cate them.
This is _our_ soil, sacred to _our_ peace, on which we
intend to perform _our_ promises, and work out for the
benefit of ourselves and our posterity and the world, the
destiny which our Creator has assigned to _us_."

Gentlemen of the Jury, it is written of that Creator that He is "no
Respecter of Persons;" and "hath made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on all the face of the earth." The "Our Creator" of Mr.
Curtis is also the Father of William and Ellen Craft; and that great
Soul who has ploughed his moral truths deep into the history of
mankind, represents the final Judge of us all as saying to such as
scorned his natural Law of Justice and Humanity, "INASMUCH AS YE DID
IT NOT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE YE DID IT NOT TO ME."

Massachusetts is "our soil," is it; "sacred to _our_ peace," which is
to be made sure of by stealing our brother men, and giving to
Commissioners George T. Curtis and Edward G. Loring ten dollars for
making a slave, and only five for setting free a man! Peace and the
fugitive slave bill! No, Gentlemen of the Jury, it is vain to cry
Peace, Peace--when there is no peace! Ay, there _is_ no peace to the
wicked; and though the counsel of the ungodly be carried, it is
carried headlong!

In that speech, Gentlemen, Mr. Curtis made a special attack upon me:--

"There has been made within these walls," said he, "the
declaration that an article of the Constitution [the
rendition clause] of the United States 'shall not be
executed, _law or no law_.' A gentleman offered a resolve
... that 'constitution or no constitution, law or no law, we
will not allow a fugitive slave to be taken from
Massachusetts.' The chairman of a public meeting [Hon.
Charles Francis Adams, on October 14th] declared here that
'the law will be resisted, and if the fugitive resists, and
if he slay the slave-hunter, or even the Marshal, and if he
therefor be brought before a Jury of Massachusetts men, that
Jury will not convict him.' And as if there should be
nothing wanting to exhibit the madness which has possessed
men's minds, _murder and perjury_ have been enacted into
virtues, and in this city preached from the sacred desk. I
must not be suspected of exaggerating in the least degree. I
read therefore the following passage from a sermon preached
and published in this city:--

"'Let me sup