Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-27
s.The HINT is up"

The Nebraska men have decided thst the
United States, as a federal power, have
no right to legislate slavery out of the terrific.
ries; these same Nebraska men must be con-
tent therefore, to accept the converse of their
proposition and that is, that Congress has no
right to legislate slavery into any spot of
ground within the compass of our borders, or
below the canopy of Heaven. If they bid
Freedom stand aside, from the door of Ne
braska, they must not complain if we kick Sla-
very from the gates of Massachusetts. Ifthey
spit upon solemn compact which was sign
ed sealed, and delivered to the North by the
South, 80 years ago; they must learn to con-
tent themselves if we tear up the Fugitive
Slave Law, throw the shreds of it in their
faces, and disdainfully refuse them the priyi-
lege of making Slave hunting park Of the
Old Bay State.
If we cannot establish freedom in Nebras-
ka, can we refuse to permit Slavery, in any of
its phases, to be established in Massachusetts,
If we cannot prevent slaves from being carri-
ed into the unreclaimed lands of the West;
can we refuse to permit freemen to be carried
away into bondage from the free States of the
cast. If we put logical construction upon
hedoctrine Of the Nebraska men we certainly
can. If their problem of popular sovereignty
is correct, and if, as they have declared, Con-
gress has no right whatever to legislate free
dom into freesoi, we are sovereigns Of Massa-
chusetts and have the right to repudiate the ac-
ton of Congress when it legislates slavery into
free soil.
Men of Massachusetts,, our fathers declared,
When they established the Constitution OF
Massachusetts,, that "All men are born free
and equal, and have certain natural, essential
ald unalienable rights; among which may be
reckoned the right of enjoying their lives and
liberties"
Again. our glorious ancestors decreed, in
the Constitution, that
"No subject shall be held to answer for
any crime or offence, until the same is fully
and plainly, substantially aud formally, de-
scrbed to him. or be compelled to accuse, or
furnish evidence against himself; and every
subject shall have a right to produce all
proofs that may be favorable to him; to meet
the witnesses against him face to face, and to
be fully heard in his defence, by himself, or
his counsel at his election; and no subject
shall be arrested, imprisoned, or despotted of
his property, inamwnities, or prtctIeges, put out
ofthe protection Of the lac, erited, or deprived
Of has life, liberty, or estate, but By the judy
nssnt Of his peers
Now, there is a man, at this present mo-
meut, in Boston, subject of Massachusetts,,
who is deprived of his liberty, through an I'M
constitutional assumption of the slave power.
He is denied the rights promised to him by
our fathers, and guaranteed by us. He is re-
fused trial by jury, and is summarily and
ruthlessly despoiled of his liberty, and his
dearest privileges and immunities. And 1t is
the men who have broken the Missouri COM
pct that come here and command us to break
the compact we have made, as a sovereign
people, with this man, who is now held with
in our borders as a slare. Let the sons Of the
Pilgrims teach those Southern bloodhounds
aad kidnappers that there are two strings to
the Nebraska bow, and that we, as well as
they, can play on one Of them. They have
taken the territories from us and Freedom
aud shame on us if we give up to them and
Slavery Anthony Burns.