Worcester daily spy., 1850-10-07

and cruel legislation Of the dark ages lS'iSes'
s what they did, my friends Ana iney Haps sIt =
-, Il the lark agcs into the Legislative nails
~; couatry. and theg have enacted laws Whcn nav
3;srraced the statute books OF apy other nation Ao
hundreds of years [Applausel. ,44 ,bo, ,base
The peope of the Free States dsma'ue.. t'i
ritaries should be prltected' oy
,;a, fnm the encroachments OF slavery. lhey Ge
,oIa1 that the Jefferson proviso oil i'of, woru 10,
- sb mid be applied to these territories heN mao
W., nj the sanction of Jefferson, and the sanction o
al the fathers of the Republic, for the restriction "ich
tho,, nro,osed now impose upon slavery, put 'ney
~ the sanction of each successive administration do"
- the ,resent timefor there has not YET peeh ah au
s,,aton in this country, that has not IN one way or
ann,ber. recognized the proviso OF l1o1. Ihey ae-
manaed that California should be admitted as nee
S,a,a They demanded, also, that slavery should
aase to disgrace the seat OF government. but Con
80. determined otherwise. 1t determined that there
bnd he no restriction of slavery whatever IN the ter
rories 1t determined to discard the doctrine OF the
bers of the Republic and leave the desnies OF these
territories and Of the states which should spring trom
them, 10 time and chance. i,
sTba noicv which the late administration, General
TavIor's pursued. was this He desired that Con-
orcss should take no action the subject of slavery
IN the territories that there should IN fact be no
territorial government established there The terri
tories were to be left to take Of themselves un-
I'll suitable Iime came for their admission as states
into the Union, and then they should be lett
to settle the question of slavery or no slavery, as
they should see fit. This policy OF the adminlstra-
ton of Gen Taylor was certainly unsatisfactory to
men who he'd the interests of freedom at heart.
Thev knew perfectly well that while the territories
remained open to the ingress of slavery, there was
DANGER that slavery would obtain a foohold there,
and that itwould be difficult TO drive her out, when
the territories became states. They knew that the
course that had been pursued Oil the part of the
shareholders from the beginning had been to introduce
their institutions without and In defiance OF law, to
obtain strength and influence in the country, and
then TO insist upon laws by which slavery should be
protected And they would insist, whenever the
territory should be ad ntted into the Umon that II
should be admitted with slave representation and
be received as slave state. The policy of General
TAYLOR was not the policy approved by those, who
believed that freedom slavery IN the territories
should not be left to chance, should not to be left TO
an unaided contest between the antagonist powers,
bat who believed that the controversy should be
settled now and forever by the prohibition of slavery
from those territories While the policy of Gen.
Taylor was not what the friends of freedom could
wish, while it refused to act when they deemed
action most necessary, yet it was attended by this
beneficial result The people of California, it was
believed, were opposed to slavery, When they
formed their Constitution they expressly prohibited
it 1t was hoped and believed that the people o.
New Mexico, especially that portion of them who
were of Mexican origin were also opposed tC
slavery. In respect to Utah there was grea
doubt, and that doubt still hangs over the
condition of Utah. There slaves within i
now, and the people in the formation of a stat,
Constitution did not fit to exclude slavery b.
law. Whether it is their purpose to preserve tn,
country, open to southern shareholders, or whethe
it is the purpose of the majority to exclude slaver
forever, no man can tell. But with regard to mos
of the territory obtained from Mexico, there wa
strong hope that the people themselves would forev
er exclude slavery Therefore the policy of Genera
Taylor, although not what the friends of freedor
desired and believed they had right to demand
tc pas cgot sg hostile to their interests, as derer
ests as the formation of government which shoul
not exclude slavery, but which by implication woul
ssem to sanction it. The policy therefore of Ge
Taylor was not wholly unsatisfactory. At least
left room for hope, that liberty would finally preva
Gen. Taylor suddenly left this stage of exstanc
His cabient was dissolved, and northern ma
biitlard Fillmore, performed the duties of Preside
in his stead He was from the north He w
from state as deeply imbued with hostility to 81
very, almost, as the state in which we live, The
was room for hope that the influence of northe
man, coming he did from state in which slave
was not favored, would be found on the side of fre
dom, and not on the side of those who are for e.
tending and pcrpetuating slavery.
On the part of the free soil members Of Congress
there was no disposition to judge Mr.. Fillmore harsh
or unklndiy. There was, the contrary, a feeling
Kindness towards him-a hope that his administratt
would be beneficial to the country-tha he would re
resent truly the interests of the people, and that ina
much as during nearly the whole period which h
elapsed since this government formed slavery h
had her interest represented in the person of the Exc
utive, when northern man, for once, came in
the seat Of power, freedom and the rights of freedor
would not be disregarded. They looked to see hi
gather around him cabinet whose sympathies shou
not be adverse to the of liberty. But the first
performed by the new President sent a chill to Il
hearts of rejecting men, who were opposed to the p
eroachmens of slavery. The first act in the polite
career of the president was one calculated to wit
draw from him the confidence of the friends of free so
For, to every rejecting mind the first act indicated ii
course afterwards to be pursued. What was that ac
1t was the appointment Of Daniel Webster to be b
Secretary Of State, his confidential adviser the mo
powerful and influential member of his cabinet In ii
appointment of Mr. Webster men saw that the cou
sells oil the country TO be shaped according to
purposes, and they knew well what those purpos
were. For, in the month of March previous, Mr. We
ster had come forward before the Senate and the cou
try, and in opposition all former views entertained
HIMSELF had declared that the principle of the ordnan
OF l1o7 should not be applied to the territories that
was an abstraction, and that it was a worthless thin
and thing to be treated with scorn and with oboou
lie had declared too, that il was the duty of this po
ernment to pass new laws OF the most rigid characte
BY which the slave, he who should be claimed az
slave, found in the free states should be taken and r
moved back to the land Of slavery. He had in fac
taken the southern of all the questions which ve
before the country, and he stood forth as the chan
pion of the Southcaressed honored latered by then
and looked upon the man who was to vindcate ,pb
they termed their rights, successfully before the connt
And when the President saw Gt to select Mr. Webste
tobe his Secretary OF State after the full ayowa of n
continents which Mr.. Webster entertained it W: