The Liberator from Boston, Massachusetts • 2

THE LIBERATOR rom the Dedham Gazette THEODORE AST DAY SERMON In the midst of the excitement attendant upon the trial and return of Sims the ugitive Slave this Ser mon was preached at the Melodeon in Boston The occasion and the preacher naturally led us to expect an outpouring of indignant and scathing eloquence refreshing to those whose spirits had been mortified and saddened by the deeds of inhuman depravity and unutterable baseness which have secured to Boston nnd a portion of the creatures which pollute its soil an immortality of scorn and infamy But the effort of Mr Parker surpassed even the highest expectations He has carved with instruments of keener edge and harder metal and painted with bloodier and more terrible colors than ever before George Curtis the minion and tool of the slaveholders set up at mid day in the blazing sun with his naked flesh stuck full of poisoned arrows and his vile blood ooz ing from every wound writhing amid the jeers and taunts of an outraged populace ready and eager totear him limb from limb would not present a picture more terribly real and abhorrent to the senses than he does as he appears in the following destroying and consuming sentences which we extract from this discourse Could he exchange the sensations and heart of the kidnapper for the more civilized and humanized affections and dispositions of the hyena he would gaze but a moment in the mirror which is thus held up to him and then take himself forever from the sight and execration of mankind The whole sermon is published in the weekly Common wealth and it contains matter and argument enough to convert everybody worth converting in the Com monwealth The following portrait will answer both for Ilalletand Curtis The memories of these miscreants will be preserved as long as the senti ments of detestation and scorn shall occupy a place in the human breast I Last Thanksgiving day I said it would be diffi cult to find a magistrate in Boston to take the odium of sending a fugitive back to slavery I believed af ter all men had some conscience although they talked about its being a duty to deliver up a man to bondage Pardon me my country that I rated you too high Pardon me town of Boston that I thought your citizens all men Pardon me lawyers that I thought you had all been born of mothers Pardon me ruffians who kill for hire I thought you had some animal mercy left even in your bosoms Par dem me United States Commissioners Marshals and theJike I thought you all had some shame Par donyie my hearers for such mistakes One Com missioner was found to furnish the warrant! Par don me I did not know that ho was a Commissioner if I had I never should have said it Spirits of Tyrants I look down to you Shade of Cain thou great first murderer forgive me that I for got your power and did not remember that you were Earent of so long a line And you my brethren if ereafter I tell you that there is any limit of mean ness or wickedness which a Yankee will not jump over distrust me and remind me of this day and I will take it back Let us look at the public conduct of any Com missioner who will send an innocent man from Bos ton into slavery I would speak of all men charita bly for I know how easy it is to err yea to sin I can look charitably on thieves prowling about in darkness on rumsellers whom poverty compels to crime on harlots who do the deed of shame that holy soul abhors and revolts I can pity the pirate who scours the seas doing his fiendish crimes he is tempted made desperate by a gradual training in wickedness The man born at the South owning slaves who goes to Africa and sells adul terated rum in exchange for men to sell at Cuba I cannot understand the consciousness of such a man yet 1 can admit that by birth and by breeding he has become imbruted he knows no better Nay even that he may perhaps justify his conduct to himself I say I think his sin is not so dreadful as that of a Commissioner in Boston who sends a man into sla very A man commits a murder inflamed by jeal ousy goaded by desire of great gain excited by fear stung by malice or poisoned by revenge and a horrid thing But to send a man into slavery is worse than to murder him I would rather be slain than enslaved To do this inflamed by no jealousy goad ed by no desire of great gain only ten dollars ex cited by no fear stung by no special malice poison ed by no revenge I cannot comprehend that in any man not even in a hyena beasts that rave for blood do not kill for sake but to feed their flesh orgive me oh ye wolves and hyenas that I bring you into such company I can only understand it in a devil When a man bred in Massachusetts whose Con stitution declares that all men are born free and equal within sight of aneuil Hall with all its sa cred memories within two hours of Plymouth Rock within a single hour of Concord and Lexington in sight of Bunker Hill when he will do such a deed it seems to me that there is no life of crime long enough to prepare a man for such a pitch of deprav ity I should think he must have been begotten in sin and conceived in iniquity and been born with a head on his that the concentration of the villany of a whole generation of scoundrels would hardly be enough to fit a man for a deed like this! You know the story of Sims He crept on board a Boston vessel at Savannah Perhaps he had heard of Boston nay even of aneuil Hall of the old Cra dle of Liberty and thought this was a Christian town at least human and hoped here to enjoy the liberty of a man When the ship arrived here his first words were Are we up there He was seized by a man who at the Court House boasted of his cru elty towards him who held him by the hair and kept him down seeking to kidnap and carry him back into slavery He escaped! But a few weeks pass by the man stealers are here the Commissioner issues his warrant the Mar shal served it in the night Last Thursday night when odious beasts of prey that dare not face the light of Heaven prowl through the woods these ruf fians of the law seized on their brother man They lie to the bystanders and seize him on a false pre tence There is their victim they hold him fast Can you understand his feelings Let us pass by that His Shall I speak of that He has been five days on trial for more than life and has not seen a judge! A jury? No Only a Commis sioner Oh justice Oh Republican America Is this the liberty of Massachusetts Where shall I find a parallel with men who will do such a deed do it in Boston I will open the graves and bring up the most hideous tyrants from the dead Come brood of monsters! let me bring you from the deep damnation of the graves wherein your hated memories continue for all time their never ending rot Come birds of evil omen come ravens vul turss carriOnerows and see the spectacle come see the meeting of congenial souls I will disturb dis quiet and bring up the greatest monsters of the hu manrace! Tremble notv wpmen tremble not chil dren tremble not men Thiey are all dead they cannot harm you now "I Come hither Herod the wicked Thou that didsteek after that young life and destroyedst the Innocents! Let me look on thy face! No go! Thou wert a Heathen Go lie with the innocents thou hast massacred Thou art too good fortins Company! Come Nero! Thou awful Roman Emperor! rthou wast drunk with power schooled in Ro man depravity Thou hadat besides the example of thy fancied gods Goand wait another day 1 will seek a worse man Come hither St Dominic come Torquemada fathers of the Inquisit ion Merciless monsters seek your equal here No pass by! You are no com panions for such men as these! Yon were the ser vants of atheistic Topes and cruel Kings Go to and get you gone Another time I may have work for not now lie there and persevere to rot You are not yet quite wicked enough for this com parison Go get yc gone lest the son turn back at the sight of ye Conic up thou heap of wickedness George Jef fries thy hands deep purple with the blood of thy murdered fellow men! Ah I know thee awful and accursed shade Two hundred years after thy death men hate thee still and i not without cause! Let me look upon thee I know thy history Pause be still while I tell it to these men 1 Brothers George Jeffries began in the sedition was no act however bad that he would not resort to to get Ho was of bold as pect' and cared not forthe countenance of any lie became the avowed and unblushing slave of the court and the bitter persecutor nnd unappeasable enemy of the principles he had before He was universally insolent and Au a Judge he did not consider the decencies of his post nor did he so much as affect to be impartial as became a He was a Commissioner in 1685 You know of those which he held and how he sent to execution three hundred and twenty persons in a single circuit whole country was strewed with the heads and limbs of his Yet a man wrote that a little more hemp might have been usefully lie was the worst of the English Judges was no measure however illegal to the execution of which he did not devotedly and recklessly abandon him the Stuart reigns England was cursed by a succession of ruffians in ermine who for the sake of Court favor arrested the pnnciples of law the precepts of religion and the duties of humanity but they were all greatly outstripped by Such is his history Come shade of a judicial butcher! Two hun dred years thy name has been pilloried in the face of the world and thy memory is gibbetted before mankind Let us see how thou wilt compare with those who kidnap men in Boston Go seek com panionship with them Go claim thy kindred if such they be! Go tell them that the memory of the wicked shall rot that there is a God an Eter nity aye! and a judgment too! where the slave may appeal for judgment against him that made him a slave to Him that made him a man What! dost thou shudder? Thou turn back? These not thy kindred Why dost thou turn pale as when the crowd clutched at thy life in London street Tis true George Jeffries and these are not thy kin orgive me that I should send thee on such an er rand or bid thee seek companionship with such with hunters of the slave! Thou wert not base en ough It was a great bribe that tempted thee Again I say pardon me for sending thee to keep company with such men Thou only smote at men accused of crime not at men accused only of their birth! Thou wouldst not send men into bondage for two pounds I will not rank thee with men who in Boston for ten dollars would enslave a negro now Rest still Herod Be quiet Nero Sleep St Dominic and sleep Torquemada in your fiery jail Sleep Jeffries beneath the altar of the which seeks with Christian charity to hide your hated bones! CORRESPONDENCE Boston April 11 1851 Hon Daniel Webster: Dear Sir There is a general desire among your fellow citizens of Boston and its vicinity irrespec tive of party attachments or party considerations to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded by your visit among them to manifest to you their high re spect for your public services and particularly it is their wish to give expression to their deep feeling of obligation for the power ability nnd patriotic de votion which you have brought to the defence of the union of these States when that union has been so assailed by misguided and reckless men in dif ferent sections of the country as to excite the most painful apprehensions for its continued blessings and even for its very existence or the purpose of gratifying this general desire the undersigned respectfully invite you to meet your fellow citizens in aneuil Hall at such time before your return to Washington as may best comport with your convenience We are with great consideration Your fellow citizens Signed by George Smith Asa Swallow Henry Crocker Rufus Choate and others IdEf' aneuil Hall having been closed against Mr Webster and his friends by the Board of Aidermen Mr wrote the following reply to the invitation Marshfield April 15 1851 To Messrs George Smith Caleb Eddy JIsa Swal low Uriel Crocker and others Gentlemen I duly received your letter of the 11th of this month and had fully made up my mind to comply with your invitation for although I have en tertained no purpose of discussing further at pre sent the political questions which have so much ag itated the country yet I could not deny myself the pleasure of meeting you and your fellow citizens for mutual congratulation upon an escape so far from dangers which one year ago so seriously threatened the very existence of our national institutions and upon the prospect of an early return in all parts of I he country of feelings of good will and recipro cal regard But the newspapers of this afternoon inform me that the Board of Aidermen have refused your re quest for the use of aneuil Hall I care nothing for this personally except that it deprives me of the gratification of seeing you although if I supposed the general voice of the people of Boston approved this proceeding it would I confess cause me the deepest regret The resolution denying your the Hall has been adopted if I mistake not by the same Board which has practically refused to join with the other brancii of the City Government in offering the hospitalities of the city to President illmore Gentlemen for nearly thirty years I have been in the service of the country by the choice of the peo ple of Boston a id the Legislature of Massachusetts My public conduct through the whole of that long period is not unknown and I cheerfully leave it to the judgment of the country now and hereafter Since the commencement of March of last year I have done somethin" and hazarded much to up hold the Constitution of the United States and to maintain interests of the most vital importance to the citizens of Boston And I shall do more and hazard more whenever in my judgment it becomes necessary that more be done or more be hazarded I shall perform with unflinching perseverance and to the end my duty to my whole country nor do I in the slightest degree fear the result olly and fanaticism may have their hour They may not only affect the minds of individuals but they may also seize on public bodies of greater or less dignity But their reign is destined to be short even where for the moment it seems most triumphant We of Massachusetts are not doomed to a course of pol itical conduct such as would reproach cur an cestors destroy our own prosperity and expose us to the derision of the civilized world No such fu ture is before us ar otherwise Patriotism the union of all good men fidelity to the Constitution in all its provisions and that intelligence which has hitherto enabled the people of this State to discern and to appreciate their own political blessings as well as what is due to their own history and cha racter will bring them back to their accustomed feelings of love of country and of respect and ven eration for its institutions I am gentlemen with the most sincere regard your obliged friend and very obedient servant DANIEL WEBSTER The Hon Edward Everett was invited to pre side at the meeting but was obliged on account of his health to decline that invitation The Hon Ru fus Choate was then requested to preside and had the meeting taken place he would have addressed Mr Webster in the name of the assembly We are authorized to publish the following letter from Mr Everett Cambridge 16th April 1851 Dear Sir I deeply regret that it is not in my power to attend the meeting proposed to be held to morrow in honor of Mr Webster Long as the cit izens of Boston have been in the habit of testifying their respect to him there never was a time in my opinion when he was better entitled to the cordial assurance of their confidence and gratitude whether we consider the importance of the services render ed by him during tho past year or the weight of the responsibility assumed by him in their performance On former occasions when he has most efficiently contributed to the preservation of the Union in times of impending danger he acted with the unanimous approbation of his immediate constituents a com paratively easy task On the present occasion he has the same patriotic duty in a crisis far more dangerous and amidst the most deplorable divisions of opinion at home on subjects directly involving the stability of the government and the peace of the country Called by the President of the United States at this momentous juncture to the post of the cbiefest responsibility he has not hesitated to throw himself into the breach and to sacrifice a portion of his hardly earned and well deserved popularity to the public good 1 have had occasion carefully to observe the po litical course of Mr Webster as long as 1 have had any knowledge of affairs or ten years we were together in Congress and at all other times I have had great personal opportunities to be well acquaint ed with his views and principles on all public ques tions and with his ends and objects as a public man I have not in every instance agreed with him as to individual opinions and measures but I have never differed from him without some distrust of my own judgment This however I will say that from the Declaration of Independence to the present day the country has never been served no not in its best days and by its best men with greater ability with truer fidelity or with purer patriotism than by Mr Webster It requires but little ingenuity in difficult times and in reference to a subject on which the requisi tions of the Constitution are at variance with public sentiment to urge objections against any practica ble line of policy That the measures of the last Congress in reference to the subject which is sha king the Union to its foundation were not in all points what Mr Webster desired to have them is well known That it was his duty as it is that of all good citizens to acquiesce in those measures af ter they became and while they continue the law of the land I need not sny And it is my firm opinion that it is in no small degree owing to the manner in which Mr Webster has performed hi duty in the responsible position and the arduous circum stances in which he has been placed that the friends of the Union at the South have been able to stand their ground against those who seek its dissolution nnd that blood has not flowed at the No th in forci ble resistance tothe law of the land We cannot shut our eyes to the' faci that per sons holding extreme opinions at the South and at the North are straining toward a dissolution of the Union The number of persons desiring this object at the North I suppose to be small and not very large at the South except in ore State but there is a very considerable numbe I fear in both sections of the country who reasoi upon the same general principles as the extremias and are tending perhaps unconsciously to tie same re sult Where the same measure is pursied by dif ferent persons for directly opposite reasons we commonly say that the views of one er the other arc sure to be realized In the present case I deem it certiin the expectations of both parties will in th event of a separation of the States be wofully dsappointed Nothing will be gained by the South inthe way of security from anti slavery agitation it ill gather new violence and strength Nothing willbe gained at the North in reference to the existence and ex tension of slavery it will be guarded with greater vigilance and will seek to spread itself in the di rection of Cuba and Mexico with an energy if pur pose not yet displayed All the restraining and softening influences on both sides which flor from the kindly union of North and South in on? body politic and which have insured us sixty years of al most uninterrupted prosperity will beat once bhsted Every existing grievance complained of it the South and at the North will be immeasurably aug mented and embittered and superadded to al will be the horrors crimes and sufferings of civil war' Regarding these as the sure results of a diisolu tion of the Union I know no language too warm to express the gratitude we owe to Mr Webster and the patriotie men of both parties who have actei with him for their recent strenuous efforts to aveit this calamity I remain dear sir with great respect Your friend and servant EDWARD EVERETT To Hon Nathan Hale Boston SPEECH MR WEBSTER In front of the Revere House Boston April 22 1351 ellow Citizens of Boston You rather take me by surprisethis morning but it is a very agreeible surprise to me I am greatly pleased to see jour cheerful and satisfied faces as much so as to seethe cheerful face of that luminary which shines now in the heavens above us If you are half as glae to see me as I am to meet you there is a great quartity of human happiness and good feeling at this no ment inBowdoin Square Gentlemen a long and violent convulsion ofthe elements has just passed away and the heavens the skies again smile upon us There is often an aml ogy between occurrences in the natural and political world Sometimes political agitations pass awer bringing after them sunshine joy and gladm fs May it be so now I greet you as citizens of Bostan I welcome you I offer you my heart and band I present to you my warmest gratitude for what you and your fathers have done for me from the days of my early manhood when I came from the North to dwell among you and to partake of your fortures for good or for evil to the end of my life I am not vain enough to suppose that I have rer dered any very essential services to my country in my day and generation But if I may suppose that I have rendered service however little or how ever much I owe it mainly to the constant warm and unwavering friendship and support of the peo ple of Boston I shall ere long follow your fathers and my fath ers to last home But while I live and breathe while I have language or thought while my heart beats or my tongue moves I shall feel and speak of Boston as my home as the cherished object of my public and private my political and friendly regard Gentlemen You do not expect to hear any dis course from me I come to see you and you come to see me It is not an occasion for the discussion of any political topic You do not expect me to deliv er any opinions of my own or to state the grounds of any political transactions Let me congratulate you and ask you to congrat ulate me that the events of the last year or two have placed us under better auspices We see clear er and breathe freer We feel assurance that the rich blessings we have inherited from our fathers will endure will be perpetual will be immortal if any institution of man or of earth can be immor tal The youngest of your children the youngest of your grand children will grow up to manhood with the proud feeling that they were born to and they will inherit imperishable liberty in these United I States of North America and in this ancient be 1 loved and under all circumstances bv me venerated Commonwealth of Massachusetts Why fellow cit izens need not be vain we need not be too much self satisfied after all but who among you is there who would exchange his own political and social condition for that which befalls the inhabi tants or residents of any other country under the wide scope of the canopy over us Where is the foreign country that would satisfy you No where You stay at home satisfied The institutions of your own country are satisfactory to yon You en joy political power universally disseminated under republican government framed upon popular prin ciples Every citizen feels that he is a man If he is governed he is also one of the governors He! has a voice in every great transaction of public pol i I cy and national concern Let others praise what they wil and admire what they please Let others pre fer a government more royal more despotic or more democratic or myself and I believe for you I may say we are satisfied with our condition as peo pie of the United States and citizens of Massachu setts our free popular and glorious representative government makes us known reputably all over the world Gentlemen Let us despair of nothing let us despair of nothing in behalf of our country We shall see it go on in continuous prosperity We see the returning sense of the community the love of Liberty and let me add with all the emphasis which I can pour out from my breast the love of Union That will keep us together If I had ten thousand if I could reach the shores of the Pacific if I could gather the whole vast nation within the reach of my voice I would say el low Citizens Union Union Union and What are all these petty distinctions these cav ils these questions these sectional quarrels They areas dust in the balance! They are not fit to in habit the heart ofa true American for the heart of a true American embraces the whole country if it is not big enough forthat he had better tear it out and it from him What little have done I repeat it is mainly attributable to the support you and your fathers have given me I am not unmindful of it not un grateful for it I find you as I have found you in the past and ns I am sure I shall still continue to find you for what remains to me of life Let me say to you let me entreat you to deliver to your children what I say as Boston found me thirty years ago she finds me to day without variation or the shad ow of change I shall go to my grave full of the gratitude which I shall cherish for her and for her support of me I bid you adieu an affectionate adieu By the blessing of God I shall see you again under circumstances it may be which will enable me to express somewhat at large my opinions on the aspect of public affairs All this is in the hands of the Providence that is over us to Him I commend myself I commend you I commend the interests of our dear our beloved country Gentlemen fare well Qtyt Cibctato No Union with Slaveholders! BOSTON APRIL 25 1851 SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING THE AMERICAN ANTI SLAVERY SOCIETY By the 8th article of the Constitution it is provid ed that the annual meeting of the Society shall be held each year at such time and place as the Execu tive Committee may Hitherto since the for mation of the Society the annual meeting has been uniformly held in the city of New York and usually in the Broadway Tabernacle So absolute however is the sway of the Slave Power in that city nnd such the fear of mobocratic excesses (stimulated by the Union on the one hand and the lawless Rynders and his crew on the other) that no meet ing house or hall in that great city can be piocured either for the love of liberty or for gold for the ac commodation of the Society Neither in the adjacent city of Brooklyn can any suitable building be ob tained for this purpose Leaving these cities to the historical infamy which awaits them the Executive Committee in accordance with the urgent request of the friends of impartial liberty in Western New York hereby give notice that the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Ameri can Anti Slavery Society will be held at SYRACUSE (N Y) on Wednesday 7th commencing at 10 A at which time and place they earnest ly invite a full attendance of its members and friends believing that the crisis is Such in the conviction of intelligent mind both as to the preservation of our own liberties and the emancipation of the mil lions who are still clanking the fetters of slavery as to render needless any special appeal It is with great pleasure the Committee announce that their distinguished and eloquent coadjutor Geo Thompson has promised to give his attend ance and participate in the proceedings The Rev Theodore Parker of Boston has also signified his intention to be with us on the occasion if practica ble as well as other able advocates of liberty equality A series of meetings of the most interesting and stirring character may be confi expected Much reliance is placed on the readiness and determination of the friends of the cause at the West to improve this opportunity to commune with their brethren from the East In behalf of the Executive Committee WM LLOYD GARRISON President Wendell Phillips Sydney Howard Gay SLAVERY DIABOLICAL The Case of William Chaplin being an Appeal to all Respecters of Law and Justice against the cruel and oppressive Treatment to which under color of Legal Proceedings he has been subjected in the District of Columbia and the State of Ma ryland Boston: Published by the Chaplin Com mittee 1851 This pamphlet is one of the important historical publications of these eventful times It should be as widely circulated in this as there are hearts to be touched or heads to be enlightened as it is written a perusal of the facts and statements therein are enough To stir a fever in the blood of age And make the infant's sinews strong as The circumstances attending the arrest imprisonment and subsequent deliverance of Mr Chaplin out of the hands of bloody minded men in the District of Co lumbia and in Maryland the payment of bail to the enormous amount of twenty five thousand dol lars will ever constitute a revolting chapter in the historj of this man stealing republic They demon strate the fact that slaveholding judges and courts in all cases touching the question of slavery are capa ble of perpetrating deeds the most lawless inhuman tyrannical damnable and that they who make mer chandize of their fellow creatures and hold them as property unite with the depravity of fiends the fe rocity' of hyenas all which is instantly manifested whenever thej can lay their murderous hands on one imbued with a spirit of sympathy towards their wretched slaves them that you do not intend to question their right to plunder starve lacerate imbrute and murder their victims ad libitum and ridicule the doctrine that the negroes are entitled to equal human rights and therefore ought to be liberated and they will be liberal iq their hospitality (the hospitality of those who subsist by plunder) and courteous in their manners but let them know or suspect that you regard the slave as a man and a that you hold his right to un conditional and immediate emancipation to be abso lute and their anger burns to the lowest and thej' become transformed into demons You had better trust yourselves among wolves and pan thers than in their company Y'ou can no more live among them than you can dwell in devouring fire At once you must escape from their location and pres ence as Lot fled from Sodom without looking otherwise a coat of tar and feathers cruel lacera tions hopeless imprisonment or a prompt suspension by the neck to the nearest lamp post or tree is your inevitable doom Their cowardice villany and di abolical barbarity cannot be exaggerated so con scious are of the damning guilt which stains their souls in turning the rational creatures of God into chattels personal It is not true that they know not what they do they know all about it Thej' know that are without excuse that thej have neither reason nor argument neither prin ciple nor expediency neither sense nor instinct nei ther honesty nor policy neither truth nor justice on their side hence as substitutes for these em ploy threats curses lies slanders mobs and tu mults backed up bj the bowie knife the lash the noose and all the other infernal accompaniments of the Ljnch code Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood They hatch eggs and he that eateth of them dieth" The case of Mr Chaplin is too well known to our readers to need a minute statement of the facts in this connection While residing at Wash ington in August 1849 he was induced from mo tives of the purest philanthropy on leaving that city to take into his private carriage two young men slaves (one belonging to Toombs of Alabama the Other to Stephens of Georgia Members of Congress though of this fact Mr Chaplin was at that time ig norant) on an earnest appeal being made to him that thus thej' might obtain that dearest boon on earth liberty As he drove out of the city under cover of night he was intercepted by an organized gang of ruffians at the head of whom was one John II God dard birth a Rhode Islander who was bred a shoemaker but who finding honest handicraft indus try not respectable in a slaveholding community con trived to get himself employed as a bum bailiff and watchman and by dint of a persevering spirit of ser vility has risen to be captain of the night watch and one of the police magistrates All Northern men who visit Washington are warned against this very dangerous person He may be known by the offi cial cockade on his hat and a knavish treacherous smile on his face and is a eold blooded cunning creature exactly the Uriah Heep of David Copperfield If Goddard had set expressly for his portrait the likeness could not have been more com Mr Chaplin was knocked from his seat by a heavy club thrown to the ground and trampled upon bare ly escaping with his life He was then bound with eords and forthwith committed to jail where he re mained antil ha could give bail to the amount of $6000 at which time instead of being released he was treacherously delivered up on a malicious requi sition from the Governor of Maryland to bo tried in that State for what he had done in the District of Columbia I Ho was hurried to the jail at Rock bail being required to the enormous amount of $19000 where he remained until he could raise that sum in cash to be paid al the moment ho was allowed to leave his cell In the whole city of Balti more not one wealthy and respectable man was found willing or had the courage to become his bail though the money was ready to be deposited in his hands As a last resort application was made to the successor of the notorious slave trader Hope Slatter and he readily consented to become bail for Mr Chaplin no it is quaintly ad ded would eagerly avail himself of any opportunity that might offer to go bail for the archangel Michael especially if it so happened that all the priests dea cons and church members had first been naked and had ortunately the services of the slave trafficker were rendered unnecessary by another ar rangement Yet after the payment of his ransom of $25000 to prevent his being lynched before he could get out of Maryland it was necessary that Mr Chap lin should travel view? and in the stealthiest manner Thus after an imprisonment of six weeks at ash jpgton and of thirteen weeks at Rockville he was delivered out of the hands of the Philistines and a great which generous and sympathiz ing friends have been willing to pay rather than that he should perish And still the slaveholding blood hounds are not satisfied for it is said that Mr Chap lin is to be demanded as a fugitive from justice and that the vast sum extorted from him in the name of bail is to be spent in attempting to recover posses sion of his bodj' Such is the diabolism of slavery And remember that these things are done in the mid dle of the nineteenth century and among a people claiming Christ as their Leader and Savior 1 As to the act for which Mr Chaplin has been pun ished so cruelly for which the friends of the slave have been plundered to such an extent who will say it was not a kind and benevolent one and worthy of all commendation however indiscreet as a matter of personal safety Who that prays That merej 1 to others show That mercy show to who that holds to the precept Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do ye even so to who that accepts as binding the apostolic injunction Remember them that arc in bonds as bound with will condemn him for desiring to save from desecration the image of God and uninjuriouslj seek ing to deliver the spoiled out of the hands of the op pressor Yet all over the country bj the presses at the North as well as at the he has been ridi culed as a fanatic branded as a madman anathema tized as a villain and indicted as a felon of the deep est dye I And who is William Chaplin? If the of abolitionists is not to be received surely that of one like the Rev John Todd of Pittsfield (Mass) who has never identified himself with them and of whose church Mr Chaplin was formerly a leading member ought not to be rejected This testimonial was vol untarily furnished by Mr Todd himself in an article published in the New York Evangelist of October 30 1850 on the occasion of Mr arrest We speak of says Mr Todd as we knew him years ago He is the son of a most venerable and perfect Puritan the Rev Dr Chaplin for merly of Groton His grandfather Col Prescott was a commander at the battle of Bunker Hill ine ly educated with a natural grace and eloquence Sir Chaplin is one of the finest speakers to whom we ever listened But this is not what we would say We say fearlessly that he has one of the noblest most self sacrificing unselfish hearts that ever beat in hu man bosom We never saw a selfish act performed by him The impulses of his nature are strong and generous He is a great hearted creature We look upon him as a sun which has broken away from the laws of its Maker through the vehemence of its desires to throw its light and beams into December and could not wait for the spring to return ere he made flowers to grow among the snow What must be the character of the people among whom such a man for sucli a deed is every where held up to popular scorn and detestation Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this We commend this pamphlet for the candor truth fulness and ability which it is characterised and for its startling facts and thrilling disclosures It is accompanied with a fine lithographic portrait of Mr Chaplin is verj printed and merits "the widest circulation TROUBLE IN THE CAMP We mentioned in our last number that aneuil Hall had been closed against Daniel Webster and his supporters as it had previously been against the op ponents of the ugitive Slave Bill by the Board of Aidermen Of course indignation was kindled at this act of impartial justice in the breasts of all Ilun kerdom At a subsequent meeting of the Common Council composed ofthe veriest lickspittles of Cotton ocracy and Slavery The following resolutions were submitted by Mr Otis Kimball and adopted by the Council Whereas aneuil Hall has been nnd dedicated to the use of the inhabitants of Boston upon all suitable and whereas the ex clusive custody of the same is exercised by the Board of Maj or and Aidermen of this city and whereas this branch of the Government has learned with great surprise that the Maj'or and Aidermen have denied the respectful petitions of the citizens of Boston" for the use of said Hall for the reception of the Hon' Daniel Webster and whereas this Board is unwilling to be compromised by the action of the Board of Mayor and Aidermen in the case or to be identified there with therefore Resolved That the Common Council deeply regret the action of the Board of Mayor and Aidermen in closing aneuil Hall against the Hon Daniel Web ster our illustrious fellow citizen whose high official position whose unwavering attachment io and un wearying defence of the Constitution whose long ser vice in the Senate of the United States and whose untiring efforts in support of the Union have justty endeared him to the whole people of the United States Resolved That while this Board would not inter fere with any rights which thfe Mayor and Aldermen may have over aneuil Hall it cannot but consider their action in the present instance unprecedented and injudicious calculated to increase rather than dimin ish the public excitement Resolved That it would have given to the Com mon Council of the city of Boston the highest pleas ure to have met our distinguished fellow citizen in aneuil Hall to exchange congratulations with him and hear him once more address his friends and neighbors in support of Law Order the Constitu tion and the Union The question on the passage of the resolution was taken without debate and the vote was unanimous Messrs Ezra Lincoln Henry Lincoln Solomon Car ter Samuel Crane and Edward Reed were absent On motion of Mr Thompson it was voted that a copy of the foregoing resolutions be forward ed to Hon Daniel Webster The following order was adopted by a unanimous vote on motion of Col Thompson Ordered That Messrs Thompson Jewell and Smith with such as the Board of Mayor and Alder men join be a Committee to tender to the Hon Daniel Webster in the name of the City Council of Boston an invitation to meet and address his fellow citizens in aneuil Hall at such time as he shall elect See next column how meanly the Board of Aidermen have taken it all back the trimmers I Mb Webster Another Speech Chagrined at the closing of aneuil Hall against him some of Mr retainers prevailed on him to make a speech in front ofthe Revere House Bo wdoin Square' in the open air on Tuesday forenoon There was a large throng of curious persons to hear him but very few were found so poor as to do him The cheers were faint and few and as for the speech it amount ed to nothing It may be found in a preceding col Wm N0'7 MEETING THE MAYOR AND ALDER i MEN A The regular weekly meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aidermen was held on Monday afternoon Sundry 'paper from the Council were disposed of in concurrence and a large number of petitions were presented and referred Among the petitions were the following': of rancis Jackson ana others for the use of aneuil Hall for the purpose of holding anti alavery meeting on the 27th 28th and 29th of May of reeman and Jewett for a license as innholders of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company for the use of aneuil Hall on the 2d of June for the Celebration of their 214th anniversary of S'Wiggin to have the grade of certain streets at the aonth end so altered as to prevent the overflow of the tide Alderman Rogers after aome explanatory remarks submitted the following resolutions: ws Resolved That this Board in their action on the application of George Smith and others for the use of aneuil Hall on the 17th instant were actuated by motives growing out of their past action in enceto said Hall and of the state of the public mind in relation to exciting political questions nnd by no feeling of or disrespect towards the cants or the distinguished individual whom in 4 tended to honor and however much they may have' erred in judgment on the occasion and however 3 deeply they may regret the inferences that havcj been drawn from their action in the case they feel Called upon to assert and maintain the right ot this Board to independent action under the city charter upon all questions properly brought before them and in a spirit of calmness and self respect must protest against any legislative act of censure by one branch of the City Government upon the other as irregular and calculated to excite feelings and pre judices that must inevitably interfere with the prop er and harmonious action of the two departments of this government and be productive of consequences injurious to the public interests Resolved That this Board concur with the Com mon Council in raising a joint committee to tender to the Hon Daniel Webster in the name of the City Council an invitation to meet and address his fellow citizens at such time as he may elect and that the use of aneuil Hall be granted for the above pur pose The resolutions were adopted without debate by a unanimous vote and Aiderman Rogers Holbrook and Smith were joined to the Council Committee Aiderman Kimball submitted the following pream ble and resolution Whereas A recent vote of this Board the use of aneuil Hall to sunary persons has called forth resolutions of regret by one branch of the City Coun cil and Whereas This Board confidently believed that upon a careful consideration of said vote in connexion with votes previously passed and tho contingencies incident upon the granting of said petition those who most loudly condemned the vote first re ferred to would most stronglj' commend and acqui esce in it as indispensably necessary to prove the im partiality of this Board and therefore to avoid all fu ture misapprehension in regard to applications for the use of aneuil Hal) it is Resolved That this Board will invariably grant the use of aneuil Hall under the established regula tions to any hundred legal tax paying citizens of Boston for any public meeting except such ns in the opinion of the Mayor and Aldermen may be for un lawful purposes or inconsistent with good morals and that at any such meetings ample police force shall be detailed for the maintenance of strict order at such meeting provided however that the parties or any number of them to whom the use ofthe Hall may be granted shall give satisfactory security for the pay ment for all expenses for such police force as tho Board may deem necessary This paper was read for the information of tho Board and by general consent lies over for action at the next meeting Aiderman Rogers here submitted the following preamble and resolution in relation to the expected visit of the President of the United States to Boston: Whereas it has been publicly intimated that this Board has practically refused to join with the Com mon Council in offering the hospitalities of the city to President illmohb and whereas the action of this Board in laying upon the table an order from the oth er Board upon this subject took place ata time when the members of this Board were unaware of an inti mation from quarter of an intent or wish on the part of the President to visit this part of the country and had in view subsequent and final action when such intent or wish should be made apparent but the same through some inadvertence nnd the press of other important duties upon the timff and attention of the Board has been accidentally delayed There fore Resolved That the and Aidermen as a conservative Board of the city government do not yield to'the other branch in feelings of regard and respect for Millard illmore the President of the United States nnd from the moment that his dispo sition to visit New England was made known to them they have been and are willing and desirous to afford him a proof of their respectful consideration by uniting with the Common Council in inviting him in the name of the citizens to the city of Boston at such time as may be most agreeable to him Ordered That this Board unanimously concur in the order of March 5th last and that the whole Board be joined to the Committee appointed by the Common Council in reference to the same These resolutions were also adopted by a iinnni mous vote and without discussion A SATIRICAL HIT At a meeting of the Board of Aldermen (says the Commonwealth) on Monday evening the resolution was passed unanimously Resolved That with a deep sense that aro whipped dogs we lay ourselves at the feet ofthe illustrious individual whom we have offended and respectfully request him to walk over us at such time as shall suit his convenience and that aneuil Hall be placed at his disposal for that purpose VIOLATION STATE LAWS In the Massachusetts Senate on Tuesday last Mr Robinson from the special committee appoint ed to investigate the facts of the late fugitive slave case to ascertain if any infringement of the laws has been made by officers of this sub mitted a report The report charges the Sheriff Deputy Sheriff Mayor City Marshal and the officers under his control with having violated the laws and recommends the passage of the following bills Bill to punish disobedience of the laws by public officers The prohibition of the 2d section of the Act fur ther to protect Personal Liberty passed March 24 1843 shall be extended to all persons holding any office created or existing under any statute of Commonwealth and every such person transgressing the prohibitions thereof shall forfeit and pay the sum of $100 with costs of suit to be recovered by indict ment or information or by action of debt on the part of any person authorised to sue for the same An Act concerning calling out the Militia During any session of the Legislature or Execu five Council or whenever tho Governor is in the city the power of the Mayor of said city to call out the militia is suspended and vested in the Comman der in On motion of Mr De Witt "1000 extra copies of the report were ordered to be printed GRACE ATER MEAT The abolitionists have often had occasion to com plain of Daniel Webster but they do not refuse to ac knowledge his real merits It was pleasant to hear and sec the gratitude which he expressed in Bowdoin Square on Tuesday last for what the people of Bos ton had done for him He thanked them for the mon ey in the handsomest manner and "was so far from taking umbrage at the slight recently thrown upon him by one branch of the city government that he plainly intimated his readiness te accept and his ex pectation of receiving further favors of the same sort His words were I present to you my wannest gratitude for what you and your fathers have done for What little I have done I repeat is mainly attrib utable to the support you arid your fathers have given me I am not unmindful not ungrateful I find you as I have found you in the past and as Iam sure I shall continue to find you for what remains to me of 'c Correction In the following sentence of "Mr letter (Lib April 18th) the ord feasi should have been printed and thewhole read as follows find it a subject of conver sation in all cars and steamboats and every where distributing society into two classes according to the moral sensibility of individuals on one part and their habitual docility to party leading on the other I 'I if.