Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-10
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NovEMBER 10, 1855.
"a. Elcctiou---The Prospect.


Those who imagine that the result of the cleo
tion on Tuesday, however unfortunate Temporal
vv Is IN check the efforts of the friends of free
dom to organize in one body, great party OF
freemen throughout the Northern States, on the
basis of opposition to the refreshments OF the
Slave mower, reckon sadly without Their host
The result Of that contest has shown that, out OF
,ss 400 voters Of Massachusetts, three fourths of
them have put the ineifaceable brand of eOndcm.
nation upon the acts Of President Pierce and his
pro-slavery administration So far, there is no
mistsking the voice Of Massachusetts. Circum-
stances ~ this time have mingled that express
sion with another mstter, but soon, we trust the
clouds may disappear, and then we shallbe arrayed
il one body against our common foe-the Slave
ohgarchy OF the South.
II the incoming State administration shall SO
conduct affairs as te allow fair expression Of the
true ant-Slavery sentiment Of the STATE SO far as
shey go IN thai direction they shall receive full
xedit. Whenever they shall depart from that
policy, ana eudeAvog 20 lead Massachusetts, after
strange odds in the EFFORT to put upon her statute
book or into hes constitution. anything Of pro-
scsptiye nature. contrary to the free spirit Of the
age, we shai oppose it and denounce it.
As regards the future course OF the so-called
American" party. in this and other States, judg-
ing from the recent action Of the State Council in
New Hampshire, much is to be hoped that it may
yet be OF character calculated to conciliate and
unite, eventually, in a common organization, the
friends Of freedom aud progress Whatever &C
ton may be taken in that direction will be record
ed with qualification.
A divided North is the only obstacle which lies
in the way of triumph Of free principles IN the
eiming Presidential election. Whether any sue
cessful steps can be taken towards the realization
of so great desideratum tie future alone viii de
terrnine. One thing is certain, so long as great
bodY at the North, protesting these principles
shall put another question antagonistic to them.
first and foremost in its platform, so long will the
accomplishment of such desire be nulli6ed.--
As natural result, we shall witness the trium-
plant election, in 1885, by the votes OF the united
South and fraction of the North. of Franklin
Pierce or some other dyed-in-the wool slavery
propagandist, whomsocver the united irrational
democracy" may nominate
If all similar bodies in other States shall ini.
tate the action Of the American party of New
Hampshire, this evil may be averted, and the pros
poets for the future of the cause of Freedom be
of the most propitious kind. We rejoice to see
it stated that at the session of their State Coun
Gil on Tuesday last, in Nashua, the "American"
party of the Granite State passed resolutions Of
most excellent character, approving the course
of their delegates at Philadelphia, last June, and
heartily sustaining their action in severing their
connection with the national organization. Their
second resolution declares that freedom being
national and slavery sectional, while the latter is
left in the exercise of all its strictly constitutional
rights, in the States where it now exists its fur
thor extension and longer connection with the
general government should be uncompromisingly
opposed and resisted" The third proposes
union Of call who oppose the the further en-
croachments Of slavery, and would restore the
policy Of the Fathers of the Republic"
This is the right course of action, and if it had
been recommended on these broad terms, and
persisted in BY their brethren in our own State,
We should have witnessed here different and
better state of things, from what at present ex-
lists. Sdch policy, alone, can save the cause of
Freedom in 1856, from being swamped by the
Pierce Nebraska Democracy, in the Presidential
contest.