Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-20
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G5e 9alpy SPY.

FREEDOM CRUSHED Our While the ''glit-
tering generalities' of the Presidents Mes.
sage concerning the constitutional rights Of
all the citizens of the United States, what
ever their residence, are fresh, the fate of Mr..
Church affords pat commentary. August
18th, 1896, MTsqAAesss y, Church, formerly
residenk hlsaas dRllt tAep IN d3hs employ
OF his IpRele. s5sey ss 8. y SoEa5a
WI %TG 3S;. Is s u " TSsg sE-
politics lust hJN afs III 90 . iisssss--.in
fact never saw community so wholly giy-.
en- up to it in my life. We have only two
tickets, Fillmore and Buchanan, though if
there was little more courage and q little
more concert of action, il would not be hard
to get up Fremont ticket, and though there
would be no chance of his carrying the State.
he would get more votes than many suppose"
"Another four years will see great changes
throughout the entire South. All this talk
about dissolving the Union, if Fremont is
elected, is nothing but so much gas. The
working. nom slaveholding mechanics, and
Others who are dependant upon their daily
labor for their support, feel sorely the COM
petition Of non-paid labor and they do not hes
ltate to say they would vote for Fremont if
they had chance. As voters, they are three
TO one of the Shareholders, and they are fast
finding out their strength. Thinking, sober
men, here, acknowledge that they see the be.
ginning of the end, and one remarked to me
only last week, that in his opinion ten years
from that day would not see a slave in Amer.
ica So strong is his belief that he has dis
posed Of all his property of that kind, and
does not intend to own any more. 1t is a cur
rent remark here among the working classes,
that for the future those who own slaves, and
have the benefit of them, may do their own
wetching-they will not, l claim to know
what they say.
The sequel is thus recounted by the Detroit
Advertiser: 1Yfa Mnau
''This paragraph was published in the Eaton
County Republican, and some person, actuated
either by a mean, low-lived spirit of mischief,
or a deep. seated, internal malignity, enclosed
a half sheet of the paper in an envelope and
forwarded 1t to Mr.. Harvey Hall. On receive
ing it, Mr.. Hall repaired, in hot haste. and
full of fry indignation, to the boarding place
of his nephew, to pour out the vial of red Int
wrath upon his head. Mr.. Church unhesi-
tatingly informed his uncle that he wrote the
parae rlph, ard that it conta mel his honest
convictions, though he did not in the least
| seek to promugate them at the South. Mr..
| Hall then told him that if these were his SEN
timents he could not entertain them at the
| South, and he felt ii to be his duty to rid the
community of his presence. He also threat
ened him with personal violence unless he
speedily left the country. This was on Sat-
urday. Mr.. Hall added further that he must
leave the first part of next week, and if he
concluded to do so, he need have no appre-
hension of personal violence, as he HALL was
The only one that new of the letter, and mea-
sures would be taken to forcibly expel HIM
until he should report in the matter. There
were two other members of the firm which
employed Mr.. Church. On consulting with
| them. though they wished his services, yet
they told him he had better leave, for his un-
! Gle would surely carry his threat into execu-
ton if he did not, and the result would be
riot and bloodshed. Mr.. Church saw that if
he undertook to remain his life would be en-
dangered, and his wife and the young child
left to the tender mercies of a Georgian
mob, and all heathendom, except Missouri,
| could not have furnished one more blood.
thirsty, reckless and unprincipled. Wisely,
then, lie concluded to leave; and arranging
his business as best he could. though at
sacrifice of four or five hundred dollars, did
so on the following Wednesday, less