The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1857-01-31


= In the Massaa 6usetts House of Rsprssen-
tatives, Mr.. psrham, Of Chelmsford, deman.
ded that the Legislature should repudiate
the (1isunion movement at Worcester, and
therefore he submitted the following order;
Ordered. That the COMMITTEES on federal
relation be instructed to draft series OF
re,lutions, expressive of the voice OIL Aassa'
ehusetts on the slavery question.
The House, by an almost unanimous vote
rejected the order.-Mieago Times.
TO show what was the character Of the
&" di.union movement at Worcester" which
the Massachusetts legislature refuses to con-
denim, we annex the programme Of the
Worcester meeting. the resolutions OF which
were in strict accordance with this outline:
1--WE, the undersigned citizens OF Wor-
eestsr, believing the result OF the recent
Presidential election to involve four years
more of proslavery government, and rap
id increase in the hostility between the two
sections of the Unoin:
Believing this hostility to be the offspring
not of party excitement, but Of fundamen-
tai difference in habit, education, religion
and laws:
Believing the existing Union to be fail
urc, as being hopeless attempt to unite
under one government two antagonistic sys-
tempts Of society, which diverge more wide
~ with every year:
And believing it to be the duty eff intelli-
gent and conscientious men to meet these
facts with wisdom and firmness:
Respectfully invite our fellow citizens Of
Massachusetts, to meet in Convention at
Worcester, on Thursday, JAM, 18th to con-
slider the practicability, probability, and ex-
pediency Of a separation between tho free
and slave States, and to take such other
measures as the condition Of the times may
require.
The New York Tribune, or rather enc OF
its ablest correspondents, chimes IN with
this Worcester movement, and thus chslks
out the only proper, practicable remedy for
the "evil Of slavery
What, then, shall be done? Stake of tile
ground Gire our to1er ATTITUDES to the
blacks and those nho desire t. go Nth them.
Lon off tie fostering limb. Cut out the can
Ger. Gre the Democratic principle under
lying our system "a Jair chance to Uork
Give it scope, unhindered, untrammelled ;
by doing this we shall launch the nation up
on new and loftier career. We shall bring
our domestic quarrels over the Slavery ques-
I ton 10 q close. ITecu fToNs Hc c"'ectto''
with men ,eho lore .Sidrery, and believe in
slavehoiding, we shall &c able to treat those
unhappy dreamsrs as they deserve; In
stead Of resisting their folly and wiekedncss,
a. we are compelled to do now, in conse-
quence Of our political association, we can
then regard them as men deserving the pity
! Of the world, for their delusion-as class
manding the commisseration OF man
kind, for the evils that environ, the sorrows
that poison, their domestic condition, and
/ the inevitable fate that awaits their pros,
pcrity.
Thus headlong Republicanism is rushing
into the gulf Of disunion. Ten years ago
F, who would have imagined that the whole
opposition party, the party Of Clay, Web
ster and Harrison-would be thoroughly
abolitionizeds Who doubts but that two
years hence the same party will &c raliying
around the black flag Of disunion as is
ayowsd and chosen standard.