Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-06-08


newer in the hands of Shareholders, and gives
he North nnlv commercial prosperity, the
moro tbornughlv to enervate and destroy IT,
Hero far instance is the Nebraska Emigra-
t;on Society,"; it is indeed, noble enterprise,
.nd / am nroud thai it owes its origin to |
Worcester rnan--but where is the good ofemi-
Grating to Nebraska, if Nebraska Is to be only
a transplanted Massachusetts,, and the original
Msssachusetts has been tried and found want
inc VIII the stream rise higher than its
source Settle your Nebraska ten years, and
YOU will have your New England harvest of
corn and grain, more luxuriant in that virgin
soil ;--ah, but will not the other Massachu-
sets crop come also, of political demagogues
and wire puliers, and sectarian religion,
which will ensure the passage Of the greatest
hypocrite to heaven, if he will Join the right
church before he goes And give the emil
grants twenty years more of prosperity, and
then ask them, if you dare, to break law and
disturb order, and risk life, merely to save
their state from the shame that has just blight
ed Massachusetts
In view of these facts, what stands between
as and military despotisIn Sure guar
antees, YOU say. So has every nation thought
until its fall came. "The outward form of
Roman institutions stood uninlured till long
after Caligula had made his horse consul
What is your safeguards Nothing but a
parchment consultation, which has been rid
died through and through, whenever it pleas
ed the slave power (which has not been able
to preserve to you the oldest privileges of free
dom, Habeas Corpus and Trial by Jury
Stranger, still, that men should think to find
a security in our material prosperity, and our
.careero of foreign conquest,and our acquisition
of gold mines, and forget that these have been
precisely the symptoms which have prophesied
the decline OF every powerful commercial state:
Rome, Carthage, Tyre, Venice, Spain, Hol-
land, and all the rest.
In the third century after the birth of Je-
sus, Terulian painted that brilliant picture
of the Roman power, which describes us, as
if i were written for us:
Certainly" says he, the world becomes
more and more our tributary, mono of its Sc
cret recesses have remained inaccessible, all
are known, frequented, and all have become
the scene or the object of traffic. Who now
breads an unknown islands who trembles at
. reefs our ships are sure to be met with
eyerywhere-everywher is people, state,
everywhere is life. We crush the world be-
meath our weight-onerost sunsts mu,sdo,"
And Rome persisted, almost when the
words were uttered
How simple the acts of our tragedy may
be. Let another fugitive slave case occur,
other time Diet Massachusetts be declared
insuTectionary, and placed under martial law,
las it might;) let the President be made die
tator, with absolute power; let him send his
willing Attorney General to buy up officers
of militia, (Which would be easy, } and fright
en- officers of state, (Which would be easier .
let him get half the press, and quarter of
the pulpits, to sustain his usurpation, under
the name of 81 law and order Jet the fame
spread from New England to New York, from
New York to Ohio, from Ohio to Wisconsin
and how long would it take for some future
Franklin Pierce to stand where Louis Napo-
leon stands now How much would the
commercial leaders of the East resist, if an
appeal were skillfully made to their pockets
--or the political demagogues of the West, if
an appeal were made to their ambition 1t
seems inconceivable ! Certainly--so did the
coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon, the day be-
fore it happened
"Do not despair of the Republic" SAYS
some one, remembering the hopeful old Ro-
man motto. But they had to despair Of that
one, in the end, and why not of this one al
so } Why, when we are going on, step by
step. as older Republics have done, should we
expect to stop just as we reach the brink of
Niagara The love of liberty grows stronger
every year, some think, in some places. Thir-
~ years dSO II COSt only va 10 reSIOTe Iu-
gitivs slave from Boston, and now it costs
100000 but still the SiGue is restored l
know there are thousands of hearts which
stand pledged to liberty now, and these may
save the State, in spite Of her officials and her
military, but can they save the nations They
may give us disunion instead of despotism,
but can they give us anything better: Can
they even give us anything so good We
talk of the Anti-Slayery sentiment as being
stronger but in spite of your free soil votes,
your Uncle Toms Cabin, and your New York
Tribunes, here is the simple fact. The South
beats as more and more easily every time. So
chess-players, when they have once or twice
overcome weak antagonist, think it safe,
next time, to give up to him half dozen
pieces by way Of odds land after all gain the
victory. Compare this Nebraska game with
the previous ones. The slave power, could
afford to give us the wing party on our side,
this time--could give up to us the CONNER
cial influence of Boston and New York, so
strong an ally before-it has not had the name
and presence of Daniel Webster to help it
now, nor the voices of clergymen, nor the ter
TOR of disunion, nor the WEAKNESS after long
Anti-Slavery excitement;- lit has dispensed
with all these may, the whole contest was
ON our own soil, to defend the poor little land
mark we had retreated to, long before land
for all this, the slave power has conquered us,
just as easily as it conquered us on Texas,
Mexico, and the compromise of 1850.
No wonder that this excitement is turning
Wings and Democrats into Free Sellers, and
Free Sellers into disunionists. But this is on
ly the eddy, after all the main current sets
the wrong way. The nation is intoxicated