The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-11-26
CONGRESS.
CHARACTER OF LEADING STATESMEN.

CHARACTER OF LEADING STATESMEN.
The first session OF the thirty first Congress will
commence on Monday, December Sd. The Sen
ate is composed in part OF the leading statesmen
of our country-ol those whose names at the dis
lance OF halfa century will alone be remembered
They are the men who are 10 remain the histori
cal characters OF our period, when the whole race
of hungry parasites who buster and decay around
them shall be forgotten. They are the men, too
by whom our period is to be judged, by the i'm
partial eve of the future chronicer. 1t would
not be useless or Improbable to consider what
that judgement would be, founded upon such
basis. A tier the lapse Of hundred years,o con.
tinuous light, knowledge, progress and ameliOra-
ton, what will be thought oil the period wherein
John c. Calhoun, the apostle and propagandist OF
slavery, is raised TO all but the highest office In
the gift OF the people !--wherein Henry Clay the
Compromiser,-w willing, for the sake of momen
tary peace, to sacrifice the ilalienable rights oil
smillions of human beings-receives for long
period of years the PROSTATE homage OF hall the
nation '-wherein the wheeling and dust licking
Cass, the trading demagogue, is raised upon the
shoulders OF the people TO within point of the
Presidency ?-and wherein Daniel Webster, who
degrades his mighty powers to the support OF
nomination which he has himself declared "not fit
TO be made, sregarded IS the most consistent and
respectable statesman OF his time and country /!
Inc men 10 WDOm we nave releffeu, Win OtnerS
of brilliant qualities and aspiring ambition, are
shortly 10 meet in council upon questions vast as
the wide continent from to sea, and important
as the destiny and fate OF millions oil our race.
III we duly weigh these facts shall be oppres
sed With the goomiest spprehensons Our states
men are honored in proportion they stoop ig-
ANONYMOUSLY to the work Of forging letters and
riyeiting chains for the limbs OF their fellow be
ings. Calhoun, Clay and Benton deal in the
''images OF God" as marketable commodities. Cass
barters the principle which secured him the res.
pect and confidence of the friends Of liberty for
the uncertain chance ofihe Presidency;and Web
ster-whose great intellect is far better guide
than his will-iollows at the tail c. rabble pro-
cession in honor of nomination 'snot fit to be
made" These are the leading and commanding
spirits OF an assembly which holds the character
and fate OF our country in its grasp We use the
word country designedly, for the reflective in.
huence of slavery-If ii shall be further extend
ed TO California and New Mexico must be felt
in terrible visitations the whole land Ma
tons are not out of the reach ofjustIce. Slavery
is crime that cannot escape punishment. Or
the page OF history is already inscribed its uonu
menis aud Its retributions. Greece had her slave.
and the Turk now has possession of the land o
Leonidas and Socrates. Rome had her slaves
and the monuments OF her glory have crumbet
to dust. The crimes OF this nation backen
ing in the face OF Heaven, and it would seem tina
nothing but the loud blast of judgement coul
awaken US to sense OF our danger. We war
men to beware OF the next Congress. The caus
OF liberty is to be betrayed .-Rorbttry GGz.