The daily union., 1854-02-21
A RETIRED STATESMAN.
From the Boston
The Free-S0il Convention.-War on the Con.
stituttOn.

The Free-SOD Conventf0n.-War on the Con-
stitution.
The free soil party have commenced the work OF re
viving slavery agitation. Their convention has bees
held in Faneu Hail. and this body has done wha, was in
ills power 10 do in tie way OF creating excitement.
John P. Hale wrote to the leaders that nothing short of
revolutionary tone. as TO speech making and esolu-
ton adopting would be up to the lime and the occasion
and there appears have been lack of Ho,spur Ian
guage OF bravado resolves Abuse, falsehood, mis-.
representation, and blackguardism flowed in heavy
streams President Pierce was foully traduced Senator
Douglas held up infamous than the Gar or
Lsgree, :, aud speaker relieved himself by the bold
assertion that the democracy OF Pierce and Douglas and
the Boston Post 'the doctrine OF the right OF
hold in bondage portion Of their fellow-men" Add to
the fact of this convention the pulpit has got to be reg
uar rostrum from which 10 hufl TRADES against the
South-that such Parker. and Beecber and Kirk are
in full blas-an we have the new attempts to fan the
slavery breeze.
We ask rational men-pa,rots--o look a, the senti.
ment OF this last abolition convention We make few
selections:
Even those who had in 1850 bid Liberty be silent
had only yesterday taken the muzze away from her
mouth and placed the trumpet IA her hand which should
ring out the deathnote OF slavery the land and bid
African slavery Finsliiy has become final
"Ifwe a ireemcn would live, strike a blow a
that principle which seeks crush freedom else
lost The Of the pas, aud the present leading
10 the conclusion that American liberty have peace
on earth till American slavery shall die"
| Rev Joshua Leayitt said:
THE slave power no more desires TO find limit 10 il,
demands or the quiet OF final settlement, than does the
Gar Of Rnssis feel inclined scquiesce in pemanen
settlement of the boundaries Of Europe. Talk Of the
tract What adherence contiact be expected from
live hv uilf the of
daily labor The aggressons Of the savo power arise from
its weakness rather tban lis strength IL question
children have settle its aggression will be con
dnual until slavery is abolished"
John l.. Swift said
He would have the friends Of liberty pause not in Their
oppoton by OF any threats OF disubon IL the
path Of duty led that disastrous result he would
follow IT, There was danger be dreaded than
danger TO the Union and II separation OF the State.
should come the eagle of liberty would be found resting
with republic Of the North and would down pon
people among HON master and slave would be for
hidden and iJrgotlen words"
Seth Webb IT,. said:
81 do loathe the .ouLern States they are In.
hctng the greatest shame this country has ever suhered
They blocking the wheel, of freedom"
| The last resolution reads
R,,ofrtd That If th. conspiracy ag.n, liberty 10
America shall be consummated, u force u be the only
standard Of justice and honor with the South, Il
complain fire thus kindcd the North, consuming
all compromises which have given shelter slavery, shall
spread toto a connagraon which viii be checked un-
al u has swept away slavery Itself"
| And what was then alleged TO justify this threat TO
kndle condsgration and to dissolve the Union The
repeal Of law passed by Congress Let the president
of this convention characterize this repeal Mr. Alvod
said
Now that the South has rsaped all the benefit it
from that promise, Il proposes 70 repeal this compact
To some, this the Of the But he
not who considered such compromises very biud-
ing What one Congress may do another may undo, and
II that lesson is taught he hoped would sink deep
northern hearts,
The extracts we have quoted show The purposes OF
their autbors-ts 10 abolish slavery 10 the light of
their unblusbing syovals consider that we live under
constitution. the obligation 10 suslan which ali good cit
zens acknowledge All but moral traitors 10 their coun
Try regulate their political action by this veneraied com
pact Now according to this The men OF Massachusetts,
have right to abolish slavery in another State
than ali the other States have to unite and establish sa
very in this State. II this principle il settled them in