Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-31

CoMMITTEE.-A special despatch TO the New
York Evening Post, gives the following ac-
count of the address adopted by the Repubh-
can Committee:
Washington, March %. The National Ex-
ecutive Republican Committee closed their
sessions today. They have issued call fer
National Nominating Convention, to sit at
Philadelphia. on the seventeenth of June in,
wiling the attendance of delegates represent.
ing all the opponents OF the.slavery policy of
the administration.
The address adopted by the committee is
ascribed to Francis P. Blair. 1t is written
with his Characteristic ability, and is destined
to produce a strong impression upon the pop.
ular mind. After referring 10 the nomination
of Fillmore, which, not being likely to obtain
the electoral vote of single State, is consld-
cred as an attempt to divide the strength of
Anti Administration men, the address advo-
Gates the surrender of party preiudlces, to
vindlcate the principle of restraining the ex-
tension of the slaveholding monopoly, and of
maintaining the ghts of those in ali sections
who labor with their hands, from its oppres-
sions, without interfering with the rights of
States to dispose of the subject in their own
limits as they choose.
The influence of slavery upon the interests OF
the laboring classes is discussed. Their interests
have been betrayed by Representatives from the
North and South in the interests of slave
holders, who have voted TO surrender the pub.
lie lands to slavery.
Hence there are two principles TO be assert
ed-the vindication of free labor in the terri
tories, and the chastisement of misguided
representatives who have disobeyed the popu.
lar will.
The report enlarges upon the consequences
of the triumph of Atchison's usurpaton in
Kanzas, with laws and constitution intro
ducing slavery and DISTINGUISHING free labor
ers by test oaths and other disabilities, upon
the principles of the Presidents proclamation.
Then follow an exposition vi the ettecIs OF
slavery upvn tne 1fue .vnIre people OF the
South, as shown by the testimony Of Senator
Clay of Alabama, and Governor Hammond
of South Carolina. In the latter State it is
shown that one third of the free population
control the State government.
The degraded condition of the poor whites
in slaveholding communities Is cited further,
TO explain the Richmond Esaquirey's argu-
ments in favor of the inalienable right to en-
slave white as well as black men.
The subserviency of the existing Demo.
cratic party to the designs of slavery extern
sionists is dwelt upon. The party consists of
Office holders, with the President as a leader,
and a few shareholders of the South who hope
to succeed by possible plurality in some
Northern State, occasioned by the divisions Of
the oppon ents Of slavery extension.
The design of the black olligarchy, is TO
establish Gordon of black republics from
Missouri to the Pacific. The degrading con-
sequence OF such policy is exempifed in
Mexico, where slavery exists under the name
of peonage.
striking illustration of the working of
the SC. called popular sovereignty, as laid
down by the administration, may be seen in
Utah, where multitudes of white women are
held in seryitude as wives, with no restriction
by Congress. Douglass principle allows the
people of a territory to establish the full blown
Turkish system.
What is there in the unlimited permission
to form and regulate their own institutions,
subject only to the United States constitution.
as Douglas proclaims it, which would prevent
Bris ham Young from holding sixty men az
well as sixty women in seryitudei The ad-
dress concludes as follows:
We hold that Congress is bound by the
constitution 10 make all needful rules and
regulations for the government of territories
in the United States, during their pupilage
and preparation 10 become members Of this
confederacy, to prevent the growth within
them of systems homogeneous with the pure
and free, the just and safe principles inaugu.
rated by the Revolution.