Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-30

it is that popular sentiment which is now
rolling on in the North-which was manifest
ed in New York the night before last--which
was manifested in Philadelphia a day or two
ago-which is manifested by the three thous-
and and fifty signatures of New England
clergy, to the petition presented at the other
end Of this capitol-which is manifested in ten
thousand public meetings throughout the land
Of the free-which is manifested in every log
cabin in the West, and in the richer residences
Of the North---which is manifested in the pull
pit and on the stump-which is manifested at
the prayer meetings and at the political con-
vocations-which must and will shape the
destiny of this nation; before that We must
bow, for it is the voice of God, uttered by his
people. Sir, we are nation who pray before
we fight. and when we have said our prayers,
and put on our armor, then our enemies had
better stand aside than to meet us. Laugh
ter
Sir, 1 would intimidate no one; but l tell
you there is spirit in the North which will
set at defiance all the low and unworthy ma
chinatons of this Executive, and Of the min
ions of its power. When the contest shall
come-when the thunder shall roll, and the
lightning flash-when the slaves shall rise in
the South-when, in imitation of the Cuban
bondmen, the southern slaves of the South
stirring emotions of Immortality, and recog-
nize the stirring truth that they are men, and
entitled to the rights which God has bestowed
upon them-when the slaves shall feel that,
and when masters shall turn pale, and tremble
when their dwellings shall smoke, and dis
may sit on each countenance, then, sir, do
not say ewe will laugh at your calamity, and
mock when your fear cometh," but do say,
| when that time shall come, the lovers OF our
race will stand forth, and exert the legitimate
| powers of this Government for freedom. we
| shall then have constitutional power to act for
! the good of our country, and do justice to the
| slave Then will we strike off the shackles
| from the limbs of the slaves. That will be,
| period when this government viii have power
| to act between slavery and freedom, and when
it can make peace by giving freedom to the
slaves And let me tell you, Mr.. Speaker,
| that that time hastens. 1t is rolling forward.
| The President is exerting power that Will
| hasten it, though not intended by him.
| hail it as l do the approaching dawn of that
| political and moral millennium which l am
| well assured will come upon the world.
| Sir, no petty shrewdness, no trivial attempts
| BY the Executive members of this body to out
| wit or over-reach the Almighty, or at outman-
aging the order of His Providence; no attempt
| to avoid the Just judgments Of God, to evade
his wrath, will then be regarded as efficient
Some Of US are prepared for the conflict.
would speak a word of caution to the Presi-
dent, and TO the friends who sustain him.
They should prepare to have their works ex-
amined. The places which now know them,
will, in all human probability, soon know
them no more, forever All the signs of the
times must fail, or one year from this day
there will be larger majority in this body OPP
posed to the Administration, than there now
is in its favor. They should therefore, set
their house in order, for they must soon pass
from these halls to that bourne from whence
no traveller returns.
Mr. Spcaker,I am told that my hour is near
its close. have already occupied your time
longer than L originally intended. rose |
solely from a consciousness that this message |
of the President ought not to go forth 10 the |
people of the United States unexposed. felt |
that there should commentary go with it. |
believed that the attention of this House, and |
of the people, should be called to its con-
sderat on, SO that the whole North, las well as
the South, might see and understand the pres
ent ruling policy of this Executive and Of his
Administration. That policy, sir, is the sup
port of slavery in Cuba, and its extension in
the Territories of the United States. 1t stands
forth in this message, over the official sigma
ture of the President 1t is proclaimed to the
country, to the world. With that policy 1
make no conditions. Against ii l wage an un-
mitigated, unceasing warfare Here and else
where by the wayside and by the ireside, 1
assal and hold it up to the condemnation of
all good men. Sir the whole North is now
presenting an array of moral and political in
iuence which, in my opinion, will, at no dis
tant day redeem and regenerate the nation
from the influences and the policy, which
would now pervert its powers, to the destruc-
ton of the great objects for which it was es-
tablished.