The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-06-26
THE DAILY SPY.
TIE COMPROMIsE-WEBSTER.
WORCESTER,
WEDNESD.aY, JUNE 20, 1880.

THE COMPROMISE-WEB EDS TER
What shall We tsiuk Of Inc honesty Of the Northern
Senator's who support the 80 called C9aP70aiss 5Ls
velding ever thing IN controversy the South, when
they profess to do ii for the purpose Of healing existing
dssensions, proa,ing haruloHy sustaining the Coast
tution and securing the perpetuIty Of the Union, and
who, vet, have no word say and 10 stipulation to
make agaias, the outrageous violations Of the Const
tation " nearly all the so4thern Staes, in the mpriz
oansn Of every northern coIored citizen, who for any
purpose whateve r, sels his foot within those States
Even Daniel Webster Is 50 much grieved the wrongs
Of the South that be spends MS DAYS and nights in
considering and preparing BILL providing more effect
uay for the apprehension and return Of the poor fug
tive, Rho has managed escape from the thraidom Of
his cruel task master Yet this Daniel Webster,
whose deep sympathy the injured slave owner, aad
whose stern sense of justice and Duty compel him thus
to back the fugitive, and again consga him his
bitter lot his stripes and soul crushing oppression.
seems TO forget that Massachusetts, has any rights
preserve, or ans wrongs to be redressed. He
forget that thousands Of his constituents, by
the aid Of whose votes he holds his present Office are
for the heinous sin Of having coiored skin. many Of
them darker than his own, subjected to the loss.
Of their property merely but Of their personal liberty.
and to be thrown into the noisome aud offensive
prisons with eons of every grade, hey bat set foot
upon the soil Of the southern States, Notwithstanding
that By special rrorion Of the Constitution, all the
rights of citizenship in their State is sacredy
guaranteed to them there. He seems to forget that
Massachusetts has made attempt to enforce these
rights and for doing, unceremoniously and dis
gracefully kicked Of South Carolina and Louisiana,
and both She and the Constitution Of the Unon under
which she acted, were derided and set at defiance.
We have not words to express the indignation and
contempt, which we cannot help feeling for any man.
representing Massachusetts in Congress, who, under
such circumstances, viii aid in helpinga forward
any compromise in relation to the slave question: how
just the provisions of it in favor of the South
might be, that does fully and completely secure to
the citizens of Massachusetts,, their rights under the
constitution, in the slave States And when we see
Daniel Webster, after the professions he has hereto
fore made, bending all his energies to the aid of the
slave system, and forgetting the wrongs of Freedom and
Of hisown State-the State which has always stood
by him even when she had stand aone-it is a case
that needs argument, plain, papable self-evden,
that he is base, dishonest, trucking traitor. We
it, we feel it, know it. These plain words but
they the feeblest that would in any reasonable de-
gree express the true character of his present position
We have and known, for years, what every other
person of ordinary intelligence and observation has
seen and KNOWN that insane ambition for the presi-
dency has been the leading and overrung idea in all
hispolitical movements 1t has been, to him, the pill
lar of cloud by day and of fire by night to guide his
political footsteps, but did not, till recently know
the depth Of degradation to which it would lead him
We did not know that for it, he would sacrifice liberty
honor conscience, immortal fame and PROSTATE him.
self before the hideous Juggernant Of Slavery But the
step is taken, and he makes no tracks backward He
will find that the propagandsts have him now, where
they have long desired have him. and they will take
ample revenge on him for his former speeches The
car before which he has Frustrated himself viii pass
over him and crush him, and its drivers will send up
fendish yell of exultaton at the destruction