Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-28

true is it that men at the North must be either
positive or negative. 1t is impossible to ignore
this moral question as practical one. 1t meets
us everywhere, and if we fail to befriend freedom
we are guilty Of loving slavery. and cherishing
crime. We must elect our side. The man who
feels today no sympathy for Sumner. and is not
Jealous for the honor of insulted Massachusetts
only fit for plantation, and has despotic heart
Once more This brat ! assassination IN the
Senate SigRifcaRGiy hints to as that nothing short
of martyr spirit as adequate to the present crisis.
ANY one WHO speaks the whole truth on the
subject of slavery must expect to die fer it, unless
he shall escape by favorable turn of fortune.
He who boards the lion in his den must be prepar-
ed for his teeth. This wrong has not been nursed
to its present gigantic proportions through the
apathy of the press, the pulpit, the government,
aud the governed, just TO show itself a gentle
lamb now in its adult and and omniverOus matu
rty No. FIVE offered IT, ace mast suffer and
the qeestOnis, have ave the manlness aud hero
i'm to suffer and die, if need be, for principle !?
Where man endorses note, as business men
well know, he should expect to pay it--and he is
fortunate man ii he does not have it to do
When one utters the law of God and of liberty,
and fully endorses it, he must expect to atone for
it with his lite. Sumner, and Greeley, and
Beecher, and Robinson, must make up their
minds to meet the assassin's strickland so must
every one who takes position beside them. We
must pass through just this stern, soul trying
discipline.
Our brethren and sisters in Kanzas are already
wearing the thOrDy crown of martyrdom. They
went there expecting to live on government faith,
but they are dying, instead, by government
fraud They went to settle on the soil protested
ly thrown open to free men, but they have done so
only to be buried t8der it.
tits needful, perhaps, in order to make grand
and herOicther history, that Bunker Hi H. and
Lexington, and Concord, should be repeated
there; and that the early graves of the Plymouth
nilurIms Shoud rpaDDpar N tho rolliuy
The women of ancient Carthage cut off their
flowing tresses to be wrought into rigging for their
ships, that they might thus help to defend their
country from its foes; and our sisters in Kanzas
are now learning, by practice, the use of the re-
volyer and the rife, for the defence of their per-
sons and their homes.
And now, after saying so much, my words OF
advice must be few. If you ask me what we
shall do in this emergency. l answer first of all,
personally accept Christ the Savior, who will free
you from sin and DEATH and make you fully ac.
quainted with his own glorious liberty Then
take his free principles, ana boldly proclaim and
avow them everywhere Act up to them, and
live under their power. Evidently public senti.
ment is warping round toward the religious and
conscientious view of this subject. 1t is an ON
inous fact that the independents with its free and
manly utterances, has outStripped the mustv Oh
SerUer, and now goes forth weekly to % 900 sub
scribers The Tract Society feels the force of pub
lie opinion and Obedient o the helm is beginning
to come round. Gods word has gone forth with
authority 1t is silently energizng and pervad-
ing the masses of society. Political fabrics ap-
pear for a time, and then melt away like snow.
wreaths in the breath of Spring. The bonds Of
party are loosened. The day of delverance com
eth. Kanzas, after baptism of blood, in which
even zoe may be called to share aoiIl certainty BE-
free. The Church will come up out of Egypt
The State will shake off the vampires that are
sucking her life blood The Constitution will
strangle the tiger which hangs at its throat
The sovereign States, at first thirteen, now
thirty-one, will yet become threescore and ten
and over them all will wave the flag OF ourUnion,
with many sweet stars in lis cerulean field OF
civil liberty as the Tree commonwealth over
which 1t shall spread its ample folds. Near by
it shalt be unfurled the white banner Of the Cos.
pei, to float in sacred splendor. without any
stain of vassalage upon it, or pollution OF guilty
wrong. Together they shall wave, with undim-
med glory, to our countrys honor, and Gods
glorious praise.