Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-22
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American organ. with heretofore strong South.
ern tendencies, and until now advocate OF
| Fillmore and Donelson, in its Saturdays issue
comes out boldly in favor of Fremont and DAY.
ton. in the following style. The Mirror is edited
| BY Col. Hiram Fuller an Office holder under Presi
| dent Fillmore, and he reflects the sentiments OF
a large class who are leaving their ultra conserv-
| atism to rally under the banner of Freedom and
! Right;
The R-PREsIDENTIALLY.-I is due
to our readers that the Mirror should define
its position on the question of the Presidency.
We have waited, watched, inquired observed
and deliberated calmly on the subject and
have decided to vote for Fremont. The rea-
sons that led to this conclusion, we will briefly
state.
In the first place, we like the MANZhis
character and his career. We like him for
what he Is and for what he has done and we
are willing to take the record of the past as
guarantee for the future. With his political
principles, as indicated by his votes and
speeches in the United States Senate, and as
set forth in his recent letter of acceptanee.
we have no fault to find. And we have Dri
vate reasons for believing that in the event of
his election, he will prove as good and prompt
L IeSiu6nJ as Geu. jackson.
But other and stronger considerations than
these have determined the election we have
made. After fighting the battle of the South
for twelve long years, defending its political
rights, domestic institutions, social character,
manners and habits on all occasions, recent
occurrences have convinced us that the time
has come for the North with its superior num-
bers, intelligence wealth and power, to stand
firm and fixed as its granite hills, against the
threatening, bullying, brow beating, skull
breaking spirit Of the South-a spiri: that
tramples on compromises; violates the sacred
freedom of parliamentary debate and muir
ders the settlers nrn,. soft, for
simply opposing by vote, and vote, the fasioIr-
ing of slavery upon free and virgin Terri.
tory.
1t is not necessary to re. assure the readers
of the Mirror that we have no sympathy with
political Aboltionists = the Greeleys, the
Giddingses and the Van Burens of the North,
who have been riding the niger hobby Tor
fifteen years, seeking office while " shrek
ing for freedom But, however mischiev.
Gus and detesable the sentiment promulgated
by the sectional demagogues may be, they
have never resorted to bullets and bludgeons
to carry their points, or to silence their oppo-
nents. They have even made virtue of me-
cessity by submitting to the operations of the
Fugitive Slave law (the bitterest pill ever
swallowed by the North for the benefit of the
South), and even the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise would have been acquiesced in,
had Z" far play aid no gougng" been Sc
cured to the settlers in Kauzas
As the representative of Northern feeling.
aroused by series of unwonted outrages on
the part of Southern politicians and counte-
nanced by the Pierce administration, John C.
Fremont has been selected as a candidate for
the Presidency. In the great emergency of
the nation the eyes of the Free States turn to
him who has waved the flag of his country
upon the top Of America, as to the rising Star
of the Republic. The HOUR and the MAN,
have come together, as they always do come,
in the right time Of a nations need.
1t is not now our purpose to prophecy; we
have not even made an arithmetical calcua-
tioL Of the chances of thus complicated cam
paign. The question with us is not one.of
| policy, but of principle not of politics even,
but of patriotism. In the event of Fremont's
election, the very triumph would suggest a
course of magnanimity towards the South.
The republican cabinet and foreign missions
should fairly represent every section of the
| Union. And 1t Is the strong assurance that
such generous and purely national policy
would be adopted, more than all other con :
siderations. that has decided the step we have
| taken.
Against the other candidates in the field
| Fillmore and Buchanan - the Mirror has
nothing to say. They are good men, both.
| But the platforms Oh which they are mounted
the alliances and associations they have
formed, aud the measures to which they are
committed, are not broad enough free
enough, grand enough to accommodate the
progressive, independent, and go ahead spirit
Of Young America. Old Fogyism may lift its
speetacles, shake its Silver Gray locks and
warn us against yielding to this sudden hurri.
cane that is sweeping over the North. But
so long as the breeze blows in the right drec
ton, it is better to go aciih it than against it
and without throwing overheard single con
seryative principle hitherto advocated by the
Mirror, we can go into the fight for Fremont
and Dayton, for the Union Of the States and
the constitutional rights Of both the North
and the South, as conscientously as evei
crusaders battled for jerusalem In times
like these, TO be neutral is TO be a coward.