Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-09-20

ocratc party and the Wing patty tell US that this
law shall remain as final settlement ofthls sub
ject The Wing party,n is true, reserve to
themselves the right Of making it more bGr6Gr-
Gus. Butt is to remain law and continue in
force while time shall last. Yes, when the
''archangel shall descend from heaven with a
rainbow upon his head, and, placing one foot up
on the earth, and the other upon the sea, shall
st0eGr By Him lcho Liveth foreuer and ever, that
time shall be no longer" the dread summons
shall find the people Of Philadelphia, New York,
and Boston upon the 'iqui UiUe," hunting for
slave mothers, who have fed from all else they
hold dear in life, in older to enjoy liberty There,
Wings and Democrats will be found supporting
this law and when they shall close their eyes
upon terrestrial objects, they will be listening to
the baying of bloodhounds, the clanking ofchains,
and shreks of slaves, the roar of muskets, the
dying groans Of slave catchers, and their wound
ed associates, the bloodhounds; the last death
sigh of murdered lugitives, will all rise from this
earth and minge with the archangel's voice, as
he shall summon us all 10 the bar Of fna! retribu
ton. / would speak of the future with solemni-
ty, but if men are to carry with them into the
coming world their leading traits of character, as
some hold, it would seem that their residence in
the spirit world will be made vocal with the sighs
and groans, and shrieks Of associated beings.
But both parties and their candidates are pledg-
ed to maiutan this infamous law. And they will
ssresist'' and ssdscountenance'' all agitation in
regard to it, Sin Congress or out Of it, The
policy of silencng discussion upon it must be APP
parent to every man. The shareholders demand
ed the passage of this law Northern dough-
faces submitted; some voted for It; others fed
the Hall. They then knew it would be death to
the measure, and political obliterat'on TO them
selves, to discuss it; and therefore voted against
its discussion, against all agitation, and minority
Of this body actually passed it under the previous
question: and now wings and democrats say it
never shall be discussed. That, when our peo
pie Of the North see fellow beng seized, chain
ed, dragged into slavery, and sold and hogged,
they shall say nothing aboutit, here or elsewhere,
That they shall look upon the murdered corpses
of fugitives shot down by the agents OF Govern
ment, and may moan over their barbarity, bat
they must not discuss, they must not agltate The
repeal of this law. Well, sir, assure them the
people will discuss these things; they will hurl
from power and from place, the men who thus
contemn the popular feeling.
But, it is said through the Wing press, that
we cannot repeal this law. | saw, this morning,
an article, In some respects an able article, de-
nouncng this law, in Wing paper, professedly
anti-slaverY. The editor, however, admitted
that the law would not be repealed, perhaps, for
twenty years. sir, the admission shows the au-
thor to be unconscious of the peoples power.
1t is this miserable, cowardly submission to the
slave interest, " hch has degraded Northern men.
Let the people send to this body forty members,
whose hearts are devoted to freedom, who have
confidence in the power of truth, and this law
will be repealed in six weeks. 1t will be swept
from our statute book, and curses, deep and loud,
will rest upon its authors
The editor to whom alluded, proposes that
we shall contribute from the national fun S to pay
for fugltives could have forgiven the editor for
almost any other political offence. What, SIR,
are the descendants of the Pilgrims, of those who
bled at Bunker Hill, and on every battlefield of
the Revolution, rather than paya paltry tax on
tea, and on stamped paper, suplnely to become
tributary to Southern task -masters? When the
barbarans Of Algers seized and enslaved our peo-
Die, we sent an armed force there and slew them,
holding them unworthy of place upon Gods
footstooI.
No, sir, by all the halIowed associations which
cluster around the memory of English and Amerl-
can patriots, | avow and declare that l would
sooner see every Shareholder of the nation hanged
than to witness the suhlugatlon OF Northern free
men to such humiliating condition. No, sir,
when it comes TO that /, for one, shall be pre-
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God of battles | am a man Of peace, but am
no non-resistant, and would sooner the ashes of
my hearth-stone should be sIaked in my own
blood, and the blood of my children, than sub
NIT to such degradation. And here | will take
occasion to say, that if this law remains in force,
civil war is inevitable. The people will not sub
nit to it. Why, sir, civil war already exists.
AT Christiana, civil war, with all its circumstance
of force. under color of law-reslstance In de-
tense of natural right bloodshed and death took
place. In my own Stale, similar transaction
occurred; and assure gentlemen that other in
stances will occur if attempts be made to enforce
that law. Inmy own District are nyfugtives,
who have informed their masters where they may
be found. These men have become desperate.
They desire 10 see the slave-catchers. They
pant for an opportunity to make their oppressors
ssbite the dust" Sir, send on your commission
ers and deputy marshal's and bood-hounds, and
Iassure you that civil war will soon be in active
progress.
Sir, gentlemen talk of enforcing this law. 1t
cannot be done The people have already passed
sentence upon it, and upon It's authors; and that
sentence will be speedily executed. Nor can you
stop agitation in regard to it.
Agitation, discussion, and examination, are the
agenis-the instruments-for carrying forward
all reforms. The Saviour Of man spoke truths
boldly They fell harshy upon the ears of scribes,
.pharisees and hypocrites. They denounced him
as an sgitator; seized, tried, condemned, and
crucifed him as an agitator. From that day to
the present, every man who has boldly avowed
truths unwelcome to the ears of despols, tyrants,
and the oppressors Of our race, have been de-
nounced as asitators. Jefferson, in the Declare
ton Of American Independence; Samuel Adams,
10 the Continental Congress; Washington, on the
battlefield, were " distinguished agitators;"
John Quincy Adams, while in this Hall, for years
maintanedand defended, with nimilable powers,
the right Of petition, and was denounced through
out the country as an agitaior. He was ar
raigned at the bar of this House, and tried as an
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