Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-29


Rev. DR.. CheeVer ON Kanzas and Slavery.
The new Music Hail. in Boston, was crowdedby
large auditory Wednesday evening, to hear
an address from Rev. Geo. B. Cheever, D. D., of
New York city, on the wrongs of Kanzas, who
appeared upon the invitation of gentlemen con-
nected with the New England Emigrant Aid So.
elety. Hon Charles W. Upham, President of the
Senate, presided. In his opening speech, intro
ducing the orator Of the evening, Mr.. Upham re,
viewed the progress of the slave power, from the
adoption of the Constitution to the present time.
He believed it had gone on to its farthest limit
it would be borne no longer.
DR.. Cheeyer was-then introduced, and spoke
for an hour and half in an eloquent and mas.
terly manner, indicating the rights of the down.
trodden masses in Kanzas and elsewhere, under
the iron heel Of the slave power and closed by
an earnest and appropriate appeal to his fellow
ciesgymen to do their part toward remedying the
monstrous evil, the church being he said from the
power and influence it possessed, responsible for
IT, We take the following extract from the report
Of DR.. Cheever's speech in the Boston Tropeler.
We were, he said, to survey Kanzas tv ;tsois
Its magnificent capacities and resoprcrs- ~
connection with other territories and States "a
the effect OF the determination of the onestion ot
slavery q Heeoom, In every aspect interests are
involved, temporal, spiritual personal-soeiat
civil. domestic, and reigious-so vast, profound
and far reaching, that scarcely in any period in
the history Of the world has conflict been en-
gagged in, or development gone forward, Of
such Importance and solemnitv Tho tor,;,o
was an empire by ltsell, and awaited our move.
lnents for discrimination Of its destiny All
the battle fields Of freedom are TO be lost or won
IN this strife. IL is the question now, with all
Dr. we ilghss rom experience, all our knowledge of
ntns Word OF God--all our acquaintance with the
gospel and its obligations-all our vast surve, of
nlstorys ana OF the results Of similar choices and
the developments Of Gods retributive proyidence
WIN PAST empires, whether we will ground a ma
uoh on righteousness unrRhteousness rnercv
or cruelty, justice or Injustice: whetbar 20 ;i}
IN the very lace OF God plgnest dennnciations ~
wfalh against the nation, deliberately proceed IN
onila town with blood, and establish cty of
iniquity. (Applause,) VI
He denounced the Nebraska Act and 4ha IA
Scott decision IN the severest aud most seathin,
terms. No language, said he can reach thss
greatness Of this madness and iniquty; no ,nns
gerry or Illustration can describe it no mind
can adequately measure it; no Imagination bod y
IT in an appropriate, unexaggerated displav -
II we should see all the emigrants In a new State
sowing the whole land the first season. with hem
lock, white-weed, and opium, and planting young
orchards OF pestifsrous Upases, and setting alem9
bics Of arsenic and strycbnine at the deepest ac.
cessible springs Of every running stream we
should say that lunacyg unexampled and inf
mite, had got possession Of them, and that they
were preparing the whole population for perdi-
ton and the land itself for destruction and death
But this would be nothing in comparison with
the madness and malignity Of people, having
at their hands the seeds of truth, justice, free
dom. and righteous policy, deliberately plant
ing the seeds Of injustice despotism, cruelty, and
misery. (Applause.)
Everything moves at the bidding Of slavery
All Of the machinery Of government and society
turns at It's bidding. Every step it takes carries
il more openly into the light, and 1t has be-
come manifest that slavery is to DO everything