IX.
_Resolved_, That, if it be true that the steel pen which signed the bill
for the removal of a Judge of Probate for doing an accursed duty as U.S.
Commissioner, was taken from the Council Chamber and is now in the
possession of one who has driven it into the edge of his chamber-door
casement, and every night hangs his watch upon it, at the head of his
bed, with the infatuated notion that thereby, through some "most fine
spirit of sense," the tick of a death-watch will disturb the political
dreams of our Massachusetts rulers, we hereby declare that this is most
chimerical and visionary, and that the great party of freedom in
Massachusetts need not feel the slightest apprehension that our rulers
have the least misgivings as to the morality of their conduct in the
removal of said officer, nor that they fear political retribution for
that deed; nor do we believe that the death-watch will ever tick in the
ear of freedom in Massachusetts.
X.
_Resolved_, That in the acquiescence of many at the North in the entire
justice of a universal massacre, by the slaves, of their masters,
including women and children, we recognize a state of preparedness for
the proscription and banishment of all who do not come up to the high
abolition standard; but that in carrying out that project, we ought
first to seek the reclamation of the victims, and therefore that due
inquiry ought to be made concerning the most effective modes of
persuasion, as, for example, thumb-screws, racks, wheels, scorpions,
water-dropping for the head, bags of snakes, tweezers, and steel-pointed
beds, it being apparent that our agony for the slave cannot be satisfied
except by his liberation, or by the forcible subjection to us of all who
oppose it.
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