The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-09-19


can only suppress admiration of il by charging it
upon base motive. And what's your own course
noJc-YOu, partisan of Cass or Taylor, so shock
ed at Van Buren's subserviency in 1886 Ad-
vocating the election of man pledged by his
letters, or of one pledged by his position and char
acter, TO veto any bill for the protection OF free
dom in free territory! You stone Van Buern for
sins committed twelve years ago, though yoH
yourself now fall far below the well doing to
which he has since attained. You impute base
motives to him, but, in doing, what pure mo-
tves actuate you We have stated the extern
uating circumstances in his case-what circum-
stances extenuate your betrayal of liberty at this
late day? What is the Past to us? We are
actors in the Present, and the evil Of others in
the Past will not excuse us TOR not emulating
their good in the Present.
Let the Dead Past bury its Dead
Act-actin the Living Present.
Heart within and God overhead.
Mr. Van Buren, was subservient to the slave
power in 1886, you say-well, he is not, like Gen.
Cass, vassal of it, or like Gen. Taylor, its en-
bodiment in 1848. On the contrary, he is its open
direct antagonist. And was he ever known to
violate in office, principle he had avowed, or a
pledge made, while candidate ? Did his poliG-
cal friends ever have occasion to charge him with
treachery' You say, he committed himself 10
opposition to all anti slavery measures, as can
didate in 1886; did he not maintain perfect con-
sistency in that wrong policy, so long as he was
President? He is notC under new circumstances
with increased light, committed to the cause of
Freedom; what is there to doubt his fideli-
ty!
Where was Hale in the times that tried the
souls of anti slavery men Among their assail-
ants. Where was John Quincy Adams, from
1888 to l847 the antagonist OF the slave power,)
when negotiatcr or President? Did he not siren
uously insist upon the claims of slavery, not be-
cause he was friendly to human bondage, but from
a mistaken views Of the rights OF the south Did
this fact abate respect for his anti-savery et-
forts as a member of Congress?
Do you imagine that we, anti-slavery men,
brood over wrongs done to ourselves' That we
would revenge ourselves on those who have pur-
sued mistaken policy in relation to our cause
We bear no malice, we cling to no prejudice
What man liveh and sinneth not? Who needs
not the forgiveness OF the Most High for offences
committed at some period Of his life, in some
form or other, against justice or humanity Our
business is with present scenes, present duties,
present actors. What great work is to be done
nooc-what agent is best qualified for it, and will,
In good faith, undertake it, nOt0? These are the
questions that concerns us.
Mr. Van Buren, is unimpeachable in private
life; and in public, when committed, he keeps
faith with friends and foes. He is statesman of
great experience, eminent ability, and clothed
with the dignity and the whole power OF his posi-
ton, he has pledged to the establishment of the
just and Christian policy of No Extension of Sla-
very. He, alone, of all the principal candidates
for the Presidency, represents the cause of Free
dom, Free Labor and Free Soil. We shall trust
him. Principle, honor, interest, combine to make
him trustworthy. No true Democrat no true
Wing, can object to him, till their present can
didates as well qualified as openly and honorably
committed to Freedom, as he is. No true AM
erican, who believes in his heart that the well
being and honor of the Uaion depend upon the
restriction Of slavery and overthrow of the slave
power, ought to refuse him his supports and
Christian men must regard with special favor the
claims of him, as a candidate for the Presidency
OF this Christian Nation, who stands pledged agains
the establishment, in new, vast empire, OF re-
lation repugnant to the spirit and greahylaw of
their divine faith. g3
OF Mr. Adans e have little more room to speak.
He is mon Of purity of private character, politi
cal integrity, distinguished ability, and eminent
devotion to the cause OF human rights-inherit-
ing the zeal for right the energy and strong re-
solution which characterized his father and grand
father those illustrious representatives of the
spirit of I776. We see nothing incongruous in
the conjunction OF such names as VAN buren,
and ADAMS. To one familiar with the politl-
cal history of the country, the alliance OF the two
names, hitherto representing anagonistic forces
in politics, is full of meaning. 1t shows8 that
crisis has come, in which minor questions are to
be merged, old animosities forgotten, in the com.
mon sentiment of devotion to freedom and oppose
ton to slavery. 1t is a symbol of the new ele-
ment which has entered into the political world,
and is destined to recognize it.