Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-20
-- s.g,hcrn Aggression.


~. S,,,tharn men seek to cloak the haud
which they arc about TO perpe'rate on inc
North. under the protcnce that the aorogauon
.uf the slavery restriction in Nebraska, is a.
hoon. offered them by tho North, and which,
being 50 offered, they cannot refuse. The
falsehood Of this pretenco is SO gross, that
mono would ever resort to it but men, who are
mean enough to sknlk from the performance
1T contract of their own proposing andmak-
ing, after having received in full, tho equiva-
lent for which they stipulated. When has tho
North ever offered them such a boonF The
whole North is unanimous against it, except
the few cravcns, who are in the market for sale,
aud who, in aiding the South to wrest it from
the North. expect their pay, as much as Judas
expected his thirty pieces of silver. But for
the pay that is expected, Benedict Arnold Doug
las never would have made the shameful
proposition, and Franklin Pierce would never
have aided him to carry it out. They and their
conductors, are as much the purchased slaues
of the South to do their bidding in this thing,
as are the negroes that they buy on the auction
block. There is this difference, however, in
the two cases that the experienced slave ira
der knows his customers so we'll, that he will
not trust them, but requires cash in hand OF
good security. Some of those, who are en-
gagged in this iniquity, will get cheated out Of
their wages, as Webster did out of his, and i
the loss should have the Same effect on them
that it did upon him, the country would not
probably, be much losers by it.
When the professional gambler is about TO
swindle his victims out of their honest earn
ings, he usually has his accomplish, who pro-
fesses to be in the interest of the victims, and
to sympathize with them and when the mock
auctionecrs of Wall Street and Broadway
Bwindle the transporting counhyman, some
honest Peter Funk, the protested friend of the
latter, lures him into the. fraud; yet, in both
cases, the accomplish is but the agent and tool
of the principal. It is by similar process,
now well understood, that these political
frauds are effected. When the South is about
to perpetrate some new enormity upon the
North, SO outrageous, so mean, and dishonor-
able, that no Southern man, having character
enough to get into Congress, would submit to
the personal infamy of making the proposition,
they employ Northern tool to do it. When
the gag was to be imposed, they used Ather-
ton, and now they use Douglas, who, though
the proprietor of Southern plantation, with
its hundreds of slaves, from whom he wrests
the fruits of their toll, is a Northern man by
birth and residence. And we may here re-
mark, that it is but an aggrayation of the |
offence, to charge upon the North the doings |
Of the mercenary, whose whole interests are
identified with the South, and who has sacri-
feed honor, principle, and conscience, to those
interests.
Suppose the Nebraska Bill should pass the |
House of Representatives, in its present form,
Ii will be done by the combined vote of the
South, aided by some rs or 80 purchased
traitors from the North. Who gave these rs
or 80 men the authority to represent the
North in opposition to the lis or I20 repre-
sentatives, who are true to their constituents?
Who gave them the authority to release the
South from a compact forced upon the North,
aud for which they have received all the equiv
salent they askeds Who gave them leave to
surrender to slavery this territory, ours by the
most solemn sanctions, and Freedoms by the
same obligations territory whose dedication
to Freedom, is now valued by the North, as
deater than the Union itselfs Should the in
EQUITY be so perpetrated, we ayow our solemn
conviction. that the whole people of the North
viii feel that they are absoived from the obi
CATIONS Of all colhpacts with the South, whether
constitutional or otherwise. They will feel
that a government, so administered, has no
noralaclaims to their allegiance, but whose
anthority is to be accepted or rejected, as con-
yenience or interest may dictate.
We have thought, sometimes, that it might
perhaps be best that this project should pre-
vaiI. Wehave, for some time, been convinced
that the slave power never would concede any
thing to the right, but as it is compelled to;
aud that, whenever its power is broken, it viii
be by some great conyulsion, induced by its
own arrogance and usurpations. This iniquity,
-ifperpetrsted, will tend greatly to hasten that
-time-a time, that, as Christians, we could do
no wrong thing to precipitate, but for which,
all good men viii be thankful, when it is gone
by, that it is past.