Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-25

censure the people for these discussions, the
words of James Madison, thai " Everything
which tends to increase danger, involve ma
tional expense or safety, becomes OF concern to
every part of the Union, and is proper sub
feet for the consideration OF those charged with
the general administration otthe Government.
Surely senators cannot be surprised at the
discussion of questions so vast as those which
grow out of the slavery of four millions OF
men in America. American slavery, our
connections with it, and our relations to it,
and the obligations these connections and re.
lations impose upon us as men-as citizens of
the States. of the United States, make up the
overshsdowing issues OF the age in which we
live. Phlanthropsts who have sounded the
depths and shoals of humanity scholars who
have laid under contribution the domain Of
matter and of mind, OF philosophic inquiry
and historical research; statesmen who are
impressing their genius upon the institutions
OF their country and their age; ali are now
illustrating by their genius, learning. and elo-
qnence, the vast and complicated issues in
volved Ia the great problems we of this age in
America are working out. The transcendaut
magnitude Of tie interests involved in the
existence and expansion Of the System of hui
man bondage in America, is arresting the at
tention of the people, and stirring the country
to its profoandest depths.
The Senator from Tenn, Mr.. Jones) quoted
remark OF mine that the agitation of the
slavery question would never cease while the
soil of the Republic should be trod by the foot
of slave. That sentiment repeat here to-
day. believe it. Sod is the great agitator.
While His throne stands, agitation will go on
until the foot of slave shall not press the soil
ofthe southern or western continent. Would
that Senator suppress all aspirations of human
liberty commend to the Senator the words
of Henry Clay whom he followed SD devotely
while living, by whose bedside he stood when
dying, and whose memory he cherishes aud
reveres. OF those who would repress all
generous effort for freedom in America, Hen
ry Clay said
"They must blow out the moral lights
around us, and extinguish that greatest torch
of all, which America presents to a benighted
world, pointing the way to their rights, iiber-
ties, and happiness. And when they achieve
ell these purposes, their work will be yet in
complete. They must penetrate the human
soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the
love of liberty. Then, and not Till then,
when universal darkness and despair prevail,
can you perpetuate slavery, and repress all
benevolent efforts among freemen in behalf of
the unhappy portion of our race doomed to
bondage"
Icommend, MIR. President, these words of
the great American statesman to Senators who
would silence every noble pulsation of the
human heart, which beats for the liberty of
the poor unfortunate men now held in per-
petual bondage.
The Senator from Mississippi Mr.. Brown],
told US the other day that Garrison had said
if he had million of votes, he would give
them all for Fremont, The Senator's remark
will deceive those who have already been de-
ceived, and mislead those VINO have already
been misled. Garrison had but one vote to
give, but he did not even give that for FIRE.
mont. Garrison, speaking for himself and
his associates, did say that:
The best wishes of every enlightened
friend of freedom must be on the side of FIRE.
mont; so if there ioere no moral barrier to our
voting and we had million of votes to be-
stow, we should cast them all for the Repub-
lican candidate. Justly open to censure as the
Republican party is on other grounds, its ,fdsl-
iity to the United States Constitution, in regard
to its pro-slavery compromises, it is deserving
of commendation for endeavoring to battle the 4
designs Of the slave power in regard TO our vast
territorial possessions in the West"
Sir, this is what Garrison said, and call
upon the senator to place this matter right be-
fore the people whose ear he has. Garrison
said in explanation OF this position;-
I'VE have uniformly expressed our prefer
ence for Fremont as against Buchanan Or
Fillmore, aud this is the universal feeling of
the ultra -abolitionists--no because Fremont
is an aboliuonist, not because his party gives
any countenance whatever TO our disunion
views, or to ultraism in any shape, but be-
cause he and they are right i'll resisting the
extension of slavery, and in that act necessa-
rily have our sympathes and good wishes
however culpable they may be and are in 9TH
l.,Ek
sters course when he declared = The Tree.
men Of the North have deep interest in keep.
ing labor free, exclusively free, in the terrific
ries. shall consent to no extern
sion of the area of slavery upon this continent,
nor to any increase of slave representation in
the other House of Congress- This is FIRE.
montism, in whole and in part-nothing more
nothing less"
The senator also made the charge that the
New York Tribune had appealed to the CARR
son Abolidonists and to thesupporters of Ger
nit Smith to support the Republican party,
promising that in due time the Republican
party would go with them in attacking slave.
nv in the States. To this declaration of the
senator, the Tribune gives this complete de
NAL =
The Tribune made no appeal whatever to
the Garrison and Gerrit Smith Abolitionists to
come over to the Fremont party, or anything
of the sort. 1t never promised to unite in
urging the use of Federal authority or power
to overthrow slavery in the States"
| want to call the attention of the Senators,
who make it practice here before the peo-
pie, to class US with Garrison Abolitionists,
and with the supporters of Gerrit Smith, to
the precise and exact difference between us.
The Garrison Abolitionists do not vote at all.
They ill neither vote nor hold office. They
take no particular part or lot in the govern
ment of the country. They are not only
committed against the extension OF slavery,
but they are committed against slavery in the
slave States. Believing with Brissof, that
q slavery a all its forms, in all its degrees, is
q violation o. divine law and degradation to
human nature" and believing the Constitu-
ton to be what some honorable Senators on
this floor represent it TO be, an instrument
that recognizes what Madison said he would
not embody in it, the idea that there could
be property in man" they are in favor of dis
solving the present Union, and overthrowing
the Federal Constitution. l dissent, the Re-
publican party dissents, from their construc
tion Of the Constitution of the United States.
We dissent altogether from their disunion
sentiments i've do not concur with them n
abstaining from the exercise of the elective
franchise. l have ever avowed that disagree
rnent at home. / avow it here But while |
disagree with them altogether, l will do for
them the Justice to say that they are men of
self sacrificing devotion, aud men Of great
ability, who have studied the slavery question
in all its aspects, collected volumes of statis-
tics bearing upon it in all its relations-men