Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-29
From the Albany Register, [Iunl.er Wing.


The Compact of 1920 has been annulled;-a
the compromises of 1850 have been thrown to
the winds. Every barrier against the advance of
Slavery has been broken down, and the oues-
ton comes home to the people of the free
ptates, as to what is to be their future action.
IN view ofthe events that have recently trans
pred at Washington That the Nebraska law
VIII be regarded as binding enactment, SO
long as 1t remains upon the statute book by
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| people of the North at a time when they were
| wholly unprepared for its occurrence. The
| Congressional elections were held without the
remotest suspicion of the tendency of the
events which have since TRANSFERRED. Nobody
| dreamed that questions Of such momentous
Importance would arise during the present
| session. Gen. Pierce was elected without the
remotest reference to them He was regarded
| as the compromise candidate, and no man for
| moment suspected, that were he disposed to
| be traitor to the sentiment through the
strength of which he became President,
an opportunity could by any possibility be
presented for the betrayal of those who carried
him into his present position. Had there
been i'll the public mind conviction that this
Nebraska scheme would be before Congress
for its action; had that question entered into
the last Congressional elections, not ten men
could have been returned to Congress from all
the North who were not plegded against it,
Had it entered into the last Residential cleo
ton, and Gen. Pierce had avowed his inten-
ton to do on this subject what he has done,
he would have been defeated by an over
whelming majority.
There is a lesson involved in these events,
which should be carefully studied and applied
iii the future by the North. The Northern
people should never for moment hereafter
forget that it is through their own lack of
caution thatthe compromises have been swept
away. The South are always yigilant, ALWAYS
on the alert, always ready to take advantage
OF the carlessness of the North, to push their
peculiar institution forward and build up it's
power, and twas because they saw the North
sleeping because they saw vain and anbi-
tious President ready to bargain for the sue
cession, because they saw Senators and Rep
resentatives whose palms itched for the bride.
that they struck for the abrogation Of COM
pacts and the violation Of compromises when
they did. No such opportunity should per-
mitted 20 occur in the future. The North
should never be found sleeping again.
No man should be elected to any position of
Importance in the Union or in the free States
who is not pledged against the extension Of
human Slavery, and to the repeal of the Ne
braska law. No man should be elected to
Congress. who is not pledged against the adj
mission of an another slave State into the in
ion. The conservative men of the North,
should take the lead in this matter, for they
have been most deeply wronged, most cruelty
betrayed. They have suffered most IN defense
Of southern institutions. They stood by the
Constitution, when fanaticism attacked with
its greatest fury the South, threatening to in
wade and nulify the guarantees of that sacred
instrument. They incurred censure and con-
tumely for their devotion to the Constitution,
and their defense CT the rights of the South
under it. They suffered reproach at home for
their adherence to the compromises, They
were condemned and prosecuted, hunted from
office and influence, because they remained
firm by those compromises which the South
have been formost in sweeping away.
The South have banded together against the
North, and for the extension Of the institution
of Slavery. They are unite in all matters
relating to that institution. Their position is
one not of their own choosing. Let them un-
lite in favor of free. labor and free institutions.
Let the North be unit against the extension
OF human Slavery. Let them use the mower
they possess to drive back the aggressive spirit
Of propegandism. If agitation shall come. let
it. The, great battle between Slavery and
Freedom, must one day be fought, and it NAV
as well begin now as at any time. If COM
motion shall follow, if commissions shall ensue
from union Of the North for self protection,
then commotion and convulsion be it. If the
union Of the States shall be shaken, if the in
situations of the country shall be made to rock
and reel upon their deep foundations. be it SO.
We repeat the position Of the North is one of
their own choosing. They are forced to it by
their southern brethren, and the responsibility
OF Whatever may issue, viii rest with the
South. The glory or the shame of the future,
OF which the passage of the Nebraska bill is
the beginning, will not rest with the North If
the historian shall speak Of the DISSOLUTION Of