Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-13

music of clanking chains. All! it cannot,
must not be- AS said upon recent occas-
ion, sooner let those noble rivers roll down to
the ocean in streams of blood: Sooner let
those beautiful valleys generate only those
mephitic gasses, in which the bird Of the will
derness would expire: Sooner let the breezes
which fan the leaves of those lofty old trees,
be intensified into gales, and the gales become
hurricanes, shattering the pride Of the forest,
and marking the whole land with desolaton,
than that slavery, with all its blighting curses
and atrocious crimes, should enter into that
Heaven famed land
The slave power Of this Country is one-and
the Freedom power is also one, If the former
acts unitedly to promote its peculiar institu-
ton let the latter also act unitedly to promote
our peculiar institution, If as Chatham said,
of the British throne-let us say that Union is
the thunder Of the North.
Mr.. Smalley alluded to the great and signif-
cant fact, of the monster petition which Que of
his brethren in the ministry had gone to Wash
ington that day to present. 1t was a strong
remonstrance against the Nebraska bill, and
bore the signatures ofnot less than three thous-
and Clcrgymen of New England. He could
not but indulge the hope that such docu-
ment would open the eyes of our rulers to the
true state of public sentiment in the North
and curb the recklessness of public man. But,
said he, whether it have this effect or not, zoe
will be strong and steadfast-for the right
We will not relinquish our hopes or our
strong eudeavors. We will contend hand to
hand, heart to heart for the rights which the
Constitution s laws have guaranteed to us. If
they pass this billwe will still presevere in the
work we have begun-we will raise the BAN
ner of Repeal, and mindful of our duties to
our Country, ourselves, and posterity, prove
ourselves to be valiant soldiers in the cause
of freedom and humanity.
The reverend gentleman was frequently in
terrupted by the most hearty applause, and he
took his seat amid the most vehement mani
festations of popularregard.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Smalley' remarks
the Committee en- Resolutions reported the
following
RESOLVES:
RESOLVED, That the " Nebraska Bill" now pending in
the Congress Of the United States hostile the principles
of liberty and the rights of man. soemny forth in
the Declaration of American Independence
ResoiUed That the said Nebraska Bill is violation Of
the well spirit and intent of the Ordinance of l7S7
the basis Of which, understood by all the States then
existing, the Constitution of our Union was established
Resolued That the said Nebraska Bill coutempates
its chief end and has its only conceivable motive, the
extension Of SLAVERY with its natural results instead of
'securiny the blessings Of liberty" declared in the
Constitution of the United Slates to be prime object in
the establishment Of this Union.
Resolved That when the foreign territory of Louisiana
purchased by governnentthat purchase did not
abrogate the broad principle and settled policy of the
ton established by the Ordinance Of lSTthat policy
being the basis Of the Union
Res0lUed, That when Missouri admitted into the
Union slave State, against the earnestly expressed
wio the free States "Compromise proposed by in
fuentia friends Of that measure, in order
jority in its favor and to reconcile the free States to what
they regarded as manifest wrong-a Compromise which
stipulated that north Of sc degree 80 minutes, slave
State should thereafter be created and that in such terrific
ry slavery should not exist.
ResoiUed That from the date Of the Missouri Compro
mise down to the present session of Congress- period of
than thirty years the slave States by their Senators
and Representatives in Congress- and BY multitude of
other public and declarations have insisted the
cred and solemn obligation of that Compromise, have de-
nouced as aithess all sighting Of its howed stpuatons,
and have constantly used it, and the power gained by
IT. to extend the limits Of slavery and to increase the num-
Der and insure the political ascendaney Of the slave States
ResotUed, That the passage Of the Nebraska Bill and
its contamination law would be in itself aggrava-
ted wrongthat its immediate effect would be the shame of
this nation in the eyes of manknd-and its consequences
the perpetual distrust Of national faith and the disasters
which naturally follow in the train of national perfdy.
Resolued, That Senator's and Representatives in Con-
gres from the slave States, cannot vote for the passage of
the Nebraska Bill without the sacrifice of their honor
nor without the disgrace Of their States and mourning
the just scorn of all honorable men,
Resoiued, That Senator's and Representatives in Con-
gress from the free States voting for said Bill by such
will be recreant to liberty and the rights Of man, their
native free soil and to the first principles of their moral
and political nurture foreiting all claim to belong any
party that has intelligent respect for freedom justice
honor and liberty.
Resoived, That the prime agentiu Congress of meas
ure for the extension of slavery free territory SOL
EMMY guaranteed to freedom oreUer come from where
he may, is justly entitled the scorn of all men who value
personal honor national faith and that if born and bred
10 the home OF freedom he deserves to be outcast from
its blessings and to take rank the bad eminunce Of
traitor TO American Independence.
ResoLUed, That copy Of these Resolutions be forward
ed to the Representative in Congress from this District
under the signature Of the officers Of the meeting.
Dwight Foster, Esq, being loudly call
ed for came forward and said, 81 have no
speech to-make tonight fellow citizens.
have nothing special to say to you upon this
subject which has already been so ably and so
eloquently discussed. But should be false
to the sentiments of my heart and to the
convictions Of my understanding, if failed at
any time and in any place to express my SEN
timents upon the measure now before the
country. 1t would be enough for me to
know that this Nebraska bill extends the
era of slavery by invading the territory of
freedom. 1t would be enough for me, that it
is an Introduction of the establishment of free
schools, and Of free labor; that it is prohi-
bition of the sound of the church going bell
and the preaching of free gospel upon free
soil. But 1t is more than all that. 1t propo-
SEES to abrogate an injunction which was SOL
EMMY laid upon slavery "a years ago by the
great councils of the nation. 1t proposes to
snnul a compact to the maintenance of
which the honor and good faith ofthe country,
were solemnly and irrevolably pledged in order
to deprive the party cheated at the first of the
tie that is left The South solennly pledged
itself never to disturb that compact known as
the "Missoun Compromise; and the North
pledged itself to remain satisfied with the ar
ticles of that settlement. The North has de-
monstrated its sincerity by its acts; and now
the south by its acts shows that it is false
to the principles Of justice and to the obliga-
tons of national honor.
believe there never was time in thehis
tory of this nation until now when any man
wouldhave dared to propose the abrogation of