The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-09-11

has oiven to the liberties Of America, breathing
space little anticipated by the most sahgu' '"i 1e
short months ago. Contrary 10 every leaso"@ @
calculation upon the basis OF the past IN Tue race
of the most passionate remonstrances' anu ~ 'no
inter- dismav of the domneerng power 'hat as
snal Locked for nothing but to have its own easy
wav: Bill giving territorial government 10
0reron with an excIusion of slavery forever from
;te limits has been carried through both branch
es of the National Congress ana received the
Presidents reluctant sanction. Selhsh paruzans
in the high places of power found they could not
stand against such uprising OF the long-abused
people. Honest men were emooloeneo ana en-
couraged to do grateful duty.
Let the blow be followed up, and all will soon
be WE'LL For disgrace and threatened servitude,
we shall have honor, prosperity, and safety. But
let the cause of freedom now suffer defeat, the
ouailing tyrants will take heart again, and rally
afresh their now disorganized alliance. Califor-
MIA and New Mexico, as yet not disposed of,
present the really practical question. The man.
ner of disposing of them, whether for the revival
of freedom, or its overthrow, is to come before
Congress presently after the approaching elec-
tons. Those elections will probably determine
the great issue. The election of Mr.. Polk was
pleaded as the verdict of the people in favor of
the annexation of Texas. So the election OF
General Taylor or OF General Cass will be plead
ed the verdict of the people in favor OF the es
Enlistment of slavery in the provinces acquired
from Mexico. The decision which has recently
been had respecting Oregon determines nothing
as to that which is to be had respecting New
Mexico and California. That determination the
ireemen OF the county will presently themselves
give, at the polls So, at least, politicians will
understand, or pretend TO understand them, and
will shape their own course accordingly. And
let slavery be introduced into those regonsto all
human ken, the yoke of the slave despotism is
fixed upon you and your posterty. With the
formation of new States, supporters of the Slave
Power, in overwhelming numbers, will be pres
emily taking their places in the National Senate
and House OF Representatives, and your chance
will be irrecoverably gone, for any peaceful de-
liverance from the tyranny which has already so
fully made known its policy, its ambition, its re-
sources, and its vigor.
Therefore it Is, fellow citizens, that we are so
deeply concerned not to suffer this opportunity
for escape to pass by. The exSency OF the times
is extreme. Let the Slave Power strike sue
cessfulIy the single further blow it now medita-
tes and the future for the liberties of the nation
seems enveloped III the blackness almost OF des-
pair. One OF the pretences OF those who would
luI you into repose in this crisis of your coun-
try's fate is that by Constitutional resistance to
the further encroachments of the Slavery usur-
patton, you will be loosing the bonds of the Fed
eral Union. Nothing can be more opposite to the
IL
from the continuance of those assaults upon your
rights which now is the time to arrest, and winch,
if not arrested now will at the time be made
before long ntolerabIe and be entrenched beyond
the reach OF an ordinary redress. We who love
at once Freedom and that which was instituted
to protect it, are bound to arouse ourselves now
and renew the holy alliance between them, lest
the Freedom which can never be utterly surren.
dered VIII lie Pilgrim blood circulates in our veins,
should have by and by to be recovered at the sac
rifce even of the Union ITSELF
Some of the statesmen of the South, when bold
word has occasionally been uttered for your rights
have thought to silence it by some flourish a.
bout danger to the Union OF the States, but the
threat is empty and idle that it has to be re-
buked and ridiculed in the halls of the National
Congress by their country You will hear such
threats as long as they are seen to unnerve and
deter you from manly assertion of your rights.
You will hear there no longer, when it is seen
that you understand and despise them. Even if it
were in any point OF view for the interest safety
the present holding political leaders in the
Southern country to plot for a dissolution of the
Confederacy, 1t is not for them TO say whether the
people of that country shall undertake the exc
cution Of such scheme. They greatly miscal-
cuIate their power where they propose it. Of
the voters in the Southern States themselves,
large majority are non shareholders, men not on
.
but far more wronged and aggrieved by that in
stitution than even the free men of the North
In the state to which slavery reduces them, they
do not understand their rights, nor feel their pow
er. They follow their leaders from old habit, and
act much from the prejudices which are instlled
into their minds and which their destitution OF the
means of knowledge does not allow them to es-
cape But as body, they know enough to love
the Union and a serious proposal to disturb it
would 60 far to open their eyes. When their
leaders shall be so rash to tell them in earnest
that for the elevation Of the Slave Power they
must threaten and prepare TO dissolve the Union,
the leaders will soon be answered that they care
for the Union most, and that If the two are to
come in conflict it is the Slave Power that must
abate its claims
Fellow Citizens, the great movement now in
progress for Freedom, Justice, and the Constitu-
ton is any thing but the formation OF a sectional
party, as 1t is one of the devices OF the enemy to
represent it. In the recovery Of the violated
rights which 1t aims tore.estabish and secure the
great majority of the treemen OF the South, the
freemen who holds no slaves, have the same IN.
terest as the free citizens OF the free States They
have far more than an equal interest The Slave
Poyser, much cause ofjust complaint as we have
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