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


norities ought to have the right to make con.
situations u When we remember that the
senator represents a State which bases her
representation upon inequalities of popula.
ton, requires property qualification for her
legislators, and denies to her people the right
to vote for Governor or President, and that
the senator has endorsed. without reserve, the
sentiment of Governor McDuffie. that "slave.
ry is the cornerstone of the Republican edi-
ice, and repudiates as ridiculousy absurd,
that much lauded, but nowhere accredited
motto of Mr.. Jefferson, that ''all men are Gre
ated equal" we shall not be surprised at this
distrust of the people, this avowal of this arts.
tocratie, autocratic. and oigarchic sentiment.
But the senator from South Carolina, after
confesslng his ignorance of the events which
have produced this Lecompton constitution,
does not allow his admitted want of knowl.
edgeto restrain him from the expression of
the opinion that ''f there were frauds, they
were equally great on all sides" We should
be charitable to confessed ignorance, but we
are not required to be charitable to the pre-
sumptuous expression of opinions based upon
confessed ignorance. The senator talks about
regiments of emigrants recruited in the puE-
lleus of the great cities of the North, and sent
out armed with Sharpe'e rifles and DO vie
knives and revolvers, to conquer freedom for
Knnzas y Sir, had the senator deigned to
study, or rather had the senator studied as a
senator should have done, the details of The
history OF Kanzas, he never would have Civ
en- utterance to such language. The senator
goes on to charge the people of Kanzas with
T." RETAINING from going to the polls, and max.
Ing 1t free Stale, when they had the power,
in order to defeat and destroy the democratic
party" This absurd declaration has no foun-
hefinu in al
America whosunderStands the affairs of Kan
zas, and whose opinions are oil any value,
knows this to be 50. Equally absurd is the
declaration, that senators on this side of the
chamber Z" do not wish 10 defeat this BILL"
that we have brought this i'm broglio for the
very purpose Of crushing out at the demo-
cratic party in the North these charged.
and insinuatons will have but little weighs
among men who have any knowledge of the
facts perhaps they may serve further to mis-.
lead those who have already been misled.
Bui the senator tells US, Mr.. President,
that the object of the discussion" on this
side of the chamber i" is to agitate the ques.
ton of slavery" and he authoritatively an
nouuces to us that the time has gone by to
discuss this question of slavery in the alb
stract; and he declares that " it should be,
and must be, discussed as practical thing-as
a NilAiiS tilhb 10 anu is 10 De an 'lneraQlcaOle
thing" Assuming the slavery "ls to be inc
radicable,'' he is ready for ' final and conclu-
sive settlement now and he "brings the
North and the South face to face" to see what
A." resources each have in the contingency of
separate organization !"
Alter referring, Mr.. President, to the eight
hundred and fifty thousand square miles of
territory in the South to its tine soil and de-
nphtful plImata tn ha sc -
valley of the Mississippi the seat of future
empire which she will maintain forever, the
Senator boasts that ''they have on their mus
ter rolls million of men" "men brought up
on horseback, with guns in their hands," and
that " IN an emergency every one of them
would be available" Sir, this idle boast is
simply ridiculous. 1t will excite 4 smile ev-
erywhere among people who have any ade-
quate conception of what is necessary to en-
body and support, even for a few months, a
large military force. This jubilant boast re-
minds me of the brilliant conception of
" lengthening their bayonets one foot" as
cribsd to Gov. McDuffie, at the time when
South Carolina was big with notification
when we New England Yankees We're casting
cannon, making swords, and even military
buttons to gid the uniforms of the chivalry
who were strutting after the banners of dis
union.
Having, Mr. President, Wanted their Prov
ess and military recources, the Senator turns
to the exports of the South, and he asserts
that the wealth of nation depends entirely
upon its surplus export productions. If the
theory that the foreign exports of nation are
themeasure OF the productive wealth of ma
ton be true, the South ought to be very
rich country-tar more wealthy than the
North. If il be true, the nation now in pos
session OF 49, 700 .000, 900 ought to be poor
indeed, for, since the adoption of the Consti-
tuition, we have imported more than we have
exported by $500 OOO, 900. 1t we credit the
Senator proud yauntings of the surplus ex-
ports OF the South, we must believe she is the
seat OF commercial power, of accum ulated
capital, of railroads, of ships; the section to
which you can look for surplus capital, to
which the government now looks for the pur-
chase OF It's twenty millions of treasury notes.
Sir, the South may export her millions OF dol
lars of cotton, rice, and tobacco, year after
year, and she may do so at loss of millions
annually: She may import from the East and
from the West, as she often has done, mil
lions more than she receives for her exports,
Every merchant and business man in Ameri-
ca knows this to be so.
Sir, the senator from South Carolina assures
us that "the South is perfectly competent to
go on one, two, or three years, without plant
ing seed OF cotton T. Ilhe South, with
millions invested in lands and in slaves, able
to stop planting cotton for three years Sir,
they can only stop by ceasing to fulfill their
Obligations, and by sacrificing in one year, in
the value of lands and slaves, more than the
value OF three cotton crops. How many of
the cotton growers could cease even tor one
year, and keep the sheriff from their doorsi
The slave States Owe to the free States this
day more than the value OF the cotton crop
now being planted. They owe millions upon
millions to the free States for merchandise, to
say nothing.of the sums owed for lands, rail-
roads, and other investments. Sir, the South
has seen few days for quarter Of century,
when she was not indebted to. the Tree States
to the value OF at least one cotton crop vet
the senator vauntingly tells us that they have
''poured in upon us one million six hundred
thousand bales of cotton just at this crisis, to
save us from destruction !" that they have,
owing to the bursting Of our bubbles at the
North, sacrificed thirty-dye millions, which
they "have put into the charity box OF our
hnanciers p Do our fnanciers owe you for
your oropl Did not your crop come at the
"criss' to pay, in part, your own dsbtsi
Sir, instead of putting millions into the
charlty-box of our merchants and manufac-
turers, tell the senator that thousands Of
merchants, manufacturers, and mechanics of
the North are this day, and have been for
months, pressed with the burden Of bearing
the unpaid debts owed them by the slays
States. Your cotton has been paid for at the
market value in cash the balance OF your
crop, not yet delivered, has been paid for
send 10 promptly forward and tina go, ~ -