Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-14
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this city, which PROCESSES independence in poll
tics, yet evinces in its leading articles a certain
qualified assent to republican ideas and objects,
though it devotes those columns largely to
fault finding with nearly all that republicans
do or are thought anxious to do. Speaking
generally we should say that its politics are
mixture of republicanism and water. Or its
creed, as developed in its columns, may be
pretty clearly expressed thus: 81. Slavery
onSia not to be excluded 2 Most probably
1t never will be; 3. 1t dosen't matter much
whether it or not" Thus it notes Gov. Sew
ards averment (which Aleck Stephens made
year agO1, that the vital extension of slavery
is impracticable without a re-opening of the
African slave trade, and proceed to give it this
twist
<'Che consequences which, by accessory logi-
cal influence follow from these positions. are
so obvious that no intelligent man can deduce
them for himself Ii fortress is impregnable
except at a single point, all that is needed to
keep the enemy out IS to keep sufficient
force at that exposed point. But if that is of
such nature that foe cannot carry it with
out certain self destruction the fortress is really
in no danger, and alarm for its safety is idle
and unmanly fear. If slavery can get no further
extension except by the re.opening of the Afri-
are alike opposed to its revival, to what pur-
pose is it that the country is keptin protract-
ed agitation to prevent the extension of slav-
cry! Can any republican, can any democrat,
Tor republicans and democrats are alike re.
sponsi6e TOR this untraternal agitation-show
that Mr.. Seward is wrong in these remarkable
positions =? Ii not, as we believe they cannot,
why will the south longer persist in quiXotic
efforts TO make slave states oil territories which
they have no negroes to people? Why will
the north persist in its efforts to ward OF
chimerical danger!'
Towhich thus answers the Tribune -
/. Ii the slavery extensionists are to prevail
in the struggle now going forward, they must
do so under cover of Mr.. Douglas dodge of
popular sovereignty" or "non-intervention,"
which is also the watchword Of the Believer
etts in the free states. "The great principle of
non-intervention-of letting each community
or state do as it sees fit with regard to slave
ry"-who does not see that this principle in.
evitably involves and affirms the right of every
state to import its negroes from Africa or
wherever it can obtain obtain them on the
most advantageous terms II the principle
triumphs, how are you to resist this application
of it ? Bear in mind how in 1850, the northern
peace lovers who supported the compromise
measures understood that they covered only
the territories just acquired from Mexico
but when those measures had been emphati
caly radfedj in the presidential election of
1852, those peace-lovers were rather startled,
soon after, by Mr.. Douglas assurance that
the principle thus sanctioned covered the older
territories as WELL and necessitated the abro-
cation of the Missouri restriction. If Mr.
Douglas great principle" of non-intervention
shall now be ratified, and Texas or Mississippi
shall thereupon insist on her natural right to
draw the labor adapted to her condition and
her wants from the cheapest rather than the
dearer market, how is her demand to be logi.
cally resisted And if it cannot be logically,
how can it practically How long can those
who have triumphed on broad general prin-
ciple resist demand which every one must
~. 10 be logical deduction therefrom
ii. The slave trade is re.opened. More
than fifty vessels have been fitted out to pros
ecute it from this port alone since 'the great
principle" triumphed in Mr.. Buchanan's cleo
tion-most if not all of them with the pur.
chased connivance of certain of his subordi-
mates in office, who are perfectly well known,
yet are not removed, and do not fear to be.
Several cargoes OF African slaves are known
to have been safely landed on our gulf coast
and many more have doubtless been put ashore
slyly. Mr.. Gaulden Ia Douglasite) openly
boosted in the late democratic national CON-
venton that he had native African slaves On
his plantation, and proclaimed himself an ad.
vocate of the legal re.opening of the slave
trade, and was applauded therefor. OF those
who have heen engaged in this traffic during
the last four years. who have fitted out vessels
therefor in our ports, sailed them theretrom,
or been captured by our national vessels while
engaged in slave trading, not one in hundred
has been arrested, and not even one has been
tried and convicted OF the capital crime. Thus
the slave trade is reopened i'll fact and (unless
impeded by a republican triumph) must soon
be in law.
Ill 1t by no means follows that, because
slavery. as an economic arrangement, a mode
of employing and directing labor, cannot be
practically, vitality extended without an in
crease in the number OF slaves, therefore he
diffusion and strengthening of slavery is an
impossibility. There are perhaps no more
slaves in the United States than if Texas has
never been wrested from Mexico, subugated
to slavery, and then annexed to our Union;
but who doubts that slavery gained thereby
additional power in our Union and prospect
of greater longevity! There would be just as
many slaves in the country If they were all
removed from Delaware, Maryland, and Mis-
souri,, and those states made free; but who
does not know that every earnest anti
slavery man would be rejoiced, every
pro-savery heart saddened by such con-
summation Were all our present slaves con-
fined to the cotton states, and the residue
made free, slavery would not outast the next
generation /; as it is, the number of American
slaves, though undoubtedly formidable, is but
one element of pro. slavery strength the fact
that slavery occupies and rules half the area
of the United States is another quite as for.
midable. Delaware, with but handful of
slaves, is as loyal and serviceable to the slave
power as Florida, and will be till politically
revolutonized and New Mexico, with less
than hundred slaves, is being trained up in
to a slaveholdng and sayebreeding state.
Our revolutionary fathers deemed the inter-
diction of the African slave trade and the pro-
hibiton of slavery in the territories both requi-
site, not rival means of attaining the same
end, but halves of the same unit, integral parts
of a system of national policy destined to free
us gradually, quietly, etlectually, of the curse
.YApd shame of human bondage. We are nei-
~ther wiser nor more far. sighted in this respect
than they were.
~ Slavery is now seeking expansion by
means whereof the World takes no account
All the democratic platforms call eagerly for
the acquisition OF Cuba, which would add half
million to the number of our slaves and inn
mensely to the power of slavery. Sir George
Buckley is raising money from the slavehold
ers, with the avowed purpose of conquering
Mexico, establishing slavery therein, and then
hiching it on to our Union. He says that he
&. will thereby add largely to the value OF Amer.
lean slave property. Gen. VIM. Walker is in
Central America, at the head Of Il gang OF fill
busters, storming cities and shooting people
who never harmed him, with like intent.
Is this a time for such casustry, among
even half way republicans, as we have copied
above from the World!
BEAUTY OF LITIGATIoN.-A few years since
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