Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-11-04

wen may tax oil indicting and hanging such men
for treason; but they will tnd if it is done, that the
blood of the Martyrs will be the seed of the political
church This law must be repealed, and no matter
how many Doctors of Divinity preach in favor of
Its atrocities, II will be put down; for the people
everywhere regard their teachings with contempt,
heightened by the exalted positions which they
occupy.
81 venerate,' said Nj. G., s.rhe man who lives
ana honors Gods Iaw,~hch is supreme over all hu-
man eXactments, but have no words to express my
ioathlng for such, as assume sslhe livery of heaven
TO serve the devIin." How will the Dewyes. the
Springs, the Snragues, and such men dare, at the
Judgment seat, to cite this infamous enactment,
against the recorded euacments of the Almighty
but,whie say thus uuch OF some, il is matter Of
rejoicing with all, that by far the largest number
OF our clergy taking this work in hand, OF sus-
tanning Gods law against the Internal DEGREES Of
Slavery Our course is onward and forward; as
the churches throughout the land are becoming
aroused to sense Of their duties and responsibilities
Everywhere, there tokens of encouragement
The Wing party, in many sections of the country,
are coming up 10 the support Of principles, and
at the convention, recently held in Cleveland, when
Cassius NJ. Clay, of Kentucky, planted himself on
the Free Soil platform, he stated ''hat there were
$4,000 voters in that State, who would never again
woe IN favor OF any men for office, who would
openly sustain any measures, involving the Gen
eral Government in the support of the insti-
tuition of Slavery. In the whole sale of Ohio
not five hundred men can be found who openly sus-
tain the compromise measures. Senator Wade, of
Ohio owes his election to the fact that he had COM
mited himself fully against them. In one of the
counties on the Western Reserve, leading member
Of the Democratic party, recently Informed me- that
if at the Presidential election any man should be
nominated TO that office, known to be in favor of the
compromise nleasurest the great majority of the party
would take their stand with upon the Free Soil
platform. Ia proof Of the detestation in which the
mass OF the people hold the compromise measures,
York 10 repudiate that iustrious dough-face, Daniel
S. Dickinson, and fill the chair which he formerly
occupied in the Senate with Hamilton Fish, who
openly owns his determination TO stand by the doc
trines which maintain! How came Mr.. Chase
to be elected from Ohio, to the Senate of the Uni
ted States? Where sixteen of the Wings of New
Yok who voted in favor Of those measures, and how
came their places to be supplied with Free Soil Dem
ocrats? What power was it that sent Waldo of Con-
necticut into the shades Of private fe and gave his
seat to Free Soiler! How came it that Massachu-
sets elected Charles Sumner to fill the place of the
great apCstate from her principles, but that The peo-
pie, in the strength Of their devotion to Ere edom,
had determined to oppose the compromises to the
last, and bury in his political gave every man who
sustained them?''
Mr.. Giddngs then paid welmerited compile
ment to the consistency and patriotism of Mr.. Pal.
frey's career in Congress, and narrated, how with
voice that never faered, with cheek that never
paed, in the presence Of the slave power, he had
maintained the principles of Massachusetts, when
bkfs he SaGs ea ee h auaed to the serSp
OF Winthrop, whi in the Speakers chair, and held
mp 10 the which it merited, that act of the
commencement Of his career, as Speaker of the
House, whereby he appointed six shareholders and
three Observation-Disclosures, upon the Standing Committee
for the District of Columbia. After that Committee
was thus organized, who did not know that the
petitions presented to Congress for the abolition oil
| tnC DiSuiOl "ouiu NC eiholHeIeu SUCH
The fact, and not of them ever saw the ligh
This the act of Mr.W inthrop.
Mr.. Giddings then reviewed the whole course O.
the Wing party, in reference to its action upon the
Wimot Proviso. and showed tie valious successive
stages of its descent, from the high position it occu
pied in 1874, down to the passage Of the Fugitive
| Slave law, and the formation Of the Union Salet,
Committee and after an earnest appeal to the null
titude to stand by the Constitution of the country
and labor for the cause of mankind, he sat down
amid hunders of applause.