Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-06

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THE INBEcTLTTY OF SLAVERY PRoPAGANDIsM.
MI. President, the expansion Of territory
to make Slave States will only fail to be a
great crime because it IS impractcable, and
therefore will turn out to be a stupendous
imbecIhty. A free Republican government,
like this, notwithstanding all its constitution
al checks, cannot long resist and counterfeit
the progress of society. Slavery. wherever
and whenever, and in whatsoever form it ex-
lists, is exceptional, local. and short lived.
Freedom is the common right, interest, and
ultimate destiny of all mankind. All other
nations have already abolished, or are about
abolishing slavery. Does this fact mean
nothing? All parties in this country that
have tolerated the extension of slavery, ex-
cept one, has persisted for that error already.
That last one-the Democratic party-ls hur-
| rylns on irretrievably, towards the same fate.
All administrations that have avowed this
| policy have gone down dishononored for that
! cause, except the present one. pit deeper
and darker still is opening to receive this Adj
mlnistration, because 1t sins more deeply than
Its predecessors. There is a meaning in all
| these facts, which it becomes us to study well.
| The nation has advanced another stage; it
mas reached the point where Intervention. by
the Government, for slavery and Slave States
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at length apprehended its rights, it's interests
its power, and its destiny, and is organizing
itself to assume the government of the Re-
puoHc. 1t will henceforth meet you boldly
and resolutely here; it will meet you every
where, IN the Territories or out of them,
wherever you may go to extend slavery. 1t
mas driven you back in California and in Kan
zas; 1t will invade you soon in Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, Missouri and Texas. 1t
VIII meet you in Arizona, in Central Ameri-
ca, and even in Cuba. The invasion will be
not merely harmless, but benifcient, if you
yield to Its just and moderated demands. 1t
proved so in New York, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania, and the other Slave States, which
nave already yielded in that way to its ad
Vances. You may, indeed, get start under
or near the tropics, and seem safe for time.
but 1t will be only short time. Even there
you will found States only for free labor to
MAINTAIN and occupy. The interest of the
white races demands the ultimate emancipa-
ton OF all men. Whether that coDsumma-
tloh shall be allowed to take effect, with
needlul and wise precautions against sudden
change and disaster, or be hurried on by vio-
fence, is all that remains for you to decide.
For the failure of your system of slave labor
throughout the Republic, the responsibility
Will rest not on the agltators you condemn,
or the political parties you arraign, or even
altogether on yourselves, but ii will be due to
the inherent error of the system itself, and to
the error which thrusts it forward to OPP
pose and resist the destiny, not more of
the African than of the white races
The white man needs this continent to
labor upon. His head is clear, his arm is
strong, and his necessities are fixed. He must
and will have it. 10 secure it, he will .oblige
the Government of the United States to aban-
don intervention in favor of slave labor and
slave States, and go back ward forty years,
and resume the original policy of Intervention
in favor OF free labor aud free States. The
fall Of the castle of San Juan 'Ulloa deter
mined the fate of Mexico, although sore
sleges and severe pitched battles interviewed
before the capture of the capital of the Aztecs
The defeats you have encountered in Califor-
MIA and in kanzas determine the fate of the
principle for which you have been contend
ing. 1t is for yourselves, not for us,
to decide how long, and through what
further notifications and disasters, the
contest shall be protracted, before freedom
shall enjoy her already assured triumph
would have it ended now, and would have
the wounds OF society bound up and healed
But this can be done only in one way. 1t
cannot be done by Offering further resistance.
nor by any evasion or partial surrender, nor
| by forcing kanzas into the Union as a slave
| State, against her wilb leaving her to cast off
| slavery afterwards, as she best may nor by
| compelling Minnesota and Oregon to wait,
and wear the humiliating costume of terrific
ries at the doors of Congress, until the people
of Kanzas, or their true defenders here, shall
be brought to dishonorable compromises. 1t
can be done only by the simple and direct adj
mission of the three new States as free States,
without qualification, condition, reservation,
or compromise, and by the abandonment of ALI
further attempts to extend slavery under the
federal constitution. You have unwisely
pushed the controversy so far that only these
broad concessions will now be accepted by the
interest of free labor and free States For N.Y.
self, see this fact, perhaps, the more distinct
| ly now, because have so long foreseen it.
can, therefore, counsel nothing less than those
concessions. l know the hazards incur in
taking this position. l know how men and
! parties, now earnest, and Jealous, and bold
| may yet fall away from me as the controversy
shall wax warm, and alarms and dangers
now unlocked for, shall stare them in the
face; as men and parties, equally earnest,
bold, and jealous, have done ii like circum-
stances before. But it is the same position
took in the case of California, eight years ago
1t is the same maintained on the great &C.
cason of the organization of Kanzas and Ne
braska, four years ago. Time and added ex.
| perience have vindicated it since, and l assume
it again. to be maintained to the last, with
confidence that it will be justified ultimately
by the country and by the civilized world
You may refuse to yield it now, and for a
short period, but your refusal will only ami.
| mate the friends of freedom with the courage
and the resolution, and produce the union
among them, which alone are necessary on
their part to attain the position itself simulta-
neously with the impending overthrow of the
existing federal administration, and the con-
stitution Of new and more independent
Congress.
Mr.. President, this expansion of the en-
pire of free white men is to be conducted
through the process of admitting new States,
and not otherwise. The white man, whether
you consent or not, will make the States to be
admitted, and he will make them all free
States. We must admit them, and admit
them all free; otherwise, they will become
independent and foreign States, constituting
new empire to contend with us for the
continent. ToRdmit them is a simple, easy,
and natural policy 1t is not new to us, or to
our times. 1t began with the voluntary
union of the first thirteen. 1t has continued
to go on until the ends of the continent are
the borders of our Union. Thus we become
co-laborers with our fathers, and even with
our posterity throughout many ages. After
times, contemplating the whole vast structure
completed and perfected, will forget the dates
and the eras, and the Municipalities, of the
builders in their successive generations. II
will be one great republic, founded by one
body of benefactors. i wonder thai the Pres.