Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-22

IA, Senator Wilson made another bold and char
aeteristic speech, the reception of the Kansas
memorial being under consideration, in which he
defended the Republican party and the friends of
Freedom at the North, from the foul aspersions
east upon them by Senator Douglas, in his IA
nous border rutfian speech The manner in
which the Massachusetts, Senator met and han
died as they should be, the audacious assertions
of the recreant nlnoisan, should be warning to
all Senatorial traitors TO freedom hereafter, who
may herald forth their threats to ''.subdue" the
free sentiment of the country into subsection to
Southern domination, by their Nebraska bills, or
their attempts to enforce "border rufian legis-
laton, as+she point of United States bayonets in
the national territories We regret our inability
to give more than few extracts from the Generals
remarks, which were so apt and to the point He
said:
The Senator from Illinois may denounce us
as Black Republicans, as Abolition Agitators,
if he thinks such language worthy of the Sem
ate, or of himself but the issue is being made
up in the country between the people and the
slave propaganda. He told us the other day
that he intended to subdue us. say to that
Senator, We accept your issue, Nominate
some one of your scared veterans; some one
WHO'S committed. fully committed, to your
| policy. You want candidate that is scared
with your battles. Well, sir, if he goes into
the battle of 1856, he will not come out of 1t
| without scars. You have made the issue
! put your chieftains at the head-no man litter
to lead than the honorable Senator himself in
this contest; for his position has the merit at
least Of being bold and like bold, brave
man, who stands by his aaclarations. Now,
| n ON fba nth sid of ~
chamber, we will accept your issues. You
may sneer at us as abolition agitators. That
may have some little effect in some sections of
the North, but very little indeed. We have
passed beyond that. The people of this coun-
try are being educated up to a standard above
all these little sneering phrases. We will ac-
cept your issue, but you will not, cannot sub
due us. l tell the honorable Senator he may
vote US down, but subdue us never We be-
long to race of men that never were sub
dued, and il ANYBODY undertakes that work,
he will find he has taken rather costly con.
tract. Subdue us Subdue usi Sir YOU
may vote US down, but we stand with the IA
theirs. Our cause is the cause of human ma
ture. The star Of duty shines upon our path
way, and we will pursue that pathway, look
ing back for instructions to the great men who
! founded the institutions of the Republic,
looking up to Him whose "hand moves the
| stars and heaves the pulses of the deep" |
| tell the Senator that this talk about subduing
us and conquering us, will not do. Gentle-
men, you cannot do it. You may vote us
down, but we shall live to fight another day.
| Laughter.
A quarter of century ago, the conquest
and subjugation of the Republic was COM
| plete. Institutions of learning, benevolence,
| and religion political organizations and pub
lie men-ay, and the people themselyes-all
bowed in unrelenting submission to the iron
dominion of the slave power. Murmurs of
discomfort sometimes broke upon the ear of
the country, here and there solitary voice
uttered lis feeble protest against the domino
ton which held enthralled the heart, con-
science, and intellect of the cong uered North;
but the overshadowing despotism was COM
! plete. Twenty fye years have not yet closed
I since a few heroic men raised the banner of
| impartial liberty. Then we had not single
member of the Senate or House of Represen-
tatives. Not a single State Legislature was
with US. The political press of the country
covered the humble movement with ridicple
and contempt always excepting the n Y.
Eoening Post, then conducted by that inhexi-
BILE Democrat, VIM. Leggett, who went to
/ premature grave, chsered by the assurance
| that he chad written his name In ineffacable
/ letters ON the abolition record
Twenty years ago the public voice sneered
at and dehed the few prescribed and hunted
| followers who rallied around the humble
leaders who inaugurated the movement that,
within two years, has secured popular ma
jority in the free States of more than three
hundred thousand. We have an overwhelm-
| ing majority there to-day, against your policy,
and If that majority is united, we can control
the policy OF the country. We shall triumph;
we shall enlarge this side of the Chamber;
we shall thin out the other. Laughter. /
| We have done some of that work recently in
New England. We shall have majority in
this Chamber yet. We shall have a majority
in the other House and we shall have a man
at the other end of the avenue. We shall
take the Government Of this country, and we
shall govern the country as the true Demo.
cratic party
In the following extract, Gen. Wilson gave
true history of the authorship of the Nebraska
bill, the manner in which it was first got Up, and
the object for which it was introduced and put
through, to extend Slavery
Atchison made speech at the town of At
Gibson, Kansas, in which he claimed in sub
stance to be the author Of the proposition for
the repeal of the Missouri compromise |
have conversed with gentlemen whose verac-
ity cannot question, who heard his speech
on that occasion, and these gentlemen assure
me, that the published accounts of his speech
are substantially correct The Parkvile Lu-
nainGry, published at that time in Missouri.
stated that Atchison mounted san old wagon
and made speech, in which he commenced
by alluding to ''the beautiful country which
was now beginning to be settled to some of
the circumstances under which territorial
| xycrY,1 ont 1Vo1 nd,
course of his remarks mentioned how Doug
las came to introduce the Nebraska bill with
the repeal clause in it, Senator Atchison
said that, for himself, he is entirely devoted
to the interests of the South, and that he
would sacrifice everything but his hope Of
heaven to advance ner welfare. He thought
the Missouri compromise had ought To be re-
pealed he had pledged himself in his public
addresses to vote for no territorial oreaniza-
ton that would not virtually annul it-and
with this feeling in his heart, he desired to be
chairman OF the Senate Committee on Terri
tories when bill was to be introduced.
"With this object in view, he had pri-
waite interview with Mr.. Douglas, and in
formed him of what he desired the introduce
ton of bill for Nebraska like what he had
| promised to vote for and that he would like
to be chairman of the Committee on Terrific
ries, in order to introduce such measure
and if he could get that position, he would
Immediately resign as President of the Sem
ate. Judge Douglas required twenty. -four
hours to consider the matter, and said if, at
the expiration OF that time, he could not in
troduce such bill as he MIR Atchison1 pro.