Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-23

We are called upon again to chronicle
another daring and outrageous act of agrees
sion on the part of the Southern Oligarchy.
Mr.. Douglass threat, made on behalf of his
rufianly compeers in the National councils,
81 We will subdue you,' appears to be in a
fair way to be carried out, and at the present
rate of progress in the work of subiugation,
the time must be vely near at hand when the
free States will not be able to have even
representative in the Congress of the nation,
unless his views and opinions are in accord
ance with the views and opinions of the men
stealers and murderers of the South.
From one section Of the country we hear
to-day, that the Shareholders are marshalling
their hordes of barbarians, for the sackIng of
Lawrence, and from the very Capitol of the
Nation, we have such intelligence as makes
us fear that one of our own Senators has paid
the forfeit OF his life. for daring to defend the
cause of justice, TRUTH and liberty, in debate
The threat has gone forth that the South
means to subdue us, and now the question
that every man has to ask himself, is, shall
they do iii For one, we say no a thousand
times no Base and venal as some men are,
the love of liberty is yet sentiment, strong
IN the hearts of most of the descendants
of those who established Freedom upon this
western continent, and that sentiment is each
day and each hour being strengthened and
neryed for the coming conflict, by every addi-
tional act of aggression and wrong. Massa-
chusetts, the day before yesterday, seemed to
repent of her past progress in well doing,
when her representatives in General Court
assembled at the instigation of one, whose
family have always crouched and crawled
upon their marrow bones before the slave
power. repealed the bill 10 protect the person
al liberty of her own citizens, upon her own
soil; but we trust the weakness there display
ed was only temporary, and that the other
branch of the Legislature will stand firm by
the principles of that bill, and still protect her
sous and daughters within her'own territory,
If she has lost the power to protect them
when abroad.
Perhaps some startling outrage upon the
person of one of the noblest of her sons, by
the slave olcharchy, like that which we
chronicle this morning, was needed at this
time to recall men 10 a sense of their obliga-
tons to their fellow citizens, to their State,
and their county; and whatever may be the
fate of Mr.. Sumner, we trust that those as.
sassin blows may have this effect, il no more,
to keep the Gordon of Massachusetts, law still
strong and impregnabe around the persona
and dwellings Of Massachusetts, citizens.
In the excitement which prevailed in this
community last evening, as the startling in
telhgence was circulated from house TO house,
from workshop to workshop, and from mouth to
mouth, we read the auguries Of the good time
coming. In these expressions of sympathy
with the victim, the deep and heartfelt
exeeratons Of the assassin, ard those who sit
in high places to urge hun on in his murder.
Gus purpose, we read the unerring signs of
coming crisis. that will give Freedom her q
nal. triumph. loo long delayed, ard restore
peace to the county, upon the ruins of the
worst tyranny that was ever organized in any
government since time began.
Let the people be up and doing, and let
them soc TO IL that these threats of subjuga-
ton are overcome by a manful resistance Of
those who make them.