Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-31
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WEDNESDAY. MAY 81. 1854.
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@Fellow subjects of Virginia. Such was
the spostrothe of an orator, to the citizens of
=. sfassachusetts, on Friday last. It produced a
.,orm Of indignant denial, but tire Speaker
rafused to take it back. Why should hel 1t
was d cutting, humiliating title to apply to
the descendants of the Pilgrims, and the grand
sons of Hancock. Warren, Otis, sAdams, and
Prescott, but then it was essentially true; and
why should be recanti
: What are we, after all, but the subjects and
tools of the South They have no national
purpose or feeling, in common with us, They
scorn and dcspise the principles of Liberty
whioh our fathers died for, and which our
mothers have instilled into US. They trample
mon the Constitution, which their fathers and
ours made, whenever that Constitution inter
noses between common justice and humanity,
and the extension of the curse Of Slavery.
They make compacts with us; and when we,
have complied with all the conditions of those
.,mpacis, usey repudiate their obligations and
spit in our faces if we dare to complain. The
bribed and purchased doughfaces of the North,
under the sanction of Legislative authority,
make compromises with them, and if We re-
fuse to fulfil those compromises, with alacity,
they march mercenary troops into our Court
Houses aud patrol our streets with the hired
assassins, which they have gathered together
( from the ofscourings and scum of Europe
On our own soil, and within the shadow of
our own legislative halls, where we have
enacted laws to prevent the Dissertation of our
public buildings, by the bloodhounds of sla-
very, they have laughed at, deded, and deride1
our State laws; and have shown US that they
viii and can make Slave pen of any Court
House in Massachusetts. If we are not SUBJ
iects of the South, what are wes If we had
been free, sovereign citizens Of true repub-
hc would we not have been able to save Ne
braskai But we could not save it. The
South took it from as, and before the sign
manuel of Frank Pierce was attached to the
infamous act, Southern man-hunters came
right into New York and Boston, and dragged
. of, to slavery, four men in the face and eyes
of their subjects-our people.
The Union--what is 1T Southern States
men openly ayow that it is only a convenient
instruInentality by which they make tools of
the North, for the building up of future
Southern empire. With the Union the South
can steal Mexico, Cuba, Hayti, and Domini-
ca, annex them, and by this means CONSOLE
date Southern oligarchy, which when the
time comes, will cast itself loose from the
North, and free itself from the feeble querulous-
nessof people who consent to nourish sla-
very with their blood and bones, butcondemn
it with their lips. When we have been used
long enough to help the South to become
strong, solid, slave confederacy; then the
South viii kick US out of the Union. If we
are not the subjects of the South, what are
WEI But will we remain SOL That is the
question. VIII we still consent to be tram
pied on, spat upon, used, abused, and cheated
as we have hitherto been, by the slave poweri
Let us gather round the graves of our fathers.
take counsel from their example, and be what
the sons Of such fathers should be.