e and the clapping of hands.' Seize a lamb out of a
flock, a wolf from a pack of wolves, the lambs bleat with
sympathy, the wolves howl with fellowship and fear; but when
a competitor for the Presidency sends back to eternal
bondage a poor, friendless negro, asking only his limbs,
wealthy gentlemen of Boston applaud the outrage.

"'O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason!'"

"When the Fugitive Slave Bill passed, the six New England
States lay fast asleep: Massachusetts slept soundly, her
head pillowed on her unsold bales of cotton and of woollen
goods, dreaming of 'orders from the South.' Justice came to
waken her, and whisper of the peril of nine thousand
citizens; and she started in her sleep, and, being frighted,
swore a prayer or two, then slept again. But Boston
woke,--sleeping, in her shop, with ears open, and her eye on
the market, her hand on her purse, dreaming of goods for
sale,--Boston woke broadly up, and fired a hundred guns for
joy. O Boston, Boston! if thou couldst have known, in that
thine hour, the things which belong unto thy peace! But no:
they were hidden from her eyes. She had prayed to her god,
to Money; he granted her the request, but sent leanness into
her soul."

"Yet one charge has been made against the Government, which
seems to me a little harsh and unjust. It has been said the
administration preferred low and contemptible men as their
tools; judges who blink at law, advocates of infamy, and men
cast off from society for perjury, for nameless crimes, and
sins not mentionable in English speech; creatures 'not so
good as the dogs that licked Lazarus's sores; but, like
flies, still buzzing upon any thing that is raw.' There is a
semblance of justice in the charge: witness Philadelphia,
Buffalo, Boston; witness New York. It is true, for
kidnappers the Government did take men that looked 'like a
bull-dog just come to man's estate;' men whose face declared
them, 'if not the devil, at least his twin-brother.' There
are kennels of the courts wherein there settles down all
that the law breeds most foul, loathsome, and hideous and
abhorrent to the eye of day; there this contaminating puddle
gathers its noisome ooze, slowly, stealthily, continually,
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