Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-12
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THURSDAY, FEBRU'Y IL 1857.
Know Nolhinsi.un Gone to Ssed.

the bin aathorlEing Minnesota to form state
Constitution, as another sad illustration OF the
historical fact, that always when there is special
necessity for union among Northern representa-
tires for fret dom, and when there is most nope
thar soch union will be successful to some practl-
-, v..rl, .lv,vs some side issue comes in to di-
IA. .,a dsfe.t ms. Beyond all question, this
vote "a. the most important that has been taken
in this Congress. Had the representatives oil the
free States in the House presented an undivided
front. that fact, taken in connection with the evi
dent alarm of the Northern doughtaces, as well
as the Southern hre-eaters, at the large Fremont
vote in November, would have gone great ways
to secure the passage Of the bill in the Senate
But now the votes of twenty seven free State rep
resentatives against the bill furnishes just the
pretext which Allen OF Rhode Island, Cass, Tou-
cey. DOUGLAS. &c, want, for voting against the
bill Who can find fault with Nebraska Demo
Gratis in the Senate for voting against the bill,
when twenty men, elected as Republicans voted
against the bill-such men as L. D Campbell,
Comins Davis, and Traitor, and only three rep
resentatives from Massachusetts voted for it?
Nov, II eyer,we wanted to show to the incoming
States from the great Northwest that we consid-
cred the question: whether free labor and free IN
situations, or slave labor and slave institutions,
shall prevail in that magnificent region, as para
mount TO all other questions. Now, if ever, the
Republican party wanted to present to the peo.
pleot those Territories, a record which should
stand at least as well as that of the border rutfan
Democracy. Alas, alas, every Northern Demo-
etat who voted at all, voted for the bill, While
twenty Republicans % voled against it, because
Congress did not station bully at every avenue
to the Territory with bludgeon, to knock IN
the head every foreigner who dared to offer his
services to build railroads or fell the forests oil
the young Commonwealth
1t is thus that certain politicians, who owe their
positions to our votes. seek. every day, more and
more to identity the Republican party with
Know Nothingism. 1t is thus that pretended
Republicans are putting upon the shoulders of
the earnest Republicans of the nes Territories,
burdens which must break their backs. 1t is
thus, that, il Minnesota and Oregon should be
admitted as States, IAN absurd supp'sition that
tais Senate will admit them, after this vote in the
House. both will send to the United States Sen
e, Nebraska Democrats, who, for all the
purposes Of the slavery propagauiists, will be
established by law in these States And it win be
because this result will be secured, that the Sem
ate win admit them, if at all, because the slave
power kr0lcs that the votes of the senators from
Minnesota and Oregon viii be used, just as those
of California are, to rivet the chain around the
Northern neck. Now, our simple american
Republicans will not believe this. Remember,
when it comes, that we g told you so, not only
now, but from the beginning /; remember, too,
that now Nothingism did it; remember farther,
thatyou. Republicans, g fishy Republicans, by
the countenance you lent to an Organization
which had no elements of strength or permaneney
of itself, gave it the ability do this irreparabe
mischief. The Know Nothing shaft had venom
enough; but you gave the yigor to the bow,
which sent it to the heart Of our good cause.
Thou canst not say did it" In season.
and, as many good friends thought, out of sea
con, the Spy has labored to impress this truth
upon its readers-that the cause Of freedom would
be promoted only BY making fidelity to freedom
the paramount issue. We have never quarreled
with mans opinions about the Pope, any more
than we have with his opinions about the preces-
sion of the equinoxes. We have only asked, ''Do
you regard the issue between freedom and slavery
as the paramount issue and will you, if the issue
should arise between any other question and free
dom, 60 Tor freedom to the bitter end p Unless
this is insisted upon, there can be no Republican
party. The New York Eueniag Post, in an arti-
Gle on PrestOu King. puts this very clearly;
MIR King hadthe sagacity to perceive, years ago,
and he was one 81 very few wnu did perceive it
distinctly-that the only way to prevent the ma
attg.f .t.nfe in bis and he
consequent baTbarizaLun of the people, was to
make all other political CUES tons subordinate to
the question OF freedom at the North, as at the
South all questions are subordinate TO the ques-
tion OF slavery and that no party Of freedom
could have any power in the nation, which could
not combine tine true friends OF freedom in the
county, without regard to ancient political diff
ferences, t
Upon this ground we opposed the election of
Mr.. Dewitt; and for this we have been abused
without mercy, by men with whom we have been
ass ,ciated from the start. We wished to
Massachusetts, represented in the House, at
Washington, by men who would be true to free
dom, and let tariffs, banks, patent extensions,
social position, m,ricanism-everything but
principle and honor, go the wall, if necessary.
The hullabaioo was raised, You must send them
all back they have always voted right" What
is the RESULT
Burlington, Dlmrell. and Knapp. alone show
that with them freedom is the paramount issue.
Hall goes as pure Republican" from District
No. Two Does anybody dream that if T. D.
Elliot had been the Representative. he would
have lodged the vote : Comins Of the Fourth
District voted against the bill; would Samuel H
Valley have voted nay on that question: We
all reisiced that Burlingame was elected in the
Fifth District. Does anybody doubt that VIM.
Appleton, had he been returned, however "busy
in one of the departments" he might have been,
would have recorded his vote in favor Of the bill
Would thar cussed furTiner," Upham, have
voted against another free State, as Davis did
Bsnks, the Speaker, is not expected to vote ex-
espt on attic. Dewttqwas probably g at Browns
HoteLH Do our fshy Republican friends now
condemn for opposing him Chafee, the
American Republican, elected almost unani-
mousy, lodged; Trafton voted against the bill.
All! theinstincts Of the people Of the Eleventh
District did not fail them, when they squelchsi
him out, and elected an honest and fearless
man 70 Gil position to which he was perpetual
Disgrace. fisH4p& g
There Is the record There is what we have
gained BY engraftng Know No,hingsm upon
Republicanism. These are the men whom Banks
& Co. implored as TO send back And now, to
come nearer home, the same game is playing
again. A prodigious pressure is brought to bear
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