Worcester daily spy., 1851-10-07
The November Election.

Less than month now remains, before the peo-
p!e of Massachusetts will be called upon to declare
at the polls, their preferences for the men they wish
to rule over them, and 1t becomes the friends OF I'D
erty in every county, town, and school district to be
I'D and doing, if they would see the old Bay State
still occupying the high position, the great ques-
ton of human freedom, which she has so steadtasty
maintained, since, foremostof the sold thirteen" in
I775. she unfurled the banner of freedom to the
breeze, and pered all fer the glorious cause of lib
ertv.
There is no time to be lost. five would have the
voice of old Massachusetts utter the emphatic ono"
to those who have sought to compass her downfall,
by making her bow the knee to the Baal of slavery,
by endorsing the Compromise measures of the last
Congress, Fugitive Slave Bill, and all, we must be
active and vigant. from this time forward until the
last ballot is deposited on the day of election.
.No,v is the trial hour of freedom. In the coming
contest the great questions to be settled, whether
the descendants of the Pilgrims are true the prin-
ciples of their fathers; whether the men of Massa
chusets are hereafter to be found in league with
Southern shareholders to perpetuate the power, and
extend the influence of slavery through all our IN
stutions, or whether the government shall be ad-
minsered in the spirit of its founders, andln accord
ance with the provisions of the Constitution.
One after another the safeguards of the Consttu-
tion have been stricken down; again and again has
the slave power planted its iron heel upon the free
institutions OF the country, and crushed the statute
books of sovereign States in the dust, until 1t has come
to this, that here in old Massachusetts, "where" as
Mr.. Webster, in his better days, once said "Ameri-
can liberty raised its first voice, where It's youth was
nurtured and sustained the trial by jury, that an
cent prerogative of the people. is taken away from
u.s. our court houses are turned into slave balracoou'
and our soil given up as hunting ground for human
beings.
The crack of the slave drivers whip echoes
among the hills and valleys cf New England, ant
the canking of fetters, forged for human limbs
guilty of no crime buta love of liberty, is hear(
about our dwellings. To strengthen its party witt
the South, the Wing party of Massachusetts ha
Welded TO all the insolent demands of the savocra
cy and their greatest statesman has aided then
by defining the terms in which the South should de
mand our surrender. The Wing presses of Massachu
setts speak in equivocal language the course
they have resolved to pursue. They do not attemp
TO conceal that their hopes of success in the mex
Presidential canvass depend upon the whic
they may meet in forming alliance with the South
based upon REIMBURSEMENT of all their past pro
fessions, and sacrifice Of every great principl
which they have heretofore affected to hold dear
Two days before the assembling of the last Viii
State Convention, at Springfield, the Boston Couric
declared, eff the proceedings at Springfield take
together place the Wings of Massachusetts upon ma
tlonal ground, where they can stand shoulder /
shoulder ,cith the WhigS Of Georgia and Louisian,
they will bring into action all who did not vote tn
ticket last year, and glorious triumph, by MAORI
ty of thousands, will be secured.'' The Boston Ad
vertiser, Of the 9th of Septen ber na leading arti
Gle upon the supposed action Of the Wing Conven
ton, at Springfield, which to be held on the fol
lowing day, says:-
cit cannot, Of course, be supposed that the Con
vention will decline to pass resolution expressin
confidence in the Administration. An approval q
the Administration will be an indirect apprc ral o
IHe WS1SUIeo " OnT' fPcUSleT, WHICH nave give
rise to the supposed hostility to him.
The Boston Journal of the same date, and writin
Ep0n the same subject, says:-
1.-The Wings in many towns, situated in dfferen
parts Of the State, not contented with merely trans
acting the formal business of the meetings, hav
adopted resolutions expressing their determinatio
10 GbfGe By the compromise measures and their con
fdeace IN the wiSdom and patriotism of the presex
administration, and their strong and decided prt
ference for our 0Wn Daniel Webster as a canddat
for President Of the United State''
What the wire-pullers of the party planned. tn
delegates to that Convention executed. They er
dsrsed the Administration, gorfed Daniel Webste
and bore 'tsest;mOnyto to the wisdOm of his council
and the value Of his services.' And now they con-
forward and ask the honest yeomanry of the Stat
to 90 with themes the polls, and sanction such apo
tacy TO the professions and principles Of past year
And this is the party that in ls47, in State Cor
veniion at Springfield Resolred, "That Massachl
sets viii never consent that Mexican territory how
ever acquired, shall became part of the America
Union, unless on the nnal.erabe condition that ther
shall be neither slavery .er involuntary servitud
therein, Otherwise than in tLs punishment ofcrme.