Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-06-04
ProsPect of Union.

Never, at any former period in our political his
tory, has there seemed to be such general dis
position manifested, as now, among all classes of
people at the North, to unite their forces in de-
fence of the cause of Freedom. The recent un-
paralleled outrages of the Slave Power, in Kanzas
and at the Capitol Of the nation have stirred the
feelings of the masses in the free States to their
profoundest depths. These have manifested
themselves in enthusiastic gatherings, in nearly
every city and town, after another, through
out the North, aad in monster meetings in the
large cities, at which, those who have heretofore
occupied the position of the most hopeless con-
servatives, sanctioners of the famous "compro-
mise measures of 1850, vie with the most out
spoken "agitators," in denunciation of the recent
aggressions upon Freedom and Free Speech.
Accounts from the West, represent the prairies
as actually on fire with excitement, in indgna-
ton at these outrages. In Ohio Indiana, &c.,
party lines are entirely broken down, and the
people seem to have risen In one mass, with the
determination to exercise the powers which lie
within them, if exercised in cooperation with
the upholders of Freedom in other sections, in
hurting from power the dastardly recreants who
now disgrace the high places they occupy. To
show the general extent of this feeling, and that
it pervades even the most conservative classes,
we quote the following from the Buffalo cores
pendent of the New York Euening Post. Bear in
mind, that this is from the very home of Mr..
Fillmore:
"Many of Mr.. Fillmore's oldest and most pa
tient friends have at last, and within the week,
ayowed their inability any longer, directly in
directly, to abet the ruling powers at the seat Of
a1t A aan SC OnfT md a,k,
day for a meeting to be held at the Eagle street
Theatre, Monday evening next, of all who
disapprove of the late proceedings of United
States officers in kanzas and who are disposedto
vindicate freedom OF speech in the United States,
outraged by the late assault upon MIR. Sumner.
Among the names already signed to the call are
those of Walter Joy. DIR. Trowbridge, Aaron
Rumsey, Hugh Cameron, Mr.. Webster, Judge
Hoyt, and J. 7. Vandeventer. all OF whom have
hitherto acted in opposition to the republican par
ty, and all but one of whom, (the last, believe,
was a Hard,) acted with Mr.. Fillmore and the
Know-Nothings. They now declare, l under
stand, that they can stand the aggressive conduct
Of the South no longer. and for the future they
mean to act with the party that takes its posi-
ton most distinctly in defence of freedom and
the North"
Perhaps this may not be important in itself,
any further than as showing the inevitable cur
rent IN which public sentiment in the free States
Is setting at this time under the pressuse of the
late outrages upon their rights. 1t is very nat
ural that it should be SO, and it would indeed, be
remarkable, and poor compliment to human
nature, were the fact otherwise
But all these instances of change for the bet
ter in public sentiment on the slavery. issue, in
quarters supposed hitherto to be insensible 10
influences Of this kind, proclaim to us the
imperative necessity, all-essential to any
tical good hereafter, Of forgetting at once all
past psejudices, to men or parties, letting by
cones be by-gones, ceasing to taunt any one for
his former opinions or course, and welcoming
into the ranks Of Freedoms hosts hereafter, all,
irrespective of party, whatever our differences on
any other issue, who may be disposed to act with
us in good faith, in overthrowing the detestable
administration now in power, and righting the
tremendous wrongs which have been inflicted up
on Us through its fundamentally.