Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-30


SouTH,-The following from the St. Louis
CMo::) Democrat isweil worthy Of careful pc
rusal:
at is common enough to hear of the pro-
slavery men of the North. They are easily
counted, we opine. Not one in a thousand
of the National Democrats of that region ap-
prove of slavery, either in the abstract or the
concrete. But the dougbfaees or hireling
I politicians, who think with the North but act
with the South, are powerful enough to mis-
lead the people and win elections, and nu-
merous enough to keep each other in counte-
nance and make the individual pressure of
their common infamy less intoerable A North
ern man with Southern principles is almost an
impossibility, but Northern men who speake
and vote for the South are plentiful enough.
They are, however but mere stipendiaries-
Sepoys who viii rise in mutiny, not when the
fat is forced on them, but when it is kept
from them. They win turn their arms on
their employers unless their palms, as well as
their cartridges, are well creased.
The Free Soil element in tine South, unlike
the ro-slavery element in the North, is most
ly quiet and silent 1t is latent heat per-
vading the frontier States and the commercial
cities, and awaiting but the favorable moment
to break forth in light and glory. In st.
Louis alone is the doctrine openly avowed and
acted uponl but many signs presage that the
other great cities aoiB soon folloao our lead.
Why are all those cities in opposition to the
pro-slavery Democracy Simply because
they are savored with the salt of freedom.
Their opposition may assume the organism of
the American party, but its UitaJity is deriped
from Free Soil ideas, which are too timid to
emhody themselves in an organization exclu-
sively their own. AS yet, the Free Soil SEN
timent expresses itself anonymously in New
Orleans, Louisville, Baltimore, Richmond and
other Southern cities which are governed by
commerce, but the day is near when it will
come forward in its own name, and assume
the responsibility as well as the honors of its
position and conduct. The decaying trunk
of know Nothingism, which bore no whole
some fruit at any time, will yet nourish the
Free Soil plant engrafted upon it, and so pay
back what is borrowed. In the commercial
centres of the South, among the artists, mer-
chants, mechanics, and artisans. this revolu-
ton, or rather natural development, will soon
be seen, unless the sequence of cause and eff
feet is abolished. U@
But the Free Soil element derives
strength from other and divers causes. Not
Southerner travels in Europe whose faith in
the divinity of slavery is not shaken; not an
Immigrant who crosses Mason and Dixons
line from the North, or who touches the banks
of the Mississippi from the sea, but carries
with him sentiments hostile to slavery. Every
boat that goes down the river bears other
freight than that registered on their books.
Opinion is steadily progressing, for discussion
is becoming more general. What will the
winds of Heaven carry the seeds of the lofty
palms hundred of miles across the tropical soas
to the desert coral island, and refuse to bur.
den themselves with the imponderous germs
of freedom: No, they Turk in the telegraphic
dispatch, they nestle in the newspaper, they
are impaired, Willingly or unwittingly, by
every Traveller A New England farm, or a
New York harbor,, will almost make the
planter a convert at first sight to the cause of
free labor and the dweller on the border,
who sees every year the superior crops which
are grown across the river, is an emancipation
list at heart. Every lesson taught by nature
and art is hostile to slavery. Barefaced pow
er is the only grant which can extend it, and
this opens new question,
The Pro- Slavery deluge which threatened
TO overflow all the territories, has retired aeUer
to return. It has ebbed SO far that Virginia
herself, the mother of States and statesmen,
of Office holders, Office hunters, and niggers,
has been left high and dry. She has been
abandoned by the hard pressed Pro Slavery
men OF the cotton States, as Britain was aban- |
doned by the Romans At least such is the I
plain declaration Of the ultra Southern press,
who place her with Missouri and Kentucky.
Again, there is every reason to think that the
National Democratic party will divide upon
the Kanzas question This will be the great
est victory which the free labor cause will
have achievsd-the conquest and capture of
large portion Of its avowed enemies. Vir-
- ,,l Do.s,
reliable, and Kanzas lost to slavery, the area
of free soil must widen rapidly, and the NOR.
al force Of free soil principles increase.
Tbs Pro- Slavery cause IS. therefore, declining
IN spite Of the political uictories Of the party
Which ststaiaS 1t. The South, too is isolated
Even, Russia, which she has SO extravagantly
admired hitherto, is about to abolish serfdom
by imperial ukaze, and the serf is going to be,
not only free man but a freehoider. Hol-
land has preceded Russia, and decreed the
gradual emancipation of all her slaves in the
West India colonies. Except from the king
dom of Brazil and the island of Cuba, the
South can receive no sympathy or succor in
her stubborn battle for the perpetuation of her
beloved institution. at home and abroad
she finds allies and auxiliaries abandoning
her. She finds nature herself arrayed against
her and the mute earth protesting that this
magnificent continent, with its grand rivers
and fertile plains, and its mountains embow-
elled with the useful and precious metals, was
not destined for the occupancy of slaves and
slave-owners. Yet the position of the South
excites admiration. She reminds one of the
ancient tragedy, struggling vainly but bravely
with destiny. But we look for no catsstro-
phe, for she oiU see the propriety Of oc4uiescing
IN aohat IS Inevitable" s4t7
A SLAVE stx YEARs N \ Fnrr STATE