Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-08-14
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hearts upon it, and talk confidently of success in the
des OF November, they used do in the old days of
Wing supremacy, the leaders of the patty had he
ayed the masses who conGded in them, and crouched
in humble submission to the slave power. They seem
to entertain the idea, that the hardy intelligent, and
virtuous yeomanry Of the Bay State, will follow the soil
ed and tttered banner of the party, that bears
no other Inscription than sSLAvERy FOREVER, AND
IMPLIcrT OBEDIENCE TO THE DEMANDS OF THE
SLAvEocRAcY," with the same alacrity as in years
gone by when its msullied folds bore the inspiring mot
to, CELEBRITY AND UNION, Now AND FOREVER
ONE AND lYsEPARABLE."
They seem to forget that the people read, and thnk,
that Notwithstanding all that the leaders ofhe party have
done. the brbes they have tken and the principles Of
honesty and integrity they have sacrificed, that the
pacity is still retained by the Masses of looking back
upon the past. as well onward TO the future. That
they cannot be cajoled into support of measures
this late day in the history Of the republic, against
which they have all their lives commended, or Of men
upon whose brows the seal of republican prn-
ciples has been set by the iron pen of history.
When Arnold betrayed the honorable trust confded
to his supposed patriotism by the father Of his country,
it in his power make the rank and file ofthe
army, who had looked him for advice in the day of
trial. and encouragement in the day of bate partakers
in his crime. The gold Of Britain jngled in his pock
ct, and the gtterng rewards of his ured him
to its commission, but American hearts beat in the
bosoms of his valorous companions in arms and the
prize they sought was Liberty In taking upon them
selves their oath Of eaty the of the country,
they remembered that it was for principles that they
tended at the detection Of leader altered the
dons Of their lives, under the iron hand Of Britain,
and they the end. No doubt, the short
sighted dipomatsts who alured him TO nfamy, deem
ed that by his purchase, their won,
the trucking slaves Of Mammon and Of tyran
ny, deem that the gospel of the ledger is of
account with the Of the people, than the letter of
the Constitution and the doctrines of the Bible; and
that they will endorse and sustain the vilainy which
the great man Of the party has planned But, as in the
case Of the first, in the last aso will they find their
mistake. The conscientious convictions of Massachu
sets to be changed IN hour. 1t for
abstraction that their fathers periled ALL in the dark
days Of the revolution, and the people know it. The
Constitution Of their country they read and by the
help of the great expounders master-nind, exerted in
his better days, they enabled TO comprehend it,
and those only show their weakness and their folly,
when they expect popuarize system of tyranny upon
the free soil of Massachusetts, and bind the descendants
ofthe men who fought at Lexington, and Breeds Hill,
the maintenance Of their infamous bargains with tho
"Massachuseus redeemed" that has good sound
and we verify believe that such an event is to shine
. upon no very distant page of her future; but that
redemption is not such they look for. In
their vocabulary, redemption is but another name for
prostitution and servy; and the people, when they
arise in the might Of their integrity, will show them
they will none of that But Massachusetts is TO be re-
deemed, nevertheless, in the and literal meaning of
the phrase She is to be redeemed from the dgrace to
which she has been brought by the statesmen whom she
has honored, and in whom she has put her She
is to be redeemed from the thadom of money and her
citizens, at the balobox, will throw off the letters o.
commerce and cotton, which the capitalists Of the sea-
, board have attempted bind around the souls of the
people. She to be redeemed from the Vaccinations
of that den Of vpers, who poison the tree of liberty at
the root, by constituting the Constitution as an nstrn-
ment made for the preservation of free institutions
but for the perpetuaon Of Slavery. She is to be re-
deemed from that condition OF vassalage in which she
!, now stands in regard to the Southern States-which
lncarcerates her citizens in Southern PRISONS for no
crime but the color Of their sknswhich prevents them
h even upon her sacred SOIL from defending the in
alienabIe right TO liberty by jury trial. while it makes
every inch Of her territory hunting ground Of men, and
declares the practice the paines Christian virtues to
r be treason against the government. Massachusetts
to be redeemed from the disgrace Of the scenes which
her metropolis witnessed in the capture Of Sha1rach
by her police, the extradition of Thomas Sims by the
aid Of the consabuary Of her chief cy and her Judges
crawling with Bonded necks and 10 serviIe posures 10
the bench Of justice. From all these things Massachu
sets to be redeemed, through the incompatible virtue of
her people, speaking the baotbox.
. They reckon without their host, who expect to de-
base the State their own cyel, and enre her Gill
zens to endorse the treason Of Webster and the moral
cowardice Of Winthrop and others like him. The
signs Of the unfavorablc to their hopes, and
the prognostcs OF the political sky anything but en-
coaraging their wishes In the $4,000 independent
voters who broke the lies Of parry, in 1913, becalse
they loved honesty better than name which had ceased
orepresen principle, in that unity Of purpose which
placed the Wing party, in 1850, in minority of 1000
in the popular vote, and sent Charles Sumner to thc
Senate Of the United States, place Of the arch apps.
tate, Daniel Webster, or his iimd arnor-bearer, Win
hrop,in the passage ofhat law by which the cspion-
age Of the billotbox ceases,n the harmony Of senli-
men which now preyaf among honest men Of all par.
ties, 10 Keep The State free from The domination d men
whose servile acs have shown them to be unworthy to
be trusted with power, they may if they will, how
vain and impolen their endeayors will prove. Massa.
chusetts will be true 10 her ancient iahe and under
leadership can any party hope succeed, which does