Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-05-11
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TUESDAY. MAY IL. 1852.


of Congress, who left the Wing Legislative Caucus
on the memorable 9th day of April last, because the
President, Senator Mangum, ruled resolution out
of order, which affirmed the nality Of the Fugitive
Slave law, This address, besides expressing the
views of those whose signatures attached to it.
probably represents the ideas Of two-thirds Of the for
ty-hye wings in Congress, and Indicates the course
which they will take, either TO conquer and CONTROL OF
TO annihlate the wing party forever. 1t is an impor-
tani document, howevermuch the leaders oflhe Wing
party may affect TO treat the disruption of the eau
Gus and all the consequences growing out of it, as
things of little moment. Ii predicates either the en-
tire Submission Of the northern wings to the mper-
alive commands of the "bolters" and their hackers,
or il herads the destruction Of the party, which be-
trayed itself TO destruction and contempt, when it
consented 60 belle all its antislavery professions.
This address is divided into two parts. 1t is a
historical and argumentative document. In the first
place it gives complete history of the legislative
caucus and in the second, it argues against the cor
rectness of Senator Magnum's ruling that the Com
promise resolution out of order.
The history of the caucus will doubtless he very
interesting to Wings generally. How they will re-
gard the spirit and manifest aim of the address is
for futurity to determine.
1t seems to us that the address is written in
spirit Of insoent buyism and that submission tc IFS
imper tive requirements is impossible to any Wing
who retains one sark ofselfrespect It's language
fairly interpreted is this ave boilers are in mi-
nority, and we know are, but we have the pow
er either to control or break up the Wing parlyand
we are determined either to wholly control or break
up"
The signers Of the address plainly indicate that
they do nor consider any political issue, save the
conservation of slavery, as Of the least political i'm
portance, and they declare that unless the whole
Wing party pledge themselves to conserve it, they
will abandon that party Mt once.
The reason alleged for insisting upon the endorse
ment of the Fugitive Slave Law, is that such ELI
dorsement would stop agitation and secure peace
They pay sorry compliment to the intelligence of
Northern Wings who make such an allegation. The
affirmation Of the "Compromise" has never stopped
agitation and never vii, and the ''botine" Wings
know this perfectly well. Their object is more
subtitle and selfshy polite They know that
the election of a Wing President who is not pledged
to sustain slavery, would be retrograde mol ement,
on their part, likelylo encourage Northern Wings
to do say something between 1852 and 1856 in IA
yor of freedom, and in order to prevent any such
possibility, they to hold noses perpetual
ly to the compromise grindstone, or abandon them
forever.
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the signers of the address osensby play, and they
play i with such bold, open, undisguised ialsity,
that we can only wonder at their cool impudence.-
Selfaggrandizement boldly reveals itself through
the transparent veil of their zeal for the peculiar
institution The men who have issued this adj
dress, have always been noted the most liberal 9f
the Southerners-as they really hate the nsoent
dominion of the slave power but they politicians
however, and they love office, and the conventional
honors to be derived from political position, more
than they love their own IDEAS They see that the
pusanimous doughfaceism Of the Wings Of the
North utter. incapacaes that section of their party
from being anything but the passive tools of the bold
er, manlier section of The South and they therefore
prefer lead the controlling minority, rather than to
Will piidut WHO
always willing to abandon their convictions, rather
than sustain them at the hazard of being cast off by
the save-power.
The North could control the slave power il it had
courage to do SO; and many Southerners, among
them Gentry, Clingman, Humphrey Marshall, would
gladly hail such manifestation Of spirit; but
in the absence Of such courage, they prefer retain
the favor of tie bold minority which governs This
cowardly North, and which compes her to put
them in Office through fear, when she would never
do SO independently and brayely.
The wing presses in the North have received this
address with most respectful gravity, and some OF
them declare that its arguments are worthy Of the
most serious consi 1eraton. To us its arguments
have the tone of commanding officers orders TO
the rank and file of his regiment; and we cannot
imagine how any manly could consider them Sc
riousIy in any other light than that of insult. We
shall see how the Wings will be governed by them,