Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-12-18
rhe courier and Atlas.


The Boston Courier of Monday, is pretty savage
on is neighbor, the Atlas. The latter paper, q
b weeks since, made some spasmodic efforts to
|aSits former anti-slavery position, and affirmed
|ttle abandonment of that position, by portion
The Wing party, including its leaders, was the
Be Of their defeat, and, if persisted in, would
IL still further defeats. But, it has gradually
haback again into the mire of hunlerism, and,
Surday, published an abusive article upon J. R.
khgs's late speech in Congress, particularly for
"A was said of Daniel Webster In that article
editor takes occasion to say that he has no hon
u expressions nor abusive epthets for Webster
z he dlssents from the positions Of his speech on
kd the 18th, that he did so at the time, and that
qkes no steps backwards.
ie sentence here italicized gives the Courier &C.
pn for pretty severe and well directed attack.
ks with pertinency and force, why the Atlas, if
xes no steps backwards, should attack Giddings
hat he said of Webster. If the former position
e Atlas, in reference to Webster is correct-ii
opposition which the Atlas has from time to time
+ to that speech, is well founded, then is Web
deserving of the remarks applied to him by
ings. Indeed the Atlas itself has made accusa-
against him equally severe. 1t has ssattempt-
brand him as a traitor to his own State and
imed to the world that on a shallow pretext he
ABANDONED all the safeguards of life, liberty,
u much more ofthe same sort" BY what
.eskit asks s'does the Atlas arraign Mr. Gid
Courier goes on, to show the inconsistency of
Son various points. 1t quotes paragraph,
Ii the Atlas stated that the wing party proper
nti-Slavery as the Free Soil party-that ssit
tanned itself until this fall by maintaining that
ERE as true Free Soil men as the Free Soil
self, and much more so than some of its
I The Courier, hereupon very properly
Atlas what it means. If to be a free Soil
same thing as wing, why does the Atlas
u against the Free Soiers' If the wing
a~-Anti-Slavery as the Free Soil par
TIE defeat of the wing party by the Free
Q defeat at all, because Anti-Slavery is the
and distinctive ground of the Free Soil par
= III Courier affirms, that if the wing party
At-Slavery, as represented by the Atlas,
lis nothing to prevent them and the Free
Aacting tremendously together in the leg
q hns They would be IN large majority
PIfisr then quotes from the Atlas, declar-
deja little time since, of opposition to the
lave Law, and contrasts them with more
agraph, in which, it expresses an opinion
i'll be acorse than useless to attempt any
TIE lae0, at the present session. 1t then
per the Atlas, if it takes no step backward,
public know whether it stands still any
sSes forward in any definite direction? 1t
Atlas has any settled principle or fixed
whether it is to be off and on, and of
ain, between Free Soil Doctrines and
zines?
Is quite hard enough for the Atlas to
9th Its shllly shally course, (professing
md free soil doctrines, and yet uphold
1irg on upon party, that, in its present
IS thoroughly pro-slavery,) without such
iIcasm from its political friends The
the honesty to admit the true position Of
N ID, therefore, has to resort to none Of
shifts and subterfuges, of those who
the admission. If the Atlas does not
It's position is, it is to be pitied. If it
ben its course is utterly unprincipled,
merits the casfigation administered by