Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-21
THE CASE STATED"

THE CASE STATED"
Mr.. Lincoln is as vet uncommiited to the
immediate issue which he will have to meet
The platform of the republican party, 1t is
true. embolies the distinct refusal to the south
ern states OF what they claim to be equal rights
in the territories territories won by the trea-
sure and the blood Of all the states; several
of the states which support 7. Lincoln have,
in one shape or another, nulhtied law of con
gresS, which the supreme court has pronounc-
ed constitutional; the republican party not only
deny the SoomdaesS Of this decision bm-regardieSs
Of the conStjtation--haUe auored their purpose
Of ove,tuamg it still we say, Notwithstanding
these things and acts, Mr.. Lincoln may ignore
the party rhjch elected him, 'Cel the purposes
which they profess, and administer the govern
meut according to the constitution. If he does
not disOwn them and northern hostile legislation
goes on, the southern states cease to be sOver-
eigns aud bec0ae dependencies, as helpless as In
dia under England or Hungary under Austria
This state ot dependence they propose to avoid
by leaving Union, in which the majority
proclaim that the constitution shall give them
no protection. These are the points i'll dispute
between the aggrievcd and the aggrcssors
and they can be seen by plain people.-Boston
Courier, Nov. 20
We make this extract from the Boston Cou-
rier in order that our readers may see for
themselves the uncandd and mschievouS
temper which animates all its discussions
of the slavery question and the republican
party. There is not another newspaper in the
state capable of making such a statement of
the case, for even the Boston Post itself is no
match for the Courier, in this work We put
a few sentences in italics which should have
special attention. We suppose ii is quite i'm
possible for that Journal to be candid and
speak the truth of the republican party; but
we have something to say of this statement
OF the case"
l. 1t is not true that the republican party,
by which Mr. Lincoln has been elected to the
presidency, has made any issue whatever in
regard to the fugitive slave act. Popular SEN
timent in the free states has been reused
against that act by its vindictlve and insulting
character. Like the speech made in support
of it by Senator Mason Of Virginia, its object
was, not to secure the return Of runaway
slaves, but to insult and Dragon the ami
slavery sentiment of the free states. To say
that all those who denounce it are nulitiers of
the constitution, is an inexcusable Justification.
The federal courts, it is said, hold that the fu-
gitive slave act is constitutional. So too,
they held, for time, that the alien and sedi.
ton laws were constitutional, and now hold
that the bred Scott decision is according to
the constitution. But the atrocious details
and the still more atrocious motive Of the tugi
tive bill, remain unchanged the popular judy
ment of them remains unchanged; it is as Ger.
tain as ever that history will do them justice and
the day will come when all the courts will re.
remember with establishment that, under any
circumstances, it was possible for such things
to be talked of as constitutional
2. The other statement of the Courier, that
there is a system or scheme of northern hos
tile legislation" which threatens to transform
the southern states into dependencies as help
less as India under England, or Hungary I'M
der Austria, is such an atrocious fabrication
that the conductors of that paper must have
blushed when they first read it in print. They
could not have written it for publication, il
they were not accustomed to write on that
subject without much sense of responsibility
If they and others like them really wished 10
would show it by undoing their work of mis-
representation, and by doing special pennance
for such talsihcatons as this. 1t is not what the
republican party is that is SO denounced by the
southern people, but what INSCRIPTIONS talsi-
fiers, north and south, have taught them to be
lieve it is Let such as the Courier undo their
evil work, aud no longer justify the secession
lists or talk OF patriotism without seeming able
to understand what ii means.
9. 1t would, of course, give the Boston
Courier and all its political kindred peculiar
satisfaction to see Mr.. Lincoln IGNORE tic
party which elected him, as well as the pur-
poses which they profrssed y but no such sat
isfaction is in store for them. He was nomin-
ated at Chicago with distinct knowledge OF
his views on all points cJ-nected with the
slavery question, and with the certainty that
the republicans party protessed no purposes
which were not his purposes also. He is hon
est and honorable, and therefore would not be
likely to take the advice of the Boston Courier,
to betray the trust reposed in him, even if
that journal had considerable influence in pol
tics. He will be true to himself and the re-.
publican platform, and the whole, undivided
republican party will very earnestly support
his administration, without undertaking t.
commit suicide for the edfcaton of the BAT.
fled and beaten hunkerism of the country.