Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-15
Gbe aaiIg SPY.
N.n~a.,,a i'm Congress.


We continue the report OF the proceenngs
IN the House of Representatives, from the
~. ro;n, nj which it left off on Friday. 1t
,,n, 10 seen that the minority were so IA
.occessful as to prevent taking the question
upon the motion of Mr.. Richardson which
,,as n stop all debate upon the Nebraska Bill
IN Ave minutes after the House should go into
Committee of the Whole.
An adjournment was finally effected on
Friday night at twenty minutes IT, twelve
o'clock, to Saturday at noon, after continu-
ous session Of thirty-fve hours. The " chiv-
airy" OF Virginia, represented in the person
of Mr.. Edmondson, made demonstration at
tisticuffs against Mr.. Campbell, of Ohio, but, be-
fore Mr. E. could carry out his malicious intent,
he was seized by several members, placed in
the custody of the Sergeant-at- and
taken out Of the House. During the whole
Of this protracted struggle in the House,
Douglas of Illinois, and Toombs of Georgia,
were present, overseeing the matter, and d.
recting the dough-faces, just as they are in
the habit of directing the slaves ON their
plantations.
Although the proceedings Of Thursday and
Friday are indicative of temporary triumph
of the minority, in staving off the vote up to
the time of adjournment, we cannot congrat-
ulate our readers upon any hopeful aspects in
the case, as it now stands. We believe that
the slaveocracy will finally triumph-that the
corrupt and corrupting influences at work at
Washington, will secure all the votes that
may be needed to carry the bill, and thus
slavery will secure to itself another in the long
series of its triumphs over the rights of the
North, which viii by no means be its last
We may, then, prepare ourselves for the in
auguration, and successful development of the
whole Cuban plot The party which has
shown such utter disregard for the sacredness
Of compacts between one section of the Union
and the other, will pay Little Difference to the
1 obligations of treaties with other nations. War
to maintain slavery in Cuba will follow, with
all its attendant horrors and evils. No new
State can hereafter be admitted into the Union
until Cuba, or some other slave State, is pre-
pared to come in at the same time; the North
will be humbled in the dust, slavery viii die
tate the laws, as it now interprets the consti-
tuition, and the people of the free States will
be only the vassals and the menials of the
South. All these things loom darkly up in
the future. and 1t appears to us that no human
agency will avert the danger that impends. A
united, fraternal, patriotic union of men at the
North, of all parties, might save the country
in this hour of peril, but the signs are not
propitious to any such combination. The
men who could arouse. concentrate, an d direct
public sentiment, are, for the most part, silent
as the grave; the mercantile interest, absorbed
/. in its enterprises of gain, pays but little heed
20 questions of this nature; the city presses,
with a few honorable exceptions, are timid
and time serving, and again, for the tenth
time since the foundation of the government,
Slavery triumphs, and Freedom, betrayed,
goes to the wall.