192 A PEEP AT 



youngest, being at the present time fifty years old. 

 Jackson was the oldest of the Presidents at the time 

 of his retirement, and John Adams was the oldest at 

 the time of his death. The youngest of the Presi- 

 dents, at the time of his retirement and his death, 

 was James K. Polk. 



Great excitement at present prevails in all the 

 Northern States against the "Fugitive Slave Law," 

 which the Government recently passed. This law 

 disregards all the ordinary securities of personal 

 liberty ; tramples on the Constitution by its denial of 

 the rights of trial by jury, Habeas Corpus^ and ap- 

 peal ; and which enacts, that any person who shall 

 harbor or conceal a fugitive slave shall be subject to 

 a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for 

 six months. Public meetings are being held through- 

 out the Free States, in condemnation of this iniquitous 

 law. In Worcester a Committee of Vigilance has 

 been appointed, numbering forty persons, who are to 

 look out for the appearance of slave-catchers, and to 

 request them, as soon as known, to leave the city. 

 One of the resolutions passed at the pubhc meeting 

 held at the City Hall, is as follows : — 



" That as God is our helper, we will not sufier any 

 person, charged with being a fugitive from labor, to be 



