Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-01
,corre,popdence Of the spy.)

blackeus everything. lis n.y.
strous atrocity; it is not, aiohe' '""'' ~ 49,
the Anti.Slavery Standard " II ignores an H'S'O-
w. Il sets all law at defiance 1t ouIases eo'u
mon sense it scorns all humane pretenees 1t
,rsr,.l.s mon the plainest principles OF the
fbr;s,.n religion; it laughs at liberty; 1t scois
at Democracy and it scouts all Nohherh pre-
tension to freedom Of thought, or freedom OF act
or freedom of Conscience 1t is, as george D.
C.beever saws. the moral ASSASSINATION OF
Yacen II is not, alone, all this; but 1t is, that
nowhere in the so called fee States, Is there any
Indication that il will be met and resisted. 1t
win he acouiesced in, until il is settled into pre-
cedent hardened into law, and there's the END
until the retributon rolls up in terror and IN
wrath And the worst feature of the whole 49,
that the auietst press follows the lead OF that
old fogy, Mclean - Oh, it is only d'et'a' )
it has none of the force of decision except upon
the one point Of bred Scott's citizenship!
Whereas, whatever the legal technicality De- the
practical fact is, it foreshaot0s and settles what
the DECISIONS Of the Supreme Court sciH be, upon
ali the points, upon which they have volunteered
their opinions They have done just what the
slave power wanted-thrown out these d'cta III
advance, to accustom the public mind to the doc
trine-the pro slavery press declaring that they
settle the points; the "quietists lulling the
community into false security, by whispering
I" Don't get excited, they are not decisions =
Me milne, the STAKEHOLDER iKNows what the de-
cision soilI be- when he takes his slave into Ore
gon or Massachusetts, and we shall wake up,
some fine morning, and find that the deed is done
our wide domain.
BY the way, pray tell me what is the pTopriety,
any longer, of the distinction between free and
slave States?
ARE THERE ANY FREE STATES
The simple fact ia just this The federal Con-
stitution, according to this decision, guarantees
slavery everywhere and if slavery is hereafter
prohibited in Massachusetts, it can only be by
the State courts multiplying this decision of the
Supreme Federal Court, or by resistance by the
people. There is no middle ground. To-day,
under the decision of our own State Supreme
Court in the Burns case the federal process takes
precedence of the State process; and unless that
court reverses theirown decision, (of which there
is no hope,) Massachusetts lies helpless, under
the heel OF the slave power, and is as really
slave State as South Carolina.
g What are We going to do about it - Alas
echo alone answers, WHAT" The Legisla-
ture of Massachusetts, has been in session month
since the decision came out, which, if submitted
to, annihilates her, and has made no sign. Not
such was the feeling in Massachusetts, when the
Stamp Act was passed. Says Bancroft; -. A .
majority, in every colony, was resolved tes iii
hazards rather than submit, whea--sssv ,yore .sk
ed, What Will you DO sfssRa he frst Of Noyem-
when the Stamp Act was to go into
operation.) Dor they replied, DO as we did
before VIII you violate the law of Parlia-
ment?' THE Stamp Act repeated every one,
over and over, is against Magma Charta, and
Lord Coke says, an act Of Parliament, against
Magma Charta, is for that reason void.' +"
JOIN OR DIE,
the motto of The Massachusetts, Spy became
the rallying cry Of the colonies. The Congress,
in which eleven THE thirteen colonies were rep
resented, met in October, before the Act went into
operation, and adopted remonstrance, based
upon the immortal declaration of John Adams;-
{" We have rights, anteeedent to all earthly gov
ernments-rights that cannot be repealed or re-
strained by human laws-rights derived from the
Great Legislator of the Universe All, the peo-
pie believed in RIGHTS in those days.
What would you have the Legislators do pass
resolutions Yes, if they can make the country
believe they mean what they say and l would
first
REPEAL THE PERSONAL LIBERTY ACT,
Which admits that the slavehunteI may take his
victim from Massachusetts,, provided jury says
he may kidnap him, and would pass an act as
follows:
"An Act to carry OUT oar Bill of Rights.
Sec. l.-EvERY HUMAN BEING on the soil of
Massachusetts is FREE, until his freedom is for
feited by his own misdeeds.
Sec. 2.-This act shall take effect noa0.''
And then, i would pass adeclaratory act, in the
terms adopted by the Republicans of Wisconsin,
(which, by the way, is pretty linear being free
State and soas quite one, till they passed Per
sonal Liberty Law, which allows a jury to doom
freeman to slavery.)
Resolped, That we hold it an imperative duty
to stand firmly by the Supreme Court, in assert
ing the right Of the STATE TRIBUNALS to pro-
nounce final Judgment in all cases involving the
RESERVED RIGHTS of the States"
That means something, out there, at least,
"heie theg fe~Sc d sup NOuAt5 uluei-
stands what State rights are. The State tribun-
ais have the. right to pass rINAL judgment upon
questions of reserved rights. That was the doc
trine Of Jefferson and Madison, and of the Dem
oeratic party in the days of its purity That is
the only doctrlne which leaves the States any re-
served rights.
What an absurdity does the Federal doctrine
involve A copartnership is formed between the
Federal Government and the States, by which
certain specified powers are delegated to the Fed
eral Government, and all the rest reserved" t.
the States, or the people and yet, one Of tn,
partners, the Federal Government, appoints a
tribunal which is TO determine cDeys question, as
to the extent Of its powers, involving, of course
the power to deprive the States of every reserved
right And that Is the doctrine in which W,
have been educated, in Massachusetts, The
Lord help us! for vain seems the help Of man.
The politicians tell us-"Don't get excited--wait
and let as do the engineering; and in eighteen
hundred and sixty, we will put it all right, with
the aid Of the moderate, just men Of the South 4
Meantime, we are to have
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION
in Massachusetts,, some time in April 1t shout,
be on the frst 1t is to be engineered by tn
same sstraight Republicans" who directed tn
Worcester Convention, last Fall, to such 5rar
issusi don't exactly know what the object Z
the Convention 10, but believe it is to ascertain
FIRST whether Gardner looks for his recollection t