Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-09

States. The rates of postage, in a business which
is not necessarily monopolzed by the government,
cEnnot be regulated according TO the natural laws
Of transmission, because lean and hungry routes
of one part of the country must draw susie
nance from the fat mails that press their way
through the domains OF free thought and free la
Dor. Liberal and even extIayagant appropria-
lions OF money constantly made for the edu
cation, by the government, OF the officers of the
army and navy, where the South finds liberal
and congenial source of patronage but in the
greater interests of the American fisheries, the
greatest development Of our national industry
and the original and only practical school of tbs
sailor, the bounty paid by the government from
its organization Is to be withdrawn because lis
recipients dwell North Of an underlined geograph-
zeal line. If a river or harbor is to be improved
machinery to be constructed, or national CAPT
toll to be erected it is chiefly to be done under
supervision of army officers, who are more imme-
dlately identified with lhe government than civil
engineers or native mechanics. If the tide of
events forces US TO the establishment of a mail
route across the Western contlnet to the Pacific,
its point of departure on the Atlantic side is not
the populous cities OF the free States--Boston,
New York, Buffalo, Chicago, or even St Louis
but an inteaior Southern town with eighteen or
twenty thousand people, and commerce cores.
ponning to its population. And the route itself
is made to circumvent the points of the compass,
trailing its long line, not Westward upon the
| paths OF the pioneer and the settler but South
ward, through Louisiana and Texas and the pur-
| CudSeu lanQ OF the MeSSilla valley, ana thence
| Northware to California, and Oregon, and Wash
ington because the political interests of the South
| demand it.
The South possesses, as we are often told, the
| avenues of industry and trade. 1t holds the pro-
ducton of the richest cotton fields on the face of
| the earth, and it can make its supply plenty or
| scarce. The cotton manufacture is advancing
| here, in England, and in France, with all the i'm
petus that tree labor and inventive genius
impart; but the supply Of the raw material does
| not keep pace with increased consumption Com
| merclal men and manufacturers are specializing
upon advances in cotton, consequent upon in
| creased demands of free labor in manufactures,
| and the nadequacies of slave labor in supply,
which may in another year carry the cost from SIX
teen, as now, to eighteen and twenty cents the
| ponnd Under such circumstances the manufacs
ture must be checked, if it doesnOt, for a time at
| least, cease. Ought civilization to rest its adj
vancing labors, at this advanced stage of its pro-
| gress, until the negro bondman can toddle along
up to IFS standard Should the civilized world
say to the cotton grower recuperate your worn
out lands-seek all efficient substitute for ineff-
| cient slave labor, apply new ideas and new me-
| chanical agents to your culture, we have to
| our manufacture-what will be the answer
| ''not now, but soon'-not from the cotton
| grower, but from the Southern politician r
| If you seek cheaper cotton, give us cheaper ne
! groes and more land Was the continent of
| America and its rich cotton fields created as a
| theatre upon which the negro, in state of bond
|
ton of the cotton plant, and there to rest Who
! believes It'll Did pursue like policy with
the aboriginal inhabitants of the continent or
has the civilized world ever recognized such lag
| CARDS in labor as an eternal barrier to industrial
| advances.
Is there not in these things-and they are but
| examples common basis of action for men who
look only at the industrial and practical, and
those who regard only the moral aspects of
cause Let us but once, upon such grounds, eff
| feet combination of such men and such mate
rial and moral interests, and should see again
| what has never been seen but once--a united and
triumphant North We should then see that
which has never before been seen at ALA divided
South We would set up government that
| should stand like adamant against every measure
for the extension Of slavery or the expansion of
! its power and directing its vast influences to the
development of the industrial interests of the
continent; it would silently but surely pave the
| way for the extinction of slavery itself A united
| North, under policy Of this character, would
| bring INTO the arena new ally-an ally in the
! spirit and form oil free labor fighting to recover
| its own hearthstone against its Interchangeable en-
envy, which would in the end drive involuntary
| servitude from the continent, though Northern
! men should never again speak the word slavery.
! There is no seryitude like that which rests upon
| portion of the white nan OF the South.
The free utterance ana advocacy Of their opin-
ions, as fixed as their idea of the existence Of
| God, would eXpel them from the hearth stones
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| fathers. The union of the North upon a broad
and practical basis-a basis that, while it should
| fully represent its moral sentiment should also
| embrace and represent the industrial and conser-
| vative interests-would afford to thousands in
the South the protection they have right to de-
mand of us; and an opportunity to settle the
question, not of extension merely, but of the ex.
istenee Of slavery upon its own soil and by its
own people. Missouri has already led the way,
and other States are painting to share in the per-
liz s 41n Gr-hE e., .rl,,v a.
was to this future that l alluded when said that
thesstruggle of last year would never be repeated
| in form The result is not doubtful if the North
does its duty Divided, VIC strike them down
united, we triumph in their success The exult.
| alton of the North at final emancipation of the
continent would differ from the ioy Of the South.
only the lustre of one star differs from the plo
ny Of another.
There is another reason, Mr. President, why we
should hold attention and position now, upon this
great subject. This very year is to determine
whether slavery is to be extended not only to ter
ritories where it did not exist, but where it had
been prohibited by Southern men. The fate of
Kanzas is not yet sealed. Last year the South
fought for its slavery, the North for its freedom
The South triumphed; and this wear determines
whether it will give up what it then won. The
Convention that is to frame Constitution for
Kan2as, is already chosen. 1t is entirely in the
hands of pro-sayery men They can make it a
/,
They can submit the instrument to lust such con-
stituency as they choose. The remarkable speech
Of Mr.. Douglas in the early summer and the late
extraordinary letter of President Buchanan to
Professor Silliman, indicate with great clearness
what that constituency and what that result may
be- If the Constitution recognizes slavery, either
by express provision or by silence equally effect
i've, and the administration doesnot oppose its adj
mission into the Union, there is no power to de.
feat it in Congress. 1t thus becomes a slave State
for which it has been long contending, from which
it successfully defend its interest against all
coming events. No future free State can be adj
mitted, but with the consent and upon conditions
imposed by the South. And do you think thew
will yield this power 2 hope they may. l hear
it said that, admitted to the Uuiou as a slave
State, the people can at once abolish slavery; but
/ remember, also, that the men who make the Con-
stitution can also establish the conditions upon
which iU.may be amended And do YOU think thew
will surrender that power! L hope they NAV.
How, them is it to be said that this wear we have
no interest in national affairs!
Having, as you know, accepted nomination bv
my fellow citizens as a candidate for the office Of
Governor of the Commonwealth | am asked why
| choose to leave seat in Congress, for differ
ent position here's In what / have said. YOU have
my answer. Neither in Kanzas nor in Congress.
can the immediate result be controlled. But the
future result can be controlled by the people of the
States. l ask for the union of the people upon
this subject. 90 not myself seek change of
position, least Of all such change as draws me
from duties discharged with an encouraging if NOT
general approval to q post Of acrimonious censure
and attack. 1t has been required of me, however.
ny those who have heretofore sustained me, upon