Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-09
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FRIDAY. JULY Q. 1858.
Cn.hinr and Choa.e.

anniversary OF our Natiohat AhuePeuOehSes OhS
ia New York before the Tammany Society,
and the other in Boston before the Democratic
Club Both performances were, Of course, able.
brilliant. element. and learned, and drew forth
applause, accordingly, from the admiring thou
sands Of heartless devotees to the slave power,
who listened to them. While there is a general
similarity in both orations, as to the scope and
aim of their respective authors to serve the pur-
poses Of the pro-slavery party to which they
have allied themselves, there appears to be wide
difference in the manner in which each makes ref
eFence to the gfeatpolitical bugbear Of the day,
dissolution Of the Union.
while the burden Of the song Of Mr. Choate is
the imminent peril to whieh- eur glorious con-
federacy' is now subjected, Of being disrupted,
as a consequence Of the 'sfanatical and sectional
agitation" Of the slavery question. MIR. Cushing
says that the numbers and influence of those who
really favor dissolution Of the aUolOn. are SO
small and scontemptible." that he "laughs TO
scOrn" any idea Of fearsin that regards is sa
Both, however, unite in the opinion, that in
case a Republican President should be elected in
1860, by the union Of the Northern, Northwest.
ern, and Middle States, It wuuld amount, prsetl.
caiiy, to dissolution of the Union. But Mr.
Cushing SAYS it sis not possible" for such a con
tingencyto happen, while Mr.. Choate's labOred
effort smountsto "passionate exhortation" to
his fellow citizens, to dissuade them from enter
tanning "fanaticap or sectional" ideas, or aid,
ing to build up. geographical party" which
will surely, he thinks, lead 10 such a calamitous
result, and to avoid it, recommends surrender
n ruh; oh noo kLa d az
US by the South.
Mr.. Gushing devotes his Grafton to a defence
of the long series Of acts of the slave power, un
der the general government claiming that there
has been no such thing as the domineering Of the
South over the North, &c.
The following is specimen of Mr.. Cushing's
style Of treating the subject Ofthe '.Union";
II do, indeed, sometimes hear men talk CT the
dissolution Of the Union. A set Of noisy and half
crazy agitators here in the North tell us that
the Union ought to be dissolved, because they
say the constitution Of the United States is Gov
enant with death and an agreement with hell;
and thereupon the echo OF their ontcrles occa-
sionally returns to US in declaration from the
South that the Union must be dissolved because
Of the fact that many of these wild theorists of
metropolitan and free love, and woman's rights,
and irreligion, and socialism, and pine tree spir
Such persons, it is true, do exist among US de.
naturalized women, unhappy that they are not |
men; denzturalizsd men, unworthy even TO be
women. They, also, will assemble somewhere,
today, not Americans. but as libellers and vi
tuperators of Americans-to desecrate some ven
cradle church. or defile some sylvan shade--to say
how much they loveall black men, and how
much they detest all white ones--and in the pro-
famed name Of liberty TO proclaim their unappeas-
able enmity 70 the Union, to the constitution, to
the Bible, to their country.
Well, be it so. What, are there not Ameri
cans enough in heart as well as IN name. 10 pre-
serve the integrity Of the Union in spite Of all
these rawlings Of Embossed bedlam Aye. ten,
twenty, thirty millions of such devoted Ameri
cans, devoted to the Union. and who, il need
were, could and would, occasion requiring, de-
your and swallow up this handful Of negrophilist I
Union haters, az the boiling whirlpoolof Niagara
overwhelms the slight skiH of some intoxicated
indians Yes. we are strong enough in the light
of our freedom and in the vigor of our country to
tolerate and to pity all such impotent foes of the
Union" e
This moroccan we will pass over to our friends,
the Garrisonians, at their next general conclavs,
to comment upon asst deserves. 81
In justice to Mr.. Choate, we must admit, that
there is this wide difference between him and his
riend Cushing, in one regard. and that is intbeir
respective estimates Of the humanity of the me-
gro. While Gushing upholds the bred Scott de-
cision in its defence Of slavery per SCI by declar
ing that ''black men have no rights which white
men are bound to respect" Choate would seem
to have some qualms of conscience against slave
ry an institution, but only goes for its contin
ued existence, although an evil, IN order to keep
the Union together, the back of the poor slave be-
ing the great solid basis on which sour glorious
Union" rests for preservation and perpetuation;
such being, in his opinion, the price we must pay
for so precious boons as maintaining our pres
ent form Of national government.
Mr.. Choate gives the following summary Of his
political creed, bearing on this point; slisd3
"When they press us with the common-places
Of anti-slavery, be these words Of wisdom our an
swer. Say to them, Yes, thank God / keep
no slaves. / am sorry there is one on earth;
sorry, even, that there is need of law, Of sub
ordination, of order, Of government, of the dis
cipline of the schools, OF prisons, Of the gaows
wonder at such a system Of things; piously
would reform it; but beneath that same system
am an American citizen; beneath that system,
tins country it is my post to keeps while keep
her there il hope for all men, for the evil man,
for the incorporate man, for slaves for free, for
: all; that hope your rash and hasty hand would
PROSTATE; that hope my patience would adj
vance.
Mr.. Choate here labors under the sad infatua-
ton, bad as that haunting the imaginations Of
the believers in the Calhoun and McDufae theo-
~ that "the patriarchal institution Of slavery is
the chief corner stone Of our republican edifice,
and that one cannot exist without the other.
Whereas the true theory is. that the only way to
make the Union perpetual, is to foster that for
which the Union was made. viz freedom, BY
circumscribing and finally Graduating slavery
from the land. The only real foe to the
Union, periling its existence, is the continuance
of slavery and its blasting influence on US all,
white as we'll as black. 81 sssn % a.sa
The best answer 10 the Union-saving fallsciss
Of Messrs. Cushing and Choate, is contained in
the following extract from Henry Ward Beech
er's fourth Of July Grafton in New York, on Mon.
day last: ig7ui
II am most happy, here at least, to claim for
the Union, as most heartily do, our undivided
allegiance. For there Is no sacrifice too great to
pay for the Union Of these States, unless we sac
rfee that for which the Union was first made
liberty. lCheers.) We will suffer much for the
sake Of the Union-we will give up many sec
tional points Of pride, but when we are asked to
give up the spirit which animated the men Of the
Eevolntion---the spirit Of liberty--that we can
we declare that any true patriotism must be a
patriotism which shall include in itself the
knowledge and love Of those principles first en-
bodied n the declaration Of independsnce-the
rights Of man--ihe declaration that all men are
bora free and equal. (Applause.) Patriotism
without that Is mot patriotism 10 Amefica. It
may be patriotism "a Austria but not IN Amen-
ca Ths patfi0fism that does not include within