Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-02-01
WORCESTER DAILY SPY:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARr I, 1851.
The Union safety committee.

The Inle knot of Old Hunkers in New York city
who have taken upon themselves the responsible ah'
patriotic duy of watching over this Glorious mon
and who have assumed the title of the &" Unior
Safety Committee out with manifesto re
calling the people to 4 sense Of their constitutional
Obligations Having expended five hundred dol
lars in the very praiseworthy undertaking OF eaten
ing one poor runaway negro, given hm over 10 us
rursuers, and seen him conveyed TO the iice pIania
lions of Carolina they evidently feel themselves OF
some consequence in the community, and like cock
turkeys in some farmers field, suffering under a
dearth of erasshoppers, they 'pume their wings for
nobler flight They have by their successful efforts
to secure the exradition of Henry Long, saved the
Union, puttied up tremendous hole in the constltu-
ton, secured considerable noorety in the newspa-
pers. and won the admiration of Thomas Richie
In short they have become suddenly famous. They
fee that the destnes of this Republic rest upon their
pory shoulders, that the expiring flames of liberty
have been rellndled by their rubicund noses, and
that it behooves them TO be the alert, and by their
watchfuness to show that they are up and doing.
Mindful ofthe fame which certain geese acquired
many years ago, alarming the garrison by their CAB
bling, when the foes Of the Roman Republic sought
to steal march upon the people, and of the vener-
alton with which those loise birds were afterwards
regarded they venture to assume that their gabbie
in the present crisis of our affairs may save the Re-
public ard that an Immortality gained by geese in
barbarous age of the world is within the reach of
men like themselves in these ''trying tines
Accordingly they issue from their anxious council
room in the Commercial Emporium, most aiiec-
tionate, pathetic, and milk and water address, to
the people, in which they whine like whipt spanels
before the South and plead, like the doughaces that
they are, with the North, to ''cease their pother
about slavery, and come quietly under the lash Of
cur negro-huntng, women-whipping, chid-stealiag
heroes who, ''bon to rule,' rule for good, and
because they cannot helpit
The committee begin by citing the authority I'M
der which they have presumed to act and say, eve
the undersigned, were charged with the duty of en-
deavoring to revive among the whole people of the
United States the spirit in which the Union was
formed and the constitution adopted, and to resist
every attempt to ALLEVIATE one part of the country
from the rest, or TO enfeebe the sacred ties which
bind together the various parts.' With their hands
dripping with the blood of that brother man, whom
they sent only two weeks ago to drag out miser
able existence upon some Southern plantation, in al
employment, the average duration of life in which
docs not exceed five years, they come before thu
people of the North, and talk about 'revving anon!
the whole people the spirit in which the Union wa
cd md tho aIo ptod tloo
having done all that was ia their power to do, b.
their money and their advice to strike down the Clio
rious right long ago established by their ancestors
of trial by jury; having but just fed the bayin
blood hounds, upon the track of man, feeing,fr
despotism in comparison with which that under whic
they lived, who formed the Union and adopted tn
constitution was a Paradise, they talk of RESISTING
every attempt to ALLEVIATE part of the country from
the rest.
Do they not know that they the men them
selves, who are :" alternating one portion ofthe coun
try from the rest" and that the one internal act tn
rendition of Henry Long to slavery is doing more
widen the breach between this great family of state
than all the eloquence, gas, and putty of THOUSAND
Union Committees can counteract. They, the I'm
ion Committee may talk long as they please, Blu
the people who have hearts to feel and heads t,
think, must be silent while their cheeks grow pale
and thsir tnge at the sights and sounds of the
Nations dishonor.
The Committee in the following paragraph define
the especial object they have in view.
''What we would very respectfully recommend is
that our fellow citizens in all parts of the counr,
should cease unnecessarily to agitate the subject and
bring their minds to think about and contemplate
subjects involving their common interest and com
mon renown, upon which, in the main, there is no
disagreement or none of an exciting or unpleasant
character. BY pursuing this course, we shall come
ioregard each other countrymen, the bond of UNI
ion between US will be strengthened, and we shall
rejoice in the prosperity Of each other"
Lei the foolish old foges buy bundle of corn
stalks to dam up the current OF Niagara, or borrow
dame Partington's mop. with which she went into
that far famed encounter with the rolling Atlantic
and expect to succeed; but let them not ATTEMPT by
mlnGestoes like this to stihe the dictates of humant,
o. guench the aspirations for free and impartial lib
erty TO all ameng people educated as ours hav,
been. in the belief that freedom is Divine giifrcn
God to man f
INFoRmATioN WANFEp-Where are the ca,trid
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