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

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northern interests, of the present time, we can find
vent Tor cur feelings only in the indignant exclama
ton OF the poet-'Age, thou art ashamed! Rome,
thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods!''
You are bound by the resolutions of your state,
(unless you will join issue with her) to enforce the
prohibition ''o the end that slavery may be perpet
naily excluded therefrom, beyond every chance and
uncertainty" How can you otherwise be sure that
you can fulfil the expectations of the people, and the
solemn pledges some of you have made, never to
vote tor the admission of another slave State? For,
as we have said it would be mockery and fraud to
abstain from prohibiting slavery by direct legislation,
and yet to call on Congress to refuse admission to
state formed from the territories, because it had
adopted slavery. No man, we believe, seeks to rec
onclle these two grounds. The doctrine of ''nomore
slave sates is identical with tile doctrine of PrOhi-
bton. We call upon you, therefore, to adhere to
the prohibition, because there is danger to the free
dom of the territories if you do not; because of the
value of the precedent in future times. We call
upon you for the sake of the honor and dignity of
Massachusetts and the North, because of the great
moral obligation resting upon you before God and at
the tribunal of the civilized world. We call upon
you to avert the disgrace of having it said of our
country, that here alone in the civilized world, sla-
very has advanced and freedom receded in the last
sky years. .,
pected by YOU when you gave your former votes and
declarations, or by Massachusetts, CT by the Wing
party? Has she not always done so, to carry her
point? VIII she not continue to do so? If that is
reason for yielding, where is the submission of the
North to end? There is Just much fear of dissolu-
ton as the South chooses to create. But the whole
South will not join in this. She is checked in many,
OF the States. Southern President is in the chair
and you do not doubt his fidelity to the Union But
ho
y the cause offreedom, in the way our fathers trod
and ''let the consequences be left to themselves =
What is the value of any mans faith if when per
secuton arises, by and by he is offended Because
the storm arises and the winds blow and beat upon
the house is it to be abandoned? Ifyou rely upon
| construction of Mexican enactments, you lean on a
broken reed. By all analogies, by the genius of our
people, it is plain that these will be but spiders webs
before the action of determined men. If Congress
does not settle the question by legislative enactment
1T will be settled on the spot by the strongest, will
be determined by occupancy sustained by united in
| teresests and strong wills.
| We reject the compromise proposed by the Presi-
dent, because it abandons the principle of Prohib-
ton, and leaves the freedom of the territories per-
II. Also because, contrary to every principle of a
republican government and especially of your own
party, distressing the ability of Congress to do its
proper Duty it removes the whole subject from legis-
liliNe ulUuHalS ana PAGES the territories uluer Il
military proconsuate, under the sole government of
the President, under doubtfuly implied authority
| We reject the compromise of Mr.. Clay, because it
abandons the doctrine of prohibition, restricts the abb
clifton of slavery in the District of Columbia and
proposes to increase the power of the masters over
their slaves in the free States, endangerng the safe
ty of free colored men, and the peace of the Union
But our objection is not to the degree and extent
| OF the compromise 1t is to a compromise at ALL
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yield the whole ground. Show US that it is a case
for compromise, and we will not be nice about the
details Whether the line of slavery be drawn lit
tie higher or lower on the map,-whether the chan
ces of other slave States being added to be lit
tie more or less, would leave to the negotiation OF
| Congress If the North is to surrender, we will
leave to you the questions of form and etiquette, the
honors of war; the PAROLE the disposal of the prison.
ers But we deny that this is case for compromise
at all. We deny that it is case for captuation on
any terms. The South has had abundant warning
that if we must have more territories, we will have
them free. The Prohibition can be enacted. With
majority in its favor in the House, President who
will not veto it, (as you have told u.s., and Vice
President in its favor Gas you have told u.s., it can
be passed, ifthe Northern men are determined. If
they not determined, it cannot be passed. If
Massachusetts men falter, or avoid, it surely cannot
be passed. If passed, we believe the Union will be
atics, you not better judges of the safety ofthe
Union, than men engaged in their regular pursuits,
scattered over the country among the people. We
believe that if you yield to your fears of dissolution
when the cloud has blown over, and you to see
clearly what you have passed through, you will see
and the country will that we need not have yield
ed. But then it will be too late.
ResOlued, That the opinion of this Convention the
members Of Congress from Massachusetts, bound by
every obligation to their State and their whole country
to the present times and to posterty adhere the
principle ONO more Slave States-No more Slave
Territories. afN
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention,
there is no other way of preventing the formation
of Slave States from the Mexican Territory, than by
applying it the great principles of the Ordinance Of
l7S7,-Free men and Free Soil every where.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention,
there is nothing in the present crisis which, in the calm
judgement of posterity will justify the Representatives
of the North in Compromising this great principle
Resolued, That while the advocates Of save-exten-
sion, threaten dissolution Of the Union if their claims
defeated in this contest, the advocates of Free Soil
meet them with declaration of their allegiance and
fidelity TO the Union and the Constitution. 1t is under
the Constitution and within the Union that we mean to
contend to the last for principles, the prohibition Of
Slavery wherever we are responsible for it.
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