Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-08

ment by apprOprlaung the new territories 10
capital in The form of slavery, but would in
evitably result in the triumph OF free labor,
the natural capital which constitutes the real
wealth of this great country, and creates that
intelligent power in the masses alone to be re-
lied on as the bulwarks OF free institutions
Besides the committal of our candidate for the
Presidency, to these principles, since his noml'
nation, we have, among other declarations, the
following, in a letter written by Col. Fremont IN
answer to an invitation to be present at Kan
zas meeting in Broadway Tabernacle, New York,
in April last;
81 am opposed to slavery in the abstract,
and by principle, sustained and made habitu-
al by long settled conviction. While feel in
flexible in the belief that it ought not to be
iuterfered with where it exists under the
shield of the State sovereignty, am as an
feribig opposed 10 ats extension on this coRti-
"ont beyond its present limits.
This is saying, as plainly as language can say
it, that slavery must be prohibited in the terrific
ries, and that his influence will be used to secure
such prohibition.
five wish to corroborate this view of the posi-
ton of the Republican party of the country, and
the policy it scommtted to carry out, should our
candidates be successful with House of Repre-
sentativesiin unison with the President it could
not be exhibited in stronger or more truthful
light than in the following extract from the speech
of Hon. Henry Wilson, Senator in Congress from
Massachusetts, at the Broadway Tabernacle, n
York, on Saturday evening last:
" The Union is threatened, but by men who
have not the power to carry their threats in
to execution. Mr.. Toombs, declared that the
South, in the event of the election of Mr.. Ere
mont, ought to go out of the Union. But let
Mr.. Toombs undertake to lead out Georgia,
and he will find be is mistaken. TApplause1
Mr.. Benjamin, Of Louisiana had made SINH
lar declaration. But he would tell these SEN
ators, that if the Republican party went into
power in lS56-as they would do cheers, J
they meant that human slavery should not
go single inch further, on the North Ameri.
can continent. Loud and long continued
applause If they placed the reins of gov
ernment in the hands of John C. Fremont,
they would make proclamation that slavery
would be blotted out of Kanzas; that the foot
of the slave would not curse the soil of Ore
gon, Utah, New Mexico, Nebraska, or Mime
sofa; and further, that even should the bounds
OF the country be extended, its banner would
only wave over free territory. (Cheers.)-
1t might float over Quebec; it might float
in the Arctic seas, where Kane raised tie sig.
nal of the cress, as Fremont did on the Rocky
Mountains; (Cheers.) it might float over
the Cordilleras of Mexico over the mountains
and plains of Central America, and over the
Moro Castle; but wherever tie banner wav-
edit should wave only over free men. cloud
applause.)
They did not claim the right to interfere
with local slavery i'll the South; but if they
had the power to govern the United States,
they would be held responsiblei if they permit.
ted the foot of a slave ever to press it. Let
this Governor Wise then Ca voice, " a id
fool!') let Mr.. Brooks-let Mr.. Keitt-let
this Ex- Governor Floyd understand that if
the Republicans go into power, the question
will be settled, now and forever, that the ter
ritory now belonging to the United States, or
to come into its possession, shall be free to
the people of the United States, and their pos
terity forever. (Cheers.1 This Governor of
Virginia, who is placing his militia upon a
war footing, (Ihope they will be on better
footing than they were when they let the Brit
ish burn the capitol,) has found a fire in the
rear in their own country. "A voice" they
have found a Bolts '-laughter.O Yes, ap.
prehend that John Minor Bolts will be about
the last man to be driven out of the State of
fHSAHla' Notwithstanding pONeIHOr Wise S
threats of a Grand Jury. He is man who
thinks for himself and when they begin the
war against him, they will find that an over
whelming majority of the people of Virginia,
and of the South, have no interest in slavery,
and that they will rise mp and take the con
troll OF affairs, and overthrow the Calhoun Sc
cessionists and nulliders. Their business in
the North was to prepare the way for the free.
dom of the liberty loving people of the
South.