Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-06-29
TO THE FRIENDS OF FREEDOM IN
W f MASSACHUSETTS,.

Of politics and of parties and TO take such action in
relation thereto the OF Liberty, Equality,
and Human Rights may demand. The present cri.
sis of or national politics calls for prompt, united
and efficient action, the part of all who are hos
tile to Slavery, and still resoutely bent on firm re-
sstence to the Slave Power, The reaction in ia
vor Of Slavery, which began the seventh of
March, 1850 and has since been urged on by the
efforts Of amhitious demagogues hroug hout tie Free
States, has reached ita eliminating point, and borne
| its proper fruit in the National Conventions of the
Democratic and Wing parties. In both those Com
ventions the Slave power has dictated, almost with
out opposition, the adoption of platforms Of prnc
/ pies which pledge the respective parties, without
| qualification OF reservation, to the remuneration Of
! the Wiluot Proviso, to the perpetual mautainance
Of the Fugitive Slave Law, and TO an entire silence
now and hereafter upon The subject Of slavery. BY
both Conventions, candidat S have been nominated
for the Presidency, who have accepted THEN nomi-
tons with full an ready acquiescence in the pro.
| slavery platforms oftheir respective parties.
| The candidate Of the Democratic party, a New
/ Hampshire politician, who ser we'd, with special
| distinction, in the lat with Mexico, was
| mated chiefly, il would SEEM because throughout
his Congressional and political career he had been,
! to an extent seldom paraeled among Northern men,
the unwavel ing supporter the slave power, voting
steadily with it against the right Of petition, and
against every slavery measure, OF whatever ma
ture or degree.
! The candidute Of the Wing party was nominated
solely on account of his availability as a popular
military chieitain. In the course Of his long life
| he has never shown any public sympathy with the
anti-savery cause. He has on the contrary, within
a short period, openly boasted that i by his in
fuence, that the sentiment Of the North was far
! corrupted or overawed on the floor of Congress-
to submit to the passage of the Compromise meas.
ures, which reject the Wilmot Provso and embrace
| the Fugitive Slave Law. So far as his opinions
were publicly made known before his nomination,
they were identical with those of Willard Fillmore
Wy -.
accepted the candidacy ofthe Wing party with the
explicit declaration that he fully acquiesces in the
platform of its National Convention, which includes
the following resolution:
s'The series of acts of the 3lst Congress, common
" known the Compromise or Adjustment, the act
for the recovery of iugtves from labor included,
received and acquiesced in by the Wings of the
United States settlement, in principle and sub
stance, of the subjects to which they relate, and
far as these acts concerned, will maintain
them, and insist on their strict enforcement, until
time and experience shall demonstrate the necessity
Of further legislation to guard against the evasion of
the laws on the one hand, and the abuse OF their
powers the other, not imparing their present e-
fciency to carry out the requirements OF the COns-
tution and deprecate all further agitation of the
| questions thus settled, dangerous TO peace,
and will discounenance all efforts continue re-
new such agitation whenever, 0haeuer and hoiceuer
made; and tUH maintain this settlement essen
tial TO the nat7naty the Wing party, and the in-
tegrity OF the Un.on."
For this disgraceul resolution, it is worthy Of no.
tice, the entire Wing delegation from Massachusetts
voted with every remark Of cordial and unreserved
appreciation.
Such being the thoroughly pro.savery position Of
the Wing and Democratic parties, the opponents OF
Slavery, in all parts Of the Union, looking with
anxiety and hope to the course Of the Free Soil par
ty. In Massachusetts, at the present moment, that
party has greater relative strength than in any 9th
er State, th@pHsht p6gTtfii:: 70 Eassal:fd.
sets, them the eyes OF every man who loves Free.
dom and hates Slavery, are turned for counsel and
for guidance The number of such men in every
free State, is yet great and increasing, notwhstand-
ing the shameful detection of certain prominent poll
tcians and presses in some Of the States The alb
surd panic about the Union, which was got no 10
serve their own selfish ends, by the ambitious dema-
gogues who have controlled Congress and the Fede-
ial Government since the death Of General Taylor,
has died away, and though it has done mart of ts
expected work, IN forcing the Wing and Democratic
parties into submissive attitude towards the slave
power, 1t has, to the great joy of all true men, left
those who, in the language of John M. CLAYTON.
''raised the ghost of Disunion to get the credit Of
laying u, IN position OF political ''fnalty' from
which they can never again emerge.
With the returning confidence of the people in the
stability OF the Union the anti-slayerv sentiment ia
revivng, and there is every to believe that il
will speedily manifest itself throug bout the country
with greater strength aud determination than ever
| e.
sents that sentiment, stands erect and firm. Ii has
put the brand OF popular condemnation on Daniel
| Webster, the greatest of the traitors to Freedom
1t has resisted the arts and efforts of the corruot
Federal Government of which he is the actual head.
II has Frustrated the once invincibe Wing party Of
Massachusetts, and has g. ound it, use the words
OF distinguished member of that party ssbetween
the upper and the neither millstone." As, in IS4S.
1t resisted the whirlwnd of military enthusiasm
which swept over the country under the banner of
'Iayor and Free Soil' so, in 1852, il will resist
the same element under its openly embazoned stand
ard OF "Scott and the Fugitive Slave Law'' 1t
VIII pursue, without wavering or falling off the
course II has successfully pursued for the last four
years-the course Of Stern and impartial opposition
alike to Pro-slayery Wings and pro. slavery Demo-
Gratis.
At Worcester, on the Sixth Of July, the Free Soil
party OF Massachusetts will meet in council Its
abest, its most eloquent. its most reliable men will
be there. With them, will assemble also, there is
reason to expect, Of the most distinguished
champions Of Free Soil and Free Speech from other
STATES.
We therefore call upon the Free Sellers of the
| Old Bay State to come up in their flu strength to
the Convention. Let the free blood flow from ali its
extremities to the sound and true Heart Of the Com.
monweath. 1t viii go back refreshed and nvie-
GRATED, carrying new life and health TO every portion
OF the body polite. Let every Free Soer make it
point of duv TO give that day to the cause Let
them come from their farms, their stores and their
workshops, to cheer and enlghten, by their pres.
ence, the councils which will be held at Worcester,
| and to swell the voice of encouragement which will
go forth from thence to the remotest sections of the
Union, to strengthen the hopes of Freedom, and to
strike terror ialo the minions Of the Slave Power
| Henry Wilson, Natick, Geo. r. Williams, Boston
| e. :. Reyes, Dedhqsi, A. G. Brown, SakeBt
! J. B. Alley, Lynn, J. w Graves, Lo,eeu
D: w. Alvord. Greenfeid, G. M. Brooks, Concord,
! w. B. Spooner, Boston, Charles White, Worcester,
| N. Hlnckey, BurnStGbIe, II. Hopkins, ~. H0uDfon