Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-24

Or, tanatIeism Is found in an enthusiasm or
exaggeration of opinions, particularly on re-
ligious subjects; but there may be fanati-
cism for evil as well as for good. Now, will
not deny, that there are persons among us low
ing Liberty too well for their personal good,
IN selfish generation. Such there may be,
and, Tor the sake OF their example, would
that there were more In calling them " ia
natics" you cast contumely upon the noble
army of martyrs, from the earliest day down
to this hour, upon the great tribunes of hui
man rights, by whom life, liberty, and happi-
ness on earth, have been secured; upon the
long line of devoted patriots, who, through
out history, have truly loved their country !;
and, upon all, who, in noble aspirations for
the general good, and in forgetfulness of self,
have stood out before their age, and gathered
into their generous bosoms the shafts of tyr.
amy and wrong, in order to make pathway
tor Truth. You discredit Luther, when alone
he nailed his articles to the door of the church
at Wlttenberg, and then, to the imperial de-
mand that he should retract, firmly replied,
"Here ! stand; L cannot do otherwise. so
help me Gad!' You dscredit Hampden, when
alone, he refused to pay the few shillings of
ship-money, and shook the throne of Charles
1;you discredit Milton ,whenamidst the corrup-
tons OF heartless Court, be lived on, the
lofty friend OF Liberty, above question or sus-
picion; you discredit Russell and Sidney,
when, for the sake of their country, they
calmly turned from family and friends, to
tread the narrow steps Of the scaHud; you
discredit the early founders of American in
stitutions, who preferred the hardS hips of
wilderness, surrounded by a savage foe, to
injustice on beds of ease; you discredit our
later fathers, who, few i'll numbers and weak
III resources, yet strong in their cause, did not
hesitate to brave the mighty power of Eng
land, already encircling the globe with their
morning drum beats. Yes, sir, of such are
the fanatics Of history, according to the Sena.
tor. But l tell that Senator, that there are
characters badly eminent, Of whose fanatcism
there can be no question. Such were the an
Gent Egyptians, who worshipped diviniiies in
british forms; the Druids, who darkened the
forests of oak. in which they lived, by sacri-
fees of blood; the Mexicans, who surrender
ed countless victims to the Precipitation of their
idols; the Spaniards, who, under Alva, sought
to force the 1nquisition upon Holland, by a
tyranny kindred to that now employed to
force Slavery upon Kanzas and such were
the Algerines, when in solemn conclave, after
listening to a speech not unlike that of the
Senator from South Carolina, they resolved
to continue the slavery of white Christians,
and to extend it to the countrymen of Wash
ington Aye, sir, extend i'll And in this
same dreary catalogue, faithful history must
record all who now, i'll an enlightened age
and in land of boosted Freedom, stand up,
III peryerslon OF the Constitution and in de-
NAL of immortal truth, to fssten new shackIe
upon their fellow man. If the Senator wishes
to see fanatics, let him look round among his
own associates; let HIM look at himself.
But l have not done with the Senator
There is another matter regarded by him of
such consequence, that he interpolated it into
the speech Of the Senator from New Hamp-
shire, Mr.. Hale and also announced that he
had prepared himself with it, to take it in his
pocket all the way To Boston, when he ex-
P90ted to address the people Of thet
nifty. On this account, and for he sake of
truth, stop for ole moment, and tread it to
the earth. The North, accold dug to the Sen.
ator, was engaged in the slave trade, and help
ed to introduce slaves into the southern states
and this undeniable fact he proposed to estab
lish by statistics in stating which, his errors
surpassed his sentences in number. But let
these pass for the present, thar may deal with
his argument. Pray, sir, is the acknowledged
turpitude of departed generation to become
an example for U.S. And yet the suggestion
of the Senator, if entitled to any considera-
ton in this discussion, must have this extent.
l join my friend from New Hampshire, in
thanking the Senator from South Carolina for
adducing this instance for it gives me an OPP
portunity to say, that the Northern merchants,
with homes in Boston, Bristol, Newport, New
York, and Philadelphia, who catered for slave
ry during the years of the slave trade, are the
lrneal progenitors of the Northern men, with
homes in these places, who lend themselves to
slavery in our day; and especially that all,
whether North or South, who take part direct
ly or indirectly, in the conspiracy against
Kanzas, do but continue the work OF the slave
traders, v hich you condemn. 1t Is true, too
true, alas that our fathers were engaged in
this traffic; but that is no apology tor it. And
in repelling the authority OF this example,
repel also the trite argument founded on the
earlier example of England. 1t is true that
our mother country, at the peace of Utrecht,
extorted from Spain the Assiento Contract,
securing the monopoly of the slave trade with
the Spanish Colonies as the whole price of all
the blood of great victories; that she higge
at Aix-la Chapelle for another lease of this
exclusive traffic and again, at the treaty of
Madrid, chung to the wretched piracy. Ii it
is true, that in this spirit the power of the
mother country was Frustrated to the same
base ends in her American. Colonies, against
Indignant protests from our fathers, all these
things now rise up against her. Let us not
follow the Senator from South Carolina to do
the evil today, which in another generation
we condemn.
AS the Senator from South Carolina is the
Don Quixote, the Senator from Illinois Mr..
Douglasl is the squire of slavery, its very
Sancho Panza, ready to do all its humiliating
offices. This Senator in his labored address,
indicating his labored report-piling one
mass of elaborate error upon another mass
constrained himself, as you will remember to
unfamiliar decencies Of speech. OF that ad-
dress l have nothing to say at this moment,
though before l sit down L shall show some.
thing of its fallacies. But l go back to an
earlier occasion, when, true to his native i'm
pulses, he threw into this discussion, "for
charm of powerful trouble" personalities
most discreditable to this body. / will not
stop to repel the imputations which he cast
upon myself; but mention them to remind
YOU of the "sweltered venom sleeping got"
which. with other poisoned ingredients, he cast
into the cauldron of this debate. OF other
things speak. Standing ON this floor, the
Senator issued his rescript requiring submis-
sion TO the usurped power OF Kanzas and
this was accompanied by manner-all his
own-such as BELTS the tyrannical threat.
Very well. Let the Senator try. | tell him
now that be notenlorce any such submits
sion. The Senator, with the Slave Power at
his back, is strong; but he is not strong
enough Tor this purpose. He is bold. He
shrinks from nothing. Like Dauton, he may
cry, "!aHdace! FaadieeI towows faadace p
but even his audacity cannot compass this
work. The Senator copies the British officer,
who, with boasIiul swagger said that with