The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-04-17
81 From the Boston Atlas. .A
SOUND THE ALARM!

He must be very superficial observer of the pro-
gress of things in Washington, who fails to perceive
the direct tendencies which are at work in that city
make the Northern Free States of this Union sue
cumb TO the imperous dictation of the South. We
have always carefully avoided any approximation to
mere sectional issue in the politics of this country
We have avoided such issue, because we feared
It's disastrous effects upon the peace and happiness OF
this Union. The North, though bated and badgered
for years by the proslavery of the South, have
put off the evil day. They have hoped for the re-
turn OF better times, and the dawn of an of more
noble and generous feelings. They have hesated
t. drive points to extremes They quietly submit
ted to the annexation of Texas, and the triumph
which Slavery acquired in that struggle. They pas
sively tolerated the with Mexico, in the vain
hope that the South, satisfied with its Texan acqui-
sitlon, would permit the ordinance of 81 TO be ex-
tended the free territories which might be ac-
CURED by US.
This moderation, on the part of the North, has
been met with menace and insult from the South ;
and now we are daily entertained with threats of
dissolution of the Union, if we remain firm to the
principles of freedom; and, usual, if we are to
give credit to the information which reaches US by
mail and telegraph, the North is about to cave in,
and to let the South have all its own way. For our
part, we feel mortified and chagrned. We have
hoped for better things. We have been led to be-
heve that the champions of freedom, entreuched and
fortified as they in righteous cause, would pre-
vail. But we fear that there is want of nerve,-
that there exists u faint-heartedness, an unmanly
cowardce, which, in the end, will be fatal to success
We tell the people of New England, and of the
North, that unless they arouse from this lethargy
they are defeated; and slavery will obtain, in per-
petual bond, the territory of New Mexico, and, in
getting that, will, in the end, involve us in future
wars with Mexico, until at last that Republic shall
hp in and ella no
plant and ruling power of the nation. We see it
as clearly the MONDAY. This is the real struggle
and this is the day In which is to be decided which
shall rule in the American Republic, FREEDOM OR
SLAVERY.
Thus impressed, we cannot hold back; we must
SOUND THE ALARM, and tell our people that
there Is danger. Recent events connected with oul
State and city, have tended in degree to palsy
the arm of the Free State representatives The
Southern men and the Southern press taunt then
daily with the fact, that even Massachusetts, oppos
ed to the ordinance of 81, and that it shall not pass
Would that we had the power ofthe prophet of old
and could animate the dry bones of Northern
valleys, and cause them to speak the glowing word
of truth and freedom.
IF WE ARE BEATEN NOW, WE ARR
BEATEN FOREVER. This is the turning poin
of our history, which is to decide whether in tn
hereafter the Free States or the Slave Power is +
ulcldte the pOHCy OF America. 1I1ERE 10 IN
| DOUBT ABOUT IT there is no use to blink
from sight. 1t is so, and had not been for fey
errrs of Northern leaders on the one side and an
sane ambition the other, we should have carrie
the day. We hope we shall yet five succeed
the sTg Ypga hand if we have California ad
will make New Mexico and the territories free, the
Northern Policy will be uppermost, and the Sout
: will be forced to pay some Difference, at least,
Northern sentiment