Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-16

Union to be afailure," upon the people of Massa
chusetts, - to meet in Convention, at Worcester,
on Thursday, the 18th of January, to consider the
practicability, probability, and expediency OF
separation of the free and slave States f" and in
vitIng me, in behalf OF the Committee OF Arrange.
ments, to be present, or to communicate my
sentiments the subject in question" Your
Committee Of Arrangements could not expect me
to - be present at your Convention but as you
have invited me ito communicate my senti.
ments,' will frankly do so.
have read, with sincere and profound regret,
this call on the people of Massachusetts to meet
Convention to consider the practicabilty, prob
ability, and expedency of a separation Of the
free and slave States" l regret to find gentle
men rushing intp movement which can have no
other issues than to put burden upon the cause
TO which they have given many years of self.
sacrificing toll, and to impair the influence in the
future. ImPotent for good this movement can
only be productive of evil. 1t may be seized upon
by adroIt political leaders TO alarm the timid to
deceive and mslead those who have already been
deluded and misled by artful men into the sup
port Ct the interests of slavery. Imprudent words
or rash deeds, on the part Of the opponents of
slavery, only add to the power of those in the
North and in the South, who have used the PEG.
pie to secure the ascendency of the slave propa-
gandists
The American people are patriotic people,
They love their country-ther whole country
Inc preservation of that Union which makes
one people, is with them duty imposed alike by
interest and patriotism. If the movement at
worcester shall have any effect at all, it will only
serve to array against those who are bsttlip47-fo
arrest the further extension Of slavery, and the
longer communion the slave perpetuasts that
.ulea PASSIONATE, and vehement spirit of ma
tlonality which glows in the bosoms of the Amer
lean people.
l avail myself, therefore, of your invitation 10
communicate my sentiments to the Convention,
to frankly announce to you and the sgners of the
call, that have no sympathy for, nor can have
any connection with, any movement which
templates the dissolution of thu Union. The log
ic of the head and the logic of the heart teach
me to regard all such movements, either in the
North or the South, crimes against liberty.
denounced, during the late canvass, the unpat-
nosc and reasonable language of Southern poll
tieian and presses. have denounced them here on
the floor of the Senate. l shall hold the ncoul-
ing Administration responsible before the eoun-
try, If II bcstows its patronage upon the Rich
mond BnqmreyS, Charleston MercaayS, and New
Orleans DeitaS and l shall resist the confirms
ton of the Wises, the Floyds, and the Rhetts of
the south, if they shall be palced before us TOR
official positions
cannot but indulge the hope that when the
slgners Of this call assemble in the heart of our
good old Commonwealth, they will conclude to
leave all the impotent and puerile threats against
the Union to the Southern slave propagandis IS,
ana proclaim their readiness to follow in the con-
nlctS OF the future, the banner of LIBERTY AND
UNION, around which rallied in the late can
Vass nearly fourteen hundred thousand intelligent
and patriotic American freemen. A firm and in
flexible adherence to this constitutional and pat.
rioiic position will, l am confident, secure the
prohl0lton OF slavery in all places under the ex-
elusive authority OF Congress, overthrow the slave
power in the National Government, and prepare
the way for the peaceful emancipation of the
Dohoman by the consent of the people of the
slave holding states. Yours truly,
HENRY WILSON