Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-07
Gbe aailg SPY.
TUESDAY. MARCH I, 1854.


accomplish it, the last land marx OF freedom
has been removed, and all that now intervenes
between the fair territory of Nebraska, and
the rising deluge of slavery that threatens to
overwhelm it, is the faint and feeble hope, that
the members Of the House of Representatives
who represent constituencies of free men will
not Weld to the intimidations of the drill-ser-
geants of party, or the alluring brides of office.
The time has been, when in the perilous
hours of the republic, men were wont to en-
courage one anothers hopes, that all virtue
was not lost, from the councils of the nation
with the phrase "Look to the SenCto;" but
there is no hope there now, for the Senate it.
self has set an example Of turpitude to the
House that has no parallel in the blacklist
pages of Southern aggression, and Northern
seryility. In vain can men look to the SEN
ate, with any confidence that the conservatism
of that body can do aught to check the bane-
full influences of slavery propagandism, or stay
for moment, the advancing tide of corrup-
ton, upon which the administration has en-
barked to secure for itself the favor of the
South.
We can say, 'slook to the Senate" no lon
ger. Neither, with the accused record of its
transactions before it as an example, can we
say, "look to the House. We would that
we could; but the encouragement we derive
from review of the past, and the aspect of
affairs, at the present time affords us no
grounds for reliance, either upon the virtue or
or the "pluck" Of many Of the northern men
who fill the seats in that body. The admin
istration is so thoroughly identified with the
purposed iniquity, its power is SO tremendous
through the patronage of the government and
the alluring brides that it holds in its hands,
that we have no reason to doubt that its deep
laid scheme of iniquity will be consummated,
and the Nebraska territory become an open
market for merchandise in human beings, and
and its soil cursed with the tears and blood of
the slave. But if we cannot look to the SEN
ate or to the Honse, in this crisis to rescue
that fertile country from the hands of the
spoiler, if we cannot rely upon the men who
have been placed in positions Of honor and re-
sponsibility, to secure to freedom and to free
labor, that glorious heritage If considera-
tons Of virtue, patriotism and honor cannot
outweigh the love Of gain or the lust of Office;
if the sublime heroism of the fathers of the
Republic, and the high toned morality of
those men when the foundations of our free
institutions were laid, spoke out of their full
hearts, in favor of restraining the extension of
slavery, have no significance with their degen-
crate descendants who now fill their place, we
can still look to one source for encourage
ment and hope. We can look to the
people and by heavens blessing we do believe
that the people can and will look after their
rulers.
The Nebraska bill is fragrant robbery of
the people of the whole North. The territory
is theirs, by the law Of the land, and by the
higher law of God. The slave power relin-
pushed all claim to it 80 yrs ago, and received
as its equivalent all that it demanded. Theme
CHANCES Of the north want it as field for the
Development of their industry and skill The
farmers of the north want it for homesteads
for their hardy and yirtuous sons; who in
years to come, will wish to go out from the
paternal roof, to establish themselves in plenty,
and build up communities like those which
the sons Of Connecticut and Massachusetts
seomsa, built up along the shores of the great
lakes, BY the banks Of the great rivers, in the
midst of the giant forests, aud all over the
smiling and fertile prairies of the northwest
after its conservation to freedom in 1887,
through the never to be forgotten labors of
Nathan Dane. The manufacturers of the
north want it, as a market for their merchan-
die; they want it peopled with population
that can afford to buy the products Of their
looms and workshops, who are not too impov-
erished by social vices and effeminate habits to
afford to pay for what they use. The mer-
chants want it as an store-house, whence
commercial enterprise may derive the ele-
ments Of traffic, that will make the COM
merce of all other lands tributary to ours
And above all, the patriot wants it for the ex-
tension Of the area Of freedom, for the spread
and development of those great and truthful
the Mayaower brought with them across the
ocean, and which the patriots of the Rev
olution enshrined with new lusue in the
Declaration of Independence and in the Con-
stitution of the United States.
And why shall not all these wants be graf
flied why shall the will of the upright, the
virtuous, the industrious and enterprising be
set at naught by the wiles of selfish politi-
clans: Why shall the arm Of free labor and
the hopes of freemen be paralyzed and struck
down, by the chicanery of southern k'aGves and
the moral cowardice of northern traitors whom
the people have trusted too long :
If the masses will but be true to them
selves, these things shall not be. With the re-
peal of the Missouri Compromise by the de-
hberate act of the south perishes the last
claim Of that section Of the county upon the
forbearance Of the North. 1t is they, who, in
opening this fountain of strife, are the agrees
sors. Having chosen to SOW the wind, let the
desolating whilwind Of reaction beat their an
ticipated haryests of selfish good to the earth,
and pour upon them the torrent tide Of a
whole peoples indignation, sounding and re-
sounding in its every wave and ripple the
startling note Of repeal REPEAL REPEAL:
Let not the doom and curse of slavery settle
down upon the Eden of the western world.
when it is within the power Of men to break
the foul enchan+man+ ad ... ~