Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-27

| whenever he boasts on this floor of the con-
tentment of the bondman, the words of Ed
mund Burke, "He who makes q contented
slave makes degraded man.
Look at the condition of affairs in your sec
tion OF the Union to-day in many places
your people think they have found evidences
of incipient rebellions. The supporters of
Buchanan and Fillmore have rivalled each
other In misrepresenung the sentiments,
principles, and policy of the supporters of
John c. Fremont. Ire leaders of the South.
ern Democracy have everywhere enounced
the Republican party as party in favor of
emancipation by the exercise of the powers of
the Federal Government. The hungry ear of
the bcndmen drank in these false accusations
and unjust reproaches. Your words will be
to them possession forever, exciting hopes
that will never die. Go home-undeeeiye
those whom you have deceived. Do us JUS
tce. Place us where we are, and where we
intend to stand-opposed to slavery every
where, in favor of its abolition everywhere
outside of the slave States opposed to the
domin alton of the slave power, but conced-
ing to the people CT the slave States their con-
stitutional rights to settle the matter in their
own time and i'll their own way.
Senators desired to know how we should
holding State. | answer, for myself, if Kan
zas applies for admission as slave State, l
will reply in the words of Caleb Cushing, the
law officer of this Government In arguing
the question of the admission of Arkansas, he
SAID, speaking in regard to the power of Con-
gress over the subject:
" The Constitution eonfers npon us the dis
erection to admit new States at will. 1t linn
its, IN certain respects, our power to act af-
TENTATIVELY; but it does not limit, IN any re-
spect, our discretion, on the negative side, Of
refusal to admit new States
Resting upon this authority of the dstin-
guished legal adviser of the Administration,
will answer your question, whether I will vote
for the admission of Kanzas, as slave State,
in his words -
al do not persuade myielf that liberty is an
evil or that slavery is a blessing. When call
ed upon to accord my official sanction to q
form Of government which not merely permits
but expressly perpetuates slavery, should be
false to all the opinions and principles of my
life il did not promptly return peremptory
and emphatic No p"
The senator from Texas commends our de.
votion to the Union. We have ever support
ed the Union, and tell you, sir, what we in
tend to do in regard to its support. The SEN
ator from Pennsylvania, the other day, de-
clans. l suppose he thought it safe to at
tack that little squad of fanatics, as he calls
them, in South Carolina but, sir, we, the
Republicans, do not confne our denunciations
to that little faction. We denounce your Gov
ernor Wises, all your chosen leaders who have
threatened to destroy the Union if the for
tunes OF the election went against them the
men who have your conference.-the men
who go to Wheatland and have the ear of YOUR
incoming Executive. l give you notice, to-
day, gentlemen, what we intend to do. 1.-THE
incoming administration sends into this body
the nomination of a single man who ever
threatened the dissolution of the Union. we
intend to camp on this floor, and to resist his
confirmation to the bitter end. give notice
now that we shall resist the coming into pow
er of all that class of men as enemies Of the
Constitution and the Union.
We go further. We mean to hold the in
coming Administration responsible, if it gives
confidence or patronage to your Richmond En-
quirerS and Examiners, your Charleston Mer-
CURES aud Standards, your Nem Orleans Del
tas, and your South Side Democrats, or any
Democratic journal in the United States which
threatened the dissolution of the Union in the
event of our success. We intend here in our
places to defend that Union which makes us
one people, against the men of your party who
have threatened to subvert and destroy it
We intend to go little further. Your slave
propogandist journals have denounced the in
dependent laboring men of the North as
"greasy mechanics" " filthy operatives"
"small- listed farmers moon struck the.
orists." We mean to hold you responsible, if
you bestow your confidence and patronage
upon journals that maintain that ''the princi.
pie OF slavery is itself right and does not de-
pend on difference of complexion
Senators have told they want peace
they want repose Well, sir, want peace,
and | want repose The State l represent
wants it. Tens of millions of our property
are scattered broadcast over the Southern
States. The business men, the merchants,
the manufacturers OF my State want peace as
much as you can want it. But YOU cannot
have it il you want to extend slavery over the
free Territories. You cannot have it if YOU
continue your efforts to bring Kansas here
slave State.
Ii you want peace, abandon your policy of
slavery extension. Cease all efforts to con-
troll the political destiDies of the country
through the expansion Of slavery as an ele-
ment of political power. Plant yourselves
upon your reserved constitutional rights, and
we will aid you in the vindicaton of those
rights. Turn your attention from the for
hidden fruits of Cuban, Central American, or
Mexican acquisitions, to your own dilapida-
ted fields, where the revegetating forests are
springng up, end where, in the language of
Gov. Wise, "you have the owners skin
ming the negroes, the negroes skinning the
land, until all grow poor together Erase
from your statute books those cruel laws
which shock the sensibities of mankind -
Place there humane and benefcent legislation,
which shall protect the relations of the hus-
band and wife, parent and child-whch shall
open darkened minds to the elevating in.
fuence of Christian culture. You will then
have the generous sympathies, the sincere
prayers of men who reverently look to Him
whose hand guides the destinies of the world
You will have the best wishes of the friends
OF liberty all over the globe. Humanity and
Christianity will sanction and bless your eff
forts to hasten on that day, though it may be
distant, when freedom shall be the inalienable
birthnght OF every man who treads the soil of
the North American continent.
CONGRESS.
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