it has been shown that the acts') of 1793anc of 1850 are unconstitutional it follows j'tbat they) can confer no authority upon the judges and mar shals appointed to execute them and those officers are consequently in law mere ruffians and pers who may be lawfully resisted by any body and every body like any other ruffians And Kidtiappers" who assail a person without any legal right The rescue of apersqn who 'is assaulted or 're strained offhis liberty without authority of law is not only morally but legally a act for) every body is under obligation to go to the df one who is assailed by assassins fobbers' r'avish ers kidmppersor ruffians of any kind An officer of the government is anofficer of the law only when he is proceeding accordingVto 'law The moment he steps beyond the law) he men forfeits its protection and may be resisted like' any other trespasser An unconstitutional statute is no law in the view of the constitution) It is' void an 1 confers authority on any onb and whoever attempts to execute it does so at his peril Hjs holding a commission is no legal protection for him If this doctrine were not true and if (as the Supreme Court ay in the Priggcase)a man may if he choose? execute an authority granted by an unconstitutional law Congress may authorize whomsoever they pleise to ravish women and butcher children at pleasure and the people have no right to resist them The constitution contemplates nir'such submis sion on the part of the people to the usurpations of the 'government or to the lawless violence of its officers On the contrary it provides that The' right of the people to keep and bear 'arms shall not be This constitution il security for tho right to keep and bear implies the right to use them is much us a constitution il security for the right to buy and keep food would have implied the right to eat it The constitution therefore takes it for granted that as tho people have the right they will alsq have the sense to use arms whenever the necessity of the case justifies it This is the only remedy suggested by the constitution mid is neces sarily the only remedy that can exist when the gov ernment becomes so corrupt as to afford no peaceable one The people havea leg! right to resort to this remedy at all times when the government goes beyond or contrary to the constitution And it isi only a matter of discretion with them whether to re sort to it at any particular time Il is no answer to this argument to say tliat if an unconstitutional act be passed the mischief can be remedied by a repeal of Jt and that this remedy may be brought about by discussion and the exercise the right of suffrage because if an unconstitutional rt Hct himlinor a rmv ernment may in the meantime disarm thq people suppress the freedom of speech and the press pro hibit the use of the suffrage and thus put it beyond the power of the people to reform the government through the exercise of those rightsi'Tne govern ment have as much constitutional authority for dis arming the people suppressing the freedom of speech and the press prohibiting the use of the suffrage and establishing themselves as perpetual and abso lute sovereigns as thtfyJiave for anyother uncon stitutional act And if the first unconstitutional act may not be resisted by force the last act that inay be necessary for the consummation of despotic authori ity may not be To say that an unconstitutional law must be obey ed until it is repealed is saying that an unconstitu tional law is just as obligatory as a constitutional one the (atier is binding only until it is repealed There would therefore be no difference at all be tween a constitutional and an unconstitutional law in respect to their binding force and that would be equivalent to abolishing the constitution and giving to the government unlimited power The right of the people therefore to resist an'un constitutional law is absolute and unqualified from the moment the law is enacted The right of the government suppress insur loes not conflict with this right of the peo ple to resist the execution of an unconstitutionalnactinent for an is a rising against (he laws and not a rising against usurpation If the government and the people disagree as to what are laws in the view of the constitution and what usur pations they must fight the matter through or make terms with each other as best they may But for this right on the part of the people to re sist usurpation on the part of the government the individuals constituting the government would really be in the view of the constitution itse absolute rulers and the people absolute slaves The oathei required of the rulers to adhere to the constitution would tie but empty wind as a protection to thepeo pie against tyranny if the constitution at the same time that it required these baths committed the ab surdity of protecting the rulers when they were act ing contrary to the constitution The constitution) in thus protecting the rulers in their usurpations) would continue to act as a shield to tyrants after they themselves had deprived it of all power to shield the people It would thus' invite its own overthrow and the conversion of the government into a despotism by those appointed to administer it for the liberties of the people This right of the people therefore to resist )usur pation on the part of the government) is a strjctly constitutional right And the exercise of the right is neither rebellion against the constitution nor rev olution it is a maintenance of the constitution itself by keeping the government within the consti tution It is also a defence of the natural rights of the people against robbers and trespassers who at tempt to set up their own personal authority and power in opposition to those of the constitution and people which they were appointed to administer To say as the arguments of most persons do that the people in their mdividual and natural capacities have a right to institute government but that 1 they have no right in the same capacities to that government by putting down and that any attempt to do so is revolution is blank ab surdity 5 The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice are really the only securities that' any people ever can have for their liberties Prac tically no government knows any limit to its buttlie endurance of the people dur govern ment is no exception to But that pie are stronger than the government) our represen tatives would do any thing but lay down their power at the end oftwo years Arid so of the President and Senate Nothing but' the strength' of) the people)1 and a knowledge that they will forcibly resist any very gross transgression' of the authority granted byft them to their representatives detersthese represent tatiyes from enriching themselves and perpetuating) their power by plundering arid enslaving the people? (Not because they are at heart naturally worse Lhan 1 rom the II Independent Democrat INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE A couple of interesting letters from Rev John At wood the Democratic candidate for Governor defin ing his position on the question of slavery have just been published On the 20th of November Col John White and others of the ree Soil party) addressed a letter to Mr Atwood inquiring of him (1) whether he was in favor of applying the Wilmot Proviso to the territories now free and (2) whether he was opposed to the ugitive Slave Law and in favor of its early repeal Tojthese inquiries he gives the following Higher Law answer taking a position with its strongest opponents and in direct conflict with tho II Patriot and the Democratic party New Boston Nov 30 1850 Gentlemen: I hive the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst in which you were pleased to allude to my position before the people of this State requesting an expression of my views in regard to the extension of Slavery into the territories 1 he present ugitive Slave Law and my future course if elected to the office of Chief Mag istrate of the State It is due to myself to say that having retired to a small farm to enjoy the quiet of private life I have no solicitude for public office Nurmnl insensible to the high trust and arduous responsibilities of the Chief Magistrate of the State But ns tnis nomi nation has come to me unsought and unasked I have accepted it as an honorable token of the confidence reposed in me by my friends Should I be elected by the people to that office at the next election I shall endeavor so to discharge the duties of that station as to show that the confidence reposed in tne has not been misplaced In early life I imbibed a sacred regard for Consti tutional Liberty Hainan Rights Universal ree dom nnd the good of the race and these sentiments have been increased and strengthened by the events THE CONSTITUTION A COVENANT WITH DEATH AO BEHM ENT WITH 'Yes I it cannot ba thelavch'olding lords bf tho South prescribed as a of tlibir assent to the Constitution three' special secure YddiftUiidit over their slaves The first was the immunity for twenty Tcare of preserving tho African 'slave trade the econd wasthe stipulation to surrender fugitive lavcs in I gagetnent positively prohibited by the laws of Gbit 1 delivered from Sinai and thirdlyjthe exaction fatal the principles of popular representation of a repre sentation for slaves for articles of merchandize under the name of persons To Cairgovernment thus cOn stjtuted a democracy is insult the undemanding of mankind It is doubly tainted of riches nnd alavcry Its reciprqcijl operation pqnhe government of the nation is to cstablishjanXriifivial majority in the slave representation over that Of th free people in the American' Congress thereby to make the PRESERVATION PROPAGATION AND PERPETUATION OSLAERfllE yi? TAL AND ANIMATING SPIRIT O3 HE NA 4 TIONAL John Quincy Aiujw as 3 if I SON I NE 0 TO AS RID AY A A 31 85 1 jiswslu' EVERY RlftAV MORNING AT THB ANTI SLATER 'if OICE i PCORNlilLL aiicui wenerai Agent be made a martyr when here before We doubt whether he has any greater love now for the fagot and the stake He shows much discretion in 'his warfare on slavery He keeps a 'respectful taiice from its borders He doubtless agrees with alstaft) that Discretion is the better part of ry What a display of decorates his glad meetings! It must be tha on the island of Spitzbergen rom the St Louis Intelligencer A NEW ARRIVAL Mr George Thompson the notorious English abolitionist has again visited our land Before leav ing England a soiree or monthly tea meeting was held in honor of him Mr Thompson spoke He al luded to the reasons which induced him to give up the study of law and Come to America He said: had all but made up his mind to do sostudy law when a glorious being visited this coun try from ami if no other man lived in that country he would speak well of America for his sake he alluded to Wm Lloyd Cheers This Lloyd Garrison whom Thompson calls a glori ous being is says the Cincinnati Enquirer the same person the hallucinations of whose diseased mind have induced him frequently to pronounce the Chris tian religion a cheat and its ministers an excres cence on the body politic the American Revolution a failure General Washington a humbug and the Constitution of the United States a compact with the devil Thompson and Garrison may be hail fel lows well met They would both doubtless think they were doing humanity a service if they could free the negroes of the slave States at the expense of the lives of all the white residents therein We suppose Thompson will be greeted and feasted by the higher fanatics as an able and enthusiastic opponent of the Constitution of their country ji ')) ini IE ni' 1 n'tiiini'iii'i ir 'Z'Z TWO 1 I 1 vVg rJ 5r J1Sissw I ITJ I I.