Decision Of The Supreme Court

Aceording to the construction given to ihis decisión ty the neu spapers it appears thal the liberty given and bccured by the peojde in eonsequence of ihe greal nnd Itiriou8 struggle of the Revolulion, afler i lopse of s-ixty years has been decided lo be the liberty of being sëized and enslaved at the discretion of uny real or prelerricd slaveholders; without law, judgo or jury, und ihat the people and the State jovernmctjts are by the constitution ab'olutely deprived of the right to protect iheir own liberty against the inlrusions of ihe slavehunter, by iy law describing the marnier in which the runaway shöll be iistióguishcd f rom ihe citizen unlawfully sliiimed. This is our boasted American libcrly. t We established u Government, called it ÍVeo; and invited all Christendom to wa.tch its onderful woikings; and warnocl 'A tyraniG to lromble while we shculd procluini the great and overwhelrr.ing inluence of our free principies. For sixty fea ra we have bid the nuticns behold our uight}' insiitutions, which were to cxtend ii'criy throughout the vvorld, and sweep ;ñ' thö last veslige of tyranny; and the ïsionislied nations have Icoked on with iwe and ndmiralion, as if determincd tr :aich the mighiy spirit of freedom which ivas to produce the pohlical millcnium hroughout the world; and what havethoy listovered? At the end of more than sixy years, it 19 ascertained that we have iherished in our midst a nest of the worst vrants that inhabit the earth, and have u:Ii;rized them to depri ve U8 of ouj existïnccas men, and to reduce us to challéis; nd ihis, without even the appücation of he Iüw they thcmselves have made. - w let us hide our heads froni the gaze f the world; nor pcep tijíain, unti!r liko freêmen in deed, wc shall have altered ur constitution, or have nbolished it, and 38lablished a bëtter one in is ttead.