of Maryland, are unquestionably white, with hearts black enough to incite them to the commission of any crime equal in atrocity to that committed in Lancaster county.  Pennsylvania has now but one course to pursue, and that is to aid, and warmly aid, the United States in bringing to condign punishment, every man engaged in the riot.  She owes it to herself and to the Union.  Let her in this resolve, be just and fearless.”

From a leading neutral daily paper the following is taken:  “One would suppose from the advice of forcible resistance, so familiarly given by the abolitionists, that they are quite unaware that there is any such crime as treason recognized by the Constitution, or punished with death by the laws of the United States.  We would remind them, that not only is there such a crime, but that there is a solemn decision of the Supreme Court, that all who are concerned in a conspiracy which ripens into treason, whether present or absent from the scene of actual violence, are involved in the same liabilities as the immediate actors.  If they engage in the conspiracy and stimulate the treason, they may keep their bodies from the affray without saving their necks from a halter.

It would be very much to the advantage of society, if an example could be made of some of these persistent agitators, who excite the ignorant and reckless to treasonable violence, from which they themselves shrink, but who are, not only in morals, but in law, equally guilty and equally amenable to punishment with the victims of their inflammatory counsels.”

A number of the most influential citizens represented the occurrence to the Governor as follows: 

    “To the Governor of Pennsylvania: 

    The undersigned, citizens of Pennsylvania, respectfully
    represent: 

That citizens of a neighboring State have been cruelly assassinated by a band of armed outlaws at a place not more than three hours’ journey distant from the seat of Government and from the commercial metropolis of the State: 

    That this insurrectionary movement in one of the most populous
    parts of the State has been so far successful as to overawe the
    local ministers of justice and paralyze the power of the law: 

That your memorialists are not aware that ‘any military force’ has been sent to the seat of insurrection, or that the civil authority has been strengthened by the adoption of any measures suited to the momentous crisis.

They, therefore, respectfully request the chief executive magistrate of Pennsylvania to take into consideration the necessity of vindicating the outraged laws, and sustaining the dignity of the Commonwealth on this important and melancholy occasion.”

Under this high pressure of public excitement, threatening and alarm breathed so freely on every hand, that fugitive slaves and their friends in this region of Pennsylvania at least, were compelled to pass through an hour of dreadful darkness—­an ordeal extremely trying.  The authorities of the United States, as well as the authorities of the State of Pennsylvania and Maryland, were diligently making arrests wherever a suspected party could be found, who happened to belong in the neighborhood of Christiana.