Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-25
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SATURDAY, MARCH rs, 1854.


TO Jne aSSreSSlOIlS OF lne save poWtIJ anu W
a sense of the dangers with whichit is encom-
passing the country, who have heretofore ac-
guessed in its usurpations, or offered them
no active resistance. Among these, is John
Whipple, the head of the Rhode Island bar,
who has usually kept aloof from politics, and
has been considered quite conservative in his
feelings. He attended the great AntizNe-
braska meeting in Providence, the other day,
and made an eloquent and impressive speech.
We have room only for the closing portion of
it, which is as follows:
The territory of Nebraska is all of it north
of SO deg. 80 min. 1t is described as "not
excelled by any equal quantity of land in the
known world. Beautiful lakes streams of
water, woodland and prairie, a deep and rich
soil, are spread out in all their fascinating viz
gin character 1t occupies, east and west, the
very centre of this continent, having access to
the future trade of two great oceans. 1t lies
due west from Missouri in which State, slave
labor is increasing with an astonishing rapid
ity. No country ON this continent is better
adapted to slave labor than large portion of
Nebraska. I am informed that considerable
number of slaves are already there. The pre-
tence of those who support this alarming
measure is, that the people are to decide wheth-
er slavery shall exist in that future State
What people? Why those who first possess
1.-THE shareholders. Is any one so ignorant
of the intense desire of the South, to extend
the area of slavery as to believe, that they vote
to a man, and violate their honor pledged to
us by the Missouri Compromise, in order to
occupy this immense territory with free labor2
Would they take such step if they did not
info and ri ~
with slayesi 1t is to be the principal slave
market in the world. Unjust be remembered
that the people of the South are now, not as
formerly-owners merely, but traders in slaves.
A slave child at the breast now sells to Stare
traders for 5000, a full grown man at $500.
Opening this now market will not only in
crease the prices, but increase the cruelty in
hicted upon these poor victims Of the slave
trade Formerly, slavery in the South was a
mere domestic relation, and the kindness of
the owner softened and mitigated the suffering
of the slave, Now this relation is entirely
changed. A plantation in the South is like
stock farm in the North. At present prices,
they can make more by raising slaves, than
raising cotton. They mean to extend the
market for the slave children, and to add that
to the cotton produced by the labor of the
slave parent.
to become of the free labor of the Norths
Where are the increasing half millions which
annually emigrate here from all parts of Eu-
rope to find their future homes? Where are
the industrious and PAINS taking German, and
the generous, charitable, and hard toiling son
OF Erin to find their homes, if the richest and
most beautiful part Of this great central por-
ton of our continent is to be occupied by
slaves and Shareholders They can not and
will not, they ought not to labor side by side
| with the slave. Slave labor in these regions
will be cheaper, much cheaper than the labor
of white men. 1t is not the man of wealth
in the North, nor the professional man, nor
the trading man, it is the laboring man, the
poorer class of men, whose interests are most
deeply affected by this nefarious scheme, a
scheme supported as we are told by the whole
influence of an Administration protesting to be
the soarm party friends Of the poor.
asI am astonished, amazed, and as a friend of
free government, almost disheartened at the
magnitude, the boldness and the perfdity of
this nefarious scheme Its object is by extend
ing the sphere of slavery, to make slaves of
the free people of the North, by giving to the
Slave States majority in the National Legisla-
ture. Once give them that majority, and the
free people of the North will be at once in the
power of the Shareholders of the South. We
shall be entirely subject to the slave holders
legislation. In political sense, our slavery
will be intolerable, as is the poor Africans in
a physical sense He has no will over his
own body; we shall possess no power over
our political body. The Shareholder will be
able again to open the African slave trade and
legalize it in every State in the Uniou. In
fine, once submit to this act and we are
slaves ourselves. For one, | protest against
this outrage upon the most solemn contract,
that this or any other nation ever pledged its
sacred honor to abide by.
For one, and speak for myself alone, l would
rather submit to peaceful separation of the free
from the slave States, than to submit for an
hour, to such an outrage upon our dearest
rights. Great as such an evil would be, it
would be no stain upon our honor. Great as
it may be, what evil, what disgrace can equal
the submission of 100000 of free men, in
free States, to the dictation of 100000 slave
owners in the slave Statess
Verify, this is the age of wonders. Neither
the widest dreams of poets, nor the most far
fetched reasonings of philosophers, ever led to
the sad reality, that now stares US in the face.
Had it been foretold that in country which
had produced Washington and Franklin,
which had spread over its entire surface, col
leges, academies and free schools, which had
first worked out the miraculous powers of
steam, and the before hidden agencies Of the
electric fluid, which had whitened every ocean
with its canvas, and awed the whole world
with its naval prowess, and to crown all this
combination of attainment and promise, had
spread far and wide over this extended land,
the pure, elevated, and practical morality of
the Christian religion-had it been foretold,
that as early as the second and third genera
tons from the authors of that great charter
of human freedom, the Declaration of Ameri-
can Independence, an American Senate could
have done all that it could do, to reverse our on
ward course, and to turn us back to ignorance
and barbarism, to slavery and despohszn, the
narrator Of such prophetic truths would have
been sent to an insane asylum, or indicted for
libel upon the American people. But, in
deed, "the age of chiyalry is gone, that Of
sophisters, of calculations and economists has
succeeded" and much do [ fear that the glory
of American Freedom is extinguished forever.
In a country whose declaration ofindepend-
enee proclailns that all men are free, an Am
erican Senate proclaims it lie. In coun-
try in which the whole body of its literature
the whole preaching of its pulpits, and the
whole boastings of its press, represent us as
not merely in the front rank in the great
march of nations towards higher civilization,
but as the great and peerless leader of those
nations, an American Senate represents us as
low and groyelling wrctches, the tyrants Of an
inferior, helpless race, the drivers with lash
IN hand, of its men, and the beastly rayishers
OF its women.
From this picture Of American morals and
American feeling, beg leave for one to APP