The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-02-10

does not hurt by keeping, and we commend 1t to
the notice OF our readers.
THE SOUTHERN DEMONSTRATION :
SLAVERY AND THE UNION.
sThe stars in their courses fought against Sse-
ra, when it was dscreed that he should tall and
perish. 1t is so now-so always. Whatever is
doomed hastens to destruction the efforts OF friends
and foes alike conducting to that end. He who
cannot now perceive the handwriting on the wall
with regard to Human Slavery in the United
States must be smitten with moral blindness
Never before did champion and adversary more
clearly though unconsciousy cowork to secure
the same result. The last grand struggle is evil
IDENTIFY and rapidly approaching Its advent will
be heraded by the transformation OF timid, time
serving, unprincipled men throughout the Free
States into free spoken and immovable contem-
ners of the ensavement OF one man TO the use
and profit of another. The moral nature OF Slav-
ery will come to hold the first instead OF the last
place in popular gard; leaving the constitutions
al obligations undertaken in behalf OF the Free
States to follow alter. Thinking, conscientious
men will first inquire and determine what is their
duty to God and Humanity; next, what is re-
qured of them by the South and the Consttu-
ton. Such is the natural order; it will soon be
the actual.
The proceedings of the several caucuses held
with closed doors by the Members of Congress
from the slave States have at length been made
public. We prefer TO know the worst and so
thank the majority for adopting Mr.. Calhoun's
manifesto. Nothing was ever better adapted to
the great work oil arousing and fixing the North
The address is labored recital of Southern
grievances, which, closely scrutinized, resolve
themselves mainly into two, viz: l. The North
is not as good hunting ground for runaway slaves
as it used to be; and 2. The North is determined
mt IN cuf In he N Ear
ritories recently added to the Union. Both these
allegations are essentially true What then?
The Shareholders OF the South have a cOnsttu-
tional right to reclaim their 'fugitives from labor
throughout the Free States. They have right
to take them wherever they may find them-very
few deny that-but have they any right to my
services or yours TO aid in their recapture If
any mans time may be impressed for such SER
vice to-day, it may he for three ourths OF the
time. II we rightly apprehend the force OF the
Supreme Courts decision in Prigg Us. Pennsyl-
vania, the STAKEHOLDER has perfect legal right TO
take his slave wherever he may be found within
the territory of the United States. This cannot
lawfully be resisted. But hunting, tying, and
carrying off fugitive slaves is the Shareholders
business-if he wants help let him pay for it,
and obtain such as pay will bring. The slave
shall be delivered up, on proper proof that he is
slave; but this delivery is legal not popular
duty. The sheriff and his posse properly act Cd.
| ly upon evidence; not even officer can right
| fully arrest man some other mans property
| without giving some evidence that such is the
| fact. Thus tugitives often escape while freemen
! have repeatedly been carried off and sold for
eia~es Fifty able addresses will not arrest the
strong tendency throughout the Free States TO
have less and less to do with the return of hu-
man beings into bondage. We really can fore
see no help for this-none, surely, in caucuses
| and addresses from the saveholding Members
Then as to the other monster grievance. The
Free States-shamed into manhood BY the Aboi-
itionists of various species-wil not permit the
extension OF Slavery. The vast regions which
came to US Free must remain so. There is no
reasonable ground for expecting re cession from
this resolve. On the contrary each day is NOR
ally sure to strengthen the popular hostility to
Slavery Extension. What is TO be done about
it:
Mr. Calhoun utterly fails, in our judgment, to
show any constitutional right of the shareholders
| to remove their human cattle as cattle to New
Mexico and California, there to labor and increase
tor the masters profit He talks strongly about
| equality, by which he means not the equality OF
men and their rights, but the equal right to do
justice and injustice, which we cannot admit. In
sustaining his position, he resorts to assertions
which the truth does not warrant. 1t is not true
that Southern men and shareholders are "dstran.
chlsed OF privilege" in respect to the new ter
riories, which is possessed by all others, citi-
zens and foreigners, without discrimination as to
character, profession COLOR 1t is not so, Mr.
Calhoun! Let Russian noble migrate thither
with his serts, and the law we stand for would
say to him as to you "You are welcome here,
Sir $50 are your people but the relation form
erly existing between you OF bondmen and lord
cannot here be recognized and enforced by law.
So long as it is voluntarily maintained by mutual
consent, it will not be interiered with but it
cannot and will not be upheld by legal force''-
Just SO the law will say to ADD Kader and his
assortment OF wives, and to any other Turk or
Arab who chooses to carry the domestic insttu-
ton of Polygamy into our Pacific realm. He
would be welcomed theresa would his women
if they outraged no dictate of decency or pro-
priety; but we not bound to naturalize and
legalize all manner of oppression and immortality
because the persons who practiced these else
where have undsputed right to migrate to
California and New Mexico. MIR. Calhoun de.
ceives himself by his mastery of equivocal terms,
but he cannot deceive the People OF the Free
States.
But the South did her part toward the acouisl.
ton of these territories. So she dd-and rather
more. She took the lead in the original theft ot
Texas from Mexico. She took the lead in the
Annexation swindle, driving the reluctant North
into it through her control of the machinery of
that stupendous fraud entitled the Democratic
marty. But for that ma binary not 80