Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New YorkWarburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
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Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Warburton, A. F. (Adolphus Frederick)
Piracy -- United States; Privateering -- United States; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
There is another party of intelligent and upright men, claiming that
the South has the same right to go into the Territories with their
slaves as the North has to go with their implements of agriculture; and
these irreconcilable differences of opinion are only to be settled at
the polls, by determining the question which shall have sway either in
the executive councils or in the legislation of the Government. A grand
subject of debate, for some time, was the endeavor to acquire Texas;
and I need not tell you that the great reason why the acquisition of
Texas was opposed by the Whig party was, that they thought it might
induce to the extension of slavery. When MR. CHOATE made his great
speech against it in New York, he confessed that that was the point,
and said: "You may be told that this is a new garden of the Hesperides;
but do not receive any of its fruits: touch not, taste not, handle not,
for in the hour that you eat thereof you shall surely die."
Next, gentlemen, is _the nullification of the Fugitive-Slave Law by
several of the States of New England_, which say: "True it is that the
Constitution of the United States declares that the fugitive shall be
delivered up to his master; true it is that Congress has made provision
for his restoration; true it is that the Supreme Court of the United
States has declared that he must be given up; but we say--we, a
sovereign State--that if any officer of our Government lends any aid or
sanction for such purpose he shall be guilty of a crime. If you want
any slave delivered to his master, you must do it exclusively by the
authority of the Federal Government, by its power and officers." And
because, in the city of Boston, MR. LORING, a virtuous citizen, a
respectable lawyer, performed, in his official capacity, an official
act toward the restoration of a slave to his master, he was removed
from his judicial station by the Executive of Massachusetts.
_The District Attorney_: (To Mr. Evarts) He was not removed for that
reason.
_Mr. Brady_: The District Attorney says he was not removed for that
reason. Well, he was removed just about that time. (Laughter.) It was a
remarkable coincidence; it was like the caution given to the elder
Weller, when he was transferring a number of voters to the Eatonsville
election, not to upset them in a certain ditch, and, as he said, by a
very extraordinary coincidence, he got them into that very place.
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