Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-10-31

From the Greylock Sentinel


For eight months we have greeted you, reader,
and we have always endeavored to be earnest, can
did, and truthful, in our Communications. Events
of mofhentous political importance have transpIred,
new motives for action have sprung up; the crime
at which we have aimed has made long, vigorous,
and decided stride-coming fully up TO the present
day, and preparing for further steps into the future
and it now seems to be the time Tor Massachusetts
she loves her past history, if she reveres the pre-
cepts of Liberty given by Adams and Hancock, to
give blow to this progressing crime OF slavery ihUt
shall cause it stagger and tater IN ITS career OF
madRessat least say, that within the bounds OF the
Bay State its hooed feet shall not find resting
place.
Six months ago, we shocked the moral sense of
our Christian readers, by announcing shat man had
been torn from his home and family, IN Boston, and,
without trial that deserved the mame, carried off
to eternal whips and chains. Every heart in the
Commonwealth bled for crime atrocious. 1t
was deemed the ne plus ultra of Slavery aggression.
1t did not seem that men could have been found,
base enough for such thmg-but there were.
Christian men, business men, monied men OF Boston
defended it, and slavery took courage, and looked
for more victims.
Three months later, and they do not wait for
precept-a man is Knocked down upon hot stove,
chained while senseless, given over without trial at
all, and without even the knowledge of his doom,
dragged, manaced, to unrequiled toll.
One mouth later, man is busy at work at his
bench, and the minions of slavery, made frantic by
success hurry him to bondage dsregarding the ties
of church, OF friendship, of matrimony-the bonds
which the word of God says shall not be sundeled
by mainland without even time 10 gasp farewell to
his friends and family, in few short hours he was
made beast of burden and a chattel.
All, reader, follow us yet one step farther with
this demon Slavery, to the Christiana outrage.
Now, the possession of the victim is not enough.
minister of the Gospel in the exercise OF what
he considered his duty his fellow man. went to
the house of fugitive slave, and told him that the
bloodhounds of slavery were on his track and that
he must flee for his life. That minister is now
arraigned for HIGH TREASON! More; thirty.
other have been indicted for the same
grave offence, for the exercise Of similar instincts of
humanity.
Where it will end, is yet in the mysterious future.
but it will be developed with dem0niac velocity
that will jose justice and humanity from their places
among men, unless something is done to stay the
whirl OF this great Maelstrom of wickedness
Up, freemen, let us give il blow Every man
should do his duty, his whole duty Free Soil men
be on the ground Old Liberty men-Patriarchs in
the cause of freed income out, and give us the
aid of your strong and Stout unfaering hearts.
If we should fail, in the coming contest, 10 deteat
the coadutors and supporters of the accursed admin
straton, which has b. ought all these things of hor.
ror upon US, slavery will take another stride, and
then, freemen, sc look to your hearths.'' We must
not fail Humanity tells must not! Christian
lty appeals to us, and the blood of down-trodden
Liberty cries from the ground Will you DENY this
appeal-wiIl you turn deaf ear to these cries {?
Answer US at the coming polls
6 On to the battle
Our hearts bid the tyrants defiance,
Our land, the first garden of Liberty's tree,
Has been, and shall yet be, the land of the lree.'