Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-09-17

the right hand TO the left, am still here true 10 the
principles then proiessed And, if any man, whether
wing or democrat, viii return to the old homestead
where he taught the great gospel of human liberty
he will be sure TO find me there.
Gentlemen, The resolutions that were passed by the
Wing Convention at Springfield, brought me here
And it seems that no mau who ever was a whie,
could read those resolutions without being blinded and
struck dumb, as the apostle Paul was, although the
light and the voice came from quite another quarter
The Free Soil party, take to be the party of free
dom. Their creed is, that all men are born free and
have right to ile liberty property, and the pursuit Of
happiness; and their works to speed the day when
it shall become living fact. This party, the party of
freedom has always exsted but there has ALWAYS been
an opposing party, meeting ii with deadly hatred, and
comteracting all its attempts to elevate man to liberty
and happiness. Now, Gentlemen, how formidable and
how terrible thing this party of oppression is. And
of the tenacy of its malignant life, you may Judge,
when you recollect that it was six thousand wears be
fore the principles ofciv and religious liberty were put
down upon paper, and that was done by Thomas JEFF
ferson, in the Declaration of Independence.
Gentlemen, the condition of our country brings into
mind the condition of our transatlantic brethren. In
1913 millions ofmen in Europe rushed to the ballot
box and cartridge box to to themselves free
DOM The military and ecclesiastical powers in
Europe are on the side of desDotsm There it is
powder and ball that used to destroy progress,
here is scrip and doations There they have their
Haynau and Radetzki, here we have Webster and
Cas-
Mr. Mann took retrospective view of the free
soil movement and traced its progress since 1874.
He Showed how slowly and how surely the slave
power had contaminated, with its paralysng poison,
all the principles that had been protested by the
Wings. lie showed how that party had permitted
itself to be bartered and sold TO slavery and how
servlley and meanly it now exulted in the SALE
In 1874 well grounded fear of the admission of
Texas into the Union had been expressed. But the
people were too busy to take cognzance of the means
by which this end was to be accomplished. The
people were too much engaged listen to the warn
Ing voice, and the work was done. The govern
ment was in the hands ofthe democratic party when
the breach in the constitutions by which this act was
consummated was made But the wing party had
always opposed this measure. The wing party
fourlshed under the reaction caused by this mea-
sure, until, U many individual cases, they waxed fat
and kicked. There indeed amongst US some
men willing TO embrace Texas, even when she
stood without the Union and they threw their aims
around her as she sat, like Mon's image of sin,
with all her hell dogs around her. and whole pro-
geny of future slave States bowling in her womb
Mr.. Mann referred to the zeal of the wing presses,
in holding up the mirror of their former professions
and votes to the democratic members who had re-
fused to accede to the admission Of Texas, and who
afterwards fused into the party. He spoke of the
service the Boston Atlas had rendered to the cause
of freedom, previous to Is4s, and of the alacrity
with which its projections liberty had been lis
tened to. But said he, there are those who can har-
ken 10 the preaching of the ST. Stephens and who can
0 hold the coats of the lynchers
Mr.. Mann reverted to the nomination and election
of Gen. Taylor who, he said, had not turned out
what those who nominated him supposed, and who
had not done so much injury as those who opposed
him predicted. But all the evils that had been an
tcipated of General Taylor's administration had
been earfuly realized by Willard Fillmore and his
cabinet. 1t was at the nomination of General Tay-
or that the wings had made passionate professions O
love to the Free-soil party. They expended all their
arts, and called into operation all their blandish-
ments in order to win the Free-soers 10 their side
e Than some of them, dove ever cooed with a
sweeter gurglc no stag offended with ranker
9 breath. The wings at that time wooed the Free
soil party by daylight, by moonlight, and by torch
light. They declared that the Free-soll platform
was their platform, that soil could be lreer than
their soil, and that the cause of liberty was their
cause. 1t was under those circumstances that they
called Mr.. Webster from the retirement which he
had sought, after the nomination of Gen. Taylor, and
WHERE like Achilles in his tent, he sat broodng over
his lost Briseis. 1t was under those circumstances
that Mr. Webster was brought forward by the wings
to argue with the Free-soi men face to face, and to
demonstrate to them that the Free-so organization
was supeTogatory and uncalled for. If the whig
" party of lS49 had forseen what would be the con.
L dItlon of that party within two years Of that time
not quarter Of them could have been dragged tc
the poles to ratly the deeds Of their leaders.
Mr.. Mann dissected the miserable verbal ANATOMY
presented to Massachusetts at Springfield, under the
name of a wing State address, and showed how low
{ the wings had fallen when, in that document they
dared not even profess liberty nor deny slavery
In defending the coalition by which so many adj
i vantages in State legislation had been gained during
o the last year, Mr. Mann reverted to the history o.
A coalitions and eXnOspd the dishonastv and