Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-05-27

one or the. other, except on this mud sill.
Fortunately for the South, she found a race
adapted TO that purpose to her hand--a race
inferior to her own, but eminently qualified
in temper, in vigor in docility, in capacity to
stand the climate, TO answer all her purposes.
We use them for our purpose and call them
slaves" I'VE are old fashioned at
the South yet; it is word discarded now by
ears polite. will not characterize that class
at the North with that term; but you have
it /; it is there-it is eyerywhere--it is eter-
nal
1.-The Senator from New York said yester-
day that the whole world had abolished slav-
cry. Ay, the name, but not the thing-all
the powers Of the earth cannot abolish that
God can only do it, when he repeels the tat,
the poor We have always with you;' for the
man who lives by daily labor and scarcely
lives at that, and who has to put out his labor
in the market, and take the best be can get
for it, in Short your whole class of manual
hiyeling laborors and operatives, as you call
then, are essentially slaves. The difference
between us is, that our slaves are hired tor
life and are well compensated; there is no
starvation, no begging, no want Of employ
ment among our people, and not too much
employment either. Yours are hired by the
day, mot cared for, and scan lily Rpensated,'
sour slaves are black-of another
aud inferior race. The status in which we
have placed them is an elevation"
They are happy, content, unaspiring, and
utterly incapable, from intellectual Weakness,
ever to give trouble by their aspiration.
Yours are white, Of our own race. You are
brothers of one blood. They are your equals
in natural endowment Of intellect, and they
feel CALLED by their degradation. Our slaves
do not vote. We give them no political pow
er. Yours do vote, and, being the majority,
they are the depositaries OF all your political
power. II they knew the tremendous secret,
that the ballot box is stronger. than IAN army
with banners, and could combine, where
would you be Your society would be re-
constructed, your government overthrown,
your property divided by the quiet
process of the ballot box. You have been
making war upon us to our very hearthstones.
How would you like for US to send lecturers
and agitstors North, to teach these people
this, to aid in combining and to lead them =
These sentiments, Mr.. President, are not
original with the senator from South Carolina.
At home and within these walls the states
men from South Carolina have avowed with
sublime audacity these sentiments of the
slave perpetualists. Mr.. Calhoun pronounc-
ed "slavery the most safe and stable basis for
Tee institutions in the world" Mr. McDutfie
declared slavery to be 1.-THE cornerstone of
the republican edifce !" Sir when these
avowals were made by these champions OF. the
South Carolina school, they were disavowed
by the leading men at the South, and by men
of all parties in the North. Their reproduce
ton now by the senator from South Carolina
derives importance from the fact that South
Carolina has impressed her ideas and imposed
her policy upon the South, upon the admins
tratioD, and upon the Lecompton Democracy.
South Carolina bears the flag and leads the
column of slave perpetuasts and slave propa.
gandists. The senator utters her sentiments
the sentiments she has imposed upon the
Democracy she now leads. | hold this ad
ministration-I hold the Lecompton Democ-
racy responsible for these oracular utteranees
South Carolina has ever led the van in sup
port OF the system of human slavery in Amer
lea. The illustrious statesmen of the first
Congress, in IVA, declared that "God never
intended part Of the human race to hold
property in, aud have unbounded power over
others;" and they agreed they "would not
import slaves, or buy slaves imported by 9TH
ers.'' They formed federative union, and
by the second article Of that bond of union
the slave trade was prohibited. South Caro-
lima accepted those articles Of confederation,
and she was the first to break her plghted
bodies of men. s'In complacence to South
Carolina and Georgia"-to use the words of
Jefferson-the illustrious signers Of the De.
claration of independence erased from the
draft these words of arraignment of the Brit
ish Kings
''He has waged cruel war against human
nature itself, violating IFS most sacred rights
of life and liberty, in the persons of distant
people, who have never offended him, capti-
waiting and carrying them into slavery in
other hemisphere, or to incur miserable death
in their transportation thither. This piratcal
warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is
the warfae of the Christian King of Great
Britain. Determined to keep market where
men should be bought and sold, he has at
length prostituted his negative for suppress
ing any legislative attempt TO prohibit and re-
strain this execrable commerce"
Actuated by that policy, which re-opened
the slave trade, and erased the noble words of
Jefferson from the Declaration of Independ-
encs, South CarolinaIweut into the convention
to form the Constitution of the United States,
her Rutledges, her Buffers, and her Pinck-
neys, ready TO peril, the unity of the States
unless they could wiring from Washington,
Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Ellsworth,
King, and their illustrious compeers, the right
to continue the inhuman and polluted traffic
in the muscles of men.
Mr.. Msson-Will the Senator allow me to
interrupt him moment;
Mr.. Wllson-Most cheerfully.
Mr.. Mason-Is not the Senator aware that
the proposition TO allow the States to continue
the slave trade for twenty years was carried
by the union of the men Of the extreme North
and the extreme South, and that Virginia re-
sisted it :
~ NIL. 7 -. .,,... 49, NJ - -.
men yielded to the demands Of South Caro-
lima.
Mr.. Pugh-A Massachusetts, man shaped
the form of the proposition.
Mr.. Wilson = Northern men then, as now,
too often yielded to the demands of slavery.
We do not applaud the errors of the fathers.
hope we never shall cease to censure the
greater errors Of tie men Of our time, who sin
against the lights Of experience.
In the FIRST Congress under the Constitu-
ton, the humanity Of the country attempted
to restrain the slave trade in foreign vessels
but the voice Of South Carolina, in fiery and
vehement language, threatened to dissolve
the Union, and the timid men Of the North
shrank from such contest. From the open.
ling Of the first Congress under the Constitu-
ton, to the utteIance Of this speech to which
/ am now replying she has led the van in as
saults on freedom, in defence Of slavery. She
led, under the Senator-then member Of the
House-in denouncing the noble men aud
women who invoked Congress to abolish
slavery and the slave trade in the national
capital, as Ignorant, infatuated harbarians,"
who "may expect felon's death, elf chance
shall throw any Of them into our hands"
She led, under Mr. waddy Thompson, in as
sauits upon the freedom Of speech in these
ran. ~ threatening John Quincy Adams