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

tenuon. LII taey come second time, they are
scourged. II third, they are sold into perpet-
ual slavery. No friendly nations treat each 9TH
er thus. No hostile nation ventures to offer such
intolerable indignity and wrong, till it is all rea
dy for the chances of war.
The persons subj ected to such abuse are mi
norty OF our numbers, as to color. But the Con-
stituton and laws of our Commonwealth, recog-
nzing them as our equal fellow citizens, idenG
~ our rights and safety with theirs,-make our
duty, and honor, and their protection, a common
cause; and the Federal Constitution, our COM
pact with the other States, guarantees to this
class OF our citizens, equally to the rest call
privileges and immunities OF citizens in The sew
eral States" They vote with us IN the choice
OF our rulers, State and National They pay
their share with US in the expenses of the gov
eminent. Not one OF us has more complete
right than they to protection by the public arm.
But they 60 peacably where they have perfect
right to go and come among their fellow Amer
lean freemen, and brutal violence drags them
to prison, to the whipping post and the auction
sale.
We undertake to draw over them the shield of
law. We commission grave and prudent citi-
zen, man among the highest in our confidence
and regard, to go and claim for them that protec-
ton before the supreme tribunal of the uation,
which 1t could not refuse to extend. But his
lalrer complexion proves to be no protection to
him. He is expelled with indgnity and out
rage. A Southern State drives out from her
borders Massachusetts citizen who is there TO
plead in national court OF justice for the rights
OF Massachusetts citizens. People of Massachu
setts Men OF English, of Puritan blood Kin
dred OF the hearts that have beat with New Eng
land manhood through seven generations what
feelings possess you when you think OF such
wrongs Are they fit to be borne Is it fit that
you should consent to, and pamper, and lawn
upon the arrogance that dares to inhict them?
1t would be long task to point out how more
| and more OF late years, as the Slave Power has
acquired confidence and skill by series of sue
cessful experiments, it has dictated the general
| policy and legislation of the country how it has
decreed war and peace, acquired and yielded ter
rltory, lavlshed nothern money and repudiated
Northern debts, spurned petitions, extinguished
Indian titles by the violation of Indian treaties
and arranged TO its satisfaction matters of cur
rency, revenue and finance. Four or FIVE years
ago, it found itself grown strong enough for an
attempt, bold in the highest degree, and ofdoubt.
ful issue, but promising, if successful, to give it
an absolute preponderance in the politics of the
nation, and lay all other interests at IFS feet. Mr.
Tyler and his councillors resolved on the incor-
poration into the Union of the recently revolu-
donized State OF Texas, which, by repeal of the
system that had existed in it while part OF Mex
leo, allowed the existence of Slavery, and which
States, to introduce numerous representatives OF
slavery into the two houses OF the American
Congress.
The wind was sown, and the whirlwind is now
upon us. The official correspondence of Mr. Up
shur and MIR. Calhoun, successive Secretaries of
State, does not disguise the object Of certifying
slavery by the admission of Texas into the I'M
ion. Appropriately to its purpose and character,
the measure was carried through by means, the
memory OF which will cause patriots cheek to
crimson to the end OF time.
An early consequence appeared in the war
with Mexico. In the prospect which was open
ing OF the extension of slave soil even far beyond
the bounds OF the newly acquired country, the
angry remonstrances and hostile acts of that pow
er, in resentment of what she denounced as vi
oent partition of her territory were easily inter-
preted not only as of war, but as war itself:
and conflict having taken place on tire disputed
ground, was forthwith declared by the American
Congress to exist 'sby the act of Mexico" In
its progress, our arms have overrun the best part
OF the territory OF that republic We have taken
her capital and several of her provincial cities.-
We have ravished, impoverished, miserably dis.
tressed, and finally struck her to our feet
We have done it at some cost. Not less than
hfteen thousand of our people have persisted IN
the war, while the yet larger number of those
VINO have returned with manned bodies and shat
tered health is not to be reckOned.-The money
already paid, and hereafter to be paid for it. can
not be rated at less than two hundred millions of
dollars. In 1912, tax in Massachusetts OF seven.
ty-lve thousand dollars for single wear. was
thought by numbers to be good cause for a change
In the administration fthe Commonwealth. But
tax OF seventy-fve thousand dollars year for
two hundred years would not pay-principIe and
lnterest-the share for which Massachusetts must
be assessed OF the cost oil the Mexican War.
The bloody work is over, and by the treaty. Of
peace we have paid to Mexico fifteen millions of
dollars, and she has surrendered to us one third
oil hei territory,a country sufficient from which to
carve out hundred States as large as our own.
Every step for the purposes of slave despotsm has
been taken, except only the last 1t now claims
that territory as subject to its occupation and
sway, and designs and expects % succeed in max
ing good the claim by hike appliances to what it
hasprosrered by heretofore. But the local laws.
which remain in force till the conaueror changes
them, forbid the introduction of slavery, and will
not bear its presence. In the newly-acqulred
provinces, 1t must be introduced and established
BY the authority OF the United States, or il can.
notex La this new field OF conflict with that
dlabolcal power, freedom occupies ground OF
peculiar advantage. In the South western terri