Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-11-08
Free SoiIisnl.


The Wings in their public discourses, and IN their
nrivate Vaccinations seek to incupate the Free Il
Sellers in all those motives and procedures that have
unhapply too much characterized political parties
and that have unfortunately too often corrupted hb-
erty.
The leaders of this party of freedom have been
accused of seeking popularity; the people who COM
pose it, have been stigmatized a.sAous and turbu-
lent
1t has always been the misfortune, or rather we
should say to the advantage Of those who believe IN
truth and justice, that whenever they have dsting-
uished a grand national crime, and have sought to
purify the national soul and conscience from lis po
lu,ions that they have been constrained to place
themselves at issue with the interests, prejudices,
and passions of men who have conceded their indi |
ydual consciences to party; and who have sacrificed
liberty Justice and the nation selfish ends and IL
terests. Nature virtue and religion, operating in
the genest hearts, and flowing from the purest souls
have all been denounced, dccyed, and prosecuted by
those Jealous factions, whose interests have always
been their conscience, and whose fears have been
their Judgments Nero and his satellites denounced,
as sedition, the tears that mother shed for the son
they had murdered The reputation Of virtue was,
at that time, the condemnation of any Roman citi-
zen for in their eyes constituted him rival to the
emperor, and might ncite to civil war. The hisor,
Of factions, like their motives, has been the sam
through all epochs, and in all nations They hay
disregarded the principles of liberty, and the right
and interests of peoples, in order to aggrandize them
selves. They have degraded repubicanisrn, by dl
yiding republicans into political secs, which hav
not scruped to use the West means to defame an
defeat each other. They have corrupted the nation
al heart, by presenting to the eyes of the nation
miserably low type Of public virtue. They hav
substituted words for institutions, and hatreds an
preudices for laws
Free Soil principles come like liberty, from I'll
Word of God. If those principles are selfish, the
have all the men been relish, who have held alo
their free brows and unshackled hands to heaven al
who have protested that death was preferable
bondage. If Free Soil principles invite men to a
lion, and if action in the cause of liberty is cupab
then were Leonidas, Brutus, Tell, Wallace, a
Washington worthy of the contempt of mankin
aud the execradons of postery. Then were all t
self-denial and suffering endured by the reformers
antiquity but vanity. Then all the labors and sacr
ces of Hampden, Sidney, Jefferson, and John A
ans degenerate into mere turbulence Free S
principles base themselves upon the immortal
that all men are born free and equal, and hav
right to life and liberty; and those who accept F
Soil principles, have determined to make this lay
living fact, wheresoeyer their power to do so exten
When embrace true universal, mmo
principle it is only calumny that dare, from the
terness of its passions and the terror of its heart
attempt to defame their cause, and sgmatze Ii
motives. Principles are eternal, and reason
faith, which lead men TO accept principles,
which support them in them, are also eternal. Pa
is horn Of human passions, and is upheld by mott
of interest, and therefore it always trembles W
it beholds the face of unsullied truth, and hears
advancing footsteps Of freedoms eyangels I
Sellers may hold any and the most opposite opin
in relation to the regulation of commerce and
organization of industry, but they are one in
principle that God only is Lord over man. I
are one in the doctrine of equality of original rig
Free Sellers, ours is not the cause of faction
party but Of Man. We do not borrow the insy
tion Of action from Fillmyre, Webster, and Fo
who have defled the American name 10 all pos
~; and who have nsulted those principles of ju.
that were transmitted to US by our fathers Oul
SEPARATION to dare and do, is drawn fom Him
gave 70 mankind the Higher Law, "T'hou shalt |
thy neighbor sthyself.' Every ballot that we
is for unsullied, holy Liberty