The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-09-27
FREEDOM CLUB.
TO WHAT END is THE STRIFE FOR THE
PRESIDENCY

There is but one answer 10 this question, namely
Freedom Slavery Ii will be long strife for one or
the other according 1t is settled by the vote of the
people. The election of either Cass Taylor will
place Slavery in the ascendant. while that of Van Bu
will settle the question in favor of Fleedom Men
mag affect 10 sneer political stockholders and sereotyp
ed parizans may scout camor dicule deceive at
an assertion like this while its truth is as papahe as the
broad noon day Not that Mr. Van Buren,, alone,
of all men, was the instrument by which such re sui,
could have been effected; but that there many
who might have been selected the representative Of
the principles 10 be carried out who have been as
suitable as he. Some of them, give force and effect
the object Of those who had united in the cause of
limiting the further inrodds of Slavery. But, as Mr..
Van Buren, was the man whom the Convention unit
ed, why should The friends of the why should
any man, unless he desires heartily to defeat the
end in view, hesitate, find fault or vaciate Adj
nit that, ten years SINCE Mr. Van Bulen "truckled
the South, '-admIt that, while at the white house. he
committed the enormes and arstocrac sin of eating
with "god spoon" which Gov Lincoln afterwards told
the people he bad purchased for him. and that it was no
better than others had used in the same dish before him
admit even that Prince OF Bughears, the "casting vote"
on the engTossment Of bill, which, by every sanction
Of parliamentary proceeding he, as presiding officer
OF the Senate, was bound 10 do he did admit all
this to the fullest extent and then add this amount one
hundred per cent for contingencies, and compare it with
single act of Wing 'trucklng" in l648-weigh it
with the reachery Of Northern leading Wing, who for
small mess of Taylor pottage had peoged himself to
aSouhern SaveholdeI-to barter away The brthrght of
northern Freemen Think of this, We who are careful
to remember the misdeeds Of Martin Van Buren,. Or
if the beam still obstruc The vision go down 10 the city
of publication and Witness in the person of the great
Expounder of the Constitution, the trucking" of the
legal profession of Massachusetts 10 the ciroLrv which
prepared the coat Of tar and feathers for one whom
sou delight 10 honor SAY, this Illuminating act an
acknowledgement your part, that Constitutional law
was better understood in South Carolina than in Massa>
chusets that you approved of its carrying out when
your agent was driven from the State by mob vioencel
Has Martin Van Buren, descended any lower than this
in the scale Of "Souihern lruckling"f No. Away then
with such suberuge. Is such an objection unworthy
of those who have for years been aborng for the mi.
taon of Slavery and its manifest wrongs and injustice
Are such not sufficiently goaded and tired Of its evils
that when so favorable time the present arrives
when ever, there any thing 10 be accomplished for
the benefit of those who act those of generations
who follow u.s. not to feel il duty as well as
high privilege to glue practical efotO ei prin.
cipleS by their Uote.
Men Of Massachusetts have we not exhausted the
subject of 'Resoves"-Fcr years, in all your conyen-
TONS by your Legislature, over and again, you
have resolved the solemn forms, against slavery
and its evils that, by every constitutional you
would nterpose against its expressions Shall we from
fear that Shareholders their Northern apoogists,
to charge US with following one whom they denominale
as trucker the South, if he guilty of such
a charge, is the only Of host Of "Trucklers
who has the honesty and the courage declare that he
will luckle longer-shall prove recrean 10 our
trust by withholding our support from Van Buren, and
Adams. Remember Texas.
In IA ii was Polk & Dallas, but there were those who
said then, many say now my party, my party-"Mr
Polk is the cand date, but Mr. Polk don't want Texas
neverheess Texas come, and then was argued very
naturally that in voting for Polk the people meant Tex
also, because he pledged for the measure. Now
the issue is Freedom Slavery, and, you sow, so
also shall you reap. The people, by their rOtes, will
settle il for all time whether the territories Of California
and New Mexico shall be forever cursed by slavery or
whether Freedom shall continue where God has estab.
llshed it, 10 bless the nations 81.
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