Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-26
From the Albany Evening Journal
Passage of the Nebraska Bill What ia
to be the Result.


The crime is committed. The work of Mon
roe, and Madison, and Jefferson, is undone.
The wall they erected to guard the domain OF
Liberty, is flung down by the hands of an
American Congress, and Slavery crawls, like
a Shiny reptile, over the ruins, to deile Sec
ond Eden.
They tell us that the North will not submit.
We hope it will not. But we have seen this
same North crouch lower and lower each year
under the whip of the slave driver, until it is
hard to tell what it will not submit to now.
Who, seven years ago, would not have derid-
ed a prophecy that Congress would enact
the kidnapping Of free citizens, without judge
or jurys Who would have believed that it
could enact that white men have a right to
hold black in slavery, wherever it is their SOW
ereign will and pleasures And yet, who now
will deny that that prophecy is more than re-
allied:
1t was fitting that the law should be passed
as it was. 1t was in accordance with its spirit
that it should be conceiyedin treachery, sprung
upon the House by fraud, and forced through
it by parliamentary lie. 1t was appropriate
that one member should be bribed and an
other bullied, and another bought, until the
ranks of Slavery were full. Had law, or Or
der, or honesty had aught to do with its pas
sage, there would have been a strange incon-
gruity between the means and the end.
We cannot read the future. We cannot
predict what will be the consequences of this
last and most fatal blow to Liberty. But we
can see what the duty of freemen is, and we
mean it shall be through no fault Of ours if it
be left undone.
If the North is what it claims to be, and
what we have of late had gratifying assurance
that it will be, this day ends the era of COM
promise. With the band of Representatives
that have nobly resisted the contamination of
this iniquity for its standard bearers, it will
declare that there shall be no more new Slave
States. That there shall be no more Slave
Territories That there shall be no more
Northern Congressman with Southern princi-
PIES 1t will seek the immediate colonization
of Nebraska by those who can yet save it from
the impending curse. 1t will take a solemn
pledge of the men it sends to Washington that
their first and last vote there shall be cast for
repeal and freedom. 1t will send no more flu
gitiyes back without legal trial. 1t will
sweep Slavery out of every nook and corner,
where the general Government has jurisdic-
ton, imprision it within its fifteen States, and
surround it there with triple bands of steel.
1t will establish justice, pronounce tranquil
ity, and secure the blessings of liberty to itself
and to its posterity." This the United States
will do, if they have retained the spirit Of their
founders Such a gigantic contederacy of
crime as it must otherwise become, never ex-
listed elsewhere, cannot exist here, and ought
not to exist anywhere.
On the other hand, those who have passed
the bill, flushed with success, already an
nounce new schemes. They will send mer-
cenary Governors to the Territories to es-
tablish slavery there, if haply the will of the
settlers should oppose it. They count upon
the slave State of Kansas within the next
Congress, and the Slave State of Nebraska be-
fore the next Presidential election. They are
planning an unprovoked and unjustiiable war
for the sole purpose of forming slave States of
Cuba. They will send emissares to Texas and
New Mexico, with Instructions to form slave
States there. They will demand as the natural
| consequence Of the recognition of slave pro-
| perty in all the Territories the recognition of
it in all the States. They believe that popular
discomfort with this bill will die out before
November, and they know that if it does, not
| only Office and power, but the whole future
! policy and destiny of the country will be in
! the hands of Shareholders and their tools.
This is the struggle before US. 1t is fraught
with results of momentous consequence. From
the tone and temper of the people, we have
| everything to hope. From the unbridled folly
and INSCRIPTIONS power of party leaders, we
have everything to fear. Believing as we do,
that the purposes of Eternal Justice are not
to be cast down by mans hands, we have no
fear Of the ultimate triumph of Right. But
whether that triumph shall be slow or speedy
whether it shall come in our day. or be post
poned until the Nation itself shall be con-
sumed by the disease that is beginning to gnaw
at its vitals-is for the decision of the Free
men, North and South, of the Union.