Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-04-29
Chr Dotlp SPY.
FRIDAY, APRIL 90. lsSs.
The bottom Courier.

We prSas, in another column. an article from the
BostoA Commonwealth Of the 27h April, on the pub
9icsson. by the Boston Courier, Of Advertisement
Of slaves for sale. The Courier Of the 18th replies
TO the Commonwealth. Ii preends thai Il dug
uap fer the abolilious,s, t the rdaicstiOn Of that
advertisements and il eSutngy ASSUMES that 1t has
taught them ia i'springe." And what is this
sspringeq" II is nothing more than the reproduce
lion of the old deughface argument, thai the abui-
tionists, having chance 10 buy the slaves adver.
Used by the ConrTers ought to buy them, aud are
s'hypocrites, and all that sort of thing If they do
moi buy them The Courier, addressing the aboi
tionIsIs, graVely excaims, ''GenlIemen, you have
been promising for years, to Ito something for the
slaves now do it's That is, buy the slaves adFer-
tTsed in the Courier.
A friend ofthe Courier steals man aud alter
using him until he has no further need ol huns gets
the Courier to adveruze him for sale The Courier
has aided and abetted this theft all the time. lthas
maintained H. in contempt Of Gods laws, in the face
Of the Declaration If Independence, and against the
spirit and purpose Of freedom and humanity. Ii has
grown rich BY its connvance with man stealing and
has made money, from its denuncialions Of those
VINO nave COhuCtHtCd StdNtt hs anu
shame. 1t cannot justify IT'S own course in relation
to slavery, aud i, knows that the Of its friend
the Shareholder, is equally indefensble. To escape
from the humiliation Of defending itself, il pucks a
leaf from the portfolio Of the devil, and pretends to
read men lessons Of morality thereIrom The Cou-
rier has instituted an ordeal by which to test The
aboliiionist.
If they do not buy the slaves advertised in its
columns, they will be set down as having "done
nothing If they buy them they will have done
something; i. e. they will have helped to pay the
Courier for the advertisement which becomes its
pages as gracefully as whip becomes the hand
of legalzed woman-whipper
Do you believe that we do nothing for the slave
Mr.. Courier? We used to think that 2, 500 slaves
were run into Canada yearly, on the ground
RAILROAD, whose directors, managers &c, are all
dyed in the wool abolitionsts, We used 10 think
too, that the Courier knew this, and was very in
dignant about it. The Courier boast of having
helped to purchase the freedom of slaves,
aud, demands that we shall do so in THE
instance. We sometimes, very unwilliugly,
we confess, help TO buy slaves too. We
could name ten slaves that we have assisted to
purchase from the despots who held them, for
one such instance by the Courier during the past
FIVE years. We do not like lie put money into
the purses Of men who make merchandise of men.
We would rather carry slave from Worcester
10 the Canadian line, with john Caphart and the
editor Of the Courier in hot pursuit. than pay one
dollar 10 a STAKEHOLDER TO quit his grasp upon the
liberty of his fellow man. But all this does not
alter the main question one jot little. The
STAKEHOLDER acts in contravenlion Of all The laws
of God and humanity; and the doughface Court
er aids and abets him In doing so. Its pretended
participation in certain acts of emancipation may
relieve its blunted conscience for little, but it
cannot by any such self-delusion, relieve itself of
the voluntary. responsibility ii has assumed Of be-
ing the meahest apologlst for slavery north Of Ma
son ard Dxon's line.