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

much injured race, excluded from its proiee.
ton, and by justice to the fathers, whose well
chosen words-it foundation for an empire
have been turned into mockerv nor can the
madness OF the propagandists of slavery be
better illustrated than in this assault on the
Declaration of independence, stultifying the
fathers for no other purpose than to clear the
way for their five-headed system Of compuisor4
id60r 10lhbOH ,cages.
And finally, we shall help to expel the slave
ohgarchy from all its seats of national power
and drive it back within the states This
alone IS worthy OF every effort tor until this
is done, nothing else can be done. IN vain
you seek economy or purity in the national
government; in vain you seek improvement
of rivers and harbors in vain you seek home.
steads n the public lands for actual settlers
III VAIN you seek reform in administration in
vain you seek destiny and peace in our foreign
relations with jus. sympathy for struggling free
dom everywhere while this selfish and cor.
rupt power holds the national purse and the
national sword. PROSTATE the slave oIigarchy,
and the door will be open to all generous prin.
clpes PROSTATE the slave Olgarchy, and ber-
ty VIII become in fact us in law, the normal
condition OF all the national territories. Pros
trate the slave OligarcIFy and the national gov
eminent will be at length divorced from sav
cry, and the national policy will be changed
from slavery to freedom PROSTATE the slave
oligarchy and the north will he admitted to
It's just share in the trusts and honors of the
republic! PROSTATE the slave olgarchy, and
mighty victory at peace will be won, whose in.
tiuence of our country and of mankind no
imagination can point!
THE FUTURE OF SLAVERY
Frustrated, exposed, and permanently eX-
PEELED from iltgotten power, the olgarchy will
soon cease to exist political combination.
Its tlnal doom may be postponed, but it is GER
tain. Languishing, it may live yet longer ;
but it will surely die. Yes, fellow citizens,
surely, it will die-when disappointed in its
representation back within the states, and
constrained within these Hmts-it can no
longer rule the republic as a plantation of
slaves at home can no longer menace the ter
ritories with its five headed device TO compel
tabor ~'ttoH Wdges; can no longer fasten upon
the constitution an Interpretation which makes
merchandise OF men, and gives a disgraceul
immunity to the brokers of human flesh and
the butchers of human hearts; and when it
can no longer grind flesh and blood, groans
and signs, the tears of mothers and the cries
OF children, into the cement of a barbasous pc.
litical powerl Surely, then, in its retreat
smarting under the Indignation of an aroused
people and the concurring judgment of the civ
ilized world, it must Diet may be, as pois-
onedrat dies ofrage in its hole
Meanwhile, all good omens are ours The
work cannot stop. Quckened by the triumph
now at hand-with republican president in
power-state after state, quitting the condition
Of territory and spurning slavery, will be
welcomed into our plural unit, and, joining
hands together, they will become a belt of fire
glrt about the slave states, within which slave
ry must die; or, happier said, joining hands
together, they will become to the slave states
zone of freedom, radiant, like the ancient
cestus of Beauty, with Transforming power
1t only remains that we should speed these
good influences. Others may dwell on the
past as secure. But to my mind, under the
laws of benefcent God, the future also is Sc
cwe-on the single condition that we press for
ward in the work with heart and ul-forget-
ting selt-turning from the temptations of the
hour-and intent only on the cause,
with mean compliance meier betray our trust.
Nor be SO civil as TO prove unjust"
The Tribune says :-"Mr. Summers ad-
dress received the attention and earnest ap
plause of his audience from the commence
ment to the close. Delivered with his most
precise and finished oratory, in a voice heard
by the most distant of the three thousand per
sons present, it gave abundant evidence of the
fullness of the speakers renewed mental and
physical strength"