Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-06


| Oh most lame and impotent conclusion =
Resolue9- We will not allow slavery, for one mo
ment, in any form. or under any pretence Act-
| II alleged slave escapes into this State, his
owner may hunt him, here, and catch him. if he
can. and carry him back, for all us If any
man shall hold in slavery one who was brought
here, he shall go to the State Prison: if any man
shall hold in slavery poor brother, who flies
/ from the house Of bondage, loving freedom, not
wisely, but too well, New York makes no obiec-
tion
The debate was an earnest one. Yankees can
talk. Mr.. Speaker Littleiohn talked very brave.
ly, representing. undoubtedly, the real sent-
ment Of the people. Mr.. Wooster presented the
following substitute (Which, by the way, my dear
spy, Is, almost gerbdttn, the Act which your
humble servant drafted, for the benefit of the Leg
lSlatnFe, IN the Spy, month ago =
" Sec. l. Every person who shall come, or be
brought INTO, or be in this State, shall be free.
Sec. 2. Every person who shall hold, or at
tempt to hold, in this State any other person as
slave, IN any form, or under any pretence, or
for any time, however short, shall be deemed
guilty of felony, and, on conviction thereof
shall be confined in the State Prison, at hal la.
bor for a term Of not less than two nor more than
ten years.
1t the resolves meant anything, that was the
only act they could consistently pass But the
result shows that the resolves did not mean any
thing. The substitute rejected, % to 40, and
the milk'and-water act passed. and then lost in
the Senate. That is all New York has done, and
that is-nothing. The stakeholder takes his
slave to Saratoga. He claims his freedom, and
his counsel quotes-law Mo- resolves The
save-hunter quotes the United States Supreme
Courts and the Judge decides, that, not only does
he not recognize resolutions, but, worse than ALL
the Legislature refused to pass the act and "the
| embodied sentiment of the great State of New
| York is secuted, and her sovereignty prostra-
| ted.
And now what does Massachusetts propose to
| DO The Committee on Federal Relations, after
along, vague, unmeaning preamble, report " an
act concerning citizenship and personal freedom"
| IheYhad the grace not TO call it act to secure
| citizenship and personal freedom. Sec LIST de-
clareS that all persons 'entitled to citizenship
| and to the protection of the-State, except -
! except-such as amt Except "aliens, paupers,
fuguves from justice and ftgitiUeS from serUice !"
! (and, since last Friday except those who can't
read and write.) There it is-all persons are en-
titled to protection except slaves the very class
that Christian State is bound above all others
to protect.
But look at the falsehood of the statement
| =" Aliens paupers, and fugitives from JUS
| tice " are only put in, to cover up the sur
| render of the poor slave An 80 alien is
now entitled to receive the protection of
| the State" just as much as a native He can
can appeal 10 the laws for protection Just as con-
| hdently. 50 can "pauper." Let all the ma
bobS OF Beacon street and Milk street combine, to
harm the hair of pauper's head, against law, and
every attribute of Massachusetts, honor and JUS
tice IS pledged TO his protection So, not the
most hardened criminal can be carried to another
State, but that, at every step, the protection of
| law hedges in the fugitive from justice and all
| this dust is raised merely to cover the afro.
cious recognition of the Fugitive Slave Law
and the cowardy surrender of the poor fugitive to
! the man-hunter.
But they got in one brave-sounding declaration.
''Sec. 2. Slavery is forbidden, and cannot exist
within this Commonwealth, under the Constitu-
ton and laws thereof
Well, then, it exists oUer ''the Constitution and
laws, Messrs. Fogy, Sneak & Co., for the very
next section declares
Sec. 3. Any person, having been held to service
as slsve, in any other State country, and not
having escaped from any other State of the Unit.
ed States in which he was " held to service OF la
Dor" under the laws thereof" coming into this
Commonwealth or now being therein, shall forth
with be and become free
That is, slavery cannot exist under the laws
unless the slave escapes into Massachusetts, and
then-why, 1t can. That's all and this is what
the Republican party of Massachusetts promises
to do for freedoml
And then, to make the matter worse, when the
| bill comes up in the House, and when the Gard
| ner Know lettings attack it, on the ground that
| 1t admits the constitutionality of the Fugitive
Slave Law, the leading Republicans OF the House
defended the bill, and actually were beaten on the
motion to reeommit. And there is the record.
| The leading Know Nothings-Morr of Fall
| River, (who, having once been Free Soiler, is
| therefore more dangerous, as well as a more con-
| NShPtipiS ANho" ANotItlSs illustrating tHe uuln,
that those who fall from grace are ten fold more
the children of hell than before; - or, as / cannot
| quote Scripture very correctly, will give Wattss
paraphrase, as a lesson and warning to all our
friends of that class
"The fearful sui that tires and faints,
And walks the ways Of truth more,
is but esiee med almost a saint,
And makes his own destruction suren)
LittleReld of Foxboro', and Goodwin OF Lowell,
the first bunker of the hunkers and the sec
Gardeners lial Mi 10
three Know Nothirgs led off, as the representa-
tyes OF the antl'slavery sentiment of the House,
and the Republican leaders, Hudson, Vose, &c,
had not the pluck to face the musc,on principle,
nor the wit to see the trap that was set for them
and actually put their foot in it. They first com
mitted the crime against liberty, of recognising
slavery and the Fugitive Slave Law, and then
added the 5lnnaer of putting the party in a false
and Illuminating position. II that bill becomes
law,
Then you, and l, and all of us, fall down"
Alas, that such Legislature is suffered TO rep
resent Massachusetts Alas, that they have the |
power to put the Old Bay State in the position of
recognizing the Fugitive Slave Law as constitu-
tional
Massachusetts, God forgive her
she's a-kneelng with the rest
She that ought to have chung together
In that grand old Eagles nests
She that ought TO have stood so fearless,
While the wre ks round her hurled,
Holding up beacon peerless
To the oppressed OF all ire world"
We warn the Republican leaders to beware
The Wing partyin MASSACHUSETTS, was prostrat.
ed, because Webster made a speech in favor of
the Fugitive Slave Law. The Republican party |
meets the same fate if it. at this day, recognizes
that law. The same fate ?-worse for there was
brief resurrection for the Wing party, but, for
us, IL we sin against this days light there waits
the deepest damnation.
have dwelt long on this matter, Messrs Edi-
tors, for it opens the great question, Shall the
Republican party meet the issue which the pro-
gress of events presents Does the Federal
Constitution, in any way, guaranty slavery =
There is no lodging the issue. 1t is either pro-
slavery or anti-slavery. If anti-slayery, well
if pro-saveTy, it is covenant with death, and
no honestman can support it. PAUL PRY.
AN EDITOR " SuRPRIsRD."-Mr. Samuel Will
liams one of the editors oil the Utica IN. Y Her.
aid, being about to sail for Europe, his friends
sent him certificate of deposit in the Ontario
Bank for S5lS.
II we could have few such surprises, we would
go TO Europe.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE. .-The most remark
able case of longevity under privations of
food Of which we have ever heard is that of
Mr.. John Ellis, of Henrietta, the unfortunate
! gentleman who made an attempt upon his
own life, on the first of the present month,
| by cutting his throat in his orchard while la
boring under fit of temporary insanity The
/ TAM