The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-11-18
THE CONTEST is BUT JUST BEGUN!

Our party was organized for purposes which are
not yet accomplished; which it will take long
time fully to accomplish But our tirSt duty is
plainly before US; it is to preUent Slavery from
being ertended into the netO territories. Those
territories are not yet organized They must be
organized. new session of Congress approach.
es; it is whiting a month of US. There is eminent
danger that before it loses,-before the 4th of
March arrives, a compromise OF some sort Will
be decided against Freedom and the North.
Who has forgotten the history of the passage
of the resolutions for the. annexation OF Texas
The Tyler treaty had previously been rejected
by large majority. The Presidential election
came on; annexation was made party question;
Polk was chose; he went to his hotel in Washing
ton; he was the dispenser OF patronage, and be-
fore the session closed, he had bought up enough
men to carry the question. Are we not now in
very similar condition? At the last session, "a Com
promise Bill, so called, was carried through the
Senate; it was defeated in the House, notorious
ly because it was believed that its passage would
injure Taylor's prospects Taylor is elected land
that danger is over. Taylor is Southern man,
a stakeholder, and friend of slavery if we may
rely upon human testimony; he came in on what
may be called Compromise ground, Or no par
ticular ground at all, and Compromise Bill
which would satisfy two such opposite men
Senator Phelps and John C. Calhoun, might well
be supposed satisfactory to the man who has been
chosen on contradictory grounds in the North and
South. Senator Clayton, the author OF the Com
promise Bill, is the leader OF the Taylor men in
Congress, il any man may be considered their
leader; he has made speech, laying out the poll
cy OF the party, in which he disclams connection
with the Wig party. says the new party is not the
Wing party, butt the "Taylor Republican pnrtv."
This designation is adopted by the Philadelphia
North American and the New York Courier and
Enquirer, two of the leading Taylor papers IN the
Union, and the latter pro-slayery paper up TO
the hub. Coming into power under such aus
pices, is it not likely that Senator Clayton and
his friends, will desire TO get rid of the embarrass.
ing slavery question before the new Administra.
ton, takes the reins OF power Will not a large
portion, or majority of the Wing members OF
the House be persuaded by promises of office:
by personal solicitation; by exaggerated stories
OF the danger of the dissolution OF the Union and
the dissolution Of their party; by the feeling
that "good men" like Senator Phelps will not
lead them astraY, and by other appliances to for
sake freedom and 60 for Clayton's Compromise or
some other /?
We do not think that we exaggerate the dan.
ger. If the Taylor men and newspapers are sin.
cere in their opposition to Slavery
they really desire las they should) to make up
for what they must knOtc was at least partial
| detection from duty, (voung for man not COM
perseverlng effort, now that there is no danger of
being cursed by CaSS-we call upon them to
| speak out and to ACT against any schemes akin
| TO that OF Clayton. The democrats we trust will
not be idle, as they have been heretofore Thev
are no longer bound to the South. The South has
deserted them. To be sure, they hold on to their
strongest States, Virginia, Alabama, and Arkan.
sas' but they haze t0st ground there, and in
Georgia and Louisiana, which they carried for
Polk, they have been defeated, while the s,ultra,
Slave State, Florida, has gone against them
south Carolina, even, where opposition to Dem.
ocracy never before showed its head, has given
thirty legislative votes against Cass. The Dem.
ocfauc party cannot expect any help from the
South That section will get along very well
under taylor, and will support his administration
The Democracy must look to the North. They
never ought to have looked to any other
section, for real Democracy has no existence at
the South; it can have none where the lahoring
population is doomed to slavery. The free States
oil the giant W est, have without execution given
ther votes Tor the Democratic candidates-a verv
significant fact toC the party which is now de.
feated. N
We trust that the Democrats have better in.
ducements to oppose the extension of slavery
than these we have mentioned. At any rate
they must henceforth be emancipdted from thai
VaSsSiage 10 the South which has disgraced them.
- S"At N'oA thO A(CuloCFdlS tnen, as well as nm.
on the Taylor men, to resist the schemes Of the
slave power to extend slavery over the new Ter.
rltorles which the fortune Of war has given to us.
10 our Free Soil friends, we need saw hut N.
lie. They are true as steel. Never did a MARTY
show such "genuire, firm, Teutonic PLUCK" as
the glorious Free Soil voters have done. Thew
are the men for arenewed and perseyerng action.
Ihey Will never despair. The thrty-eight thou.
sand men who discarded old prejudices. and soci.
al, even family ties, to vote Tor Martin Van Buren
and against George N. Briggs, can be depended
upon in any day of trial.
Then let us keep agitating this question. LET
Congress understand that there can he No
COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY. The Tor.
rltorles must be free The ordinance of Thomas
Sener on, revived by gallant David Wilmot. must
Oe extended ouer them, as it was over Oregon.
Nothing less than this will satisfy the free peo-
pie OF the North. The Taylor men of the North
are bound, by their pledges, given ever day dur.
ing the campaign, to use all their efforts 10 nro.
cure the passage OF the Wilmot Proviso. and ~
nave H. presented for the signature of thei, anti.
veto President. We shall be gland 10 ace them
at work, and we shall be glad to find Tavor sion.
ing the bill. We have no icea that he will do,
Dut don't let him have any thing else to sion
freedom Tor the Territories that must he ,ba
raIyng cry until victory is won.
Boston Republican.
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