The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-10-23
ACCEPTANCE OF ROBERT EMMETT.
NEW Yong. Oct. l. 1913.

NEW TURK OCl L, 1910.
GENTLEMEN: l acknowledge the receipt of
your letter informing me Of my selection by the
Convention of the Free Democracy OF this State,
as one of their candidates for the Office of State
Elector OF President and Vice President of the
United States. l accept the nomination with un-
fegned pleasure, and am Justly proud OF the good
opinion of so respectable aid distinguish body
OF my fellow citizens, as that from " y it
emanates.
The question whether the introduction OF
cry into our newly acquired territories sh.
permitted, presents political issue of greaH
moment than any other which has arisen since
the formation of our Government. In it aIe es-
sentially involved the character OF our civil insti-
buttons in the estimation of the world the future
prosperity of our country, and the happiness OF
the vast number OF individuals on whom they are
destined to operate, and whose welfare, as well
that of the present generation, they are intend
ed to secure In the contemplation of such inter-
ests, differences of opinion in respect to particular
candidates, and in respect to the ordinary subjects
OF party controversy sink into insignihcance To
the fate of such an issue no American citizen can
be Indifferent Still less can one who, like my
self, is bound by ties OF association, kindred and
common nativity, 10 large portion oil the emf
grants who are pouring into our country, and who
must increase in numbers every year, endeavor-
ing to seek the genial climate and fertile soil
of our unsettled territories an asylum from the
oppression and wan: which expel them from their
native shores. The emigrant whether driven
by tyranny from the land OF his fathers or attract
ed by admiration OF our political system, 10 estab-
lish his home among US, may rigbtuly look not
only Tor greater pecunary recompense, but for
that increased respect and consideration in socle-
ty which are among the choicest rewards OF hon
est industry in a community of Freemen These
just expectations he can never realize where La.
Dor is badge of DEGRADATION
The inevitable effect of Slavery, IN rendering
labor disreputable in the opinion of the commu-
mites where it is mainly performed by an inferi-
or and enslaved class, and in thus lowering in the
social scale the free white laborer who shares the
tolls OF that degraded class, has been conclusive
lv shown by all experience. 1t is moreover an
invariabe incident OF domestic servitude that the
soil is held in large masses by few great pro-
prietors, who own, also, as property, the human
beings by which it is titled. The caamitous
condition OF the Irish People may be justly as
cribed far more to the monopoly OF her soil by a
few capitalists than to the other expressions of the
British Government. And yet it is monopoly
in many respects worse, that are asked vol
UNFAIRLY to create in region, sixteen times as
large all ireland, and which seems to form al.
ost the sole refuge which Providence has left
, her unhappy exiles. For my part, until | forget
the history OF my native country, written in the
suHerings OF her people, can never contribute
by my vote or by any act Of mine, the infection
oil kindredcurse upon any portion of the land of
our adoption; still lie upon our vast Western
Territory, which is capable of containing pop
ulation OF an hundred millions, and in which the
children of the emigrant and the native. born cit
liens are to mingle and TO share the blessings
which in the decision of this great question we
secure to them, or the degradation and wrong
which we shall upon them.
Looking, therefore, to those great cons;dera-
tons, to the permanent interests of the Republic
and the moral and social welfare of those who
are designed by Providence to become the own
ers and occupants OF its soil, | have enrolled nv
self under the banner of Free Soil for Free Men:
and shall, if elected to the trust for which have
been nominated, take great pleasure in casting
my vote for Martin Van Buren, and Charles
Francis Adams, for President and Vice President
of the United States.
| am, gentlemen with great respect
Yours &c ROBERT EMMETT
To Messrs E. G, Dibble. R. p. Wisner, II b. Stanton.
Ii. W. Sage, G. A. Grant, Committee, &c.
AN INCIDENT OF THE REVOLUTION.