Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-28
n.1ER ousHING ON pIsUNION.

rTbare are but few men who have done SO
much to produce the present disturbance OF
tranquility in the country as Caleb Gushing
His main business in politics has seemed to be
mischievous Misrepresentation of the views
and aims of all those IN the north who have
opposed the predominance of the democratic
party at Washington. To win favor at the
south he has made speeches on the slavery
question, in which the most atrocous llbels on
the republican party were uttered; and as "
member of President Perce's cabinet he was
one of the chief authors of the repeal Oh 'he
Missonri comnromise. and of the bloody do
ings in Kansas that followed II, OUT Vi VINO"
came that agitation which now troubles tle
land He and his immediate associates III ana
around the cabinet, broke the peace on the
slavery question at a time when there was
ouiet and did in behalf of the slave power
what but few people in any of the states had
eyer thought or dreamed of as possible. And
the consequence has been an agitation greater
than ANYTHING OF the kind that went be-
fore it.
And vet this man is now making speeches
at Newburyport in which he quite outdoes all
his former falsications In speech deliver
ed Monday evening, after saying, I'VE, the
people of the United States, are in the midst
of revolution, -boodless as yet, he had the
audacity to suppress all mention OF the VIOLA
ted Missouri compromise, with the attendant
border ruffianism in Kansas, and to charge
chat the danger is produced by the wish, pur-
pose attempt, of great party at the north to
act against slavery in the southern states" In
stating the case he tramples history and fact
under foot, and puts forth such astonishing
falsifcations as the following =
at was not until twenty years after the
establishment of the constitution, when the
last OF the revolutionary presidents was II the
seat of federal power, that men OF the northern
states began to strike blows at the equality
of the states, by insisting on the putting OF the
institution of the southern states under the
ban of the Union, in excluding them from the
common federal territory.
Treading in the same path, the next step OF
abandonment or perverslon OF the constitution
by the sons was for the northern states to as
sumo the right to confiscate the property and
other domestic rights Of citizens OF the south
soiourning or in transit at the north, the pos
session of which, during such sojourn or tran
sit is guaranteed to them by the same explicit
provision of the constitution which guarantees
TO the citizens OF the north the privilege to
go with their property and other domestic
rights in transit or sojourn into any southern
state"
Any man capable of putting forth such
claims for slavery, at the time when the
federal constitution was framed, would have
been regarded as IA political monster. The
men who framed that instrument excluded
slavery from every foot of the common terri
tory, by act of congress; and they held that
slavery had no warrant but local law Why,
the slavery extremists themselves do not
go so far as Caleb Gushing, for they
hold with Mr.. Yancey, that " Jefferson
was wrong in his ideas about slavery" and
that the admirable men who founded the gov
eminent were cold fogies who entertained
opinions in relation to slavery which we of this
day are unanimously agreed were not sound"
But Caleb Cushing does not speak to deal
honestly by southern dsunionism and the
slavery question, but to win favor among the
traitors who seem willing to destroy the repub-
lic The man is well understood here in Mas
sachusetts. Let him be estimated at his true
value, exactly that, neither more nor less.
He is one of those
.'Who stoop through any depth OF mind
To pick up what they want"