Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-02-04
WORCESTER DAILY SPY;
r,-rspAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1851.
The Union.

orf,iroess TO its political opponents publishes som
hI,d extracts from recent article in the Spy, anC
so.on,Danvrng the same, with of its own effn.
Sims seeks by the same ingenious device that the
counterfter makes use of, when he converts into
20 to convict US and the Free Soil party of hostil-
i,v to The Union of these States.
Itisneedless ol us to go into any argument defence
Of ourselves or the party of Freedom from the char
oes or the Post. We the Union, and we trust
thot the dav NAV never come, when the ties that
hind these States in great conlederacy shall be
severed; but our love for the Union Is not to blind
our ewes to the signs of the times, seal our lips
against the utterance of voice in warning, when
we see the efforts Of such politicians as the Post and
the squad of old Hunkers of which ii is the mouth
niece nut forward to sustain such measures as
tend to weaken every mans faith at the North, in
the once undsputed dea that the benefits OF the I'm
ion are reciprocal and universal.
We saw what we know to be true, when we say
that such prints the Post Advertiser and Courier,
are doing more for the propagation of disunon sentl
ments among the people of the North, than hun
bred or thousand such papers the Liberator or
hundred or thousand such editors as Garrison
The people of this country have been educated in
the idea that the press conservator OF the rights
ofthe people, that ii is defense and shield against
injustice and niquty; that its voice uttered in de-
nunciation of wrong in high places, carries power
with it which could make the wrong succumb
and enthrone the right again in its stead We say that
the people of this country have been educated into this
ide of the high responsibility and potent influence
the press, and their disappointment when it proves
treacherous to its trust, when it short of that jut
expectation which the people hope to realize, is bitter
indeed.
What right of the citizens OF Massachusetts does the
Post uphold or defend, the Slave power resolves that
the right shall be taken away Deriving large por-
ton Of its income from the business of the Commercial
marine of the country. does it have word of repro
baton to utter, when the mel, who man those Mer-
chant vessels, citizens of Massachusetts though they
are are imprisoned in Southern ais, sold into per
petual slavery in violation Of the Constitution, and with
out the shadow Of trial before competent tribunal
No not one. When law is passed makhgita pena
fence for man to do deed of common charity, doe.
the Post have anything TO say about it On the con
t,ary, does it not draw largely upon its inventive
powers to discover reasons by which to persuade
men that poIiticalturptude is honorable, and tina
injustice is better than honesty. Our fears for the
Union are grounded more upon the baseness anC
subservlency Of party press, which denies The prln
ers, and which speaks of those who would have that
instrument the ruleuf political action terms ofrd-
cule and reproach The Presses of the great cities,
1T Al
the complete vassals of the slave power. They
speak no audible voice for freedom and humanity.
''Compromise" compromise is the burden oftheir
story, and they dare to intimate the slightest
inconvenience in any that the slave pow
er proposes, however iniquitous it may be. With
them the word COMPROMISE has no other meaning,
than 10 yield up without struggle, on our part,
every political right, to crush out all the best i'm
pulses of our souls, disregard every precept of Chris
tianity, and jog along as best may, under whips
and spurs OF a selfish little olgarchy of 25O,OO0
Shareholders, who being but small minority Of
voters in the nation, have succeeded by the political
patronage and influence which they have contrved to
get into their hands, TO corrupt the asprans of pow
er of both parties, and bend the easy virtue of their
presses to their own unprinciped behests.
The Post need not undertake to read us lecture up
on favorng dsunion sentiments and doctrines, while
the whole tenor of its own teachings is to make the
bond Of Union between the States weaker and weaker
every day We believe that the only way to preserve
the Union is for Northern men to stand up firmly in de
fence of their rights under the Constitution speak,
write and act in defence of civil liberty with the same
energy that is manifested by the South against it.
The people already in advance of thoss
who pretend to lead public opinion. They dare TO
think for themselves now, and that they wilton day
the rights and prerogatives that the constitution
guarantees, have shadow Of doubt. If the Union
falls by such manly action Of theirs, will only prove
to be the result not Of any desire the part of lib
ety loving citizens to bring about such unfortunate
condition. but because ubiquitous measures which pro-
hgate politicians have made otto themselves IN
powa have corrupted every function of the Govern.
that the great principles of constitutional freedom
upon which the government founded have lost theil
cohesive strength and the most cherished institutions
for the preservation Of liberty, have been destroyed OF
converted into the instruments Of tyrany injustice anc
oppression.
We believe that the best way to preserve the Unor
is for men to act mauly part The Post believes tina
the best way to the end, for men to b.
sIavsh and mean. We are well satisfied not to agree
with it, for know that in the end the right will tri
umph and that freedom and justice are eternal, and
be eternaly established.
~ The Iowa Legislature have passed law 70
the removal of all free negroes who may hereafter SET
lie in that State.