Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-28
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY %. 1851.
eCau.e Of Ehe SubycrrtOE of RePHDiieAH

ter, as far as his side of the QUESTION Is
by stating, as he did, also, in his opening speecr'
that il was emphatically question Oh eApeu''
.,cv :, alluded To the remark of Senator on Inc
.o,her side that {" popular liberties had been lost
NV The iudpes. in the following manner Said
NJ uoa,.-s. The fact was, that whenever re-
.nuslic had been destroyed, it was done by the
mob, who refused to iul6l the regularly estao-
lished laws
One not familiar with the autecedents OF the
honorable Senator, would imagine from that re-
mark thar he was regular ultra conservative iogy
on other subjects besides that of jury trial rem
remarks which have very frequently fallen from
his Inns. heretofore, VIC had supposed he held 70
the oninion. in common with all other opponents
Of despotism and misrule, that the dangers to
republican liberty, in times past, in other eoun-
tries had arisen from other causes than moos =
that republics had been destroyed, not oy
the neople refusing to "fu6l the laws" but by
the nusurpations" Of the rights of the people,
nv the constituted authorities, through the at
tempted enforcement of such tyrannical, inhuman
statutes as the present Fugitive Slave Law Of this
Union. The republics of Greece and Rome IN
ancient times and of France, in modern were over
thrown, as every schoolboy is aware not oy re-
bellious mobs" or people refusing to obey reg
uaiy established laws" but by the usurpations OF
aspiring despots, like Philip, or Alexander or
Caesar, or Napoleon, painting for supreme power
Unlike manner if the q liberties OF our own
"republic are ever destroyed" it Is evident
to all. except few Northern doughfaces, in
full sympathy with the Southern slavery Propa-
Randists, that it will be done by the usurpations
of that power which has already made such IN
roads upon our rights-the slave power.
That Mr. Hoar has had full appreciation OF
the extent of the inroads upon the liberties of the
country not only in the enactment and attempted
enforcement of the Fugitive Slave law, but in the
infamous outrsges which have been inflicted upon
the suffering freemen in Kanzas, we have only to
refer to his own recorded declarations. For in.
stance, on Saturday evening, June Z, 1856, Mr..
Hoar made carefully prepared speech, indica-
ting that he was then anything but conserva-
tive. The following is a verbatim report of the
concluding portion
at is no mere question of philanthropy we
meet to night to discuss Our own selfpreserva-
ton, our own liberties at stake. The slave
power is seeking TO shut US out from the terrific.
ries OF the nation TO intrude its slaves within our
own borders, and to strike down, by the hands of
its sssassins, free speech in the Capitol
Fellow citizens, see no other mode for our
profession, but to meet force with force We may
do mulh, We mean To do much, through the bal
lot box. But that alone, will not protect u.s.
There is nOihiDg from which the slave power
shrinks. If it can carry point by appeal to
our sense Of constitutional duty, it does that. IT,
BY specious promises Of comprumise and peace, it
DOES that; il, by breaking those promises, it
does that if, by pretended respect for the right
Of sel'-2oEerhment ia the people OF the terrific.
ries, it does that; il. by armed INVASION of that
light, 1t does that if, by the employment of as
sassins 10 Washington, it does that. 1t will
shrink only when It iLds the North ready pro
tect itSel against force, by force. Cheers
We understand. hope, the full responsibility
We assume. If We contribute money to send
meu to kanzas, tonight, we must be ready to
tus am them, and to follow them, il need be-
(Cheers.)
l know the idea of strife is dreadful-more
dreadful than anything but submission. There are
some things better for people than peace, and
some thugs dearer to freemen than property
lite. Submission rather than strife? The bones
OF The heroes who fell at Concord and Bunker
Hill, would turn in their coGins at the sound of
such proposition on the soil of Massachusetts,.
CHEERS
We cannot fail in this conflict know the
Nor bern temper is averse to violence. We re-
spect the commandment, When man smites
thee on the one cheek, turn to him the other,
Also
out there IS no commandment TO submit any
longer. after you have been smitlen upon both
cheeks.
The slave power will shrink from this conflict
when it nuds the Northern spirit is awake We
outnunber the Shareholders more than two to
one. We have tenfold their wealth. We excel
them in inventive resources hey can't make a
musket for them elves, or manage their own all
reads or steamboats,, without an explosion.
And they have within their midst that source
OF weakness--a slave population--the same curse
vul.. IL. -gah..-- ..sI.- a
cause which made Sparta OF old, powerful she
was in foreign wars, always sue for peace the mo.
ment an enemy came within h, borders Every
thug which gives strength, or inspires courage,
10 on our side IN this contest. We have only to
meet II with dett rminatlOn TO carry It through,
and the victory is ouIs, without struggle
CHEERS r.
One would have judged, at the time, from the
tone Of the above, that person was addressing
the audience who believed that danger to the lib
critics Of the Union existed, not SO much in the
refusal to submit" to CONSTITUTED authorities,
as in that very submission and acquiescence it.
self to the demands of she slaveholding ogarchy,
which demands were made through the sregu-
larry constituted" authorities of the national
government, Pierce, Shannon, Donaldson, Lee
comPte, &C., who exerted all their influence, ex.
ecatise and judicial to make Kanzas slave STATE,
but claimed all the while to be fulfilling the reg
ulArly established laws"
Wepresume that If the whole catalogue Of infa-
nous outTages upon our rights and liberties which
have been perpetrated by the slave power, under
the sanction Of the general government, from its
origin till now, whose details. would fill volumes,
were Submitted to the .'regularly constituted >
Supreme Court Of the Union. they would be i'm.
m sdiately pronounced constitutional" whether
It be the bunting down by bloodhounds, human
or canine, Of poor, defenceiess. runaway negroes,
theontrageoas enormities in Kanzas, or any 9th.
or monstrous usurpation OF the slave power. We
should get decision nearly unanimous IN a full
bench, that such proceedings were all committed
through the legitimate action of the constitu.
ted authorities Of the Union--that whatever
violence might have arisen in the progress Of
any Of those transactions. it all arose from the
"mob.' that is, from the action Of those wbo
following such advice given by MIR. Hoar in
bis speech above quoted, were determined 10
do somethngtO rescue our republic from the com.
plete subversion q It's liberties, by the acts a.
connivance Of those who filed its highest posi-
tons. executive and judicial.
ltis plain that Il the popular liberties Of THU
country are destroyed, it will be done by tn,
continual us0rpatiOns Of the slave power; II saved
il can only be done BY exciting yigilant actor
in defence Of popular rights. No oOnsepatir
A.