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ommonwealth; and this insult had been answered only by a recommendation on the part of our own Executive that whoever dared to move the question of slavery should be proceeded against at common law. We had long known that we held our lives and property at the will of the mob; but now, as if by common consent, the North seems ready to yield to Southern threats the right to speak and to think. The time had come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked, We had heard in old Faneuil, and from the lips of those whose very names should have been a guaranty of their attachment to freedom, principles which would have blotted out every page of our past history. Borne down, but not dismayed,--confident that the hearts of the people, could the truth but reach them, were sound at the core,--we sought out the weapon which our fathers wielded; we besieged the doors of our State legislatures with petitions and remonstrances. I need not tell the county of Essex how that appea