The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-07-16
THE SLAVERY QUESTION.

IT., poston Times saws ''the great object that any
ma, sbonld have in view, at this time, is the set
,o.r Of the slavery question:" Truebut the great
est object Of all is, settle 1t ngh so that 1t VIII stay
settled There is but way TO do this, and mat Is
70 do as the founders of the Constitution did, and carry
o,t their purposes. They left the several States to
MANAGE the subject within their own borders, and took
neca care that it should never be carried any iurth
err They provided that every inch of the national do
main should remain free territory forever, so that no
new slave State should be admitted thereirom to
the Union They also gave Congress the power after
Owen time to legisate for the extinction Of the ua-
fc in slaves. If the understanding with which the
,arties entered into this solemn compact had been ad
hered to- we should have escaped all our present eNct-
inc difficulties but in an evil hour, the North became
uled to sleep, and permitted extension OF the curse,
and thus opened the door for further claims and further
aggressions by the slave power, till it has brought us
into our present position 1t now asks, what, IN the
earlier DAYS of the republic, would not have thought
Of or if it had thought of it, would have dared to
ask. 1t asks it too, under the of compromise, like
the robber, who is willing to compromise with his vic
tim, by taking only his money and watch, and leaving
him the shirt and coat which be wears.
Ave, every good man has in view the settlement Of
the slavery question. But, is he good man, who to
please the trafickers in human flesh and Blood would
extend to countries of almost boundess extent, the
greatest evil and the greatest wrong with which any
civilized community was ever cursed! Is he good
man, who would entail upon generations yet unborn
through all the vast limits of territory, the
ting paralysis, and all the countless denominations anC
suerings which are always concomtants of the slave
- system? Is he good man, who would do wrong tt
the free States, by extending States the neqna
basis of representation which granted conces
sion to the old slave States only on condition which
they have evaded till ii has become dead letter? No
NO! MOI! The settlement which good men want i
settlement founded on justice and right-a settlement
which lets the subject alone where we have constu
tonal right to interfere with it, but which prohibits
every where that can, and the nation asunde
from any responsibility for its maintenance every where
1t never can be sailed any other way. Compromises
principle and of right may be patched up for the tim
being, but they have no binding force any longer tina
majorties be purchased to do wrong-they settl
nothing and never can in the nature of things; the
only aggayae the evil which it is wished cure,
rnern. II Inc administration had taken the ground
ought to have aken if the representatives of I'll
Tree States had been true men the thing would all ha,
been settled before now, the government would ha,
been moving tremendously onward, and Gen Tayl
would not have fallen victim to the anxieties and pc
plexites which this vexed question brought IN,
him.