Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-04-14
s.Massachusetts, God forgive her!
She kneeling with the rest"

She kneeling with the rest.
The foul deed has been done! The glory ofNlas
sachusetts has passed away. The iron heel of Sla
very has crushed her statute book into the mire-
Her bill ofrghts and Constitution, have lost thel
significance, and power TO protect her own citizen
upon her own soil, and her people now hold thost
rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
only by the sufIerance of the slave power. On Sat
urday. she reached the lowest depth of her degrada-
ton as State and the climax of that long series Of
insults and abuses which we have tamely submitted
to from the slave power completed. In another
column, we publish the details of the last act in this
sad historical drama, which by its Internal backness,
obscures and dakens every page in the annals ofour
o. c. noble State We may read still, with feelings
Of gratitude aud pride, Of the heroic virtues of our
ancestors of the sufierings and trials of that little
band, who upon the rock Of Plymouth, in the depth
winter, 1920 laid the foundation of our free ins-
tutons, and consecrated them with their tears and
their prayers-of that bright morning in April, when
the chivalrc husbandmen of Mddlesex beat back the
minions Of tyranny, along the dusty highway from
Concord to Boston, because they knew that liberty
was the birthright of man, and scorned to be the
willing slaves of tyranny,-of that gallant devotion
to the cause of freedom, which filled the trenches at
Breeds Hill with the flower ofthe old Bay State,
and inspired them with courage to meet with unbro
ken front, the veterans of Europe in unequal con-
fict for the deliverance of themselves out of the
hands OF the oppressor. But read, the mean-
choly reflection will sweep across spirits, like
sirocco blast from the DESERT that all this Of the
pdst-that all in vain have been these sacrifices and
trials of fathers for at the present hour there Is
not throughout the length and breadth oil the State
a spot so sacred to freedom as that man may for
moment feel himself safe under the shelerng egs Of
our constitution and laws, if any perured pimp Of
slavery shall swear that he is fugitive from service
in some southern State.
The degradation of Massachusetts seems at last
TO be completed. To u.s. there does not appear to be
any lower deep to which it is possible for her to de-
scend. The court house of her chief city has for a
week past been converted into slave prison. in de-
nance of the law, expressly forbiddng it. Her Ju
dietary have crawed like serpents upon their bellies
before the loathsome reptiles that have guarded the
entrance to her halls of Justice Her executive off
GERS have refused to serve the precepts of her mag
istrates, lest they should give offence to the mental
OF the President in the prosecution of their swor
duties, and the Government Of that city, which il
times past refused TO submit 10 the imposition of
three-pence tea tax, not only stands calmly by am
sees a citizen of Massachusetts sent into perpetua
slavery, but actually volunteers ia the work, and il
defiance of the law furnishes the men and means b,
which it is done. Shame shame! upon them all VIII
have SO disgraced and dishonored the land of thu
Pilgrims, and blackened the fair fame Of the State
whose proud distinction has ever been her LOYALTY
the of freedom, and her regard for the rieht
of man.
But amid all these signs of disgrace and dishono
1t is not manly for despair All is not yet los
and though the minions of tyrannou oligarchy ma
goat over their victim, and rejoice in the trump
which they have just achieved upon our SOIL we ma
be assured that day ofrerituti will speedily COM
Deep into the popular heart will sink the remeu
ORANGES of these outrages upon law and humanity
and these membranes will stir men to Deeds
Henoeforlh, the existence of human slavery is to
the great question Of National politics, which wi
absorb all other influences and considerations, an
under the banner Of repeal and abolition, will GOO
men of all parties unite, until that worst despotis
which disgraces the age, shall be confined and Gil
cumscrlbed within the limits of its own domains
and the free States of the union be absoIved fioi
all part Or lot, In carrying out its Internal DEGREES