Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-20

:" fanatics and g disunionists." So was he
himself once fanatic and Z" disunionist,
when he endorsed the sentiments contained
in the extracts above quoted, and declared,
in the Constitutional Convention of New
Hampshire, in 1851, leaving the chair for that
purpose 81 soou1d take the grrund Of the non
extension of slauery-that Slavery should not
beosnts stronger Yet he has bent all his
energies since his accession to power, to
''strenqthen" that institution, in his efforts to
spread it over the vast territories of Kanzas
and Nebraska, and hurls his executive anath-
emas at those who stand steadfast by the doc
trines he once taught them to hold and adj
vised them to adhere to. And it is for this
reputation of his own faith, by Franklin
Pierce, that he is repudiated by his own
State.
1t is of no use for the President, or any of
his minions, to evade the matter by attempt
ing to palm off the New Hampshire victory as
mere Know Nothing triumph, for the Ameri-
can party in that State went into the contest
hand in hand with the Republicans, on pre-
cisely the same issues. The American party
in New Hampshire put the slavery question
first and foremost, in their platform of prin-
cples, and recommend union on this PAR
AMOUNT QUESTION, with ALL opposed to the
extension of slavery" They did so unite, on
that basis, and the result is before u.s. New
Hampshire has spoken, and her "voice'' is,
that her traitorous son is weighed in the bal
auce and found wanting.
We cannot better conclude our view of the
New Hampshire election, than by copying the
following, from the Palladium of this week.
| Mr.. Kuowlton is one Of the ablest Democrats
in the State, had labored long in their ranks,
and the Palladium probably better represents
the sentiments of the masses of the party,
in the country, than airy other Democratic
| journal in Massachusetts,
sin 1913, the Democratic party fin New
Hampshirel with Gen. Pierce at its head, took
strong and decided ground against the eaten
sion of slavery into free territory. Their reso-
buttons and speeches to that effect are upon
record add the party stood strong in that po-
sitIon. Since that time, change has taken
place. The demand of the South, that it has
a right to carry slaves, like other property,
into free territory, has been recognized, and
its propriety admitted. Large masses of the
people have not yielded to a conviction that
such extension of slavery can be sustained on
any ground of right, of law, or of humanity ;
and consequently they continue to believe in
1856, what they believed in lS4S and that
belief, from the necessity of the case, induces
them to express at the polls the same opinions
now which they held eight years ago; and if
that expression happens to be in favor of 9TH
han nf fIa nav1
party they maintain that the fault, if there be
one, is not chargeable to them. This is the
explanation which New Hampshire men give
Of the change which has taken place in The
relative strength of parties in that State
While admitting that AaericdnaSm-as it is
called-has some influence i'll their elections,
they contend that the great controlling idea
has been opposition TO slarery ertenSion-em-
bracing, as they maintain, opposition, mot only
to the thing itself, but to the men who are in
favor of such extension.
Here is point for the Democratic party to
consider. Here stands great fact, which can
not be winked out of sight, but must be met.
IS the sentiment, as stlO.-.-, - loost =,
New Hampshire in 1856 as it was in lS4S, of
inhexible hostility to the carrying of slavery
into free territory. Nothing is gained by de-
nounclng that sentiment as abolitionism,'
black republicanism and rabble more of
such epithets. Men now look at things more
than at names, and political uicknames, which
have ever been vulgar resort, are found to
be OF all things the most harmless. The sem
timent must be consulted if the Democrats
OF New Hampshire would regain the ascen-
| dency they were wont to have in their State.
| The party, it is true, is historical; but the
people have shown that they prefer right to
| power.
The hostility to slavery extension is grow.
| ing sentiment. 1t becomes more and more
fined as principle. The people are wearied
with the everlasting exhibition of slavery in
every demonstration that government is called
upon 10 make of itself They want it should
be kept in the States where it belongs; and
never more be heard of out Of those States.
They do not admit that negro slave is to be
treated as property everywhere, the same as
though he were an OK or bale of cotton =
and to be recognized as so many pounds of
silver, that may be carried wherever its owner
may choose to go, and be used to paw debt
the " orld over. They look upon negro slave
as OF no more value than bank charter when
carried out of the jurisdiction of the local
law that created it or gave it all Its value; that
a negro who is slave under the laws of South
Carolina, is as valueless when carried into
free State or free territory, as bank chartered
| by the Massachusetts Legislature would be if
carried into Ohio or Nebraska.
Here is the sentiment. the conviction, of
great masses of men in the free States and
1t will not do to ignore that sentiment, tina,
conviction. The party that does so will suffer
III the eieetions-in the government-and in
its hold upon public sympathy as a popular
party. There are some individuals who vain
ly imagine that the political world will roll on
hereafter it has rolled heretofore They
mistake tho signs of the times. They are not
in Ffn,, Al
upon the public pulse and feel the wild irreg-
ulBrity of its beating. They think that to-
day is as yesterday, and that tomorrow will
be as the day before; and have not learned
the mighty changes through which public
opinion is passing, overturning the landmarks
OF the past, and setting up new guides for the
future"
The New BANK BnL.-The bill for the
gradual suppression of small bills, reported in
the House on Tuesday, prohibits the issue or