Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-09-08
The Coming Election.

Do the friends of freedom, in Massachusetts,
rightly appreciate the importance of the coming
election in this State Are they aware of the i'm
mense influence which the action of the peo-
pie of Massachusetts will exert upon the Pres
dental election, and the future course of par.
ties, in relation 10 the question of slavery? Have
they calculated the direful effects upon the free in
situations of the country, that will be the inevitable
consequences of endorsement at the polls, of that
unprinclpled legislation which has humhIed the free
States Of the Union in the dust, and made them the
supple tools and instruments of the slave power in
supporting their unnatural and Ubiquitous Institutions
If they have not, it is time that they should sit
down and ponder seriously, like men, upon the his
tory Of the past encroachmens of slavery upon the
free institutions of the land, and them having grasp
ed the whole extent of that long series of riumphs
on the part of the South and defeats and humlia-
tons on the part of the North, to act as becomes
men who have not cast away their manhood in this
trial hour of freedom. The hour cometh, when the
great question is to be met and decided, whether
the slave power shall rule, and ride rough shod, over
the cherished institutions of freedom, which we in
herited from our fathers, whether the government
shall be administered in accordance with the con-
stitution of the country.
We all know the spirit and determination of
the South. Alone, that spirit and determination
are poweress, for the strength of majority,
the might of numbers, is on the side of the
North. But the charms of office, the rewards Of
ambition, the spols of victory, alike, exert their in
fuence upon both the old parties. They hear the
demands of the South. They see that there is dan.
ger to their prospects in refusing her demands They
fear that each will outbd the other in order to Sc
its vote and the strife begins as to who shall
kneel the lowest, and crouch the humblest before it,
iron will. Upon its Bonded knees, the Democratic
party of the North, endorses Incorporates of the
last Congress, and pledges its support of the Fugl
tive Slave Law. The Wing party already takes thC
intiaory steps to bow itself still lower in the dust
to the southern vote, and through its chosen
organs, already intimates, that unwavering supper
Of those compromises, and that law is to be mad
the test question of good standing with the party
They extol the corrupt statesman of the North b,
whose talents and influence the infamous measure
were passed, and place themselves in determine,
opposition to their repeal. This is, precisely, tn
position of the two old parties. They have boil
cast aside the principles for which they formerl,
commended, and now make the seats of Ipower, thu
emily issues in The struggle. In such condition o
things, who does not see, that every thing which il
TO advance the cause of freedom now and hereafter
depends upon the action of the Free Democracy:-
H. A.. r
for any man TO think, that by the action of either o
the old parties, the ofreedom to be promot
ed or the influence Of the government exered to cir
cumscrbe the rapacity Of slavery. Every thing nov
depends upon such men as love principles more tina
party, as prize free institutions above an empt
triumph at the polls Ifthey fater now, all is los
and only through severer trials, and deeper humilia
lions, can ever expect to see the people of III
North aroused to the nquities of their leaders, an
TO sense Of the dangerous position in which the
have placed them.
The politicians Of both parties must be learned II
lesson in these preliminary elections, prior to Il
National Conventions in which their Presidents
candidates will be chosen that the principles of the
constituents not TO be bartered away for the SAX
or southern votes. They must be made to unde
stand by the verdict of the baot-box, that in benz
ing too low to the behess of slavery, they may looi
the support of the free men Of the NORTH
yielding every thing to the gasconade ofCarolina an
Georgia, they endangering the success of the
cause with the resolute and determined friends
freedom in Massachusetts, Ohio, New York. an
elsewhere. They must be made TO count the COZ
Of their submission, by comparison of what the
will gain at the South, with what they will lose
the North.
10 this view of the case, who does not see the i'm
portance ola full vote in Massachusetts, for the part
offreedom' Who does not see how important il ha
become for every friend oflibery, justice, and orde
TO take his position in the ranks Of that party which