Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1855 — Nullification in Massachusetts. [ARTICLE]

Nullification in Massachusetts.

TiAFlflegrap informs us that an not designed to render the Fugitive tSlavc Law inoperative had passed one bran di of the inlatttous Legis-Intwre-ef Massachusetts. To dhow how bold and daring its nullification character is,- we will state the substance of one or two of its numerous provisions. For instance, it provides that nny person who shall act as eounrol or attorney for any claimant . for any alleged fugitive from service or labor, under or. by virtue of the nets of Congress, shall be deemed to have resigned .any commission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that he may possess, and shall be thereafter incapaciated from appearing as counsel or attorney in the courts of the Commonwealth Sheriffs, deputies, coroners, con--Btabic?, police ornscrj, etna ine \oi unteer malitia, aro all forbidden to aid in any way in the arrest or rendition of a fugitive slave, under penalty of SI,OOO or $2,000 fine, each and every one of them, and imprisonment in the State Prison for one pr two years. As soon as this monstrous enactment shall have become a law, we trust the General Government will 1 make an issue at the earliest practicable moment, with the State, for the purpose of testing its efficacy. The celebrated South Carolina ordinance of nullification of 1833 was not a more glaring defiance of the Constitution and law# of the United States titan this bill. It must bn repealed or become a dead letter. Massachusetts caartot remain in the Union (from which-she will not be allowed lo secede) upon any other conditions. The Supreme Court of the United States will dqcitfo it to be unconstitutional and the fanatic#and the demagogues in the old. .Bay State will'Ore? to give up, or flfoy will find theuMelves in trouble at once.— The old Hartford Convention spirit of opposition to the Unipn-is clearly manitested.in this bitt. It would he a very popular-UiHtg-jrith the maase» of and would tend so rester® pubhe sentiu»eut so trjffore healthy condition, if several of the . leading disaffected toiitilO*l?-, Massachusetts, who have voifiited forth treason#* year#, . should feel, one of these days, the GeMr4Gw«rnh ■ tho W a. aswwl after W.' j ;■