Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-14


and admiration, the progress of free institu-
tons upon this Continent, from the solemn
covenant of the Pilgrims of the May-Flower,
down along through the dark and stormy TIL
ais Of the revolution, which resulted in the
establishment Of this confederacy of States,
could until recently have imagined, that the
official seat of Washington, and Jefferson,
Madison, and Munroe, and the Adamses,
would ever be dishonored by the presence of
such man,as Frank Pierce: Or that the Sem
ate Chamber of the Nation, which had rung
with the eloquence of the patriots of other,
and better days, would be desecrated by the
drunken ribaldry of Weller, and the obscene
jests of Douglass
But this is not the worst of it. The low men
tai calibre Of Frank Pierce, is as nothing,
compared with that moral deformity, which
manifests itself, in all the acts Of his political
career. The rowdyism, and drunkenness of
Douglass, and Co., in the Senate Chamber, is
as nothing, in comparison with the political
CORRUPTION, that prevails in the White House,
and in the purleus Of the Capitol. There,
men are hired to do the dark, and damning
deeds of wickedness, with money, and with
Office, as the assassins of Venice, and Madrid,
are hired to murder the foes of bad men, who
have no courage themselves to strike blow.
There, treason to Liberty, to the Constitution,
to humanity, and to God, is matter of free
consultation, between the President and his
menials just as the surrender of West Point
was matter of negotiation, and bargain, be-
tween Benedict Arnold, and Major Andre, in
the days of the revolution. An INSCRIPTIONS
executive, bent only upon securing for itself a
continuance in Office, by subserviency to the
slave power, halts at no meanness, hesitates
at no act of dishonor, but with the unblushing
the world of political, and moral baseness,
that even Napoleon, the little, can hardly ex-
pect to surpass.
The Washington Union, the mouth piece of
President Pierce, and the infamous men asso-
ciated with him, bent upon forcing the Ne
braska bill upon the country, in spite of the
circumstances of the people, and in violating
the most solemn compacts, reveals in recent
article an extent of turpitude, and an audacity
of political depravity, hitherto unparalleled in
our own history, and scarcely if ever surpass-
ed by the acts of any government either in
ancient OF modern times.
Not content with misrepresenting the state
of public opinion, to its readers in regard to
the Nebraska Bill, and fearing to trust the
candid and unbiased Judgment of the mem
bers of its party, upon the great question now
at issue, it dares openly to offer brides and
threats to bend them to its purposes.
Here is unofficial announcement, to the
doughfaces of the North, from a recent num-
Der of the U,.ion to which we ask the earnest
attention Of every man in the community.
"If Democratic member of Congress is led
by his Judgment and his conscience to vote
for the bill, as we hope all Democrats will be
led to do, and he returns to his constituents
to encounter the clamor and opposition Of
Wings and Abolitionists together Nth disat-
.fscte2 men of his oton party, no sensible man
at least no man who understands and appre-
ciates the character of the Executive be-
heve that the President will allow such fac
uous men TO tCtetd puDnc patronage 10 over
throw any man at home who has given to
the principles of the bill cordial and consci-
etious support.
Here is revealed, in the darkest colors, the
iniquity of an administration, which, with
the phrases of ''den,ocracy' ON its lips, dares
to threaten and to bride the representatives of
the people, to betray their constituents, to vio-
late the solemn compacts of past generation.
and rob Freedom of her fairest heritage.
Who is there among us that can contem-
plate such condition of public affairs, as is
portrayed in this insolent act of the adminis-
tration, and remain SILENT Who is there, that
after this, will have aught to say, Of the des-
potic DEGREES Of the Gear, the arrogant ''crush-
ings out Of Louis Napoleon, or the Heaven
defying mandates of the Pope Of Rome.
With such despotism at the head of the
Democratic States Of America, let us have no
rebuke for the tyrants Of the old world, unless
perchance, we are ready and prepared to take
our stand with those, who, against such out
rageous assumptions Of power, stand ready to
wage perpetual warfare, and peril all things
in their efforts, to save the republic from the
ruin which impends under the controlling in
Auence of the slave power Of the country.
The GARDNER FRAUD INyEsTIGArIoN.--