Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-08
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'Pur Tsst,p AS UNDERSTOOD BY THE RULING
CLAss.-Let us turn away from the peddhng,
wooden nutmeg politicians Of the North, and
hear what the naughty and out-spoken south
has to say of the real issue presented ny the
Nebraska bill. The Richmond (Va) Enquirer,
paper which may be regarded as an authora-
tative exponent Of the views and policy OF the
Ruling Class-the Slaveholding Autocracy-
disdaining the low trickery of the Northern
Services, spurning all dastardly evasion, boldly
declares that the passage of the Nebraska Bin
will infuse into slavery the ''vitality OF an ex-
pansive and progressive institution" and leave
ssthe question of its expansion to be determine
ed by its own energies and volition, not by
that Elusive abstraction, the right OF the Peo-
pie Of a Territory to govern themselves. viii
the people of the North ponder well the follow
ing extract from leading editorial in that jour
nal of the I'd of March:
"There has never been dispute between the
South and its enemies in the North, which has
excited so intense and universal an interest
among the people of the South, as exists now
III regard to the Nebraska controversy.
Heretofore the struggle has been about ex
pedients and measures of partial and tempo
raIy character; now the issue is one Of vital
principle In behalf of this principle of nom
Intervention, as illustrated and established in
the Nebraska bill, the entire pro-slavery SEN
timent of the South is enlisted with all its ar
dor and energy. Every previous conflict was
nothing more than skirmish, in comparison
with this momentous struggle between Slave
~ and Abolitionism. Heretofore, slight adj
yantages have been lost and won, but the is
sue of this controversy will determine tho
question so essential TO the interests of the
South--whether Slavery is to possess the VI
tality of an expansive and progressive institu-
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weight of an irresistible opposition. We are
not so simple as to suppose, with some, that
the passage Of the Nebraska bill will settle the
matter in dispute between the North and the
South. But it will do this; it will shift the
theatre Of tho war--it will detach the FEEDER
al Government from its alliance with Adolf
tionism, and it will relieve the South of an
odious and Ubiquitous restriction
1T viii place the South precisely in the
position which it should occupy in contempla-
ton of the Constitution, and it will leave the
question Of the expansion of Slavery to be de-
ternined by its own energias and volition. 1t
is in this light that the people Of the South
regard the repeal Of the Missouri restriction.
and it is because of its effect in vindicating the
rights ana enlarging thesphere Of Slavery, that
they support the measure with such zeal and
unanimity. ~fes,s 8 IS.
1t is absurd to say that the South feels no
concern about the issue Of the Nebraska con-
troyersy, in face Of the fact that the Southern
people are unanimous in support of the meas
ure. On no former occasion of sectional con-
troversy was this the case. 1t has been the
misfortune of the South, that its own people
have been divided in every crisis of peril to its
institutions, but now, for the first time, they
are thoroughly and cordially united This
fact sufficiently attests the anxiety with which
the Southern people anticipate the issue Of the
struggles, and their conviction Of the impor-
lance of the interests and the principlesgnvol-
! we'd III the fate of the bill" s
IN the face Of these declarations, tricksters
at the North tell us that the questions Of
Slavery is to be be left to the disposal of tho
squatters in any Territory; Quietists at the
North admonish US against unnecessary ex-
element; dilettante statesmen inform us that,
after all, the question is of little practical i'm
portance And it is under such influences
that the North in the hands of the South is as
clay in the hands of the potter Keen-sghted
enough in matters of Trade, in Politics it aban-
dons itself to the guidance of men without
brains or back bones. ~ atiinai Era.