Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-27

anybody, if he or the body of which he was
a member could prevent it, Is he to wait for
the slow process of a suit at law Is that
what his oath means Not at ALL He is
bound not only to refrain from passing uncon-
stitutional laws, but to see that no unconstltu-
Gonal laws are passed by those who are amen
able to congressional jurisdiction, or, at any
rate to take the earliest opportunity to wipe
such laws from the statute book This was
the view of duty taken by Mr.. Bingham who
reported the bill to repeal the code, and by
the ninety-seven republicans who voted for
the bill. Such was not Mr.. Thayer's view of
duty. The people of the ninth district will
have no difficulty in deciding who was right,
Mr.. Bingham and his ninety. six republican
associates, or Eli Thayer and the eighty nine
advocates of slavery and border rufiansm
who voted with him.
The second plea put in by Mr.. Thayer and
his apologists for voting against the abolition
of the slave code is that the bill could not pass
the senate; or if it had passed the senate, the
president would have vetoed it; or if it had
escaped these ordeals, the supreme court would
have overruled it. There is an ancient Joe
Millerism about the lame captain of the mill
tia III the revolutionary war, who, coming in
sight Of the enemy, pointed them out 10 his
soldiers, and made this encouraging speech
boys, there is the enemy they are sure to
beat us; we shall certainly have to retreat
and as am a little lame, guess III 90 no,c !''
An, Mr.. Ihayer this is not the spirit which
freed Kansas don't wonder that you aban-
doned that territory in 1856, before the thick
of the fight came on. Kansas was filled with
people who were in earnest on one side or the
other of a great question, and collision be-
tween them was almost inevitable. Some
Of them wanted slavery voted up, and others
wanted 1t voted down there were few skulking
heutrals there, few men who cared so little about
slavery or polygamy that they would not vote
onesway or the other; fewer STILL who refused
to vote against barbarian code, for the rea-
son that possibly their efforts might be over.
ruled at Lecompton, or Washington. Clearly,
this was no place for neutrals or lukewarm
men. CeredO is Il much easier place, as |
Judge by reading its newspaper, the Crescent.
Did Mr. Ihayer, by the way, select this title
for his newspaper to show his Turkish pro.
clyltles, afterwards so clearly exhibited in his
polygamy vote, or to symbolic his doctrine
that 1t Is Of no use to try to legsate christian
ity into people
The New Mexican slave code-what is it?
1t has been printed in the SPY, and the peo
pie OF Worcester county are acquainted with
it. 1t is not only code for the perpetuation
OF slavery among the blacks, but for the en-.
sayement OF the whites who may be in the
condition of servants. Its features are SO hid
eous that no man, except he be Shareholder
pretends to admire them no man but dough-
tace is willing to tolerate them. One section,
however, desire to quote. 1t is the 25th, aud
is as follows:
"The emancipation of slaves within this ter
ritory is totally prohibited"
The adoption of this law is a good ilustra-
ton of the working o! popular sovereignty.
few hundred men squat in territory and
not only decide that every man who chooses
to hold a slave may do so, but that no man
who gets tired OF the business shall emanci-
pate his slaves. Here's freedom for YOU
Here's a delightful view of the working of
Ihayers and Douglas theories ! And when
committee Of cOngress-bearing in mind that
the law organizing the territory of New Mexi.
co provided, in express terms, that "all laws
passed by the legislative assembly and govern.
or shall be submitted to the congress of the
United States, and, if disapproved, shall be null
and void"-brought in "bil to disapprove
and declare null and void" these outrageous
statutes, Mr. Eli Thayer votes
NO!
We all remember the wise saw in the copy
books-"A man is known by the company he
keeps" look over the yeas and nays on this
New Mexican bill, and find that Mr. Thayer's
eighty-nine confeGerates, who voted "no" with
him, in favor of continuing in force this afro
clous code; were, without exception, either
Shareholders, representatives of slavehodng
constituencies, or northern pro-slavery demo,
Gratis find the ninety. seven men who voted
yes" were all representatives of the republi-
can party. find Eli Thayer sandwched in
between Miles Taylor of Louisiana and James
II. Thomas of Tennessee, while Keitt, and
Houston, and Lamar, and VIM. Smith, and
Reagan, and Pryor, and Phelps, and Vallan.
dlgham, and Tom Florence, and Sam Cox, are
not far off. On the opposite side | find
Charles Francis Adams, and John B.
Alley, and James Buffinton, and Arson
Burlingame, and Henry L. Dawes, and
Charles Deano, and Thomas d. Eliot,
and ID. w. Gooch, and A. II. Rice, and Chas.
X. Train, every one of Mr.. Thayer's col
leagues, in company with John Sherman and
Ihaddeus Stevens, and Galusha A. Grow, and
Israel Washburn, Jr., and Edward Wade, and
Owen Lovejoy, and all the other republican
members. The votes on the poIygamy bill
and Grows territorial bills, also show that Mr..
Ihayer consorted with the pro-savery mem
bers, and against the republicans, on both
questions. On the territorial bills, moreover,
he was the leader Of the pro. slavery forces
and in addition to his Objectionable votes,
made speech, in which he insulted the anti
slavery men, and derided the anti slavery sen.
tlhent OF the country, amidst the applause of
the rutfian party, and to the unmitigaled and
Unlimited disgust of his colleagues, and of ey-
cry decent man in the house.
Does he promise better fashions for the flu.
ture No. On the contrary, be avows that
he shall continue in the same path And his
new party connections will compel him to do
SO. Ii he is elected to congress, he is elected
by Douglas and Beeyerett votes, and will be
ca>sed with the opposition members from the