Worcester daily spy., 1851-04-02
The congressional Election.

ished by the fathers of the republic, IN the days
which are gone: and of showing to the world that
however much other portions Of the country may be
aenated from faithful adherence to duty, and ca
ioed or frightened into obedience to the behess OF
the slave power that here in the heart ofthe old Bay
State, the sympathes fthe people are on the side
of freedom In the election on Monday next, the
people will not be called upon to express by their
votes their personal predictions in favor ofmen, but
rather to manifest their regard for those great pncl
pies of the Constitution and of law, that at the
very foundation of the government; principles which
guarantee to all men the rights and prerogatves of
manhood In the present contest, the battle is not
to be fought upon any of the former issues of parties
The question is not upon the bank the tariff, inter-
nal improvements, or any thing of that nature;-but
the question is between Freedom on the one hand,
and Slavery on the other.
For long series of years, the encroaChments of
the slave power have been increasing in extent and
bodness Point after point has been yielded, terri
tory after territory has been given up The constu
ton has been tortured and misconstrued until the
southern commentary, NOT a sentence word of the
original text is untouched: until in this 18th year
of the independence Of the United States, has
to this that not only the slave States themselves,
but the free States also, made by act of the
National Legislature, active participants in the guilt
and crimes of slavery. 1t has come to this that
nation which years ago, enacted that slave catching
upon the coast of Africa piracy, and punishable
with deah has gone backwards in its legislation to
the models Of the bloody past and enacted statutes
which make the practice ofthe planest precepts of
christianity, felony in the eyes of the law. To this
complexion has it come at last, that the old Bay
State, whose free Institutions were founded through
the sufferngs and trials of men who were actuated
by chivalric love of freedom, such as the founda
tion Of other State in ancient or modern times has
ever witnessed, has become :he arena upon which
men are to be hunted down, and despoiled of every
God-given right, without the hope ofredress The
trial by jury in certain cases aboshed the statutes
of the Commonwealth, framed for the express pur-
pose Of protecting menin their personal rights de-
cared nugatory. Insulting proclamations from Wash
ington issued by the President, to stfe the
murings of the popular voice. The aid of the army
and navy is invoked to overawe the citizens of the
metropolis even before threat violent resistance
to the laws is uttered and lastly, the people are pro-
hibited from assembling in the old cradle of liberty,
to discuss their grievances, by the arbitrary decision
of the dough faced menals in Office who esslate for
that city, which in days gone by, gave the cause
of human liberty such men as John Hancock and
Samuel Adams; those patriots whom gold could not
buy, and whose principles the profits of traffic could
not corrupt
Fellow Citizens of the fifth District, you can see the
degraded position in which our State now stands
There is not sandy ridge upon old Barnstabe, or
fertile valley in Worcester, where Massachusetts man
may live up to the letter Of the Constitution of the
State obey the doctrines of the Son of God, with.
out encounerng the nquisitoral power of this gov.
ernment
The President of the nation stands poried in the
contempt Of the world for having affixed his signature
to law more diabocal in its operations and effects
than the dictum of any tyrant who has cursed the
world in the last FIVE centuries and his chief adviser
stands, too, in the dsgracefuI position as the
most prominent alder and supporter of that internal
scheme Of tyranny and more than this he stands be
fore the world charged in effect with taking the brbes
of his official station further the views of specula
tors rather than to advance the happiness and pros
perity Of the people
Hashos ene a'Iie tBf action conner fils not every
man who loves his country, high and solemn duty 10
discharge in crisis like the present? Can we recon.
clle it to our conscences if in this trial hour of
Freedom we recede from the true and only cou,se
which remains for to pursue, viz to stand with nm.
daunted front and steadfas purpose by those pruci
Piles which have received from our fathers 70 roll
back the tide of aggression which now threatens "a
sweep away their ancient landmarks Of popular lib.
ety which have distinguished our own noble State
to tell the brbed Secretary and the plastic Presden,
that free men will not, cannot, be slaves? that here
upon the hills and in the valleys of Massachusetts
spirit is abroad which acting on the minds of men and
the soul communities, impSs them to despse tber
threats, and scorn their power.
Fellow Citizens of the 9th district has not the time
come sSan with one heart and with one mind we can
go to the polls and depose votes for that MIN 10
epresent us 10 the national councils who has proved
his moral courage in more encounters than one with
the foes Of Freedom: and the last public act Of whose
life was to hur the javelins of truth, with unerrino
aim at that great bad man who taints the breath Of
every wind ihatbows, with the exhalations Of poIi.
cal corruptiOnq
Farmers Of Worcester County, would you have
the Slave hunters prowling about your homes as you
lie down to sleep at night, or rise upin the morning
10 find some pretext for charge against you, thai