A BLIND PRESIDENT
The following is an extract from Mr. Fillmore’s speech at Buffalo: — ‘There is no liberty, no security, without law. – The law, whatever it is, must be enforced . And I have sworn upon the Holy Evangelists to execute the laws, of all kinds. I have endeavored, to the best of my ability, to execute them. I intend to execute them, and, God helping me, I will execute them’.
We can tell the President it depends upon what the laws are. Laws to make slaves don’t make liberty of secure law. Such laws men settle not in the Courts. Our Fathers settled such laws on the battle-field, and we will do so if there is occasion. – We are a nation of rebels against such laws. — Exchange paper.
(Liberator, Sept 5, 1851, pg 4)
