Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-01-18
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FRIDAY, JANUARY IS. 1856,
Positions Dedned.

the House of Representatives AZ Washington,
arising out Of the interrogatories put by Mr..
zollikoser of IenIa.,s to the various candidates
for the speakership, has resulted very bene6-
oially in drawing out Of Messrs. Richardson
and Fuller explicit and full explanations of
their positions enlhe great question of the
day. As, to Mr.. Banks, his position, being
fully known beforehand, needed no " de6n-
Ing" but he freely and frankly re ayowed his
opinions on the material questions at issue,
in entire concurrence with his course hith-
herto, and s speech on the occasion, which
has been already laid before our readers, was
model one in its way, and shows that he
came out Of the catechetieal ordeal unscathed
and replumed.
In regard to Messrs, Richardson and Fuller
the same can not be said. The position which
they occupy at the present time, upon the
points on which the principal heterogeneous
were raised, not being in pos ession of the
public, their answers thereto were not only of
an interesting mattress far as explaining their
own individual opinions, but they afford some
what of an index to the future condition of
the parties, respectively, Of which these gem
tlemen stand as opponents.
Mr.. Richardson's position seems to be, by
this definition. substantially and emphstical-
", that based on the yeritable Cass doctrine
of " squnttes sovereignty" as contradistin-
guished from the doctrine entertained by Mr..
Calhoun and the ultra South, with this differ
ence- that while Cass declares that it would
be mncOnstitutioaalfor Congress to interfere to
inhibit slavery in the territories, Richardson
declares ii would be Gsyast for Congress SO to
do,
But, strange to say, Fuller of Pa, elected as
an anti Nebraska man, by the votes of anti
slavery men, appears in his speech to have
outstripped even his Nebraska opponent in
the race Southwark for the Speakership, and
to have absolutely taken up the gauntlet in
defence of the extreme notions the fire. eaters
of South Carolina, Mississippi, &C., 10 the eff
feet, not only, that Congress possesses no right
to prohibit slavery in the territories, but that
the people of the territory, through the Leg
islature, g have no right to legislate upon the
subject, except so far as 10 protect the right of
holders OF slaves to their property therein.
This casts the old squatter sovereignty
doctrine entirely into the shade
But as the South Carolina members who
left Richardson the other day, after his speech,
have decided agein to support him, we con-
cluds he, too, is ready to humiliate himself to
that extent, aud has repented of the seeming
concessions to Northern sentiment therein
avowed, and will not in future allow any as
pirant TO Guido him in Southern subservien-
cy. And we presume the time may come,
when the doctrines of the most intense
slavery propagandists of the present day, will
be deemed heteredox, oreyen - abolitionism,"
the instant doctrine more horrid, or more
outrageously repugnant to every humane SEN
timent, is preached. Such is the increasing
demand the. slave power is continually maxi
ing upon its yotaries, and upon candidates for
high political stations before the country.
deeper an still deeper, into the slough of
hunkerism and subserviency, to get the votes
Of their Southern managers.
Mr.. Fuller, it must be borne in mind, is the
regular ''American" candidate for Speaker,
standing on the Philadelphia platform, the
only I" national platform of that party, and
the platform on which stand the Know Moth
ings of New York. Pennsylvania, &C., whose
candidate for the Presidencyis Fillmore, Bell,
Law, Houston, or some other such man, who
will do the bidding of the slave power by
thorough execution of the provisions of the
18th section of that platform. Thus, those
who now profess to stand on the Springfield
platform, viii then be obliged, either to re-
pudlate the nomination of their party or their
present avowed principles for no two things
could be more antagonistic. However, their
present steadfastness in the support of Banks,
the Republican candidate for Speaker, affords
grounds of hope for the future, that they
will adhere with equal steadfastness, in the
ensuing Presidential contest, to the support
of Republican principles and the Republican
policy.