Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-11-20
The Progress of slavery.

While the Free Soil party are engaged in de-
Tending constitutional freedom from the dough-
facesm, haakerism, and treason, which are
arrayed against il in the North, the pre-
slavery party are boldly and deiantly pursuing
their schemes of aggression, extension, aud spoil
alton, at the South and South West Covered
BY the Websterized section of the Wing party,
whom they despise while they asc them, the
slave holders plotting fot the division of Cali
fornia, that Slavery may be planted on the
southern portion Fits hitherto free soil; they are
organizing measures to complete the division of
Texas iRlo four new Slave States, in order that
they may secure representative superiority
in the General Legislature; they are fomenling re-
belhon in Mexico, and lending their money and
rifles to subvest the government of that republic,
for the open and avowed purpose of Introducing
slavery into her territory, hitherto free from its
pollution; and they are boldly and unbushingly
carrying on the slave trade in the District of Co.
aumbia, with all its crimes, horrors, and brutali-
ties, aggravated and intensified, Notwithstanding
the law to abolish it, wkich the public was in
formed had been enacted, and with which pleas
ant fiction, the P1o-SaVery party scornfully all
lowed the northern people to fatter themselves.
While the friends of freedom, north of Mason
and D'xcn's line have TO meet the tories of
WhiglsRl, hand to hand, and foot to foot. and
have 10 bend all their energies to pr eserve what
liberty Is guaranteed TO Us by the Constitution.
from henS Sold for cation tho SI,,o-..
dlsts, free from all the impediments which we
might put IN their way, stalk unrestained into
bands until now free, and mortgage them 10
chains and slavery,in the face Of the whole world
which is struggling TO make straight the pathway
OF liberty. 1t is only as we rest from the conflicts
waged within our own borders, for the security
ofour own immediate rights and privileges. that
we can turn cur eyes towards the South: and.
when we do so, we still behold the shadow ofso
clal death-Slavery-throwing its deeper gloom
over the beauti al regions which God made for
freel en-, and we still observe the basest of mas
slons ane interests, minging with abstract repub-
licanism, alloying it with an increasingly baser
alloy, and hardening its nature with more in
tense callousness-
This action Of Prc-slavery, increases daily in
momentum and persisteucy, and can never be
arrested, nor even layed, by any of those ''Iet
alone modes Of policy, which are so grateful to
northern hnnkerism. 1t is only by advancing to at
tack slavery, that we can now hope TO sustain
the violated Constitut of this republic. and tc
preserve II from the inevitable overthrow. which
corrnptlen. treason slsSss5f a-pafry on TIN.
country know. that, in aggression there is power
and though destitute OF moral force, and im.
mense.y our interiors in numbers and actua
power, with this one dynamical instrumentaIity
they conquer us. They attack us in our sacred
homes. They drag US for trial into our owl
Court Houses which they have hung in chains
an mockery Of our rights, and they defy US to ex
ercise the charities Of our religion. They do this
behind fiction Of law, whose throne they hay,
nsurped, while we do nothing but attempt. YER
baiiy.tc prove thatwe are freemen and men, TIL.
Pro-slayery party Of this country has all the ogi
cal advantages which a party affirming fact cal
have while the North. with truth, Justice, right
and reason, on her side, is constrained 10 defen,
herself from assault ALI her energies, tina
should be employed TO strike at the vitals O
slavery, are employed in fencing with that inso
lent power.
Fellow citizens, look to it, and be assured tina
the Phistines are upon us! Slavery is creepin.
over us, and over the future ofour country deter
anlnedly,-sureiy, and ST. rny, while we, who Sc,
at, know it. and would defeat it, must BATH
with the treason that aids it, at our ow,
doors. five would preserve the Republic, thi
giant enemy Of it, Slavery, must be attacked anc
driven within its own borders If we do not d.
so, Mexico. Texas, Southern California, Utah
and even Cuba. will certainly belost to freedom
and Sc shall we