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

! here today, that while we had his counsel
and his advice, there are those in Massachu-
sets who now arraign him for want Of fdeli-
| ~ to freedom, who went straight (and you
know they "go by straight lines from one
point to another from the Springfield plat
| form to the National platform-tha platform
dictated by Southern nullihers who drove
/ the true hearted Americans of the North from
their national convention.
There were those who desired to place Mr..
Banks in nomination for the Presidency to
his friends he firmly said from the beginning,
4 No, gentlemen, there are other names
around which the country can rally more
| powerfully than Miner and when the Amer
leans at New York placed lin in nomination
before the country, he forgot himself, resigned
| that position, and gave his support to John G.
Fremont. loud cheers.
Gentlemen, you have come here today to
| take this canvass, which has already been
| placed upon the lowest level, and lift it up,
and appeal to the heart, to the conscience, to
the understanding of Massachusetts-to the
higher and better sentiments of the people of
this old Common wealth.
Gentlemen, the defeat of last Autumn inn
| poses upon US deeper and stronger obliga-
ton 10 maintain with fidelity tie principles
we avowed at that time, and keep Massachu-
sets in the line of free States.
Would not the defeat of Mr.. Banks be
mourned over in every cabin of the country,
where prayers go up for the triumph of our
| principles? Would not Charles Sumner, in
a foreign land, receive that intelligence with
an aching hearth
Well, gentlemen, ] do not believe that
| Massachusetts is to waver or falter now.
| Applause. do not believe that Massachu-
sets is going to desert Ohio, now battling to
elect Salmon P. Chase. l do not believe that
Massachusetts is to desert our friends in
Pennsylvania, who are struggling to place
David Wilmot in the executive chair of that
State, and thus rebuke that fraud in Phila-
delphia last year. which gave Pennsylvania to
Mr.. Buchanan. The name of Nathaniel P.
Banks is as much identified this day with the
cause, in the judgment of the county, as is
the name of Chase or Wimot. l believe that
we shall bear him in triumph to the executive
chair. | believe we shall elect a Legislature
which will represent the sentiment of our
Commonwealth, and that old Massachusetts
will stand where we placed her last Autumn.
Loud cheers.
We are now told, Mr.. President, that the
living issues which last year summoned more
than one hundred thousand sons of Massa-
chusetts to the standard of Fremont, are
among the issues of the past. Does not sla-
very IN America loom up before the nations,
hideous and appalling spectreI Does it mot
stand revealed in the light Of the nineteenth
century to the gaze of mankind in all its obi.
GUS and revolving aspects? What an aggre-
CATION of inundated rights, nameless out1ages
and ''sumless agonies T. Millions Of beings
created in the image of God, sunk from the
lofty level of a common humanity down to
the AFFECT submission of unreasoning beasts
of burden manacles chains, and whips
pains, prisons, and auction blocks, bludgeons,
| revolvers, and blood hounds; scourgings,
lynchings, and burnings laws to torture the
body, shrivel the mind, and debase the soul
labor dshonored, and laborers despised
towns wasting away, and fields smitten with
sterility; non Shareholders impoverished and
degraded; and Shareholders in defiance of the
lessons of history, the deductions of philoso-
ply, the rights of humanity, and the teach
ings of Christianity, proudly Wanting their
shame before the nations, make up this de-
formed monstrosity of organized barbarism,
which now stands in shameless defiance of
the civilization, humanity, and Christianity of
America. We of the North may avert our
faces from this hateful spectacle to the &C
cusing voices of mankind we may reply in
faltering accents, "We are not responsible !"
"This crime is not ours % This guilt is not
on our souls II but we, as American citizens
jealous of the renown Of our country, cannot
but feel the deepest modification and shame,
as we see the sneer OF scorn on the lips of
mankind.
By a long series OF assumptions and agrees
siye acts, by concessions and compromises, we
of Massachusetts, have been associated with
and made responsible for this crime of human
slavery in America. When the illustrous
trainers of the constitution assembled in 1887,
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deeds for the rights and liberties of mankind.
Seventy years have just closed, and that his
tory is blurred and blotted, stained by deeds
for human slavery which bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of the patriot who loves
his country, and feels the stain upon her
fame as plot of personal dishonor. Now a
privileged class, bound togtther by two thou.
sand millions of dollars, represented by the
souls and bodies of four millions Of bonds.
men, rules with resistless power fifteen sover-
eign states This aristoGraey based upon the
inundated rights of humanity, now controls
the executive, Legislative, and judicial depart
ments of the national government. In the
pride and arrogance Of usurped power this
slaveholding aristocIacy BIDS the Supreme
Court utter the inhuman sentiment that four
millions of men in Republican America,
shave 10 rights that white men are bound so
declare that slavery exists in the national ter
ritories by the authority Of the Constitution of
the United States. And shall we, the men of
Massachusetts,, oppose only a temporary,
faint, and heartless resistance to these igno-
minious avowals, which bring dishonor and
shame upon the American name?
-- Shall we calmly rest,
The Christians scorn, the Heathen's mirth,
Content to live the lingering jest
And by-word of a mocking earth
Or shall we not rather awake to the full
realization of our responsibilities to the full
comprehension of our duties Responsible
ties rest upon us duties press upon us. Re-
sponsibility and duty go hand in hand. Our
path of duty, young men of Massachusetts,, is
radiant with light; as luminous as the path
way of the SUI across the heavens on this
bright autnmnal day.
The earnest young men of Massachusetts,
OF the North-sh should cultivate profound
reverence for humanity, for its sacred and
inalienable rights; hate, loathe, and abhor
Slavery in every form resolve that whenever,
wherever, and however they may be summon
ed to act, their voices shall be FOR FREEDOM
EvERYwRRE-FoR SLAVERY NOWHERE that,
in their own States, every man, no matter to
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