Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-11-26

me liberty OF citing, in my behalf, this morning,
Senator OF the United States. The document whict
| have here, purports to be speech, delivered by
Hon Lewis Cass of Michigan. in the Senate, on
Friday. 18th jan. 1850, son suspendng our diploma
tlcrelatons with Apstra' What does the honora-
BILE Senator sayl
81 freely confess that shall hail the day with pleas
ufe when this Government, rejecting the true senti-
lnentS OF the people, shall express its sympathy for
struggling millions, seeking, in circumstances of peril
and oppression, that liberty which ven to them
! by 0Od, but has been wresed from them by man.
do not see any danger to the independence of
tons by such course; and indeed am by no means
certain that the interchange of public views in this
solemn manner would not go far towards checking the
progress OF oppression and the tendency to Why
SIR the very discussion in high places and free places
and here is of them-even when discussion is
followed by acts itself great element of reribuve
justice to punish 1t when atrocous deed done, and
great element of moral power restrain when such
deed is contemplated. | claim for our country no ex-
emption from the DEGREES Of these high tribunals and
when guilty of a 1.-THE of the oppression and
cruelty which have made the Austrian name Of
repFoach through the world. hope shall receive,
as we shall well merit the opprobrium OF mankind"
Now, sir, | say it without reserve that bower
thus setting at defiance the opinion of the world Mark
he speaks of government action, and of the ex-
preston OF independent opinion by individual 4
and violating the best feelings of our nature in the We
y wantonness of successful crney has no bond of I'M
ION with the American people, The sooner the dplo-
matte intercourse is dissolved and dissolved with
marks of indignant reprobation-the sooner shall we
perform an act of public duty, which, at home and
abroad will meet with feelings of kindred sympathy
from all, wherever they may be, who are not fit sub.
jects for the feeder mercies of Austrian power"
Finally, be commends the Sultan at Constantine
pie, for having cherished the fugitive slaves that fled
from the banks of the Danube, [Iroacal cheers
He thinks highly the credit of this head of the
Ottoman empire, who has taken up, and sheltered,
the refugees and refused yield to the remonstrance
of Austria and Russia. He says:
"The Divan, faithful to the traditions of Eastern
hospitality, if not to the obligations of the law of ma
tons, firmly refused the delivery of the lugitive and
thus spared another ''deuge of blood TO use the
words of the great oman historian in this sad drama
of anation's overthrow"
Now, sir, contend that the true reason why my
self and others are denied liberty of speech upon
American affairs, is, that there is in your midst
system which cannot bear investigation, and the op-
position to which is at variance with the interests
and preudlces and lusts of large portion of this
community, (cheers.) But, sir, were it not so, still
should claim the right, this and every OCCASION
OF offering an explanation of my views upon the ques-
ton OF Slavery, and on every question connected
with the interest of mankind.
But, permit me to say, that England has peculiar
right in the person of any one of her sons, to nter-
tere, if the South will call it 50, in the question of
Slavery. have been told, again and again, on the
other side of the Atlantic, that England answerabe
tor this institution; that brought, planted and
4 watercd, he'e, from age to age, this deadly plant
that to and upon England, and not Americas rests
the responsibility and the guilt of this atrucious sys
TEN. Well, be it so! (cheers.) If this be the fact
and for the present | am not going to deny it-cer
taniy an Engishman, who regrets that England eve'
entertained the crime of enslavng any portion of ths
human race, may be permitted to come and make
his friends an earnest appeal to the political prnci
pies, the moral feelings, and the religions sentiments
OF the people of America in behalf of the liberatio,
of the descendants Of those whom England enslavet
before the era of your revolution. Loud cheers1
But, sir, is it a fact, that the subjects of He
Majesty, the Queen of England, are not free to %
toany of your Southern ports that the colored crew
OF vessels trading from the islands of the West In
f dies are taken out and Imprisoned not as the FREE
subjects of another nation, but as criminals and arr
not restored to liberty until the vessel is ready again
to embark upon the ocean. Sir, assert that, as al
, Engllshman, have right to protest against this
t lApplause.] contend that have right to claim
J Tor my coored fellow subjects, the liberty which ev
cry sailor on board United States ships enjoys, OF
entering the ports of England, or any of England
dependencies in any partofthe world. loud cheers
But, sir, have the right to complain of your nfiict
ing upon the objects of reform in England, mos
serious injury and of rearing the progress of liberia
opinions there, by enabling the enemies of human
freedom to quote the example of America, as that o
nation having adopted the form of republican nsti
utlons, To crush closer to the earth one-sxth of he
population.
Il Again, sir, let those who seek to silence me i,
America, be consistent, and silence the men the,
have sent from this country to the other side
Why, sir. 1t has been my unpleasant task to tract
Americans over our country, during the Is years
nave been absent from you, again and again-tc
make, indeed, almost the circuit of the British
lslands-to furnish antdotes to the pro-savery poi
son which Americans have diffused through our land
Loud cheers
They have corrupted churches; they have
shackied our anti-savery movements; they have
mlsrepresened the aboitionsts Of this counry the,
have wholly caricatured the condition Of the slave.
at the South. Many of those who ran well for time
IN England, have been turned aside from the righ
course, by the efforts of men who if not for this pur
pose sent over the water, of their Objects least
ON getting over there, murder the public mine
OF England on the question of American Slavery
(cheers.) In return for the visits Of these gentle
men, presume to offer myself to the attention of the
citizens of the United States of America Loud
cheers
Did you hear of these gentlemen being mobbed il
England Never Did you hear of George rhomp
son denying any his right to speak Never Some
them might have said they owed hearing in Eng
land to the humble individual who now stands before
you. (Applause.) The viest pro-slavery advocate
who may tread shores, shall be sure Of hearing
hit IS in my power to obtain it for him. Immense
\ cheering But am told, since arrived here, thai
this agitation must be put down, Ga laugh) | have
not been told how. | wait to hear Do the great
mass of this country say that 1t shall be put down
Never ! am alraid-to use a comman English ex-
presslon-that they have reckoned without their host
1 (Laughter) am afraid they resemble certain mice
we read of in the fable, who undertook to beg the cat,
but then the nnpsinn WAS how the cat yuns 10 hr