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

The Presidential canvass that followed upon
this first effort to rally the people against the
new but determined purpose to subject the inter-
| ests of free labor to the domination of its IN
changeable antagonist slave labor failed only be-
| cause 1t wanted the spirit of manly concession
| which had animated the first struggle. 1t had
| Ike origin, but it not so sustained. Good
| men thought that they could find a remedy tor
I conceded evils elsewhere than in executive power,
| forgetting that a legislative enactment or pop
ular struggle against the uninterrupted and silent
influences of an almost resstless executive would
becOme-what the great globe Itself would be,
were the sustaining breath o. the creation with
drawn from it--an impalpabe essence. IL is a
lesson that the opponents of the policy of propa-
gandism, South and North, must learn, that they
cannot waive the possession of executive power
as no more than an equivalent for the success of
specified political or legislative measures. We
thus threw away the election Of the gallant FIRE.
mont. Men vainly hoped to pluck political
| fruits ripened without the warmth of eXecu-
tive sun and the fruits of their hopes ashes.
| Their present and coming disappointment as to
| the future of kanzas will find no solace but in
new appeals to tbs people of the States. No x
ecutve reliance no Judicial security, no terrific
rial success is left for them; and it is under such
| crcums tances that We now for the first time
transfer to the theatre of State, and that State
! Massachusetts. the great purpose of the success
| full and unsuccessful contests Of the last two
| years. We demand now, as then, the re inst.tu-
| ton of freedom IN kanzas and now, as then, we
| ask for the re union of the people. Your repre-
sentatives in the first successful contest one and
all, are with US. The serried column of last year
| Will support us, and in such presence feel as if
we were standing upon our own native heather,
| supporting the faith or fathers and | well
come the contest Be it bitter not, whether
| our opponents come each under his separate stan
dard or together trail their coors in the dust of
an etfete Hunkerism, l welcome the contest.
1t is no exhausted question that we present. If
we were in earnest year ago, we should move
on with sustained energy. To abandon the cause
| now will, in the Judgment of the world, convict
| of insineerity and irresolution What think
! you Southern men say of us That we are de-
| fcient in the elements of power that distinguish
| the dominant races in all history that we have
| not the hxedness of purpose and the persistency
OF character which enable men to succeed in
government which they regard as the highest of
human pursuits, and that we recover from the
extavagant enthusiasm of one contest by falling
into the inanity of men without conviction and
without purpose. Deliberately to assume that
the defeated purpose of last year has no relation
to our Just expectations Of public policy now
would be to confirm the aspersions of our oppo-
nents, and to enroll ourselves for all time with
the heroes of the Dupciad as
T5 70 i 10y f Jus, T ,i' a,iS uI lns I3 l
A'N' P"PPi9s IL 'i Hluu
Nor is it true that State Election differs es-
sentiay from those in which we divide our in.
fuence with other States Each election is
part of national life and the sustained euer.
gy with which we carry great idea from wear to
year, and from election to election is at once the
herald Of our capacity and integrity and the har.
biBger of our success. 1t is by such constancv
alone that we can conquer peace with our gov
| eminent upon that great question which always
dlsturDs the country, erpples its industry, cor
iupts us morals, assalls It's reputation, destroys
ltS great men, ana lmpalrs Its influence upon
| otheF nations and upon the age itself 10 hold
attenli9h 70 TINS until the reliei we demand is
! granted is duty we owe to ourselves, our coun-
| try, and to God. 1t may not suit the purposes
| CT men whose cholce 1t Is downward to climb,
| ana backward TO advance, but 1t Is the way to
meet opponents and to win success.
| NOR does TINS policy imply that each year we
| are LED back to the contests of the past in the
! form IN which they were presented The prOpa-
gandlsts OF despotlsm in all ages maintain their
| continuity OF power by perpetual aggression, and
on our slde u Is me very error 81 madness to sup
| pose that we EXHIBIT our loyalty to truth by re-
| peatlng SIMPLY our contests with men who are
| passing away OF renewing our hostility to tenn
| poraiy measures thatwere important only IN the
| hush OF ther inception, and which mark, as it
were, only the places and times OF trial The ex-
! ample OF one VINO called upon MS followers to
abandon adherents and opponents. to forget pas
| sions ana prtJnd'ces, and follow the standard of
the cross to new purposes and INTO strange lands,
IS Detter llght tor us. IL teaches us that there
| are things which are vital, and things which are
lmmaterlal' we contend now against power
rather tlan Tor the success Of specific measures
Let US throw CONSERVATION into the camps of our
enemies 0y teachlng them that while we can re-
laelhoei that "hlch Is Vltal, we can also forget
Vhat "hleh Is lmna'erlal'
The contest of last year, which brought the
North into direct collision with the South is not
likely, for reason to which | shall soon refer,
ever to be repeated yet it has taught us important
lessons. 1t has shown us, as all time lad done
before that intermediate parties contribute moth
ing directly to results 1t exhibited an organiza-
| ton with nearly million votes, representing,
| perhaps, five six million people, and yet with
| out important political power OF moral influence
| one which gave supremacy to the South, and yet
| has now no right to call upon the South to
change its policy or modify its measures 1t has
| also shown us that it is possible for large major
ties OF men, possessed Of what is called iute-
| gence, skilled in all arts. and acknowledging no
superiors in the attributes Of civilization, to be
overthrow by men without much culture. who
number thousands only where they number tens
! Of thousands. 1t has taught us that intelligent
men, like the dog in the ancient fable, while
| seeking for shadows, may lose a substance ; or,
like the owner of the golden bird, in the in
terestlng history, seeking everything, may find
nothing. Surely, out OF such events, repeated as
they are from year to year, gifted as we are with
high reason, looking before and after, we ought to
attain to some idea or policy that will insure to
us the advantage of the actual strength we pos
sess. Its not indispensable that the sentiment
of our people upon the subject of slavery should
be made broader or deeper. We suffer as much
from over zeal as from indifference Nor is il ne
cessary that we should give it more constant at
tention. The government under which, we live
will not at present allow US to forget it. But we
can and ought in contests to learn TO distin-
guish between that which is of material and that