Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-28


for her bold assertions that the gospel is fanre
and cheat If the Christian church, throughout
our whole land, had been faithful for the last
twenty five years, in exposing chattel slavery in
the hight OF scriptural tru and gospel principle
in my Judgment we should not be mourning, to.
day, over Washington and Kanzas, as two great
| fields of violence and blood but. instead, the one
] would have been the metropolis OF noble Re
public, and the other the youngest State in
| eriectly free confederacy.
Now, evidently, if this work of manufacturing
| moral power, against oppression, is ever done,
thrust be bsgun And those who believe it ought
to be done, and fear not to do it, should set the
| example. A Christian public opinion is vet to be
| formed, which shall be strong enough to drive
| slavery out of the land Entertaining these
views, which you must allow TO be reasonable,
and by no means radical, views which are with me
| deliberate and settled convictions. and which |
| mold without excitement, will see that it is
not to catch the popular breath, that l speak on
this subject, to day, but simply because it is my
| DUTY, and am man, so tsDl5d that l dare not,
k'losoingly, refuse to do my dttty.
Let me, then, mention to you three four
| things that meditation on the outrages of the
week now past have presented in sharp outline to
| my mind. One is this:
The assault IN the Senate as only one Slight an
| c1dent an the steady Development Of the great
| SLAVE PowER.- his almost murder OF the in
corruptible patriot. ripe scholar. and amable gen.
tleman. who so ably represents the sovereignty
| OF Massachusetts among the peers of our Repub
lie, exciting as it is upon the public mind moving
deeply as it does the sensbili les of all honorable
men, ofevery shade of religious or political opin-
| lon is, nevertheless, an outrage no greater and
| scarcely more daring and yillainous, than hun
! dreds of Others have been. We only feel it more
because it touches our personal honor. But if
| we had felt for the truth, and sympathized with
eternal Tight, we should have been equally indig-
nant al events that have been CROWDED into each
| montn and week of these late eventful years.
| Preston ). Brooks is only one of the willing in
struments OF an omnipresent and almost omnipo
| tent tyranny. He is no worse than legion of
others, in office and out OF office. He only be-
came the cheerful executioner of a purpose that
was born OF the slave power, and it mattered very
little what particular hand dealt the decisive
blow. He was only one of hundred arms ofthis
gigantic briareus. His was but Il single head Of
that monstrous hydra, whose Shiny coils are
wound round every pillar that upholds our gov
eminent and whose venom is cast, with kissing
| and rage, upon everything that W II not go upon
| Its belly. ami feed upon dust. Summers suffer
lngs throb to day in the hearts of all the good,
and all the free. But where are Do2c and Bar
! 6ot", and BrOacn and Bishop? Where are their
| brave associates, who have committed the crime
OF mlstaklng this for land of freedom J Their
| poor hearts beat no more. Their wives are mani
acs, their children wanderers. Their horrfd
/ wounds cape before the eyes of an indignant
| people; those poor dumb mouths that plead
| like angels, trumpet tongued, against the deep
| damnatiOn of their taking off, +" They are vic
tins OF the slave power. They have been crushed
! under the pondrous wheels of this American and
Patriarchal JuggerHaut Where are Robinson and
| Reedef to-day! aye, where is Laurence itself;
| with Lam and Simpson, and our brave brethren
| OF a common faith, to whom we have cheerfuly
st mt the bread OF life, and whom we hoped to see
| planting the seeds OF christian commonwealth
! IN that fertile soil Alas a sad uncertainty
| hangs over their fate Very probably at this
| moment, while the peaceful Sabbath sun shines
! over us and we sit fearless and unarmed in our
beloved saI ctuary. pray ing, and praisng Father,
| Son, and Holy Ghost, their stiffened and CHASTITY
forms lie unburied on the rolling prairie, ''abo-
htlon wolt-bait" Yes, that those miscreants
call 1t, who are composing heaven and hell to
establish there tyranny which shall forever
| crush out the impulses and hOpas offieedom from
the mind of the North. That grinding arlstoc.
racy of the plantation is doing all this that ter
rble power that has silently subsidized the govern
ment, and given law to the States so long as al
! most to have established its foundations upon
thirty-one pillars and six buttresses and which is
ready at the next step to receive the ocean slave
trade, ana sound the roll call of plantation dsci-
pine under the shadow of Bunker Hill monu-
ment, and over the bones of Warren.
OF the long series of usurpations, the attempted
murder of our Senator is among the last, They
are all the same in kind. Two years ago, this
hour, poor Burns lay in irons in the Court House,
in Boston. We were uttering here at this hour,
such words as the sad occasion demanded We
/ felt, all of ps, that We could bear no more that
! the cord wond snapif it were frightened another
| particle We were ready to say that the ultima.
tum had been reached, and forbearance was no
| longer virtue But yet what do we see today
the little finger of this year is thicker than the
! lolnS of that he repeal of the Missouri Com
promise is bearing its bitter but natural fruit
| what the Slave Power meant to accomplish is
rapidly being done. L he torturing vice it holds
! IN hand is screwed down harder and harder
"HoW much can you bear, brave North ?" say the
masters You vince, but have not had half
enough; there, take yet another turn-now
| another-and still another" Merciless eXecu.
toner her tender mercies are cruelty. Her heart
IS Ice How did she march poor Burns down
! State street. and how she now reioices that the
! brains OF Massachusetts, sons and ancient Har-
| wards jewels, must rest awhile rom weaving those
| powerful arguments, that madden, convince
| scourge, and cruelty, but do not reclaim her Oh,
| my trends, say not much at present of Preston
! ). BROOKS. Considering his training and his
! master, hels as mucn OF man could be ex-
| pected. He is not sinner above Others more
respectable in station and influence. Look rather
| at the POWER of which the Honorable (i) ruttan
is the truest embodiment; and when you pray,
! remember THAI When you speak, and organize
| your efforts when you consult, when you vote,
| remember that. Note its daring deeds for fitting
retributon. and in the day of retribution, let it
| slernly come.
1t should be noticed again that this incident Il,
The Y. 5. Senate iHdicDteS the settled purpose of
the Stare Pocer to Sabde to itself the t0h0Ie land
| 1t was bold push, and no halfway measure. 1t
4 has deep significance. 1t done deliberate
| ly and by those who made certain calculation
| upon the firm support of the Oligarchy, with all
| Its numerous dependencies. 1t was presumed
/ that the influence that shielded the mScreant who
attacked Horace Greeley, and which welcomed
sun to Its embrace the murderer of Heating, as a
| man OF untarnished honor and purity, would also
| throw the egis of its powerful protection about
| any man who should hush in death a voice so
| eloquent as Sumnr's so caustic upon shameless
| crime, so searching, and fearless in driving out
| It's apologlsts from Their lairs, SO successful in
arouslng torpid consciences, by exhibiting the
simple majesty of TRUTH, clothed in dress of
| heavenly beauty.
| The intent OF this whole proceeding is plain
Let those who love 10 speak their mind, observe
| It, aye, let them narrowly mark it, and muse
| upon 1T In silence. Its interpreted language is
| tins We cannot answer your arguments-we
| Will not endure your mvectve, and we W II stop
| your mouth by violence The language those
| 70 to 90 strokes laid on the head oil a man pros
| trate, senseless, and bleeding was just this-You
| Sh u not speak your mind. Neither you, nor your
friends, Shall be permitted free speech in the halls
OF Congress. We will subdue you by Violence
| The territorial laws Of Kanzas boldly assert the
! same monstrOus doctrine. In Missouri, and every
/ other slave State speeth is free only to praise
| but not to blame wrong doing. Bishop Meade,
| for saying some kind words to Africans at the
rite continuation. is told he had better leave
! virginia and move North. The correspondent of
| the 81 Louis Democrat is under arrest for own.
ing his own lips; and we should all be in prison
together to day, for constructive treason, if on
Massachusetts, soil the great usurpaton we're as
Influential as it is malignant. Slavery now is
scarcely more confined to blacks than whites.
| Call us not lovers Of the negro only. Our crime
Is that we feel for our 0htte BRETHREN for men of