Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-07
Mr.. Andrew In Boston.

through various streets TO the house where
Mr.. Andrew was stopping. More than five
thousand persons were there. Nine cheers
were given for "John A. Andrew, the next
| governor of Massachusetts," Then Mr.. An
drew appeared at the door and was introduced
to the people by Charles B. Hall, Esq, after
| which he spoke TO them for an hour. From a
report of the speech which we find in the Bos.
ton Journal we take the following passage -
But this republican organization. fellow citi
zens, is party which has for its first duty the
establishment of the rights of you and me, in
the territories of the country, in all the domain
| of America which lies within the exclusive jul
risdiction Of its federal government Squatter
sovereignty Judge Douglas has told u.s. will
establish the right; and yet Judge Douglas
| has told the south, i'll a recent speech made in
! the senate, that his squatter sovereignty in
New Mexico, has carried slavery a degree and
a half further north than it ever before went
or had the power to go. You tried the expert
ment in Texas | speak, now, to the free
white aborers of Boston who may do me the
| honor to listen to my words tonight You
! found Texas free territory, pertaining to the
| jurisdiction of Mexico with no slavery exist
ing there, with slavery inhibited by the law of
| the mother land. BY American arms and by
| American proves and ingenuity it was
wrested from Mexico and your countrymen
repealed the ordinance of liberty there, as
Judge Douglas and his friends, northern and
southern, repealed the Missouri compromise
| of 1920 You found there, then, a broad, fair
land, larger than France, more fertile and
more beautiful than France Your squatters,
your sovereign people, there, had the power
| and privilege to write whatever they pleased
HANK w IN,
its constitution and code of laws and they
wrote slavery thereon. Did popular sover-
eighty" avail to exclude human servitude
from Texas Texas is a slaveholding state
to-day, and has been from the start
Has popular sovereignty" succeeded in pre-
serving the liberties of white men Look at
the laws of Texas as they are now upon the
statute book. 1t is small state in popula-
ton, great imperial commonwealth in point
OF territory ; andyet, thus early in the histo-
ry of its law, is it there written that no white
man shall call in question, in the presence and
hearing OF any other person, although that
person be a white, the lawfulness of the exist
| ence OF human bondage, under pain of three
| years Imprisonment in the penitentiary. That
is the description of liberty for white men,
which has been wrought out by the appIica-
ton of Judge Douglas principle of popular
sovereignty" to Texas
90 all over the slaveholding states, and the
| same description of laws prevail Wherever
! slavery gains foothold in any territory, there
| the men who own slaves own the land. BY
owning the slaves they crowd out and drive
away, discourage and put down, all expert
ments at free white labor Owning the labor
and owning the land, they subsidize the press,
| they silence the pulpit, they control the hus-
tlngs, and they make the laws. You may
find, sir, if you go there with your sons, in
the hope of establishing homes for you and
thenl-you may find alongside of you a
wealthy and respectable gentleman from Ten
| nessee or South Carolina, who himself has re-
| paired there with five hundred African slaves
lie has bought up a thousand acres of soil
He establishes a system of espionage upon
every step of year conduct. Every hour of
| your time, every movement of your eye, eve
| ry accent OF your voice, every word you speak.
| every song you sing, and every prayer you
| utter to heaven, is under that constant system
OF espionage You recede, free white labor
| recedes, free white men recede and all the in.
sttutions of freedom recede before him and
his slavery, as health recades before the pesti-
lence. Try it. A STAKEHOLDER OF Maryland told
me, but a lew weeks ago, that he could look
out OF the window of his house, and for miles
on every side around him could see no land
which was not owned by aristocratic slave
holders, men of wealth. "Uuon my own plan
tatiOn, said he, 81 have hutted divers free
white American born citizens, families too poor
to gain fer themselves the means of either
buying or hiring residences of their own. not
permitted to become the purchasers of land if
they could do so or would do So and in all that
pertains to the comforts and decencies of life
tar below the colored slaves whom myself do
own"
That is the story of stakeholder in Mary.
loK, Il Nov Il =.
ing state, upon the boundaries of three COM
monweaths, and state to which our friend
Mr.. Thayer OF Worcester, in a recent adj
dress to his constituents, pointed as one
that illustrates the power of free labor to
drive out slavery. know, fellow citizens,
that one day slavery will be excluded
from Maryland, no matter what system of
laws shall prevail because | know that the
Providence of God is stronger than anything
else. (Applause.) 1t will die out there be.
cause it will ultimately die out in South Caro-
llna-because 1t will ultimately escape from
the face of the EARTH 1t will uie out there
and come to an end, because the day shall
surely be when the whole family of man shall
become one upon a sanctified earth as it assur.
eddy shall be in glorified heaven. (Applause.)
But do not mean to wait-I, as one humble
citizen of Massachusetts, do not intend TO wait
tor the Providence of God, by miracle or 9th.
erwise, to work out that duty which it is a part
OF the lot of my life to assist in performing.
(Renewed applause)
know have no political power to act, di-
rectly or indirectly, upon an institution or
practice, peculiar to any other commonwealth
than Massachusetts. But | have oonstitu.
tonaI political power to speak and vote and
act touching the establishment and perpetual
ton OF any and all institutions of which gov.
eminent can take cognizance, within any ter
rltory over which the American flag flies, and
Where the national government has jurisdic-
ton exclusive to itself (Cries of g good p
and applause.) Just up to that and no farther.
sympathize with Hungary, bowed down and
trodden beneath the hOOts of the war horses of
Austria MY heart bleeds for poor, oppressed,
suffering Italy, tonight Every throb and
pulsatlon OF this frame leaps out in Joyous and
eXhlerating gladness, as l hear Of The stormy
conquests OF Garibaldi. Enthusiastic cheer.
lngl hope to see the day when France no
longer sitting down in stOlid contempt beneath
the lniirmty OF the despotsm of second
Napoleon, may rise, in the might of regenera.
tea and intelligent freemen, and establish A
liberty as grand, as certain and as brilliant. as
any that ever sat upon the peak OF the heaven
crowned Alps (Applause.) But l do not
propose that the legislature of Massachusetts,
or the Congress OF the United States should
vote Iii erty to Hungary, to France or Italy. |
know that we have no power politically by voice
or vote, to lit off from Ireland the burden of
any OF the practices OF the British Parliament.
which Cypress that long-sufering people. |
am wen aware that the Legislature of Massa.
chusetts or the congress OF the United States
have as little power as the Hull town meeting,
to abolish slavery in Virginia or Carolina.
Laughter, and cries Of "Good") 1 would as
soon think OF proposing such vote before
that respectable body OF my fellow citizens,