Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-12-21
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THURSDAY, DEC. 81, 1854.
The Way lho wind Blows.

the parity III NAh5SaCnubetIsy were eApIlclt
upon this point and, none more so than the
Worcester Journal. The editor of that paper,
when he commenced his career as prophet
of Know Nothingism, wrote flaming Anti
we felt half inclined to believe that he was
siucere in the sentiments they expressed, al
though we knew he had been so recently a
g Brad Wales democrat" We were almost
willing is believe, upon the principles of po-
litical metamorphoses, that in becoming a
Know Nothing he had become a burning
friend of universal American liberty. But
the wind of the Journal begins to veer round.
He now. expresses himself willing to lay anti
slavery on the shelf and go with Senator Ad-
ans, of Mississippi, and Mr.. Sellers of Mary
land, ''as brother ~ in making the alteration
of the Naturalization laws the only political
issue for the next three years.
Senator Adams wishes to alter the Natural.
ization laws, because foreigners, who settle in
the West, become Anti Slavery men-and be-
cause the citizens of Chicago, born in Ger
many, burnt Judge Douglas in effigy on ac-
count of his Nebrascality. And, Mr.. Sellers
goes in for Know Nothingsm because it ig.
nores the Slavery question.
The editor Of the Worcester Journal unites
as a brother with these men, knowing upon
what grounds they accept fhis brotherly aid.
He too agrees to ignore the slavery question,
and thus admits the validity Ct the slavehold-
e..
arc opposed to slave catching in Illinois, and
who burnt Stephen Arnold Douglas in efigy.
1t may be inferred by some who have not
read the Journal of the 18th inst, that we are
making an argument on circumstantial evil
dence; but such is not the fact. The Journal
of that date says:
ssAdams, in the Senate, has introduced a
bill for changing the present naturalization
laws, and substituting twenty one for five
years; while Sellers, in the House, aided by
friends too numerous to mention, is at work
on bill of the same character as that men
toned above"
This announcement is commendatory.-
There is not a word about the why and where
fore of Adams and Sellers moving in this mat
ter. They move on pro-slavery grounds; but
the Worcester Journal ignores this fact.
1t surrounds them with all the high, heroic
attributes of generous chivalry. 1t remem-
bers to forget that they buy, sell, whip, and
hunt "niggers." 1t takes them to its arms
with all the feryor and fondness of "broth-
err" 1t says:
ssThey labor for us and battle for our rights
let us nobly and generously support them,
and aerer let as be iRtinsidGted in the discharge
of our duty, BIZ the cry that zoe are but the dupes
of the slGae poUer, toho hare seized hold Of this
increment means of G1laying the slGuery
agitation. Our duty is simple, our path plain,
because, FOR THREE YEARS PROM NEXT MARCH,
Two-THIRDs OF THE SENATE VILE BE OPPOSED
TO THE REPEAL OF THE KANzAs-NEBRAsKA
BILL"
The above language is g very familiar to
anti-slavery men. The editor of the JoarnGy
is not the author of it. Silver Greys, Nation
al Wings, National Democrats, and hunkers
and doughfaces of every stripe and degree
have, for the last twenty-five years, been ring.
ing the changes upon that same tune. Let
us hold our tongues about this slavery bust
ness; and, unite as a band of brothers in pre-
serving our glorious institutions, and our
equally glorious union" has long been the
standing sentiment of the bunker parties.-
The arrogant South will be perfectly satisfied
with this programme; for, the craven north
could not do any more to satisfyit. This sub
missive silence-this base reputation of the
question of slavery by the North-is all that
the Baltimore Conventions and bunker eau
cuses labored to obtain. If they obtain it
through Know Nothingism, how much less
than the old parties is Know Nothingism an
enemy to free speech, free thought, and free
soil The slavery propaganda do not care a
snap of their fingers for the repeal of the nat
uralization laws. But If they can seal the
lips of the North, and bind up its eyes, SO that
Dominica and Cuba can be annexed, and sla-
very extended over the whole continent, with
out agitation = they win be ready to simu.
late Know Nothingism, or anything else that
can. be proposed to them.
viii the men who have stood up bravely in
years past, against the arrant doughfaceism Of
the Wing and Democratic parties, now bow
down, with the Journal, at the feet of Sena-
tor Adamss Shall the bloodhounds of sla-
very be quietly permitted to drag americans
from our midst, and consign them to bondage,
and we be satisfied with such verbiage as the
followings
Let us abide steadiastly byour principles,
and welcome every as brother who
heartily labors with us for the modification Of
those laws, which, as they now are, threaten
to subvert the liberties of the American
Union"
Slavery has already subverted the liberties
of the American Union. 1t has mortgaged
every foot of land in the Union and, has cir
cumscribed every mans freedom and subsi-
died every mans pocket. The President, the
Senate, the House, the Judges, the Executive
officers, and a large number of the Northern
magistrates are against freedom. If Know.
Nothingism induces the people also, to turn
against it, for the sake of Southern friendship,
what will be left for us to contend fors The
Journal is drifting into the Southern current,
will Anti-Slavery Know Nothings follow in
its wake
FIRH.-At New York, on the Goth inst, a
destructive fire broke out destroying a num-
Der of buildings on Broadway, between Grand
u Al A