Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-06-06
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TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1854.
FlrcnBuRo, June, 1854

FITcHBURe, June, 1854.
Personal liberty, the writ of habeas corpus,
and trial by jury, for which our ancestors laid
down their lives, are no longer the boast of
the United States, including the home of Han
cock and the Adamss. Well may the bells
toll their solemn peals, and well may the bell
of the Academy, which speaks to the next
generation of men and women, and which
now sounds in my ear, join in the sad chorus.
Sad, sad are the times and scenes upon which
we have fallen, but, Messrs Editors, am in
no fitting mood for a funeral of this sort.
to attend her funeral Shall the descendants
of those men who were incapable of OUTLYING
their freedom, cody set about the funeral OBJ
sequies Of this goddess No, never. The
tolling of bells is premature, for Liberty is
not dead, but sleepeth, and what is better,
she shall rise again in all her beauty, and
once more sway the sceptre in Massachusetts,.
But how shall this result be secured There
is ore and but one way to recover and main
tain our liberties, and that is resistance, dead
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form. Let this course be adopted, and we
shall never see another slave hunter in Massa-
chusetts. There must be resistance, if neces-
sary. either with or without the forms of law.
How many slaves would be taken from the
North if the Shareholders were treated by the
northern people as the South would treat men
who should go there to reclaim free citizens of
Massachusetts,, from their persons and planta-
tons The United States army and 1,ayv arc
not sufficient to protect Samuel Hoar in
Charleston, while an agent of Massachusetts,,
In favor of freedom; but Boston is ready to
volunteer the forces of the city and state. to
protect southern kidnapper, in uiolating the
laws of Massachusetts at the dictation, or re-
quest, of Franklin Pierce, the representative
of the slave. But do not propose to argue
the necessity of this course. have long been
convinced that it is the only course that will
stop these outrages, in this generation, and
believe this fact is susceptible of demonstra-
ton, Notwithstanding what non resistants and
Others may preach to the contrary.
How can force be made effectual, while the
State and municipal governments are so reatT
to shoot down their own citizens for the pur
pose of protecting kidnapperss 1t can be
done, and that eHectually aud immediately,
by secret organization, that shall extend
tnIOuSuOuC Tue Dlales ana Inc whole North.
Let it be as secret as the grave, and extend to,
and control by its machinery, every depart
ment of the State. Let Governor Washburn
be the last Governor who shall refuse to en-
force the writ of repleyin, habeas corpus, or
any other law in favor of freedom; and let
Mayor Smith be the last Mayor who shall be
ready to enforce the laws of the tyrant, to the
neglect of others; and let the Burns guard of
militia be the last slave guard in Massachusetts;
and let every jury box be filed with the names
of freedom loving men and let this organi-
cation be ready and able to have ten thousand
men, at any point in Boston or other large
town, at one hours notice, and to have five
hundred men at five minutes notice, all
armed, if necessary, with revolvers, ready to
sweep all the Irishmen in the army and navy,
who might show themselves into the dock
Let this be done, as we are told it is done for
other objects, and no more slaves will be made
out Massachusetts citizens viii the leaders
of the host of freedom move in this matter, or
must we be insulted as often as any Southern
bully or coward chooses to pollute our streets
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