Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-11
RHVOLUTION!!

ZIG NeDIdSNh Dill. Inc attempted passage OF
this measure is the first great effort Of Slavery
to take American freedom directly by the
throat. Hitherto it has but asked to be allow
ed to grow and expand side by side with that
freedom, until now, at what is believed a IA
vorable moment, it springs from its lair and
clutches at the life of its political associate in
the Government. 1t engages in a coup d ctat,
and by the aid OF northern traitors to liberty,
attempts the most intolerable usurpation,
Should success attend the movement, it is
tantamount to a civil Revolution, and an open
Declaration of War between Freedom and
Slavery on the North American Continent, to
be ceaseessly waged till one or the other par
ty finally and absolutely triumphs. If Me-
braska passes, the two parties must Immediate
ly marshal themselves in hostile array. The
North will go on, as it has begun. to oppose
every step toward making the North West
pasture ground for African Slavery. 1t will
oppose the introduction of Slavery into Ne
braska and Kansas as much after the passage
of the bill as before, and should it gain foot
hold there, it will make open and direct war
upon the institution within their limits now
and henceforth. 1t viii fight against the ad-
mission into the Union of either as a Slave
State, and in doing this, it will necessarily be
compelled in self-d defense to carry the war in
to Africa, and will fight against the admission
of new slave States from any quarter whatev-
er. Soundness upon this question will be
made test in the election Of every northern
representative. The popular branch of the
Government must be speedily purified, and no
man elected thereto from the North who is
not firmly committed against the admission of
more slave States. A President must be elect
ed by the free States who will cordially sup
port and earnestly respond to these views
: There will be no other course but this open
to the free States, excepting one of abject,
slavish submission to the iron rod ofthe south
ern slave-driyers, and the more despicable
domination ofnorthern funkeyism.
The passage of the Nebraska bill will arouse
and consolidate the most gigantic, determined,
and overwhelming party for freedom that the
world eversaw We may already see in the
future its gathering groups, on every hillside,
in every valley, and on every prairie in the free
States. We hear the deep and ominious muir
muir of the earnest voices of its myriad slow
ly-moving masses. We behold in their faces
the serious and unaJterable determination of
their purposes in behalf of freedom. We see
the gigantic array gradually approach, closing
its thick ranks, and moving onward, with
force that no merely human power, or human
institution, can resist. 1t sweeps along with
the force of the tempest and the tornado
The spirit of liberty animates, the spirit of
progress impels, and spirit of solemn relig-
ious duty inspires and leavens, the whole mass.
This invincible army bears aloft the motto,
"GoD WITH usl' Its immediate duties are
plain. We have indicated them in the gross.
Details will adjust themselves. What ulteri-
Or duties may be in store for this great Party
ofLiberty, time only can disclose. The decis-
i've events of history come but slowly. They
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theirs, in the little rills that tricke in the hid
den reeesses of the plain and the mountain
But we cannot hide from our vision the vital
fact that this party, once aroused and CONSOLE
dated on platform sufficiently wide and sub
stantial to afford rare basis for its operation,
such as the passage of the Nebraska-K
sas bill will furnish, will not hesitate in its
duties, however radical and sweeping those
duties may become in the natural progress of
events.
For the mole-eyed squad of little northern
men at Washington, who are accidentally the
controlling political force of the Government
at this iuncture of public affairs, lighting the
torches of civil discord and vainly dreaming
that 10 conhagration is to ensue-we have but
pity for their blindness and iatuity. They are
under the lead of men of gross and groveling
purposes, base instincts and narrow VISION
1QeY are OuJ D1llu IOllOWeTS Oh DLluu.
To avert the throes and commissions which
must inevitably follow this infamous act, we
have labored and shall labor, and as last re-
sort to this end, if there shall prove to be a
majority of the House in favor of the final
consummation of this scheme, we advocate the
determined resistance of the minority to that
consummation. This bold and astounding as
sault upon the cause of liberty and progress,
should be met by northern representatives in
Congress in the spirit with which f. eedom in
its most lofty mood has ever resisted oppres
sion. 1t is asolemn duty which devolves upon
them, without agency of theirs to bring about
the crisis that enjoins their action. We know
that it is easier to shirk it than to discharge it.
But in SO clear case, it were culpable to re-
fuse to engage in the only procedure which
gives any hope of arresting the infamous meas
ure. For whatever result shall follow such
a course, we cheerfully court our share of the
responsibility. Whatever that result shall be,
we unhesitatingly say, Let it come. There are
greater evils than conflict between two par
ties in the legislative branch of the Govern
ment-greater evils than temporarily blocking
the wheels of public affairs, or than producing
a shock which shall precipitately send the
members of Congress home to their constitu-
ents. And clearly among them, in our esti-
nation, are the fatal and far-reaching conse-
quences of the passage of the Nebraska bill.
We urge, therefore, unbending determination
on the part of the northern members, hostile
to this intolerable outrage, and demand of
them in behalf of Peace, in behalf of Free
dom, in behalf of Justice and Humanity, re-
sistance to the last. Better that confusion
should issue-better that discord should reign
in the National Councils-better that Congress
should break up in wild disorder-nay, better
that the Capitol itself should blaze by the
torch of the incendiary, or fall and bury all
its inmates beneath its crumbling ruins-than
that this per6dy and wrong should be finally
accomplished. We feel that these convictions
are shared by northern millions, and that
wherever the northern mind has unrestrained
action and utterance, it win declare them
In pursuing the course we indicate, the friends
of Freedom in the House will be sustained by
the Press and by the People, andas we believe,
in whatever form support should be demanded.
We deyoutly urge them to be faithful to their
trust in this great emergency, and to conf
IDENTIFY rely upon popular sympathy that will
treasure their deeds as the actsof martyrs. =
Such course will secure the support Of men
who will hold their lives cheap IN the main
tainance of the righteous cause which that
minority is called to defend.-New York TTi-
6une.
| CoNNEcrIcUT.-We learn from New Haven,
says the New York Tribune, that there is
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