The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-09-17

onlng them, and sometimes selling them into
slavery
It insulted and exiled from Charleston and New
Orleans, the honored representatives OF Massa
chusetts, who were sent TO those places in order
to throw the shield of the Constitution over her
colored citizens
1t has, by the pen of Mr.. Calhoun, as Secreta-
ry OF State, in formal dispatches, made the
Republic stand before the nations Of the earth as
the vindicator ct slavery
1t has put forth the hideouseffrontery that
slavery can go TO all newly acquired territories,
and have the protection OF the national flag.
Such are some OF the usurpahons and aggres
sions of the slave power By such steps the
+ ederal Government has been perverted from tie
original purpo es, its character changed, and its
powers subjected to slavery. 1t is pititul TO see
Freedom suffer at any time from any hands. 1t
is doubly pitiiul whenshe suffers from Govern
ment, whose earliest energies were Inspired by
her breath, and who learned by her teachings to
be strong.
So the struck eagle stretched upon the plain,
No more through 70 Ing clouds to soar ag ain
viewed his own leather on the fatal dart
And winged The shaft that quivered in his heart.
Keen were his pangs, but keeuer Tar 10 feel
lie nuTSed the pnIou which mp elled the steel
While the same plumage that had warmed his nest
Dsdhk the last life drop OF his bleeding breast
That we may fully estimate the enormity OF
evils OF slavery, where it il allow ed to exist
And here language is inadequate to portray the
inhnite sum Of wretchedness, of degradation OF
Unjust ce, which are egalized by this unholy re-
allon. There is no offence against religion,
against morals, against humanity, vi ich may not
stalk, in the license of this institution, ssunwhipt
OF justice" For the husband and wife there is
no marriage. For the mother there is no assur.
ance, that her infant child will not be torn from
hnr hnna N III -.
there is nothing which they can call their IN.
But the bondman is not the only sufferer. He
does not sit alone in his degradation. By his
side is his master, who is compelled, in the de.
basing influences on his own soul, TO share the
degradation to which he doons his fellow man.
"He must be a prodigy says Jefferson, swho
can retain his manners and morals unde PRAYED by
such circumstances" And this is not ALL The
whole social fabric dsorg anized; labor loses its
dignity; industry sickens; education finds no
schools; religion finds no churches, and the whole
land OF slavery is impoverished.
Shall Slavery be Extended
And now at last the slave power threatens to
carry slavery TO the vast regions of New Mckee
and California, existing territories of the United
States, already pu ged of this evil by the express
legislation OF the recent Mexican government
tbs the immediate urgency OF this question, that
mas contributed to arouse the country to the sue
/ undue influence over the Federal Government.
This is without doubt the most pressing form in
4 which the Great Issue can be presented Nor
can it be exaggerated. These territories, ex.
Guiding Oregon, embrace upwards of thirteen
million square miles. The immensity OF this
tract may be partially comprehended, when we
consider that Massachusetts contains only 1900
miles, all New England only 1920, aud all the
original thirteen States, which declared Inde-
nfalx At
; ton Is presented, whether the Federal Govern.
ment shall carry TO this imperial egion the curse
OF slavery, with its monstrous brood OF ignorance
poverty. and degradation, or whether il shall
Gerry Freedom and its attendant train of bless.
ings:
Direct Prohibition " Congress necessary to preren
E1tensioa Of Starery. g
An attempt has been made to divert attention
from this question, by denying the necessity Of
Legislation by Congress to prevent the extension
OF slavery to California, on the ground that the
climate and physical condition of II e territory
furnish natural obstacles to its existence there
This is weak device of the enemy. 1t is we'll
known that slavery did exist there for many
years, until excluded by law,--that California
lies in the same range OF latitude as the slave
States OF the Union, and it may be added also al
the Barbary States of Atrica,-that the minera
wealth OF California creates demand for slave
labor, which would overcome any physical oh
stacles 10 its Introduction that slavery has ex
listed in every country from which it was not ex.
Guided by the laws or religion of the people,
and still further, it is an undeniable iaci, tina
slaves have already been taken into California
and publicly sold there at enormous prices, and
i thousands now on their way thither from the
Southern States and from South America In
support OF this last statement numerous authori
1 ties might be adduced. Ills stated that mem
! Der OF Congress from Tennessee has recently de.
clafed, that within his own know ledge, there
would be taken to California, during the summer
just passed, II en- ten 10 twelve thousands slaves
And another person states, from reliable evidence
that whole families are moving with their slaves
! from Tennessee, Arkansas, and Missouri. Mr.
| Rowe, under date OF May IL, at Independence
Mo on his way to the Pacific, writes to the pa.
per, Of which he was recently the editor, the
Belfast Journal, Maine, al have seen as many
as dozen teams going along with their families
OF slaves" And Mr.. Boggs, once Governor Of
Missouri, now resident OF California. is quoted
| as writing to a friend at home as follows: all
your sonslwit bring out two or three negroes,
VINO can cook and attend at hotel, your bro her
WIN pay cash for them at good profit, and take
Il as eat favor" Az KS 4f
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