Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-07

have of keeping any of those fortresses.
The Arago, which left Liverpool for New
York June 18th, will come next
The struggle in which nearly all men are
engaged, whether conscious of it or not, is to
enlarge the sphere of human liberty. We live
in sense of undefnable pain, on account of
needless restraints, imposed by ignorance, by
prestige, or by governments. The uniform
and mono-toned generalizations of every ma
tional holiday show how universal is the de-
sire, we may even say the passion, for the high
est individual liberty which is consistent with
the general safety. The enthusiasm is never
questioned or rebuked till it touches organic
wrong about which some institution or party
feels sensitive or afraid. The same partizan
who defends the bred Scott decision as good
law and good morals, is quite as likely as any
other to forget himself, and congratulate you
that God has made of one blood all the nations
of men.
Everybody assents to the concentrations
from the doctrine ofequal rights, and is in great
haste to apply them-ata distance They send
fighting for independence on foreign fields. If
their wishes had been weapons, Poland and
Hungary, and Greece might have been among
the free republics of the earth. And the tri-
umph OF Italy, contending in the same cause,
fighting, under more favorable circumstances,
to rid herself of the terrible nightmare of Aus
trian oppression, would not remain doubtful
for single hour, if the enlightened moral
sentiment of the civilized world in her favor
could be turned into cannon and used against
her enemies.
1t is not at all novel or strange that in the
multitude OF celebrations, varied in temper, in
character, and in purpose, which distinguished
the late memorial day of our Revolution.
there should have been, almost without an ex
ception, the most cordial and earnest express
ions of sympathy for the Italian cause. 1t is
a repetition of the struggle in which our indsey
pendence was achieved. The battle Of
genta is the parallel of the battle ~ me- 10
ton, upon grander, though ne 6.
scale. The wide differen '''''e iie :.
and American b;s...e = ice between Italian
Iufi0a r s.sssofy, and the bold contrast
of national habits and characteristics, do not
stand IN the way of our sympathies with and
our hopes for Italian independence. We start
ed in the struggle under countless disadvan-
tages. The meagre retrospect of half dozen
generations exhausted our history. The ar
chitects of our State were shipload of emf
grants, who commenced with but
ga screen of lealess branches
Between them and the blast"
We had no successful precedents to encour-
age, and no disciplined armies to fight. But
AUST cause is stronger than an unjust one,
and we conquered. Italy, on the other hand,
has history, the most renowned in the world,
and reaching into the shadowy distances of
antiquity. 1t is filled with the records of
brave men and heroic deeds Her people have
the fairest country in the world to protect and
preserve; and a future as full of promise as
her sky is of light and beauty. But notwith-
standing the broad difference in circumstances,
we meet on the ground of a common Cypress
ion and common trial.
1t is better to apply our doctrines of indie
pendence and liberty to that distant field than
not to apply them at ALL When we become
less sensitive than we are now, it may be ne
cessary to apply the same formulas at home.
The entire population of the kingdom of Sar-
DINA, with the single exception of the division
OF Alexandra, does not equal the number of
our chattel slaves Hated and perfdious Aus
tri has inflicted no wrong on her oppressed
dependencies more humiliating and unjust
than the Supreme Court of the United States
has attempted to fasten upon the whole colored
race. Despotism cannot be monstrous thing.
only fit to be destroyed, in one place, and
harmless bagatelle in another 1t is the same
eyerywhere-a reckless and headlong agency
OF rum. And no peaceful means of limiting
its power, and combining its possibilities for
mischief can be so perilous to Republican lib
erty as its own existence is at all times, and
under the most plausible circumstances
Mr.. George Sumner, in his anniversary adj
dress in the city of Boston, made pertinent
reference to one of its manifestations in the
Supreme Court. 1t is said that gentleman
from Louisiana rose with much excitement
exclaiming that it was shame he was COM
PEELED to hear defiance hurled against the laws
oil the country, and the highest court of the
land" That choleric gentleman; the Boston
fost, which interposes its rebuke the Boston
Courier, which snuffs treason in every effort
to extend the rights of men on this continent !.
and all the timid gentlemen who were shocked
by the orators audacity in denouncing slavery
whereit is most strongly and securely fortified
would have listened with undisturbed serenity
If he had limited his denunciations 70
very unpopular and remote despotisms. Thev