Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-28


| honest, earnest men. Shall we ever again have
such party Let the 9th ct June determine
In the meantime, let US be grateful for the
smallest favors. Nobody expected the Legisa
ture to pass Personal Liberty Law, which would
be worth anything; but the House has saved us
from the shame of placing on the statute book
that miserable misnomer, reported by the Re-
publican" Wells. One of these days, old Mas
sachusetts will fall back on her reserved rights,
and declare that slaves cannot breathe in Massa-
chusetts! That will "be noble, and bespeak a
people proud and jealous of the blessing
Then, my dear Spy Massachusetts will no
longer say what was sorry to see you say in an
editorial, the other day;
Let the claimant prove his demand TO be
due to the satisfaction Of Jury of twelve good
and true men of the vicinage, if he wishes to
test the validity of any obligation our colored
citizens may be under, TO render any further I'M
paid service to their Southern task masters
Surely, till the proof of any such claim for
service due is evidenced by verdict for the
plaintiff, In the usual form of civil process, the
defendant should be entitled to all the immuni-
ties and privileges of citizenship and exemption
from obligation to Others"
Pray, will the yerdicts of forty jnries give one
man the right to enslave his brother Yield
once the rightfulness of property in man, and it
makes no difference whether the slave is sent
back upon the decisions of commissioner or
judge, or after the verdict of jury. Some myth
cal judge has the credit of saying that he would
not return slave until the claimant produced a
"bill Of Sale from God Almighty" Massachu-
sets must go farther than that. The Almighty
Himself cannot make slave of one of His
children. Every attribute of His nature, every
law of His universe, forbids it. Slavery cannot
exist legally of right, but only by violence and
Massachusetts will not much longer be party to
such violence. When will this be Not long
as the rights of the colored man only are in dan
ger. When we feel the iron heel of slavery en-
tering our own souls, or when we comprehend
the eternal law, that he who consents to an in
Engagement upon the rights of others, even of The
most degraded, endangers his own, then we shall
annihilate slavery in Massachusetts.
Since writing the above, have read Mr.. Hig.
ginson's speech in New York, en- the l2th-the
ablest and most eloquent that one of your ablest
and most eloquent men ever made. The Spy
ought to have published every word of it before
this. You ought, occasionally, to give your read
ers good meal of the strong meat of abolition
ism, instead of the flap-doodle of ishy Repub
LEANS Excuse this lecture.) But there are a
few paragra phs of the speech, which I append to
this, SO much better said than what have writ
ten or can write, that beg you to publish them;
together with Wendell Phillips's view of the
same matter Act up to this doctrine, and Mas
sachusetts is tree-and not till then.
Let me remind my friend Hgginson, however,
that he gives New York more credit than she
deserves. The resolve he quotes is not ''per-
sonal liberty bill p it is only talk. The New
York Legislature refused to pass bill to back up
the resolve PAUL PRY.