Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-28
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INCORPORATED APRIL Is. le49.
The Union.

The Union Of these States was the consequence 0
mutual respect, ofmutual suffering, and OF mu'ua
sympathy for freedom. Our revolutionary iathefSi
from Maine to Georgia, when they had wiped the
sweat of battle from their brows were attracted low
ards each other by the same spirit OF resistance 10
oppression, by the same heightened sentiment "oi
freedom. and by the same powerful principle OF pa
triotic love- An identity Of IDEAS hopes, DISPOSE
lions, and apparent destiny brought the thirteen
states into the bonds of Union; and they peaged
their faith TO each other in the Constitution OF the
limited States and swore at the altar of liberty, be-
fore the God of eternal justice to be tathai TO the
contract which they had made in that immortal III
strument
The independence and sovereignty which each
State possessed, antecedent to the union, were not
compromised by this act The one conceded noun
ing to the other that was not necessary to constitute
a union. The North did not give up any OF the
principles of freedom for which she had SO lately
commended with the Mother-C Country, IN order to nj
her for union with the South. The South did not
ask her to share the responsibility and accept the
consequences likely to issue from her ''peculaaruy
of Institutions The grounds of union were specihc
the bonds of union were definite, and the conserving
parties accepted them with their eyes OPEN
The history Of the United States does not contain
one instance, in which The free States have violated
the original compact which our fathers thus entered
into. Supineness in seeing that the slave States OBJ
served the contract, has rather characterized our
northern legislatures, while miserable abnegatlon
of that contract and spirit of the most naughty
usurpati, n have characterized the South.
We know that the Sonth has imposed upon the
easy timidity fthe North by protesting the most ar
dent attachment to the Union; and we know that
the North has submitted to Southern encroachments
upon her rights from too con6ding faith in the in
tegrty of that profession; and from herow devotion
to that bride Of her youth, whom she loved fol the
sake of old times when North and South loved, liv
ed for, and bled for each other.
The fugitive slave law, however, has cmaxed all
the violations of State sovereignty that have yet
been perpetrated by the South, and has exceeded
all those acts of aggression which have certainly
been tending to divorce the North and South from
each other in feeling.
Peaceful men who have dwelt with US, who have
labored with us, and who have worshipped with us.
Men whom we respect for their virtues and love for
their nisforunes have been taken from our midst in
defiance of all the provisions of our State laws, and
in utter contempt ofihose principles Of democratic
freedom which we love and cherish Pains and pen
alties have been prescribed for us if we dare any
more to exercise the rights Of hospitality to certain
of our friends; and the laws which God has written
p hearts and on our conscitnces have been abo-
ished by edict Of the government and yet is en-
joined upon and expected of US that we shall still be
faithful to the Union
In the nature of things it is impossible that this
Union can be preserved by the procedure hitherto pur
sued by the save-power. The bonds and principles of
Union grow less tight every day, as every article of
the compact is being blurred and blotted by the
slime Of the Vampire of Slavery; and as day by
day the complexion of the general government be-
comes more and more dyed with sectionalism and
tyranny. The Union was not constituted TO give
life to an institution which can only live upon the
blood Of freedom, and which demands that the North
shall fight. bleed, and pay for its support in spite Of
Its deeStaton Of its principles; and Of its assurance
OF its iniquity and inhumanity. The Union was in
tended to be representation of Northern as well as
Southern principles and interests, andwhen it ceases
TO be truly SO, it ceases to be of any value,
The feeling is growing stronger every day in the
free States that the mutual benefits of the Union are
hction; and the fact that free men can be taken
from he North and consigned to slavery, proves that
1t is So lfthis feeling deepens and widens as it
surely is doing, in consequence of the political ina
my OF northern men, and of the rampant aggressions
upon cur rights by southern slavery then farewell to
all these illusions and dreams Of one great prosperous
republic covering this continent from shore to shore
The North will in the end be compelled to devorce
It's Infamous partner as God reigns; and the
South like some iniquitous courtezan will sink into
premature decay from. the disease which she bears
ia her own bosom.
SoUTH CAROLINA AND HER NEGRo LAWS
Mr.. Matthew. the British Consul Mt the MIR, ~