The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1846-10-01
From the Boston Traveller.
THE MOVEMENT FOR FREEDOM-WILL
Ii SUCCEEDl

be, Shall Slavery IN the Nation be suffered to
extend beyond ats present limits and eriSt
longer aOhere 1T can, without infringement of
the Constitution, be done aoOay? Unless we
mistake, that is also soon to be the issue made in
all the free States
Will the movement succeed We are of opin-
ion that it must, or the Union be ultimately dis
solved.
What are the grounds of this opinion? Some
of them are these: In the first place, many in
each OF the great parties are sick of the contest
about measures which, whatever their import
ance, Will neither save nor ruin the country nor
themselves; and as sick of some among the men
under whom they have long fought as leaders of
the host They wish for repose and are resolved
that repose, at least from such struggle, thew
will have. The Bank question has been for
some time dead and if the Sub treasury is found
impracticable, the evil will soon work its own
cure. On the subject of tariff, the tendency OF
public opinion is in the direction of Free Trade
and the people are not likely to be satisfied till
they have taste Of its fruits, be they sweet or
bitter. Many will be disposed still to contend
but not with the energy and heart of other DAYS
besides all the great questions of national
policy are at the last to be decided according az
slavery shall rule the nation, or be itself kent
down by the spirit and power OF freedom This
has now become so evident, that one with halt
IL.
grasping at dominion till it has got the ascendan
cy in one branch OF Congress; and none need be
told how it uses its power. The conflicting of
interests in the country does not arise from the
extent OF territory and the variety of climate and
productions, but grows out of the existence of
freedom In one portion, with slavery in the OH
er. 1t is not, however, the competition of free
and slave labor, but the habits of life and the
spirit mat system OF wrong engeAders, which &C.
casion all the difficulty. But for that, the coun
try at large would be only the better tor this
great diversity of climate, soil, and products.
Had the character of the first settlers in all the
States been homogeneous, and of the same TYNE
as that OF the Pilgrims of New England and had
slavery never existed in the land, we should have
mad no nulllhcation, no such one-sided legisla.
ton and governmental acts as have sometimes
annoyed, and vexed, and alienated from each
other, men who ought so live together on FERNS
oil brotherhood and peace. We regard the habits
ana temper produced by slavery, rather than apv
thIng else, as the great cause of all our troubles
And this matter the people at the north are very
generally beginning to understand They have
seen In the doings of the last three years especial
ly, what were the designs of the sIaveholding
poruon oil the country and what, when left TO
It's mercy, they are to expect. Their interests
VIII De regarded just so far only as consists with
the preservation, extension, ana perpetuitv ot
slavery. And if they do not rise up in a body
ana oppose broad front OF resistance to the far
ther encroachmeRts of the slave power, thew will
come at length and the opposition will not be
maze IN VAIN 1t will be felt that all other oues-
uons respecting the great interests of the ceun
try are subordinate to that of slavery; and
against that interest they will contend for tbe;r
own and the country's good
But there is cause that hes deeper, and is nm
influenced by any question merely of the dsy.
which gives the chief promise of ultimate suc.
cess. Slavery is moral evil, in comparison with
which Its political mischief is as nothing: and
the civilized world is becoming every day more
awake and alive to its wrongs. Not only are
men anxious to free themselves from all SEEMING
participation in its guilt, but there is svmnathS
ior the oppressed which will not rest till slavery
is smut up within its present limits, and all con.
sututional methods have been employed for do
ing 1t away where they are in any wise respon-
slole Tor Its existence. Here, under God in the
humane, phllanthropic, moral, and religious srir.
IL OF the people who are free, is our hone. And
II is mighty rock to rest upon-this shirt of a
Tee people, taught from their cradle to hate IN.
Psoesioh III all It's forms, knowing well the rights
OF man, and feeling their accountableuess to God
lot the manner in which they deal. individuaIlv
or collectively, with their brother man. We 70.
member how in our boyhood the thought of
southern slavery would make our bosom burr
win shame Tor the country; and how we used
TO almost wish for separation of the Northern
from the Southern States, because of the dark
shadow that was cast over all the land nv tbat
wicked institution. Yet those were not DAYS Of
declamatlon about slavery, when the heart was
nred by the frequent recital of its wrongs : but
that was the spontaneous emotion of souI lovinr
It's liberty and longing for all others to be free
The feeling is natural one. 1t is abroad in
all the Tree States; and is strengthened by the
moral and religious sensibilites and principles of
the people. 1t W il not sleep; but only wait for
wise and just plan of procedure to be set forth,
to show itself in action. Whether that
wlil Immediately be, we cannot tell but of this
we are cOnfident-it will continue to increase
until such plan is devised. And in this moral
ana religious principle and feeling is the guaran.
ty of ultimate success.
The LOST Horse. A clergyman in Hamp-
shire, few weeks since, drove up to the door Of
a brother in the neighboring town of Hadey with
whom he had appointed ar exchange 1t was