Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-10-05
Col. schouier,s Authorization speech.

Col. Schouier's Authorization Speech.
1t is now a week since Colonel Schouler delivered
his Anti Coalition speech. We expected TO see it
in print before this time; and we anticipated that i
would be circulated as "Whig document but
our expectations and antlcipations have not been
realized. Il sleeps in oblivion sightless dumb, and
dead. The destuulion OF "Whig campaign docu-
ments that now exists in Massachusetts, seemed to
to us to demand the publication Of Colonel Schou-
er's speech 1t is true, we have Hon. John Da-
yis's thrilling Grafton on Steamboat boilers; and
Zeno Scudder's imprisoned, brilliant address on
Goldfish, YET independent of these mighty efforts,
there was room we think for the ColonePs speech;
and we believe many wings are Of this opinion also.
1t seems as il his political friends had regarded Col
Schoular's address mere got up affair for the
occasion. They appear to have considered tia kind
of improvsed speech. like that of Balaam's ass, not
fit for any permanent political purpose, and unwor.
thy OF any positive subsequent noice.
We do not undertake to say that they are wrong
if they so consider it, 1t speech entirely
destitute of individuality Il was little of every
thing, without being positively anything. 1t was
ani-W ebser and Ant-Free Soil; anti-s slavery. and
anti-agiaton; anti coalition and anti-consttulon;
and it was also anti Devereux, and, Think some-
hat ante-deluyian.
Colonel SchouIer, no doubt, tried to make ''tell-
ing Speech" speech hat would take, and he sue.
ceeded in some parts admirably. His simple men
ton of the names Of John P. Hale and Judge Allen
were, we think, the most effective parts OF his ad-
dress. The audience seemed, by their loud plaud'
its, most to appreciate those points. But, like all
men who try to please everybody, Mr.. SchouIer f.
naIy succeeded in satisfying nobody. He rode on
his ass and carried his ass, very pleasantly, but he,
Of cou Sc, pleased nobody and lost his into the
bargain. He intent upon balancing the slave
policy, the cotton policy, the sugar police, the cod
fish policy, and all the Other policies, upon the tip
of his nose, at once that they all fell off and left
him looking up at the nothing he had been attempt
ing to do.
Among the many other things that Colonel Schou-
Ter said was the assertion that the 'Free Democra~
cy'' fight against dead issues. We deny it and we
Join issue With Colonel Schouler on this point
What dead issue do we fight against? Is the extern
sion of slavery dead issue! Do we not hear, by
every mail, that the slave power is seeking 10 en-
slave the southern half of California, having dornn-
ion already over the whole state, horugh vlainous
conjunction of municipal and national Fugitive
Slave Laws.
The slave power is more potent and more aggres-
sive than at any former period Not satisfied with
the immense acquisition of territory to Texas, from
which TO make new Slave States, and with the open
ing Of all New Mexico and Utah to its intrusons,
it seeks to put down the liberty OF both the
press and Of speech, and has compelled the organi
cations Of both the old political parties to succumb
to its schemes. Col. Schouler himself is engaged,
day and night in the attempt to bring an admin.
istraton into power, edged 10 gag the people and
the press, and to prevent any opposition by word
writing 10 Slavery the slave power ''Dead Is
Sues forsooth
We call it a s'quick ISSUE and not dead one.-
Does Col. Schouler call that volcanic power dead,
which is shaking this republic to its centre, and
throwing its spectral shadow on our Counlry's lu.
ture Is it mol a deathly instead Of a dead issue
that has destroyed the glory and power of almost
every Statesman in the nation /; and that has
duced, corrupted and debased almostevery politician
from Daniel Webster down to Col. SchouIer7 We
hold that it is not only living, but aggressive
power, and as such, we combat it and we wall com
bat it, so long as it polutes Country's honor,
with its eprous life. 1t may please doughfaces and
towards to pretend that there is necessity for ag
itation against slavery, that being /" dead issue"
If they really could be assured Of this, conscience
might go 10 sleep but is not ''dead issue and
they know it and if they-~ill not acknowledge
that il is not, the Free Democracy are determined
that they shall hear about il.
There was one point in reation'to General Deyer.
eux that we thought very disIngenuous and very rep
rehensbe in Colonel Schouler's speech. In speak,
ing Of that officers sale of the shed, guns, &C., and
his pockeiing the money, Colonel Schouler, while
not defending the frauds, said the small amount of
them was a little affair to make a noise about
Now is honesty thing Of gradations, like the mu-
steal gainut, or is it moral principle?
Are not General Deyercuxs acts Of peculation,
though small in amount compared with the Galphin
positive acts Of disbonesIyl Or does /
Colonel Schouler, like many other wings, Judge Of
official acts Of fraud by comparison? We think
that the smaness of the amount does not AFFECT the