Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-29

Union; that, if slavery exists there, it exists by
the permission and sanction of the Federal Gov
eminent, and we are responsible for it. We are
IN favor of its abolition wherever we are morally
or legally responsible for lis existence"
The complaint by Mr.. Hallett is, that Gen.
Wilson did not also quote a succeeding resolu-
ton, pledging the party against making those
principles test of its political action.
Senator Wilson, in speech in the Senate,
April 81, takes up these charges of Mr.. Hallett,
and replies that the three resolves which he quot
ed were leach of them separate, distinct, and
entire, following each other in logical order
Each of them embodied distinct propositions, and
enunciated general principles, having no logical
dependence upon, or connection with, the other
resolutions of the long SERIES" The Senator
quotes from his former epeech in the Senate on
these resolutions, about which so much complaint
is made by President Pierces District Attorney,
and then proceeds as follows
Sir this quotation from my speech demonstrates
the fact that Mr.. Benjamin T. Hallett's charge,
that Tread garbled and disconnected extracts
from the resolutions" without shadow of foun-s
dation, This quotation shows that Iquoted three
entire and complete resolutions, enunciating priI-
ciples of constitutional construction and inter-
probation. Sir, the first resolution proclaims
great prnciple-OppoSition to SiaueYy, fauor to
freedom and free soil eoeyyloherei The second
resolution declares that, 50 5y common, ldio com
mon sense, and the decision ofthe Supreme Court
stGrery as a mere aa'eoiclpaI regulation" The
third resolution declares
LIST, That "slacery does not eriSt IN the Terri
tories"
I'd, That "Congress has no ,ightto institute it !"
I'd, That ''the local lGacs Of the States cannot
be transported there
ttsL1ge7.5g oo,, s,a7,e,- there
tocattoac, sanctioned By Congress or the act of a
State an its sovereign capacity"
Sir, these are declarations of principles-not
pledges of political action. l quoted them as
declarations of principles-not pledges of po-
htlcal action. did not say that the Democracy
OF Massachusetts, pretended to act up to these
principles. Sir, did not even quote the pledge
gwen IN the resolution which Immediately follows
them. Sir, will quote the resolutions, and then
VIII quote the resolution which qualities it, and
which he is pleased to call ''a paragraph" and to
charge me with" suppressing:"
."Resolued, That we are opposed to the exten-
sion of slavery to free Territories and in favor of
the exercise of all constitutional and necessary
means to restrict it to the limits within which it
does or may exist by the local laws of the State;
but
q Resolved, That these sentiments are so uni
versal at the North to belong to no party, be-
ing held in common by nearly all men north of a
sectional line. while they are repudiated BY most
men south of that line, and therefore they cannot
be made national party test
Sir, every honorable man will see, at glance,
tnat the resolutions quoted by me, in my speech
OF February, 1850, enunciate principles-that
quoted them as such; and that the resolutions
now quote refer TO political action.
But the best part of Senator Wilson's speech,
is that in which he gives the following political
Renaissance connected with the course of Messrs.
Hallett, Greene, &C., in l849:
Sir, Mr.. Benjamin F. Hallett graciously de-
clares that ne will not pronounce me "a fool or
a knave for " msQuotiHg these resolutions !" as
may never have read them as a whole" Sir.
his gracious condescension is wholly misplaced.
L assure him that my sins, if have sinned. are
not the sins of ignorance. Sir, saw these reso-
lutlons in the hands of Benjamin F. Halett, on
the morning of the 10Th of September, 1S49 in
the cars between Boston and Springfield, and
heard him read them to the Hon. Charles C,
dazewell, then associated with the Boston Times
agentleman of extraordinary memory and vast
his torlca acquisitions. After he had finished
reading these resolves, Mr.. Hazewel asked him
what " the southern Democrats would say to
them?" Mr.. Benjamin F. Hallett promptly re-
pied, don't care what they say we have
risked everything for them; they deserted Gen.
eral Cass and elected General Taylor; they NAV
take care of themselves, and we will take care of
ourselves. Sir, was present in the convention
, 'i'ey "eie reported by the author; so, lsir,
l know something of these resolves and their
i-i-%y, .1Va KIIUw we're tyIIiled
ne was smarting under the defeat of lS48 He
was also locking hopefully to a coalition with the
Free-Soilers in the ensuing State election The
Boston Post, the office from which this pamphlet
comes, edited then and now by Charles G. Greene,
Navy agent at Boston, on the 2lst of September,
in indorsing these resolutions, State and Nation
al, expressed the opinion that the two minority
parties could acttosether in the pending election
on State affairs.
Judging Of the damaged manner in which the
Soldier of Fortune" comes out of the present
contest, we opne that he will remember to count
the cost, before he ventures again to assail the
Hon. Henry Wilson.