Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-10-22
AMEsBURY. Esd OH Mo- I853


AMEsBURY, 23d, 9th Mo-, 1858.
have received your note, inviting me to at
tend meeting of the Free Democracy,to be held
in New York on The 29h inst.
regret that the state of my health will not
permit me TO comply with your invitation. 1t
would give me real pleasure to meet with you on
an occasion Of so much interest," so full Of prom
Use to the cause in which we are engaged.
The late elections in Milne and Vermont have
given the balance ofpower IN both ofthese States
10 the Free Democracy A United States Sena-
tor Is to be elected from each, and none but de-
cided opponents OF the Fugitive Slave Law, have
any chance Of success. There are strong reasons
for hoping that New Hampshire will follow their
example
In Massachusetts, the cause of Freedom was
never so slIong as d; this hour. Our late Com
vention at Fitchburg was full and enthusiastic,
and our Stale ticket commands the respect Of all
parties. Our friends are active and confident of
success. five fail, at least it will be from no
lack Of labor and vigilance.
scarcely know whether the present peculiar
position of parties i'll your State is cause of re-
greet or congraiulation profess no skill for solv-
ing, at this distance, the riddle of New York
politics. 1t is your business to stand watchfa
and prepared, awaiting yourselves Of any turn in
the political kaleidoscope which promises directly
or otherwise 10 promote the great object you have
In view. One thing you may rely safely upon
nobody, except the lowest class of official kid
nappers, supports the Fugitive Slave Law from
love of It, The men who swear by the BaIti-
more platform to day, will be very glad of fair
pretext for swearing by that Of Buffalo Tomorrow
Nobody suspects that the priests and politicians
who defend the Fugitive Slave Law on ScripturaI
and constitutional grounds, at heart believe syl-
nli 6 I'll, 4
Mammon loving expounder of commercial Chris
tanily and cotton market ethics TO believe lie
so moustrous
The late attempts to enforce this atrocious law
at Niagara, Wilkesbarre, and Cincinnati, have
been marked on the pare of the official and unoE-
hclal ruftlans concerned in them, by bastard
cruelty and low brutality which would drive a
Bedouin Arab 10 disgrace from his caravan, and
put FeJee Islander in tattoo as unfit for the So
ciety of respectable canlibals. Where is the
priest who dares to lift up his hands to Heaven
and pray for the success ofsuch atrocities? Where
is the Union-serving bunker or Castle Garden
patriot who can look an honest man in the face
and justify them? lfthere be any such they must
be in the condition of the traficker in the German
tale, who bartefed off his heart of flesh for cob
bic stone. q OH
In truth, whatever party caucusses may re-.
satisfaction ofknowing that the heart of the peo-
pie Is with us--that the common instincts Of hu-
iran nature, as God made it, are on our slde
We have great allies,
Powers that work Tor US, air, earth and skies;
Our friends are civilizations, agones,
And love, and mans unconqul table mind
Every noble utterance. and every brave deed
for Freedom the world over rebounds TO our ben
eht. The elOquence Of Victor Hugo over the
graves OF his companions in the Isle of Jersey land
the rescue of the Hungarian exile in the Bay of
Smyrna, are part and parcel in our great move-
ment. Thus circumslaDced, let us, by our Wig
lance and devotion, deserve the success which
must sooner or later crown our efforts
am, gentleman, your friend and co laborer,
JOHN g. WHITTIER.
E. A. Stansbury, Mithborne Tompkins, M. b. Bry-
ant, W. NJ. McDermol, Geo. w. Rose, Esqs,
COMMITTEE