ve must snap asunder. Without delay,
and without preparation, he becomes a citizen, a legislator, goes to the
polls, and appoints _our_ rulers. If this be the plan, then am I ready,
as the opposite counsel expresses it, to seek refuge in other parts of
the United State. Are you willing, gentlemen, to abandon your country;
to permit it to be taken from you, and occupied by the Abolitionist,
according to whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate with the
negro? Or, gentlemen, on the other hand, are there laws in this
community to defend you from the immediate Abolitionist, who would open
upon you the floodgates of such extensive wickedness and mischief? There
are such laws, gentlemen; they are as essential to your prosperity and
peace as is the sacred law of self-defence to every individual.

But you have heard it denied that there are such laws; that these
pamphlets are incendiary; and this prosecution is likened to those under
the sedition law--a law reprobated and repealed--and hence we may infer
that a man may publish what he pleases, however seditious and
insurrectionary it may be. Not so. The repeal of the sedition law left
the common law, by which these offences always were punishable, in full
force; and, gentlemen, it is well known that the principal argument
against the sedition law was, that the offences which it punished were
sufficiently provided for already by the common law as it stood. But the
traverser is not content with acting merely on the defensive. It appears
that he is a _persecuted innocent man_; upon an illegal warrant, without
proper evidence, attacked, _robbed_, put in jail; all for having a few
harmless publications about him. Why does not this _persecuted_ man
bring his action for false imprisonment? Why do not his counsel advise
it? The warrant was issued upon probable cause on oath. The magistrate
was bound to issue it, but it made the constable the judge of what were
incendiary papers! Yes! and had the constable have taken any other
course he would have been responsible to the traverser for so doing. But
carry out the law as expounded on the other side. Here's a counterfeiter
caught, with his tools, plates, &c., all found upon a search for stolen
goods. The gentleman would bring him before a magistrate, have the
warrant quashed, his _goods_ returned to him, and should the articles,
thus found, be used in evidence against him, it would be horrid,
tyrannical, oppressive, shocking, and enoug