The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-04-23

The hrst resolve goes On TO say that the people O
Massachusetts can discharge their duty in no othe
way than by renewed expression of their determi
nation to adhere to the views and sentiments repeat
eddy and deliberately affirmed by them. Why cal
they not? What prevents the discharge of this dut
In another way? Have they not ballot-box, an,
Is not the way to it plain as the way to the mar
ket? And can they not discharge their duty by vo
ting for such men, and such men oRIV as will carr
out, IN action, 'he views and sentiments repeated
y and deliberately affirmed by the people and thu
Legislature? Look at the Presidential election O
1913. Did not the vote for STAKEHOLDER, one whc
would as naturally uphold slavery and the slave pow
er as he would breatle,-did not this vote, let me
ask, give the lie TO all these warning notes and pro-
testatOns, these expressions of determination to adj
here to views and sentiments deliberately and re-
peatly affirmed and which we are now called upon
to reaffirm ? and who, Mr.. President believes that
there is any sincerity in the resolve, which declares
that we, the people, will 'use every constitutional
means with untiring assiduty,' to put stop to the
extension Of slavery, and the giving of durability and
strength TO the slave power?-for that suppose to
be the meaning, if pathological ingenuity can find
any meaning in such a number of lines, which SEEM
ed to have been composed for the especial purpose
ofmeaning nothing. have no faith in the fulfil
ment of any such promises.
The next resolve declares that massachusetts
can never become a willing party to any proposition
or form of compromise with the slave power of the
South. She has always submitted to every demand
made by that power, with some unwillineness that
seems more affected than real, for the sake of
union and peace-that glorious union about which
there Is so much brilliant twaddle so much DAZZLING
defamation, that 1t pains and darEens the under
standing of the weak and feeble-minded in which
category find myself, and leaves them in state Of
distressing doubt and perplexty | will not vote for
this resolve, for it is deceptive in its language, and
IN Its pufpose,-l say it with Difference and sorrow,
1t appears to me nsincere and dishonest
Passing over the third Resolve the fourth declares
that ''the people of Massachusetts cherish the I'm
IN with unabated attachment; that they will sup
port the Constitution &C. Sir, | have several
times sworn to support the Constitution, and am rea
dy to do so again. have no desire to impair what
| believe to be its obligations, under any fair and
honest construction. We have all waited and work
ed patiently under and thro' the Constitution till la
Dor Is tired and patience exhausted, and in nv hum
BILE Judgment there would be nothing reasonable,
nothing inconsistent with the oath to support it, in
an attempt to change some of its requirements, if
such requirements truly set forth in doctrines re-
Gently promulgated from the Senate at WASHINGTON
The resolve promises that they-the peop1e of
MasSachusetts,-in any event. will follow their prn
Glples, deferred by no threats Of disunion. &c.-a
promise 'not fit to be made,' and if made not in
TENDED TO be kept predict they will not follow
their principles any further than to re-enact Them
10 resolve and re-resolve, then die the same'' and
as to being deferred by threats of disunion it is
Imaginable to hear that boast from people who ''ago-
nze and sweat at every pore" in fear that the next
news from Washington will bring another threat of
dlsunlon from some ofthe Southern Hotspurs in Con-
gress In this connections Mr.. President aIlo me
to say, and say it with the fullest conviction of its
truth, my belief is that these said Hotspurs are en-
couraged II not lnsgated in their vaporing threats of
dlsunlon, by Northern members, and | fear some
from New England, who are willing TO make capital
for themselves out of the agitation which those
threats produce in the free states.
Mr.. President, have omitted much that had a
wish to say, and am sorry that both physical and
mental weakness have deprived what | have said of
the persPlcmty and power which others might have
impaired to It, 1t may be- Mr. President, that the
sentiments have advanced are not the sentiments
OF any individual that has heard them. 1t NAV be
that am laundering in the slough of ignorance
wandering IN mazes of error-deceived by false
llghts-deuded by prejudice. If am in s1cb am
unhappy predlcament, how came | there? To
whose tuition am | indebted for the misfortunep 7,
the principles hold in relation to slavery and thel
save-power are wrong, unpatriotic reasonable can
ne, from whose instruction and example have de-
rived them, escape the wrath denounced against him
VINO leads the unwary into Sin? Who has been INV
political preceptor? Who for thirty years. was INV
6eGu-adeaI ola statesman-my Mentor? For whom
nave l. as an editor through evil report and good re-
port In days of darkness and depression, as well az
In those OF prosperity and sunshine, endeavored
with AL the little talent which God has given me TO
SUSTAIN and to recommend, as the greatest man of
.ne age and the htest man for the highest office of
the nation! Sir, will not name limits unnec.s-
sary' Not Senator hears me, who has NOT tho
name IN his mind, ready to drop from his lips
have sald Mr.. President, that nv political Mem
'or was the greatest man in our country.-I repeat
my belief that the individual alluded to, Is the ureot-
est man, intellectually that breathes the atmosnbere
OF this continent. 1t has never been nv lot 70 moo,
win man, whose mind appeared TO me, so gigantic
III us proportions, so capacous in its grasp SO rapd
IN It's perceptions that they would outrun the light
hing OF heaven. Let me, for moment. give ndul-
gehce 10 my feelings of pride and exultation, when
recoiect now the ears of my understanding have
drunk IN MS words of wisdom and patrotisn-his
words OF sympathy for suffering humanity, of his alb
horrence OF the system Of slavery of his detestaton
oil the ambition that was striving to extend the slave
power over new states and territories and to secure
the mastery OF the free states. am vain enough tn
belleVe that the intercourse to which aude has NOT
been OF service to me alone. The fable of the Lion
ana the Mouse Is too familiar to be repeated The
KING OF beasts,--the supreme monarch of the forest
was not able to eXtricate himself from n net with
out the aid of the smallest and most insignificant of
all quadrupeds.
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