Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-09
PY.....FRIDAY CTOBER 8.

supreme OOurt OF the Onlted otates concern
ing the citizenship of persons of color;
By avowing the settledspolicy of the nation
to be, that all Territories hereafter acquired
on the North or on the South,-free or slave,
shall be forever consecrated to freedom and
free institutions for all
By proclaiming to their countrymen of the
South, in mud but firm language, that, while
they concede Slavery in the States to be in the
words Of the Supreme Court, ga mere munic-
lpal regulation, founded upon and limited to
the verge OF State law while they do not
claim to possess Constitutional power TO abol-
ish Slavery in the State, and DO not mean
to usurp power-they do mean to put the Ma
tional Government in open and active sympa-
thy with freedom everywhere-they do mean
to use the legitimate influence and patronage
of the nation in favor of the prescribed men
of the South, who believe as Jefferson believed,
that abolition of Slavery is the first object of
desire''-who are resolved, as W as Whashing-
ton, that their "suffrage shall not be want
ing to abolish it by "I.egisaiive authority
they do mean, by the example and daily beau
ty Of free institutions, and by''all means sane
toned by law, humanity, and religion to
appeal to the heart the conscience, the rea-
son, and the interest of the men of the
South-slaveholders and Observation-Disclosures
until they shall
Bid The bondmau cast the chain
From fetered limb and soul aside,
and walk forth in the majesty of freedom,
redeemed in the language of Curran, "re-
generated, disenthralled, by the irresistible
genius of universal emancipation"
How grand, comprehensive, and glorious is
the work assigned to the young men of this
age in America. They are summoned to res
cue the republic from the iron rule of the
slaveholding aristocracy-ir from the degrading
thraldom of privileged class which hates
equal and impartial liberty it'll inextinguish-
able hatred, which contemptuously SCOTS at
the idea of the equality and brotherhood of
the race, which sneers at all efforts to eman-
cipate the bondmen or elevate the lowly.
They are summoned to secure the ultimate
emancipation of millions of overawed and sub.
missive bondmen-to vindcate the rights and
dignity of free labor and free laboring men =
to purify the nation from the stains and pol
lutions of slavery, and put the national gov
eminent in harmony with the sublime ideas
embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
They are summoned to this mighty task by
that generous and expanded patriotism, which
embraces the whole country and the people of
the whole country-by that philanthropy
which cares for the sons and daughters of toll
and unfortunately that religion which teach.
es that all the races of men are of one blood
the children of a common Father-and that
the humblest slave that trembles and covers
under the frown and lash of master or over
seer, or taskmaster, in the recesses of the fair
South, is being whom God created, and for
whom his son mounted the cross. Seldom,
in human history, has it been permitted by
the providence OF God, to young men of any
country, or OF any age, to engage in a work
co in Re
its character, so sanctioned by patriotism and
humanity, so sure now to win the sympathies
Of mankind, the applause of the coming gen
erations, the approval of conscience, and the
blessings of Almighty God
The anti. slavery movement of America is
advancing through agitations and conflicts to
assured triumph. Already it has laid its
grasp upon the reason, the heart, and the con-
science of the country, and millions are moved
by the mighty impulse. In spite of the pas
sionate and implacable hatred of the slave
holding class, the barbarizing preiudices of
race, the misconceptions of ignorance, the
Interpretations OF great interests, the sell
hshness or apostaey of public men, and the
lmpertections, weaknesses, and errors of
friends, who too often pause in face of the ad-
vancing hosts of slavery, to criticise, chide, or
rebuke comrades, or who turn aside in the
hour OF battle, when the foe is undermining
or storming an outpost of freedom, en-
trenehing or defending fortress of slavery,
to engage in impracticable or secondary issues,
the anti-slayery cause is moving on in the
strength, pride, and majesty of conscious
power, to the realization of its sublime ideas,
to the consummstion of its benefcent policy.
Everything on earth which has the element
of permaneney in it, is instinct with vital
powers, which impel on the great cause.
against all and over all opposing forces, to the
final accomplishment of its high mission to
the complete fulhment of its manifest des-
tiny. The slaveholding class may rejoice in
these days of its power; it may revel and riot
over past victories, and gloat over anticipated
future acquisitions in Cuba, Mexico and
Central America it may bid its plant tools
on the judicial bench to perYert truth, JUS
tice, history, law, and the Constitution, for
the Acknowledgement of freemen, and to allow
slavery, in the passionate language of Henry
A. Wise, to "pour itself out without restraint,
and lind no limit but the Southern ocean,
But let it remember in these hours of rev.
elry, that for these crimes the sense of Justice,
the love of liberty, the humane and Christian
civilization of America, will bring it into iudg-
ment. Let the slaveholding class realize that
these days of fancied security are DAYS OF wan.
ing power, that its hold upon the Northern
mind is breaking, and will soon be broken
forever. Now
The Northern hills are blazing,
The Northern skies bright,