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

our fathers consecrated to freedom, to be her
heritage forever. Loud cheers.)
While this is being done we need not abate
one iot of heart or hope There might in the
meantime be a spirit invoked at the north
which would be dangerous to all compromises
If this comuromise is to be destroyed what is
to prevent all other compromise from sharing
the same fate
Mr.. Thayer at the close Of his powerful aud
effective speech was loudly cheered.
Mr.. Cogswell said he should have been well
pleased, had he been permitted to remain in
obscurity, and listen to the more able and elo-
quent voices of the disting uished gentlemen
whom he saw about him, He would have
done violence to his own feelings, however,
had be not embraced this opportunity of ex-
pressing, if only in word, the sentiments of
adherence with which heregarded the infam-
Gus Nebraska bill. He thoughtit was impos-
sible to oyer-estmate, he did not believe the
people Of the North had begun adequately to
estimate the Importance of the measure. He
would pass entirely over the great value vest
ed in the territory which the bill embraced
reaching, as it does, from the 37th to the 49th
parallel of latitude, washed on one side by the
turbid tide of the Missouri, and frowned upon
on the other by the stern crags of the Rocky
Mountains = Astounding in rich intervales,
fruitful valleys, and fertile prairies, adapted to
the growth OF grain, and marking it as one of
the future granaries of the world-irrigated
by great streams and mighty rivers, which
would bear its productions to the sea-destn-
ed, perhaps, to yet greater Importance if the
Pacific Railroad should pass through its Dor
ders, when it would be the great highway of
the commerce of the world along which would
be borne in time of peace, all the riches of
the Indies from the Pacific to the Atlantic
coast, and in time of war; troops and NUM-
tons, from one sea to the other. 1t was of in
estmable cons equence to the free States and
to the world, that that great highway should
be located ON free territory, and unexposed to
any danger of sergile lnsurrection. He would
not dwell upon the danger that, if this bill
should pass, the tide OF immigration, now just
upon the verge of this great country, and
ready to roll over it in smiling and peaceful
waves, would be turned away forever. The
free New Highlander, the honest Scandinavian
or German looked with instructive adherence
upon the idea of laboring by the side of the
slave. But in yet another aspect, this bill
presented its most horrid front. The Missouri
Compromise Act, had declared that slavery
in that territory should be "forever prohibit
ed" What did that means 1t meant that
upon that soil no slave should ever breath, no
tyrants lash or sufferers moan should be ever
heard-no painting fugitive should ever flee
from out its borders to seek in the stony heart
of the Rocky Mountains the refuge denied
him in the centre Of civilization, and ask from
the grizzly bear or the panther of the wild,
the charity sought in vain from the humanity
of man.
Again, this was not territory seeking to be
admitted as state in which slavery already
existed, but it was a fresh virgin country,
in which as yet servitude was not. 1t was not
necessary to pass this bill from a spirit of con-
cession and compromise which wise and good
men had so often thought just and right. The
country was peaceful and quiet-eyen the ag-
itators were almost at rest. The measure
originated with those who had preached
peace upon this topic, and it proposed in
the middle of the nineteenth century, after all
our experience Of the woes Of slavery to leg
isate it into this infant empire. Who had de-
sired this bill? Had the South demanded it:
Notso, bat only claimed that the North had
)3ered to them, an excuse which would not
paliate Their violation Of faith. Had the North
offered OF desired it, They knew nothing of
the reason until 1t was presented and now they
detested it. Stephen A Douglas was the author
Of the bill-a third-rate statesman who would
never have been prominent in the Senate if
DEATH How would Calhoun Clay and Web
ster have burned with ind gnation against this
bill and its author Douglas was supported
by Northern representatives, crayens and rec
realts to the principles of freedom, by which
they had been nourished. One might say of
them, as Grattan said of the Irish memcers Of
parliament that they slept in their managers
with their their collars about then necks."
To two Southern Senators, John Bell of
Tennessee, and brave old Sam. Houston of
Texas, who had consistently opposed the bill,
the North should be grateful
But would the bill pass. It was said its
friends were waiting for the issue Of the APP
preaching election in New Hampshire He
trusted New Hampshire would not be false to
the traditions, Of her eaaly days We should
lose nothing by the delay. But even if the re-
suit of that election disappointed us, even if
the bill should pass the house, we shotld not
despair. It would still be our duty to hope
that slavery would be averted from this terri
tory, and above ALL to believe that the great
battle of freedom could not be lost to us, at
theta t. (Applaus6)
Mr.. Spragne being called for, took the plat
form, and made long aud eloquent speech,
which the lateness of the hour prevented us
from reporting. 1t was an eloquent reYiew
OF the history of the Compromises; and also
an eloquent appeal to freemen to resist this
bill, which was conceived in deceit and in
EQUITY.
The resolutions were then put, and unani-
mously carried, and the meeting was dissolved.
ANOTHER MAD DoG.-We learn from North
Brookfeld, that dog belonging to Messrs.
Duncan Edwards, was very slightly bitten
in the nose by a mad dog, about month
since. The injury was so slight, that it was
hoped no evil would result from it. Still, as
matter Of precaution, he was chained and
muzzled. On Friday night, he became rabid,
and Saturday morning escaped, by breaking
his chain, and breaking through window,
having first rid himself of his muzze. The
matter created great sensation in the place,
and numbers Of the citizens turned out in pur-
suit of the infuriate animal.
Railroad Affairs,
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