Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-15
be neither sluUery nor inUoltaYy serUitude there
an. otherMise than in the nnnishment of crime.

heSotbed, mat beng impressed with pro-
found sense of Our Responsibility as the represen'
tatives of the Wings of Massachusetts,, that re-
sponsibiiity which attaches to our words, acts
and votes, we cannot fail on this occaslon-as we
have never failed on any other general assem-
blage of the Wings of MassachuSetts-to re-
cord in the most soeDsR and deliberate manner,
oar unqualified pp0Sttf0n to Gly eStsns10" q me
institution Of slaUeIy into Reo teTtoJy or as &C.
! question for the pWposeof stc4 eTteltSto''. On
this Question the voiceof Massachusetts, mas been
| unwaverng and uniform and never has that voice
| spoken with high er eIoquence and power, than
when our distinguished Senator in Congress
| DANIEL WEBsTERl speaking for himself and the
| aoh0le people of the Commonwealth, said -"
coNsRNTT 0 NO FURTHER EXTENSION OF THE
AREA OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES, OR
TO THE FURTHER INCREASE OF SLAVE REPRE-
sENTATIoN IN CONGRESS-"
WORCESTER Oct. Both, lS49
ReSoiUed, That 20 for the abolition and en-
eltSt0n Of Slavery 90hefeUer Congress has ftiSdlc
ti0n-for tariff protective of American labor
for internal improvements, essential to commerce
with foreign nations and among the sereral States
for sound and convenient currency for the use
of the people--for cheap postage-equal represen-
tation-safe and successful popular elections.
WORCESTER, Oct Ist, 1850.
ResoIUea, That Massachusetts, avows her aa,-
dherable determination to maintain all principles
and purposes she has IN times past affirmed and
re-GDrmed IN relation to the extension of Slavery
and the measure of success which has attended
persevere in all constitutional efforts, till the
great and good soorkS shall be accomplished and
perfected.
WORCESTER, Sept lst. 1852.
ReSoloe9 That the experience and observation
of another year have strengthened the conviction
Of the Wings of Massachusetts, that the princ-
pies they profess are those upon which alone, the
honor and prosperity of our beloved country can
securely rest
BosToN, August l6, 1854
hot tbat cd ar,dl
aggressions of the advocates of slavery extern
sion, have awakened the people of Massachusetts
and of the Free States to the fact that their end
and aim is political supremacy; that by this last
GROWING act, the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, effected through Southern faithessness and
Northern treachery, stimulated by the corrupt
use of executive influence, the naked question of
Liberty or SlaU9y as the controlling principle of
the government, as presented 10 the american
people and for ourselves we declare our readi-
ness to meet that issue, and our determination,
at all times, and under all circumstances, so to
exercise our constitutional right " to secure
the blessings of Liberty" to ourselves and our
posterity,
ReSotUed, That we unateraby opposed to
the extension of slavery foot OF territory
now free-that we will seek the immediate and
unconditional repeal Of so much of the Nebras-
ka anG kanzas acts as annuled the Missouri
Comdromise, and that aoe aoH oppose the adaaiS-
SION unto the confectionery of any States formed
out Of territorial possessions aaless Sooery is
prohibited therein.
WORCESTER, Oct 2, 1856.
RESOLVED That the whig party ofMassachasetts
stands now, as ever, upon the Constitution and
has no neW doctrines to disclose and NO STEPS TO
RETRACE, that it still lives to uphold the stand
ard so long defended by long line of illustrious
statesmen whose glory has been as national as
were the principles of which they were the rep
resentatves and opponents.
Of course, to be consistent the Convention
which is to meet on the Sd of September can do
no other than re. endorse these sentiments so
many times reiterated and declare themselves in
favor of the election of those embodiments of
them, John c. Fremont and VIM. l.. Dayton, to
the Presidency and Vice Presidency. Not only
do the admonitions of Daniel Webster, speaking
to his followers in his oft repeated declarations,
point them to this course, but they may hear the
solemn voice of Henry Clay, STAKEHOLDER though
he was, Indignantly spurning the doughface pro-
slaveryism ofthis day, couched under the honeyed
name of democracy" with James Buchanan
for its standard bearer Said the great Kentuek-
an 81 never would, so help me God give a
vote for the extension of Slavery into free terri
tory-Never never - Said Mr.. Clay further,
in remuneration of that foul doctrine, upheld by
the Pierces, Douglases, Buchanans, &c. of this
day, whose company the recreants Choate and
Curtis are now counting:
" You cannot put your finger upon any part
of the Constitution which conveys the right or
the power to carry slaves from of the States
of the Union to any Territory of the United
States. Nor, Sir, can I admit for a single mo-
ment that there is any separate or distinct right
upon the part of the States, individual mem.
bers of the States, or any portion of the people
of the United States, to carry slaves into Terri
tories, under the idea that those Territories are
held in common between the several States.
1t is merely to maintain this doctrine of Henry
Clay, and preserve and protect the territories
of the Union in Constitutional manner, from
the g whitening, bHghting curse of Slavery" as
Mr. Clay called it, that thesRepublican party was
organized. Fremont and Dayton were nomina-
ted specially for this end. Can protested Wings
upholders of the doctrines contained in the series
of resolves above quoted, do any less than sup
port themf Can the Wing State Convention of
1856 fail to sustain in this crisis, their own oft
repeated sentiments?