The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-09-29


They know too well, and feel too deeply, what
the condition OF the country before this tariff
was enacted they see and feel what 1t Is now
They assert that the Tariff of 1912 was the great
agent of regeneration in this matter-the hrst
step in advance in our onward progress
viii the Democracy Of Massachusetts, deny
this Then let us come to this issue, and let the
people decide. The crisis may demand lncreas-
ed energy and action, but this, when required IN
the Old Bay State is never found wanting, and
when old Massachusetts is thoroughly aroused,
Wing victory is won.
The relations of the Wings to the more recent
" organized parties in the Commonwealth, stand
on a basis somewhat different from that IN when
they stood to the Democracy
With the general principles of these parties,
the Wbies-as party-have no conflict and no
controversy whatever.
With many of their protested objects, and
much of their practical management they have
neither sympathy nor communion.
Massachusetts, has always been an anti-Sldvery
State and she is so still.
The first article in her Bill of Rights is the
Charter of Freedom to all who come within her
borders of whatever race color.
Her soil endures not the tootstep of the slave.
Her atmosphere is too pure for the inspiration Of
the hondsman.
She has soemnly declared and promulgated
that declaration to the world-that all men are
born free and equal.
She has done more.
She has established Laws and founded Institu-
tons by which the original equality of man is
more generally dfused and more fully sustained
than in any other equal community on the face
of the earth.
This is the peculiar pride and glory of Massa-
chusetts. She has in this set an instructive ex-
ample to other States-she has freed herself from
the curse of Slavery, now and forever.
Is she for this reason to be charged with an
union with any party to bring about an abrogation
of the Constitution and dissolution Of the I'm
ion
And is this grave charge to be made and sus-
tanned by party who have attained all their po-
litical advantages by the very want OF that union
of action which they now charge on the Wings?
Who does not know, that, but for the extraordi-
nary and suicidal course taken by section of the
Aboitoniss in the late Presidential election, in
drecthostilityfo the principles and the policy of
the Whigs-James X. Polk would never have
been President, and Texas would never have
been annexed to the Union ?
The Native Americans-as a party-stand on
ground in relation to the Wings still more pecul-
lar.
During the late Presidential election the Ma
tive Americans were understood to have sympa-
thized and acted-with the Wings.
The gross frauds perpetrated in that election in
unnaturalized foreigners, induced many sterling
Wings to consider, whether measures ought not
and might not be taken, TO secure greater purity
in the ballot box, by alterations and amendments
in our naturalization laws by the National Legis-
lature.
The attention of the Wings of Massachusetts
was earnestly called to this subject, and at the
last session ofthe Legislature the following pre-
ambe and resolves, passed both branches and
were approved by the Governor, George NJ
Briggs, March l, 1845. They are as follows
''Whereas. the purity of the ballot box ndispenSa-
BILE 10 the security of the rights and The and full
preston oflhe will Of the people
And whereas experience has cle ry demonstrated
that the Naturalization Laws of the u. States are loose
and defective, fordng opportunities for the preparation
OF gross frauds destructive alike OF the rights and morals
Of the cllizens-heTefoTe,
"Resoiued That the rights interests and morals of the
people demand an immediate and thorough revision of
the Naturalization Laws and we regard il the mper
alive DUTY OF Congress so to amend those Laws that
while literal and just policy shall be adopted towards
such Foreigners may among us the rights
and privileges Of our counirymen shall be kept nvioate
and the ballot box permanently guarded against any i'm
proper influence.
"Resolred, That our Senators and Representatives
in Congress hereby requisite TO their
eItons forthwith TO procure such amendments III the Nat
uralizatOn Laws shall carry and perpetuae, as
lar as possible, the principles indicated in the foregoing
Resolves
Such, fellow citizens, is the authentic evidence
of the deliberate judgment of the Wings of Mas
sachusetts on this subject
The whole subject Of the Naturalization Laws
is confded by the Constitution to the Congress of
the United States.
The Wings have therefore taken the only ac-
ton in the case which the nature of the subject
would admit-they have commended it to that
body, through the appropriate channel, who
alone can reach the evil and apply the remedy
Have the Native Americans done more than
this-to effect this great and ultimate object
1t is true they have taken the field under
new and distinct ganization-professing equal
opposition to all existing parties.
But the Wings of Massachusetts are not able
toperceive how subject like this, general in its
nature-and national in its operadons-can be-
come the basis Of a State organization, and mere
local action.
Much less are they able to perceive how the
party, who have already profted so largely, and
who are likely to profit still more, by the frauds
on the ballot box, are to be separated from their
old party organization and be made heartily TO as
sist in thorough and effective reform of the laws
of naturalization.
But however this may be, the course OF the
Wings is obvious and open.
The pathway Of duty is always the pathway of
the truest policy and the greatest safety.
The Wings Of Massachusetts, are intrusted
with the preservation of the principles and inst-
tttions Transmitted to them bV fheir patriotic Ia