Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-17

Peoples Mass Convention, to be held in this
city onahe 10Th inst. AL attempts to charae-
terize it,as an Exclusively Free Soil movement
got up with the sole purpose of making polit-
ical capital for the Free Democratic party
having signally failed, in consequence of the
enthusiastic spontaniety with which the move
ment has been hailed by men of all parties in
every section of the State, the presses of hunk
erdom are becoming alarmed, and they are
now seeking to control, what they desired to
prevent, by counseling that miserable do moth
ing, say nothing policy, which has made
Massachusetts, contemplate at the South, and
hich, if persisted in, will ere long bring her
again to the feet of the slave power, in abJect
submission to the Nebraska iniquity.
The alacrity with which the democrats
come into the movement, has excited the Sc
rious alarm of the Boston Post. And the
Boston At1as is good deal disturbed, by the
long array of wing names appended to the
call for the Convention, which looks forward to
the organization Of new party from the best
elements of all the old ones, based upon prin-
ciples which will command the respect, the
admiration, and the votes of the great majori-
ty of the Northern people.
In its editorial on Saturday, the Atlas says,
in allusion to the Convention, to be held here
on the goth.
I'VE respect the feeling which prompted
the measure, and hope that the meeting may
be so conducted as to subserye the interest of
freedoms sacred cause"
"They will undoubtedly have wisdom
enough to act within the natural sphere of
such bodies, and contine themselves to a mere
expression Of opinion. In this way they may
exert q salutary influence over all political
parties. But If they should attempt to form
themselves into neo party, it '0ou1d only create
neaD element Of dirisioa, and increase the eo1
achsch already erssts in the community-such
multiplicity of candidates as to induce bargain
and intrigue
We do not know what the action of that
Convention may be, but if it is to confne it.
self to "mere expression of opinion, as the
Atlas hopes-if its resolves are not to be fol-
lowed by correspondent action, then do we
believe that the Convention might as well not
be held. The time has gone by for "mere
expressions of opinion" in regard to the en-
croachments Of the slave power. What the
times demand, is, a rally of men at the polls,
with Northern hearts in their bosoms, and the
names of freedom loving men inscribed upon
their ballots-men who cannot be bought up by
the commercial interests of the nation, seduced
by their lust of Office, or frightened by the
bullying braves of the South from their allie
glance to Freedom. By any man who loves
Liberty more than party-who prizes the prin-
ciples upon which our republican form of
government were founded more than he loves
the name of political organization with
which he has been accustomed to act, the ad-
vice Of the atlas will be little needed
We understand the object of the Conven-
sion to be, to devise means by which to resist
and defeat the perfdious schemes of the slave
power, for its own ACKNOWLEDGMENT, and to
wrest from its grasp, by constitutional and
legal means, the territories once eonsecrated
to Freedom, which it has seized with its rob-
Der hand. 1t is au object of more transcendent
Importance than any for which any party has
contended since the Federal Government was
organized. All other questions, upon which
parties have hitherto based their action, and
made issue with one another at the polls, sink
into insignifcanee by the side of this stupen-
dous danger, with which the institutions of
the country are threatened. Thus far, in ev-
cry contest, the slavery element, though nu-
merically the weakest, has triumphed over
that of Freedom, and the people of the free
States have now become aware of the fact,
that, through old organizations, upon the old
issues, the vantage ground that has been lost
to them can never be regained.
Politicians may have their fears, that by the
disbanding of their parties, themselves may
loose some portion of their 6 pay and rations,"
that there may be new duties and new dan
gers for them, which they have no desire to
perform or to encounter. They may in their
blind generation for the old, prefer to hug to
their bosoms the corrupt carcass of soulless
organization, whence has fled every semblance
of a single saving virtue, but they will find
the people more manful than them
selves.-They have no such fears as actuate
their leaders. As the light dawns upon their
3 ,--~SASNoAAAhAi6s, tAey pSSlA W dufaHCe.-
Their is an innate perception of what is right,
aud when thoroughly aroused, party machine
~ cannot hold them. A platform with ever
SO good name, constructed by men ever SO
wise and learned, if it fails to uphold princi-
pies dear to them. or if it shields iniouities
that they abhor, must in time become odious
in their sight, and, if they do not willingly
join in its demolition, they at least do not OBJ
ject to see it pass away. 1t is because Of our
confidence in the people-because we know
that the masses are right at heart-that they
are honest in purpose, that over and above all
sympathy and love for organizations, is a sym
pathy and love of true republican virtue, that
we have never seen despondeHt hour, during
all the long and painful struggles between
freedom and slavery in the past twenty years.
All things are working together for good
The dry bones Of old conservation begin
to rattle. The dead northern heart be-
gins to beat with the vigorous pulsation
Of the republics better days, the people are for
getting the petty annimosities which have d.
vided them. While the slave power chisels
in their memories the story of their degrade