Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-26
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slavery in OrcgOn.


The iruits of the pernicous Legislature OF 1904,
in removing the restriction against slavery IN
Kanzss and Nebraska, are seen in the state Oh
sentiment now among the leaders Of the Demo
cratic party Of the North, in reference to oregon
When the bill for the government OF that terri
tory was before Congress, the Proviso against
slavery was added to it, by the aid OF Northern
Oemocratie votes and even Benton and Houston
voted with the whole North for the bill, with the
proviso in il. and James K. Polk signed 1t!
Nov forsooth il is gravely pronounced uncon-
stitutional by an extra judicial pronunciamento
from the Supreme Bench, in obedience to the
dictates of the slave power, which of late has had
such complete and entire possession of the-D Dem
ocratic party, humbling it to the performance Of
its most obsequious demands.
1t will be recollected that at the late session
of Congress an enabling act was passed p'ovid-
ing for a convention of the people Of that terri
tory, to frame constitution preparatory to the
admission of Oregon into the Union as State.
Once, ali question as to the perpetual exclusion
of slavery from it would have been considered as
settled forever; but now, Democrats papers in
the free States themselves look upon it as still an
open question, some even giving their preference
to its being a slave State. The Oregon States
man. which is the leading Democratic journal OF
the territory, conducted by New England man.
says
I" With the constitution will undoubtedly be
submitted to the people separate provisions,
making it both a slave and fee State, and which
ever receives majority of the votes OF the eiec-
tors, will thereby become part of the tanda
mental law. Which of these propositions will be
al artd car mt fO
The number of voters in favor of introducing
slavery into Oregon is at least one hundred per
cent greater than it was one year or eighteen
months ago we believe it is three hundred per
cent. greater.
We do not believe there are FIVE hundred voters
in Oregon, who, in exercising their sutfrages upon
this question, will be Influenced by consldera'
tons of the morality or immortality, abstract
justice or injustice, &c, &c, OF enslaVing the
negro race. The only real questions here are
is the introduction Of slavery into Oregon prae-
ticA5le and will it prove profitable /? Those who
favor it maintain that it is, ami will and those
who oppose, that it is not, aud will not VIII
il pay is the question asked, and the opinion
OF The voters as TO whether or not 1t will pay,
will determine il. Did our climate, productions,
and markets, unquestionablY favor slave labor,
Oregon would unquestonably knock for admis-
sion into the Union slave State. Whether
they 90 or do not, to sufficient extent to war
rant the introduction Of slayery-whether or not
consideration and the only one upon which The
result will depend. Believing that it will prove
practicable and profitable, not few Northern |
men favor its Introduction here, and are adYocat.
ing slave State, while some Southern men are
of the opposite opinion, and favor free State
We do not see how it can be really possible,
under the circumstances, to make slave State of
territory situated far comparatively to the
Northward as Oregon, yet there is no knowing
what may be done, considering the grasping
nature Of the peculiar institution, and the i'm.
peratiye nature Of its demands upon its yotaries
To find no higher motive or principle impelling
men claiming to be 'Democrats,' New Eng
land bred, than is contained in the extract above,
in regard to question of SO important and fun
damental noture, is sickening in the extreme
BUTT is only following in the wake of Chief JUS
tice fancy and his four slayeholding associates
upon the Supreme Bench, who lay it down, as
sound American law in their decision, that Il the
negro may justly and lawfully be reduced to
slavery for the benefit of the white man AS
long as that decision is considered as binding by
party dominant in the republic, so long may
slavery be in danger of being legitmized and in
troducvd into every State as we'll as every terri.
tory of the Union, and maintained there by ma
tional authority