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


nanv conservative, as well eatirely constitutional
do believe, sir, that whenever this Proviso shall be
irrevocaby estabshed shall be considered unchang
able as the laws of the Modes and Persians, then, and
It'll Hen we shall have permanent permanent peace
with other countries, and fixed boundaries for own
country.
Sir, much as dcplore the war in which we are in
volved deeply as regret the whole policy of
ton If these measures would be engra the policy of
this Proviso permanently and irradcally upon our
American system,I should regard it as blessing cheap
" purchased Good would indeed have been brought
out of evil and we should be almost ready to say, with
the great dramatst of England
IF after every tempest comes such calm,
Let the winds blow till they have Weakened death, %
At the latest convention of the Wing party, held
at Worcester in September last, the declaration is
made
'We understand the Wing party to be committed in
favor of the principles contained in the ordinance Of
1877, TIE prohibition Of Slav9y territory free and
of its abolition wherever it be constutonaly eff
fected.
owe understand the Democratic party to be pledged
to decline aay Legislation upon the subject of Slavery
with view either its prohibition or restriction in
places where it does not exist to its abolition
within any of the territories of the United States.''
In the Presidential campaign of 1915, Gen. Cass
and his party withdrew from the support of the doc
trine of prohbtion-some on constitutional grounds,
others from belief that 1t is nequtaEle and nexpe-
gress. This position reduced the Democratic party
IN Massachusetts the lowest ebb of possible poiti
cal existence. The nomination of Gen Taylor by
the Wing party, coupled with the action of the Phil
adelphia Convention, led to the apprehension that
the Wing party might be induced, by circumstances,
to compromise the principle of Prohibition. This
fear, and the ground taken by the other party,
the reasons, as you well know, why 40, 900 votes
were for third candidate, under great personal
li-oAv- Xo,, lnnfI ,,ofv
ity that the canvass in favor of Gen Taylor in Mas
sachusetts, was conducted solely on the Wilmot
Proviso basis. Accompanying all the resolutions and
speeches asserting undying devotion, at all pot-
cal hazards to the doctrine and practice of Prohbi-
ton, our people were exhorted to vote for Gen.
Taylor, as the only mode of ensurng the passage of
the Wimot Proviso, and warned against the
doctrine Of Gen Cass, as favorable to Slavery and
hostile to Free Soil. The speech of Mr. Choate at
Salem, was but sample of the declarations made
by the advocates of General Taylor throughout the
State.
alt is the passage of law say that California and
New Mexico shall remain forever free. That's, fellow
citizens, undoubtedly, object Of great and transcen-
dan Importance; for there Is none who will deny that
should 90 up the very limits of the Constitution
ITSELF and with the wisdom of the wsest and zeal ofhe
Jealous, should unite to accomplish this great OBJ
ec and to defeat the always dctested, and forever to
be detesed object Of the dark ambition of that cand-
date of the Baltimore Convention who has ventured to
pledge himself in advance that he will veto the law of
freedom; aud may God avert the madness of all those
who hate slavery and love freedom that would unite in
putting him in the place where this thrice accursed
pledge may be redeemed. Is there Wing
upon this floor who doubts that the strength of the
Wing party March will freedom Caifor-
MIA and New Mexico, if by the Constitution they are
entitled to freedom at ala Is there member of Con-
gress that would not vote for freedom! You know
there is not ono. Did every Wing member of Con-
q for
freedom! You know that every of them returned
home covered with the thanks of his constituents for
that vote. Is there single Wing constituency in any
free State in this country, that would return any man
that would not vote for freedom! Do you believe that
Daniel Webster himself could be returned, if there was
the least doubt upon the question? How senseless,
thea, to reject Wing; and how absurd, and how mad
to vote for Democrat, the Buffalo nominee, when
one of them freedom to California and prosperity
to YOU and the other, freedom to California, perhaps
bat ruin to you!
Upon this question alone we always differ from these
Wings of the South; and that one, propose SIM
plyto u9te them do,on,"
You will not deny that you owe your seats at this
momeut in the House of Representatives, to the be-
lief of the people in your districts that you would ad
here to the principle of Prohibition at all political
hazards You will not deny that there was not
district, not even excepting the capital, where the
money interests are supreme. in which you would
have dared to place either Gen. Taylof's claim or
your own, upon the compromise WHICH lie now re-
commends The advocates of the Baffalo Platform
were treated slanderers for suggesting that any of
your number could under any circumstances fail to
adhere to the doctrine ofProhibition. We were out
faced in our professions Of devotion to that cause
You voted to prohibit Slavery in the whole Mexican
acquisition in lS47--those of you who were then in
Congress. You voted for it again in 1913, and in
IS49, and at the opening ofthe present session.
Such being the history of this great doctrine of
Prohibition, such the connexion of Massachusetts
with it, such your connection, why should it be
abandoned at this hour, the crisis of its exis-
tence? rE
California has fortunately adopted free constitu-
ton We do not doubt that you will insist upon her
admission. The South cannot object to it, for Cali
forna has settled the question on the principles the
South has always commended for. The advocates of
the ordinance of 1887 will support her admission,
protesting that they do not thereby wave the right of
prohibition, ccede in any way to the doctrine that
slavery or freedom in the new States is to be settled
by the occupants ofthe land.
The question then presents itself with reference to
the rest of the Mexican territory. Why should not
slavery be prohibited therein? Is it not important
now, as it was in lS47, in ls4S, in 1919, and at the