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


John Randolph became true-es The Soutb go,or,Sl
Tue North; she governs her by her white slaves
Out another and not the worse consequence of tbis
compromise was that it established a sectional and
geographical division in the policy Of the country.
ana De u known unto all men, that if the evil of a
geographical division in politics has come upon the
country the sin lies not at the door of the fend 81
tree Soil If the North had stood firm tben ;f H.
doctrine OF prohibition had been enforced there
"oulu nave been free States at the Southwest. as
wen DIS at the Northeast, and we should have hoard
no more OF south and North on the slave ouestiop
Now as then, II our principle is carried out. and sla
very is prohibited in all the Mexican acquisitions
more VIII be done than by any other course TO break
up we uniformity OF the geographical division.
Dut we cannot forget that this triumph of slavery,
would not have been obtained but for the aid or
Noftnern votes, New England sit is with deen
hlorliiicauon we must add-of two Massachusetts
Fo'es' one OF which was from Boston. Whom 700
contemplate the fatal effects of this defeat unon tb
country, upon the cause Of liberty; when we 500 its
uaik outline on the page of history it is little conso
dtioh TO know that the men who so BETRAYED tbe;r
"u9:' were mace 70 eei the painful consequence in
withdrawal of public confidence and maid tho ro,
atty OF political DEATH And now, as then if If sbaIl
De the misfortune of Massachusetts 10 furnish tho ono
or me TWO votes necessary for the defeat of our b
sneu principle, SIMILAR act of Just condemnatio,
VIII be little satisfaction for principle abandoned
ana lhe freedom OF vast territories periled if not Lost
AFTER a lapse OF another period Of thirty wears
tnifd generation Is called upon to meet this issue
shall the ancient doctrine of Prohibition ha onGod
or shall 1t be aband6nedi
II Is not for us to argue with you for its cors,;tu-
lionalty Each one of your number has declared h;s
peiieI IN this, and from some ef your number have
proceeded arguments in IFS favor which we shouId
not attempt to rival. Hitherto you have all profess
ed TO believe IN the necessity and duty of PROHIBITION
wen did MIR Otis say, in his letter to the people Of
massachusetts, of October, lS4S-'''rhe nick-namad
Hnlo' FroViso, " Is nothing more less than the
old Missouri question revived On that occasion tho
Free Soil party began, and has ever since existed
we renounce all claim to being inventors or discov-
erers we simply maintain the principle established
III 1855 contended for by almost the entire North in
1917, protested up to late hour by the nortbern
section OF the party of which you are members. nro-
claimed again and again, in the most solemn manner.
t1e LEGISLATURE OF Massachusetts, and by the con-
Ventions OF the Wing party in this State.
In 1910, Massachusetts resolved esthat no ne,v
State ought to be admitted into the Union Iybosa
constitution shall tolerate Slavery In Is45. she
| resolved DIG
nat no territory hereafter applying to be admitted
10 tne Union, as State, should be admitted without \
condition that domestic slavery should be utterly extp
guiShea within ITS borders, and Massachusetts de,fs
me uafday Of any compromise ,phQtsoelyr that NAV, H.
been, or that hereafter may be- entered into by in
the government OF the Union intended to nrec,de tbe
Jme Gftlcafon Of sch condition by the peope acting
through Their representatives in Congress of the United
| In lS47, our Legislature re-afirm this doctrine
and - '' o'o"ine'
IN behall OF the people of this Commonwealth 10
hefeny soenny protest against the acquisition of anv
additional territory, wtoaa an erpress H., Cy
gTeSs that there shall be neither slavery nor inyonn
serv'tude IN such territory, otherwise than for the NM
lshment of crime.'' 0 f""
IN io49, the present respected Chief Magistrate
SAID, IN his annual address,
should Congress- at the present session. fail IN ev,
'end cine ordinance of l7S7) over the whole Of the
acquired leIflt9ry Their Immediate successors cW
maze to do; and to the President elect will belono tho
honor OF carrying out the principles of Wasbinotor and
the early Presidents, whose example he has avowej b
intention OF following, by giving to the sanction If bs
! Official approval" VI ia"
And the resolves of the same wear clearly asse,t
the duty OF Congress to apply the principles of the
ordinance of 1857 to the entire Neycan me
TO the end that the institution TSlavery1 NAV he
perpetualy excluded therefrom beuond erer,, cb1co
/ Of uncertainty'' ''"'''
| of Massachusetts o''""'e says
Entertaining no doubt of the constitutional powerof
congress to exclude slavery from its own terr;tor ~
pehevlng that such exclusion is demanded IN, tb h;h
est principles OF morality and Justice she never Can
consent to its extension over one foot of ter,o -
now Is not. II the other free states concur Win ho
IN tins resolution the thing will be done, and eons1.
quences be LEFT TO Me,nselues.'' '0''''-
At the Convention of the Wing party at Snr;nc-
held In l847, the following resolutions were nas-
sed,- were pas
"Resoloed, That il this course of policy shall be 70.
lected, and the war shall be prosecuted to the final sub
Jusaton or ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Mexico. the VII
massachusetts now declare, and put this declarat ~
thef purpose ON record-that Massachusetts will never
consent that Mexican territory however acouired sbau
become part of the American Union, unless on tho
unaerale condition. that there shall be neither saver,
nor involuntary servude therein, otherwise than in be
punishment of crime :" VIC
"hes0lscd, That, in making this declaration Of ber
purpose, Massachusetts announces no new prncnle &c
action IN regard to her sister States and makes M %
application OF principles already acknowledged She
merely states that great American principle embodied in
our Declaration of lndependence-the political eouaI;tv
oil persons IN the civil state the principle adopicd IN
the Legislation of the States under the confedeation
and sanctioned by the Consution-n the admission of
AL the new States formed fomthe only territory belo a.
ing to the Union at the adoption of the Constiiution
II rs, IN short, the nperishabe principle set forth in
the ever memorable ordinance Of 1857 which has far
more than century been the fundamental law of human
liberty in the great valley of the lakes, the Ohio and
the Mississippi with what brilliant success and with
what unparalleled results, let the great and growing