The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-03-02

IT they did not settle it in our favor.
| We cannot depict the value of this ordinance in
coors half so strong those in which they have been
painted by an lllustrous Senator of your number
! mat instrument was drawn by Nathan Dane than
as now, citizen Of Massachusetts Ii fixed forever
the character, of the population in the vast regions
norm west OF the Ohio, by excluding from them in
voluntary servitude 1t impressed on the soil itself
WINE 1t was yet Wilderness, an incapacty to bear
up any other than freemen 1t laid the intertict
against personal servitude in original compact, not
only deeper than all local law, but deeper, also, than
all local constitutions t
For thirty years the doctrine of prohAtion was
me established, recognized law of the Republic In
1871, with second generation, the subject came up
a second time, on the occasion of the admission of
missouri Again the North asserted the right and
duty OF PROHIBITION. In nearly every northern
state, resolutions passed the Legislatures in its ia
Vor' L ne address and resolutions Of our own State
reported by that high minded and Just man. Leverett
Saitonstal, contain the essence of the Free Soil
principles ohe present day. In the most decided man.
ner they fepudlate compromise, and insist on the
duty OF positive prohibition. We earnestly COM
mend them to any of your number who NAV be hest
tatihS In MS adhesion to the same doctrine now
Inc report says After all the consideration your
committee have been able to bestow ON this mon1en
tous subject, they cannot but express the ardent
nope that Congress will interpose to prevent the
further extension of slavery into Missouri, because
IS Wlthn Their constitutional power, and because
1t is demanded by humanity, sound policy. and the
prosperity and happiness ofthe States to be erected
as wen as the common welfare of the United States .
I'll, as your committee think, the constitutional right
OF ConSrs to mterpose, is contained in the constitution
ana has been practically settled, might have been ex
pected that on the expediency of the proposed resic
e9n mere could nave been but one opinion in the Unit
The restriction is demanded by the honor of cur co,m
| try. Az coppectod Iii, H.
rights oil humanity, this question swels into one of i'm
mense magnitude In this view, no subject so interest
| ing claimed Our attention should
the present attempt TO limit slavery be Intellectual the
hopes of wise and benevolent men in all pa,ts Of our
country that at some future time this evil might be ex
tirpated, must be abandoned
Independent OF any right member of this confedera
c TINS Commonwealth has deep interest in the estab-
lshment OF the principles of natural and civil liberty
and lnthe honor, prosperity and happiness of every
part OF the nation may justly be expected that Ma;
sachusetts, winch was among the first to extend the
blessings OF liberty and equal rights all her inhabit-
ants would now hit her voice, and all her influence
10 prevent The extension and perpetuy of slavery Nor
da yoar committee find an reason tr cur silence "a he or
traordtnary manner in 0ch tie question has been broue
0oTe congress, 6y connecting Nth the act for the ad1is-
SION Of Name into the Uon hea no reason uhate,er is
kto'cn to erlst against that measure
4 The chief resolution was ''ResolUed. That it is
hon OF slavery on the admission of all new States
INTO the Union, beyond the limits of the original ter
ritory''
Meetings were held in the chief towns of the North
and almost everywhere in Massachusetts to repudi
ate any compromise. At Boston on December Sd
1919, peetng was held in the State House. with
out distinction of party, and embracing the leaders
Vi Dotn SIDES That meeting, in its objects was pre-
cisely like that now assembled A large COMMITTEES
~ In
mitee, William Eusts, afterwards Governor of Mas.
sachusetts, was chairman. With him were assoca-
tea john Philips at that time President of the SEN
ate OF Massachusetts, Timothy BigeIow, Speaker o
the House of Representative, William GRAY. Henry
Dearborn, Josiah Quincy, Daniel Webster, William
ward OF Mediord, William Prescott, Thomas H. Per
kins, Stephen White, Benjamin Pickman, William
Sullvan, ueofge Blake, David Cummings, Jane:
} Savage, John Gallison, James r. Austin and Henry
orne A committee more calculated to inspire the
confidence OF all sides could not have been appointed
Numerous as were Its members, they were all mer
OF mark, high IN the confidence and affections of then
country ms committee reported the following re.
solutions which were adopted by the meeting
hes0fred, AS the opinion of this meeting that the
Congress OF the United States possess the Constitutions
power upon the admission of any new State created he
yond the limits OF the original territory of the Unitef
States to make the prohibition of the further extens
oil slavery or involuntary servude, in such new State
i, |
RESOLVED, That in the opinion of this meeting If !;
just and expedent that this power should be exercised
by Congress upon the admission of all new States Great
ed beyond the original limits of the United Staes''
The meeting in Boston was followed by one If
Salem, which was called, according to the terms q
the notice, to consider whether the immense reo;or
OF country extending from the Mississippi to the Pa
CHIC Ocean Is destined to be the abode of HAPPINESS
Independence and Freedom, or the aide prison 81
misery and starery Resolutions against the nd.
mission of any slave state, were passed here. beino
! supported by Benjamin T. Pickman, Andrew DIM
lap, and Judge Story. In the meeting at Worcester
Solomon Strong and Levi Lincoln acted prominent
part Resolutions were passed here earnestly re-
guessing their representatives in Congress to oppose
the admission of any new slave State''
In an article written by the present respected Chief
Justice OF our StatG, in the North American Review
the same ground was taken, and the danger of sct'
ting the question in any other way than by Prohibit.
ton, presented, with all the force of truth and earn
estness " When we think,'' says he of these
lnomentous consequences, we feel solernniv of
mind before which all party questions, all the sophis-
Try which lively talents exert in any cause sinl.
INTO the dust; and if it be not too late we would
even now most earnestly mplore Heaven to send that
same soemnty into the minds of ALL whose voices
are to settle this mighty ouas,on n,