Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-06-29

vertise thar they will hunt slaves for much head.
Says the South, cit will be difficult and expensive
bring these bloodhOunds TO Massachusetts, you
must consent to be blood-hounds ior us; and when
we come after painting, bleeding fugitive, it must
be your duty 10 leave your workshops and farms, and
help u.s." Well, you consented 10 that; and 1t IS
inserted in the bill, that all good citizens COM
manded 10 become blood-hounds.
But the provisions are not yet perfect There
must be some mode Of deciding whether the person
hunted is slave OF lreeman; for, under the ele-
waiting Influences of human slavery it has got so at
last, that complexion does not always determine this
matter. There must be some way to prevent the
| possibility Of making mistake. You suggest tue
| trial by jury. The South laughs in your face, and
asks you il you are 10 earnest about il. You look
fossa moment two if you really had idea
of oerg 50; but you think better about it, and final
/ ly you give that up. Laughter
Then the South says, you have in Massachu-
| sets, an old fashioned something, with Latin
name We don't exactly understand how it is,
but it is hard thing to catch negroes where HG-
6eas Corpus is in the way "a laugh) You must not
| apply this HG6eGS Corpus to those persons whom
we call our property. Certainly not, you give
| that up with alacrity also. Laughter.
| Well, now, in all conscience, says you to the
| South, do you want any thing more? Yes. Well,
| what Is It! You must recognize no higher law than
| this sFugitive Slave Law" and the resolutions
pass to sustain it. Are you ready To go that! Yes,
| YOU 20 tndl lOrl6S Oh no, nos ntVtl!l wen, my
friend, It takes good many people to make Stale.
The chosen representatives Of the republican State
| of Massachusetts, Wings and Democrats, have
bound themselves by every consideration, to oppose
! what little attempt this may be to-day at the ex-
preston Of Tree speech. They have resolved that
these measures must be final aud conclusive. They
mean, as has been already said, final on one side
that is say, final far goes to the suppress
sion of free speech and free discussion.
But suppose they want another slave State in Gu
ba, would the Compromises" stand in the way!-
Not at ALL The South PLAYING the game of
"keep what we have, and catch what we cam
Gentlemen, what are you reduced to! What are
| your wives, lighters, and sisters reduced to?-.
Shall they who to be the future mothers of
Massachusetts give birth TO children, who to be
nothing less than human blood hounds whose edu-
cation shall be to scent the path Of the flying fug-
tive, and whose first aspiration shallbe to flesh their
laags in his quiverng limbs! That is the position
TO which Massachusetts is reduced, If this inhuman
policy does receive the pointed rebuke which it
deserves, at the mouths and hands, aud hearts of
its freemen. (Cheers)
1t is most important period in the history Of the
country--in the history of this queston--and in the
history Of the politicians Of the day. Our opponents
everywhere are boxing the movements that are
being made in this Slate by the lends Of free soil,
free speech, and free men, with interest more in
| tense than that with which any OF them regarded
tue proceedings OF lDelf own conventions. Anu my
friends, the calculations they make to the
OF tgietr parties, uepends upon now estimate
they put upon the consciences and intelligence of
their own followers. The democrats base their
hopes upon the strength Of party discipline, and up-
on an idea of the impossiby of the words of free
men penetrating the hearts aud arnlsing the gem
erous impulses OF their followers. The Wings base
their hopes of success, and appeal you for support
upon the ground that they not SO bad as they
represent themselves to be.
remember an anecdote which will illustrate this
point. La Congress, some time ago, there
member from one of the Western States who had
uniformly voted with the South. Al length there
began TO be some excitement among his constituents
upon this question of Free Soil. His people began
TO be moved, so he began to be moved himself One
day he went to of his Free Soil friends and
said, edo you understand how | am in regard to
this new question:" "No," said he, shut know
how the record sands'' "Ah," replied he, ssthat
does not show my position farly'' (Laughter.)
The Wings will, in like manner, try to convince
you that their platform does not show their position
fairly; and they will look for the votes of lreemen
according to the estimates they may form of sin
cerIy. They have entered upon this crusade against
free speech and free thought, boHnd to dscoune-
nance 1t everywhere, in Congress and out Of it.
They will carry this principle into your public coun-
sells. And the oldest man amongst may live long
enough To this principle striving to fad efficient
force and action in statute And if that be so, my
friends, you may find that in such meeting as this
some justice of the peace may be the ckgrnund
making our warrant TO appreheud your speakers
for the crime of agitation ''against the peace of the
Commonwealth, Sc &c."
Il In 1913, remember, it was not considered safe
s.nor prudent for man to express his views. They
would not let Gen. Taylor say whether he was for
or against the Wmot Proviso; and they considered
it fortunate FIR him that he did not say anything
about 1T. The glory of Gen. Cass, at that time
that he a LET which tUo
could translate the meaning of alike, and the dispute
which has so long existed among the learned as to
who The author of the Junius letters was
echpsed by the greater question of what did Gen.
Cass really mean when he wrote the Nicholson let.
ss meant to be SO dbsdt2ep not 5 believe that Cen
partizans throughout the country, in their zeal fm-
his election, and from their dread of losing votes by
any fair Interpretation Of It, construed so as 10
make it seem that al the South he was committed to
Southern interests, and at the North that he was
not committed.
This was in ls4S. At that time mum was the
word with those parties. They represented Taylor
and Cass as being friendly to freedoms principles at
the North, and at the other end of TIE Union as be-
ing pro-savery. A. that time, The appeal was, emo
matter what your opinions are, doh't make them a
political test, don't bring this subject into the Con-,
vention.''
The Democratic party said, "et us stand b ou.
old PLATFORM and the Wing party said, ana
have no resolutions at album! mum j cue Wo!u'
and it Went into the contest without ay decataloi
of its principles.
Well, four years have parsed away ana r 40 they
ask your practical siLiice noD! NO! lhey see
such general cayarg in, such ready acqnescence,
on the part of che leaders Of the party in the Free
States, that they consider they need no longer tam.
per with your ''prgudices They now write the
resolutions erect the platform, send it 10 the Con-
ventn and tell YOU that hat you have got 10 take;
and that very distinguished Massachusetts man,who
proclaimed that even Daniel Webster himself could
not be sustained il he gave his influence against the
Wilrnot Proviso, that very man was foremost in
falling down the feet ofthe slave land yield
ing the most servie submission to their insoent de-
mants.