Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-30


The first week of the Charleston Conven-
ton closed at a late hour, Saturday night
The excitement which had prevailed during
the week, was still at its height when the con
vention adjourned, Mr.. Gushing himself
who has seen some martial service, found the
democratic trifle too fierce for him, and was
compelled to cry quarter Nothing was deter
mined, nothing settled. On incidental ques
tons the supporters Of Mr.. Douglas were de-
feated--once on the question OF referring Mr.,
Bayard's proposition back to the committee
and again on the question of adjournment.
The vote, however, was exceedingly close,
and the Douglas men may rally, to-day, with
ample force to carry their platform through
the convention The harder and more doubt
full battle will then remain to be fought OF
which no one can foresee the result.
Undoubtedly the pro slavery extremists are
encouraged and sustained in their demand by
the counsel of northern delegates Such
statement is made, and there is nothing IN 1t
which renders it ntrnsically improbable
Massachusetts has men there to-day who
would rejoice in the triumph OF just such
policy as was outlined by Mr.. Yancey Of Ala
bama, and was embodied in the majority plat
form OF the committee. One OF them is
waiting candidate for the presidency, and the
Boston Courier calls the delegation TO account
for refusing to give him the vain honor of
complimentary vote, But the majority Of the
representatives of the free states find the obi
GUS burden greater than they can bear They
helped the south to acquire Texas without
finching, They gorifed the fugitive slave
law They accepted the repeal OF the Mssou-
ri compromise with aacrity, and like obedent
claquers in a theater, appauded the bred
Scott decision. But the suggestion of slave
code excites nausea. and they are compelled to
take up precisely the same weapons with
which others have resisted the aggressions of
the slave power before.
Ii republicans needed any justification for
the position they have assumed and maintain
ed-any justification of their estimate of the
dangerous power of slavery in the general
government, or OF the means which they have
adopted to control and restrain it, the Charles
ton convention would thrust the evidence i'll
their faces. The spirit exhibited by MIR.
Yancey of Alabama, is in no respect different
from that which has inspired the propagan-
dists of slavery from the fatal day when:it
dreamed of becoming a political power, to
this moment 1t has been exhibited in every
Congress since John Quincy Adams fought
the great battle for the right of petition. 1t
has rushed with drawn sword into territories
dev ted by solemn treaties to freedom and has
covered them with blood. Its progress has
been contested in Congress and in the courts
with indifferent success. 1t has been conquer
ed in the territories by strong arms and brave
hearts
Here it breaks forth again, with its marvel
lous vigor Of insolence, demanding new con
cesSions, and requiring men, who have no in
terest in their peculiar institution, except tC
see it utterly extinguished for the sake of the
prosperity of the country, and its good fame
to give new proofs of their subserviency
Whatever is the reFult of this convention
there will be thousands of northern democrat;
who will at once bring the league with theil
treacherous allies to an end The experience
comes late, but sooner or later-every MAJ
who prefers free and enlightened government
will be found among the foes of the part
whose policy is to destroy it.