The Right Spirit
The Conslitntionof the United States binds one State to deliver up fugitivesfrom labor or scivice in other Stales - but it does not bind us to be slave catchers for the South. Henee the pressof a free State thai advertisesa run. away, does about as mean an act aa can be conceived of. Mr. Clurk of the Logan Gazelte, ffellefontnine, lakes the righl view of the matter. Ã7-v'VVe v.-ould inform the gentleman who sent us fur publication an advertisement of Runaway eiaves, thiit we cannot proslitute our columna to such a purpose. Vc nre not an aboliiionist by any meuns, but we cannot permit ourself to be instrumental in s.ttppofting and sustaining the "peculiar institution" of the South. While the x.A.ys of our State, tie up the hands of every citizon, and prohibit his assisting slaves to escape, our conscience restrains us froni being accessary, in any way to