Therefore shall God for aye confound, and pluck thee from thy place; Thy seed root out from off the ground, and so shall thee deface. The just, when they behold thy fall, with feare shall praise the Lord; And in reproach of thee withall, crie out with one accord:-- "Behold the man that woulde not take the Lord for his defence; But of his goods his God did make, and trust his corrupt sense. But I, as olive, fresh and green, shall spring and spread abroad; For why? my trust all times hath been, upon the living God! "For this therefore will I give praise to Thee with heart and voyce; I will set forth Thy name alwayes, wherein Thy saints rejoyce." _Psalm lii. in Sternhold and Hopkins._ [13] It has been said that the fugitive slave law cannot be executed in Boston. Let us not be deceived. Who would have thought a year ago, that the Senator of Boston would make such a speech as that of last March, that so many of the leading citizens of Boston would write such a letter of approval, that such a bill could pass Congress, and a man be found in this city (Mr. Samuel A. Eliot) to vote for it and get no rebuke from the people! Yet a single man should not endure the shame alone, which belongs in general to the leading men of the city. The member for Boston faithfully represented the public opinion of his most eminent constituents, lay and clerical. Here is an account of what took place in New York since the delivery of the sermon. [From the New York Tribune.] "SLAVE CATCHING IN NEW YORK--FIRST CASE UNDER THE LAW. "The following case, which occurred yesterday, is one of peculiar interest, from the fact of its being the first case under the new Fugitive Slave Law. It will be noticed that there is very little of the 'law's delay' here; the proceedings were as summary as an Arkansas court audience could desire. "U. S. COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE--Before Commissioner Gardiner.--_Examination as to James Hamlet, charged to be a fugitive slave, the property of Mary Brown, of Baltimore._--No person was present as counsel for accused, and only one colored man. He is a light mulatto. The marshal said Mr. Wood had been there. The commissioner said they would go on, and if counsel came in, he would read proceedings.