Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-12
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FRIDAY, MAY IL. 1854.


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The Boston Times says that the principles
of the Nebraska bill are:--
"1he principles that stimulated our fore
fathers to throw off the yoke of Great Britain,
that lie at the foundation of our republican
institutions, and that have carried our country
to its present exhalted position among the ma
tons of the earth An undying faith in the
capacity of the people for self-government,
untrammelled by arbitrary and unconstitution-
al restrictions from any source whatever:
Non-intervention by the government in mat
tiers of purely local policy, occurring in the
States and Territories liberty for the people
to frame such laws as may best enhance their
prosperity; and power for them to erect either
bank or bake shop, Native American
lodge or Roman Catholic church, wharf
for shipping or a mart for slaves-in fact, to
permit the Sovereigns of the Nation to do at
home just as they please, SO long as they do
not contravene the spirit of the great Charter
of our Liberties, the Constitution of the Uni
ted States
Now, weregard the above as good speci-
men of the twaddle with which the suborned
tools of the administration try to impose upon
the intelligence Of the country, in relation to
the present infamous attempt to cheat the
North out of Nebraska and Kansas. The
principles of the Nebraska bill are not the prin-
ciples that stimulated our fathers to throw off
the yoke of Great Britain. They have no
more resemblance to them than I" Simon Le
gree" has to the statue of Liberty, on the
Capitol at Washington. The principles of the
Nebraska bill are based upon breach offaith,
and contemplate and tend to the extension of
slavery. The principles for which our FORE
fathers contended, were the principles of po-
litical freedom and SO Jealous were they of
sustaining those principles, in their purity and
integrity, that they preferred to die rather
than to submit to three-penny tax on tea,
imposed by irresponsible rulers. The princi-
pies of liberty were our fathers principles;
the principles of despotism are the principles
of the " Douglas bill"
The Times, and all the other organs of the
Cabinet, know very well that the Nebraska
bill is lie and cheat-that it is the issue of
unprincipled demagogues-and that its object
is to make slave marts, and baracoons legal in
the territory, which, 80 years ago. was SOL
ornnly devoted to freedom. To talk of such a
bill being based upon the principles of the
Revolution, is an outrage to the memory Of
our fathers and an insult to the principles of
their sons. Such language could not be ac-
counted for in Massachusetts, if we did not
know that the administration has ample pecu-
MARY means at its command, and is unscrupu
lous in employing them to corrupt the chan
nels of public opinion. aa
The voting, in the House, on Monday last,
indicates that this bill, which is repudiated by
every honest man; and whose authors name
is execrated from Canada to Cuba, is topass.
The Boston Post is jubilant in the prospect OF
such an event. II praises the bill as the con-
summation of democratic wisdom and Union
saving virtue. 1t ignores the indignant pro-
tests and circumstances which the people have
sent to Congress, and complacently eulogizes
the patriotism and public virtue of the traitors
who have finally been bought to assist in the
preparation of this great wrong.
Well, if the bill must pass, let its authors
pass it. We have some consolation in the be-
lief that reaction will soon follow, and justice
and freedom have their revenge on the traitors
who now SO arrogantly despise the will of the
people. All faith in compromises will be dis
sipated, when the signature of Frank PIERCE
is attached to the bill and then will come
the tug of war between Northern love of lib
erty, and the supremacy of Southern slavery.
Then it viii be determined whether the South
ern aristocracy and their chattels, or the North
ern people with their plows, hatchets, and
rifles viii occupy the western wilderness;
and whether freedom or slavery shall become
the basis Of American civilization.