The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-07-14
THE GREAT CONFLICT.

prevent the extension OF slavery. The parties
are arming for the contest, ard the Shareholders,
to achieve success, are deluglng the country
with false doctrines The Tar seeing believers in
human progress may feel secure in the ultimate
triumph of right, because such is the decree OF
Providence. But will this absove them from
any proper efforts 10 accelerate that triumph
Through their neglect, wrong may prevail for
ages TO come, as it has, through the neglect of
their predecessors, prevailed Tor ages past; and
though right will surely come. at last, yet for all
the intermediate wrong which they might have
prevented, and for all the suffering of its victims,
they are responsible, at least to impartial poster
ity. This is the day of false doctrines against
human rights the day when opinions, not only
in excuse, but in justification OF slavery are
boldly avowed by those who, in the days OF their
revolutionary fathers, would have blushed under
the bare suspicion. Those who once condemned
slavery as deplorable evil, and lanented their
inability to emancipate their country from its
blighng influences, now boldly defend it-in
Congress, in the Legislatures, and the press of
the slave States, and through politicians and as.
pirants in the free States, salutary institu-
ton, a natural condition, divine ordinance sane.
toned by Revelation And, as if this were NIT
enough, they boldly insult the common sense of
mankind, by proclaiming that it is the best of all
institutions for maintaining free government in
purity and efficiency. Yes the sell.styled pro.
fessors OF that Democratic Republicanism which
is founded upon the natural equality OF rights.
and has the warrant OF Revelation in the COM
mand to do as they would be done by, boldly
urge their daily violation of these rights, of this
Injunction, as the cornerstone of government
which claims such rights Tor its foundation. And
while thus boldly preaching these doctrines, thew
denounce all attempts to retute them as viola.
ton of their constitutional rights, as an invasion
OF their domestic hearth, as iraught with insur-
rection, massacre to themselves, and dissolution
to this glorious coniederasy. Did the poison Of
false doctrines inject shareholders only it might
still find antdole in the purer principles Of
the free States. But the poison is doing Its dead
| ly work, in reconciling even the free States TO
the guilt of slavery. Northern politicians. born
and trained at 6resides where slavery was ever
regarded as criminal violation OF natural rights
a severe moral and political evil, gravely tel
their constituents that it is necessary 10 t,e
South; that the country can be inflicted bv
greater evils than slavery; that dissolution of the
Union, an evil still more formidable, will inevita-
bly, follow any attempt OF the Free States TO ar
rest its progress. When the PRINCIPLES of ma.
ton falling before corrupting influences.
when, through the seductions ofinterest, THROUGH
dread OF their responsibilities people renounce
the pure sentiments, the high aspirations which
once impelled and guided them, their institutions.
however excellent, are of short DURATION Free
dom, Gods gift to man as the instrument of de-
veloplng his noblest attributes, OF discharging his
highest duties, cannot animate corrupt hearts. or
guide perverted minds 1t has no fellowship
with selhshnesS; no congeniaIity with injustice,
Ii the first OF poets uttered eternal truth in saving
that,
Jove liked certain, that whatever day
Makes man slave, takes halt his worth awavn
SO is eternal truth involved In the declaration
| that, whoever robs another of his freedom. h;s
social individuality, throws away more than half
| OF his own worth. If without moral degradation
he
degradation. can he be an ensIayer. He cannot
| plumber, and be just He cannot rob. and do as
| he would be done by. He cannot close his ewes
to the injustice, the robbery, without moral ner
! version. Then, as this contest between RIGHT
and might is speedily coming, and as right.
'hough sure OIL ultimate triumph, may be tempo
| rarlly oVerpowered, the duty of all WIN ,vouIa
contend Tor right, is to consider this dancer or
! temporary defeat, and to spare no lust eforts for
an immediate, as we'll as a permanent victorv =
Ii the tree st ties are victors they will arrest tho
Progress'ahd prepare for the extinction of a bane.
iul institution, which has long been in conflict
wi'h uaelr interests and their rights and the
oaa.o 3'ates VIII hnally reach the only safe
ground, freedom, founded on universal ao,aI;ts,
OF rights. II the slave States prevail. their vic,
Tory VIII endure Tor ages they will blast large
| Poruoh ol ms continent with the plague of sIav
cry use 1t for ruling the Free States with =
rod Oh iron prepare Tor the extinction of slavery
| =" Oto"u' anu lol llc severance oil the Union into
hostile fragments, desolating each other with cjvS
II war The slave States will contend for the
extension OF slavery over new territory, az their
only, yet sure instrument of supremacy in Tho
Federal Government; and the Free States, if
true to themselves, to the country, to D osteritu
TO human rights will oppose this extension -
their only means of restraining a power which
mas been exercised against them with contnnalIv
augmen,lng severity, and which has never vet
heslated In sacrificing to its own objects nrssS
ent or prospective, their interests or their rpbts
-E1frdct from pamphlet addressed In tho
rings and Democrats Of the Free States
TAPERING Orr. Fanueil Hall was anvtbinr
put crowded last night although great efforts
had been made to scare up a mass meetino n
near Gen Leslie Coombs, OF Kentucky. and
other distinguished speakers" George Imnt
presided, and Myron awrence, ex-presdent -.
the Senate, led off with great attempt At smart
ness about Judge Allen and other retractorv
wings. Gen. Coombs disappointed the biah
Pec'ations which had been raised. His remarks
were rambling and disjointed; his anecdotes stale
| ana polntless; and his illusions to the democsa,
lc candidates mean and disingenuous. Rv H.