Worcester daily spy., 1851-05-05

troubled cotemporary, to the depths OF their darl
staguation; and now there issues from them copiou
doses of that nephitic morality which the devil frs
propounded to our common mother and which ha:
been more or less intensely characteristic of the
Courier, since thar memorable Monday on which its
present Mephistophiles began to wink its pages
Butto the article. 1t is an essay on duty 1t de-
'sgnates and determines the duty of the Wings
Now duty is an eternal obligation; it is the service
we owe TO Others and to God; it is moral principle,
from the discharge of which no man can legitimate
ly escape, no matter whether he be called Wing or
Hottenot.
Every man of conscience and Christian character
accepts the series Of duties comprehended in the
moral law, which are, his duty God and his duties
to man. These are the sum of moral and religious
obligation. These comprehend all our duties, social,
political, and religious, and enjon that they shall har-
monize.
The abstract idea of duty was the highest devel-
opement of the moral sense to which the Greek and
Roman heathens attained; and patriotism was the
highest form in which they held it; it was debt
which must be discharged even at the expense of the
life, liberty, and happiness of all the world beside
The Boston Courier, whose morality is Of the
lowest type of the school Of Epicurus and Daniel
Webster, has not 50 high appreciation of duty, as
those Roman heathens had, for it refuses to ac-
knowledge higher scale of duties than those which
grow out of politics.
With bitterness and insolence eminently charac-
teristc it virtually declares it TO be the duty of the
aehgs to sneer at fou and insult the religious SEN
.timent of Massachusetts TO contemn and trampe on
State rights and State laws, and to PROSTATE this
Commonwealth to a depth of political degradation
and baseness, that even the ssCow-boys and Skin
ners of the revolution would have bIushed to hint at
One almost would suppose, in reading this lecture
on whig duties, that he lived In the days ofBenedct
Arnold, and that that estimabe patriot was editing
bunker paper in Boston, under the protecting infu-
ences of Fort William, and under the patriotic aus
pices of that miserable old king, whom Junius de-
cared no station could dignity, no ancestry ennoble
The first thing which the Mufti of the Webster
whig Koran, the Courier, predicates as the duty
of that party, is that they insist upon the repeal
from the statute book Of Massachusetts, Of all taacs
tending to obstruct pyerent kidnapping and land
piracy aoittia her borders. The second duty, ac-
cording to the same immaculate authority, is to de-
clare that the fugitive sare lalo shall never be ei
Tier modified repealed, but shall be obeyed to tn
very letter; and the third duty, the practical one
by which effect shall be given to the demoniaca
propositions preceding, is, that they ''carry thu
State.''
Freemen Of Massachusetts, look at this programme
OF duties think of it deeply; ponder and re.
fleet upon it, and then ask yourselves if it is posi-
BILE, to offer deeper grosser, more gratuitous insult
to any party of men, than this Courier offers to the
wings of Massachusetts and ask yourselves if trea-
son was ever more manfestly insolent? Is it the du
ty of the wings to cousummate the extinction O.
State independence? Is it the duty Of the wings t
insist upon the prosaton of State dignity and hon
or? Is it the duty Of the wings to deny, in ol,
Massachusetts, beside the graves of her patriarch
and martyrs, the supreme obligation of the Chris
tan religion Is it the duty Of the wings to cast Of
every sense of shame, honor, patriotism, humanity
dignity, virtue, and religion, and bend down in tn
house of Boston slave pen, and bound it rounc
with chains Forbid, sacred heaven that sucl
should ever be compreheDded in the catalogue o
human duties, however much they may character
ise the activities of political partizans, like the mar
Of the Courier The Courier, in the rabid article
alluded to, insults the government of this Common
wealth at its very gate, because of its republican
ism it repudates and stgmatises free discussion
treason because it is for freedom and it sneers a
the people Of this Commonwealth, in the languag
Of Pampadour aristocrat, as unfit to offer an opn
ION worthy Of any consideration, because they hav
declared the Fugitive Slave Law to be, not only ur
constitutional, but in direct contravenlion of the hol
laws of God
We do not believe there is a whig in Massachr
sets, who is honestly whig, who would aclsnow
edge this Courier--this miserable tool of the Kic
Rappers, as the organ Of his political ideas or WI
would accept its profane advice as the exposition
his duty And certain are we, that there is no Ne
Engander, by whatever political name he may
called, excepting the Halletts, Websters, Cnrtise
Byrneses, Lunts, Rileys and Bumans, who wou
for any consideration, lend hmsefto the work Of fdi
hOnoring the old Bay State, of destroying her ind
ydual character and independence, and OF prostitu
ing her to the slave power.
No, thank God, the feeling is general in Mass
chuselts, amongst the honest, of all party nam,
that il is the duty of every man amongst us to a
vance the progress Of liberty and justice-to mai
tain untarnshed the fair fame of our dear old mot
er land and to elevate her. -as Ear as we can. il h