Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-04
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SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1854.


The Prospect Before Us.
While we can see no encouraging indications
that the Nebraska Bill win pass both bodies
cfthe National Legislature, there are vet good
cmens to cheer us on every hand and to en-
courage our hopes that the time is not far dis
sant when the discovery Of ''North'' viii be
made, and the united people Of that section
will make themselves heard and needed The
outrageous iniquity of the purposes of the
South, as revealed by the features Of the Ne
hraska blu, has unsealed the eyes of the most
conservative men in the free states and open
ed the batteries of the most conservative pres
SEES, with the exception Of those only who are
bribsa not to see, and whose raise is purchased
by the distribution Of the patronage of the ex :
ecution.
The tone of the Wing Press throughout the
free States is out-spoken and manly, and we
have yet to learn that single newspaper of
any influence, in that party upholds the pur-
posed invasion of northern rights, through the
infraction of the solemn compact of 1920
Northern States where its moral sense has not
been crushed out blythe dread of the powers
that be, is acting noble part in arousing the
men of that party to sense of the impending
danger. Politicians, WHOM 1850, were down
upon their knees, before the slave power, and
upon their feet upon the platforms of public
assemblies exhorting their neighbors to "con-
quer their prejudices;" and to acquiesce in
the decisions of those who had settled all diff
fcrences between the North and the South for
ever BY the concessions and compromises of
that memorable year have found out at last
that what the Free Democracy then predicted
has actually come to pass--that the danger of
real and imminent and have come to the con-
clusion that it is time for the free states to
take firm and united stand against the ag-
gressions and usurpations of the slave power.
Turning our eyes from the scene Of the con-
hict at Washington, it is really refreshing to
observe its effects upon the great mass of the
people. The press, the pulpit, and the ros-
trum speak with one voice against this last
der the domination of slavery, and unless we
greatly mistake the signs Of the times, the pre-
sent agitation is to end in the combination of
the elements of all political parties into one
great united party, whose ruling idea and an
mating principle shall be the restoration of
the government to the policy of its founders.
To such combination the members Of the
Free Democratic party wherever they may be
found, are willing to give their aid and their
influence In crisis like the present, it is
not wise to stand upon matters of etiquette.
Whoever is opposed to the Nebraska bill, and
determined in his own mind to oppose this
nefarious outrage upon the rights Of the free
States is upon our platform, and whatever his
past course may have been, we are willing
that "bygones shall be bygones," if he vii
only act as becomes Northern man and
patriot, aor. For ourselves, we do not care
under whose leadership the next great battle
in these States shall be fought whether Hale
or Seward, or some honest man Of the Demo-
Gratis, shall bear the banner of the party, which
in 1856 viii be organized, to roll back upon
the South, the desolating curses with which
they are striving to deluge the North. We
care nothing for men, nothing for present
organizations, if only that great end can be
accomplished Of denationalizing slavery, and
barring the doors forever against its entrance
into the territories under the sanction of Leg
islative enactments.