Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-13

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for the presidency from either branch of the
divided democratic party, or from that other
/ political combination, known as the union par
ty nor, stranger still, could either of these
sainted patriots, whose names alone open
! perpetual fountain OF gratitude in all your
hearts, be confirmed by the senate of the Uni
ted States for any political function whatever,
not even for the local office of postmaster.
What | now say amid your natural astonish.
ment, l lave often said before in addressing
the people, and have more than once uttered
from my seat in the senate, and no man there
has made answer, for no man who has sat in
It's secret sessions, and there learned the test
which is practically applied could make an
swer; and L ask you to accept this statement
as my testimony derived from the experience
which has been my lot Yes telow-citizens
had this test prevailed in the earlier days,
Washington-first in war, first in peace, first
in the hearts of his countrymen, could not
have been created generalissimo of the Amer
can forces; Jefferson could not have taken his
! place on the committee to draft the Declaration
of independence; and Franklin could not
! have gone forth TO France, with the commits
| sion of the infant republic, to secure the in
valuable alliance of that ancient kingdom
nor could John Jay, as first chief justice, have
lent to our infant Judiciary the grace of his
name and character
Standing on the bent necks of an enslaved
| race-with four millions of human beings as
| the black marble Caryatides to support its
power the slave ogarchy erects itself into
lordly caste which brooks no opposition, but
when | speak of caste l mean nothing truly
polite; and when speak of oligarchy | mean
nothing truly arstocratic. AS despotisn is
simply an abuse of aristocracy, unless it be
that vulgar OF all, the "aristocracy of the
skin" Derived from slavery, and having the
interests of slavery, always in view our oil
garchy must naturally take its character from
this tive-headed wrong.
'Things had begun made strong themselves by ILL"
All that is bad in savery-its audacity its
immortality, its cruelty, its robbery, its mean
ness, its ignorance, its barbarous disregard of
human obligation, must all be reproduced in
its representatives. If the oligarchy hest.
tateS at nothing to serve its selfish ends, it
simply acts in harmony with slavery, from
which it draws its livelihood. If in grasp of
power it is like the hunchback Richard if in
talsehood it copies Iago and if in character it
is as brutal as untaught Caliban,
(Which any print of goodness will not take,
Being capable of all ill:n
Aye, if in all these respects it surpasses its
prototypes, be not astonished, fellow citizens
for it acts simply according to the original law
and the Unborn necessities Of its being,
CORRUPTION THE OFFSPRING OF SLAVERY.
OF course, fellow citizens, you are now
ready to see that the corruptions by which the
present administration has been degraded are
the natural offspring of the immortality Of
slavery. They have all occurred in sustain.
! ing the policy Of the oigarchy, and in the
case OF the EecomptOn constitution, i'll direct
effort to tasten slavery upon distant territory,
and they are all marked by the effrontery of
slavery. Smollett attributes the peculiar pro-
tligacy Of England at Il particular period to
the decentralization of the South Sea Bubble
but such an influence cannot be comparable in
this respect to slavery, which indeed, if it
were not crime, might well be called a bub-
BILE. But government which vindicates the
sale of human beings need not hesitate to pur-
chase the vote of an elector at the polls, or of
member of congress. The two transactions
belong to the same family, though unquestion-
ably the last is the least reprenensibe.
NECESSITY FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE REPUB-
LICANs.
Fellow citizens, would you arrest these cor.
ruptions, and the disastrous influence from
which they spring, involving nothing lie than
civilization on this continent, the republican
party tells you how, and in telling you how,
it vindicates at once its necessity and its ORR
gin. The work must be DONE and there is no
other organization by which it can be done.
A party with such an origin and such a neces-
! slty cannot be for day or for this election
only. 1t cannot be less permanent than the
hostile influence which it is formed to counter
act. Therefore, Just so long as the present
false theories of slavery prevail, whether con-
corning its character, morally, economically,
and socially, or concerning its prerogatives
under the constitution, just long as the
slave oligarchy, which is the sleepless and I'M
hesitating agent of slavery in all its preten-
Sip To aNyip+ ,oI;+
the republican party must endure. If bad
men conspire for slavery, good men must com
Dlne for freedom; nor can the holy war be
ended until the barbarism now dominant in the
republic Is overthrow, and the pagan power
Is driven from our Jerusalem And when this
| triumph is won, securing the immediate object
of our organization, the republican party will
not die, but, purified by its long contest with
slavery, and filled with higher life, it will be
lifted to other efforts for the good of man.
AT present the work is plain before us. 1t
Is simply to elect our candidates ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, of Illinois, whose ability so conspic-
uously shown in his own state attracted at
once the admiration Of the whole country
whose character no breath has touched, and
whose heart is large enough to embrace the
broad republic and its peope-him you will
elect; and HANNIBAL HAMLIN, of Maine whose
clear head firm principles, and ample expert.
ence none who sit with him in the senate
chamber can contest-him you will elect vice
president Electing these, we shall put the
national governmental least in its executive
department-openly and actively on the side
OF freedom and this alone will be of meal
culable infuence-not only in ITSELF but as the
the harbinger of the future
WHAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED
First and foremost, we shall save the terri
tories from the five headed barbarism of sav.
cry, keeping them in their normal condition,
as they came from the hand of God, tree, with
freedom written on the soil and engraved ON
the rock, while the wind will whisper it in the
trees, the rivers will murmur it in their flow.
and all nature echo it in joy unspeakabe.
Next we shall save the country from the
crying intamy OF the save-trade, whose OPEN
ing anew, as now menaeed is indeed but
logical consequence of the new theories of
slavery. If slavery be the ''blessing" it is
Wanted, then must the slave trade be benifi.
cent, and they who ply it with the fercest &C.
tiyity must take their places among the mis-.
sionaries and saints OF humanity.
Next we shall save the constitution, at least
within the sphere of executive influence, from
outrage and peryersion; so that the president
will no longer lend himself to that widest pre.
tension OF the slave oligarchy as Mr.. Buchan.
an has done, by declaring that slavery is car
ried under the constitution into all territories
and that it now exists i'll Kansas as firmly as
III South Carolina As out of nothing can
come nothing, so out of the nothing in the
constitution on this subject can be derived no
support for this in0rdinate pretension. which
may be best dismissed in that classical simili-
tude by which the ancient Romans rebuked
groundIess folly, when they called it ass ,cool,
which is something that does not exist-and
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