Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-11

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ranks of the same old pro-slayery organization
from which they told us they had become
forever discovered" in June last But the
masses Of the "Americans" in the Old Bay
State, we know and are confident, will de-
nounce all such hypocrisy with the contempt
it deserves.
At the recent X. N. Convention for Dis
trict No. 4, to choose delegate to Philadel.
phia, resolution instructing the delegate to
stand on the Springfield platform, and no
other, at the Convention, was laid on the table
In No. 10. resolution endorsing the course
of DR.. Chaffee, in supporting Banks for
Speaker, was also rejected by being laid on
the table The objection being, that Banks
was black republican," and unworthy
the support of Americans The Springfield
Daily AnaericGn, the Know Nothing organ in
that District, illustrates the light in which the
election of Speaker is viewed by the leading
managers of the Know Nothing party in the
State, at this time, by abiding to it as the
triumph of political treachery." It says of
Mr.. Banks =
When he became doubtful of the success of
the party which had placed him in office, al
though it had adopted strong anti-s slavery
principles, Mr.. Banks deserted his party, con-
sented to ostpone his American principles,
and allied himself to the "party without poll
tics" How much the honor OF the Speaker
ship. the ''culminating point of his ambition"
had to do with his desertion Of the American
party, we leave it for those to judge who best
know the man. We cannot see any great
reason for rejoicing. No limits we're assigned
to the peculiar institution, nor was the power
of slavery in the least diminished. No prin.
ciple whatever was involved in the election"
We were little surprised at finding the
following editorial in so stald and conservative
a paper as the Providence Journal-not that
the truth of every word in it should have
forced itself upon the mind of so sensible
man as the editor, but that one who has him.
self so often Joined in the cutlery in favor of
natolalism and against the " fanatics"
should give such free expression to his con-
victions:
NATIONAL MEN.-This term is getting to
be commonly applied in every question into
which any of the considerations of slavery
enter 1T is always applied to those who take
the side of slavery, and one might almost in
fer from the manner in which it is employed,
that the only institution in all the land was
negro slavery. Take the two extremes of
Northern and Southern feeling one man
would destroy the Union to abolish slavery,
another would destroy the Union to extend
slavery; the first is g fanatic" the other is
a T" national man." There existed compro-
mise by which an agitation was settled, that,
at one time, threatened the most serious con-
sequences. This compromise was invaded
and destroyed. The men who stood by and
vainly endeayored to sustain it were Sec
tional," the men who broke it down were
national men," An attempt is made to
force slavery into Kanzas, by the armed in
PREVENTION of men from another State. The
settlers who have gone from New England
taken up land, built houses and mills, and
liked their, permanent residence in the Terri
tory, and who are opposed to slavery, are Gin
termeddlers = the Missourians who come over
in the morning, with rifles and bowie knives,
vote themselves, and drive off the men who
have the right to vote, or without doing Ell
ther, break the ballot boxes, are " national
men, Atchison, Stringfellow, and Pierce,
1 are " national men, all the Senators and
Representatives in Congress from New Eng.
| land, except the four who voted for the Ne.
braska bill, were sectional men, agita tors, and
fanatics
If a Northern man doubts the right of Con-
gress to egislate slavery into territories whence
it has been excluded, if he questions tie pro
priety of employing force even for this object,
he is a fanatic; the Southern conventions that
declare their intention of breaking up the
Union. if any restraint is imposed upon the
aggressions Of slavery upon freedom, are en-
inently national" The ''only national par
ty,' according to this doctrine, is the Demo-
cratic party, becausethis alone is IN favor OF
prostrating every other interest of the country
at the feet Of slavery