Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-25

these states fugitives "held 10 service and Ii.
Dor" have been claimed, but in none OF them
has the state government complied with the
stipulation on this subject made III the constr
tuition.
In the formation of the federal government
each state was recognized as an equal; the
right of property in slaves was recognized by
giving all free persons distinct political rights
| by giving them the right to represent, and
burdening them with direct taxes for three
fifths OF their slaves by authorizing the i'm
portation of slaves for twenty years, and by
STIMULATING for the rendition of tugitives from
labor. The ends for which this government
was instituted have been defeated, and the
government itself made destructive by the
action of the .slavehoding states. Those
states assumed the right of deciding upon the
propriety of our domestic institutions. They
denied the rights # property established in
fifteen states and recognized by the cOnstitu
ton. They have denounced as sinful the
Institution of slavery they have permitted
an open establishment of societies whose
avOwal and object are to disturb the peace and
prosperity OF the citizens of other states they
have encouraged and assisted thousands of
our slaves to leave their homes, and those who
remain have been melted by emissares, by
books and pictures, to servie insurrection.
Twenty five years this agitation has been
steadily increasing, until they have secured
the power of the common government. OBJ
serving the forms Of the constitution, sec
tionaI party has found within that article, es
tabishing an executive department, means of
subyerting the constitution itself A geo
graphical line has been drawn across the
Union and all states north of that line have
united in the elevation OF man to the high
office of president of the United States, whose
opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.
He is IN ha cd with the administration
of the common government, because it is de-
clarcd that a government cannot endure per-
manently half slave and half free, and that the
public mind must rest i'll the belief that slave
ry is in the course of ultimate extinction.
This sectional combination for the subverslOn
of the constitution has been aided in the states
by elevating to citizenship persons who, by
the supreme law Of the land, are incapable of
becoming citizens, and their votes have been
used to inaugurate the new policy hostile to
the South and destructive 10 its peace and
safety.
On the 4th of March next this party will
take possession of the government. 1t has
been announced that the south shall be eXclud.
ed from the common territory that the judi
cial tribunals will be made sectional that war
must be waged against slavery until 1t shall
cease throughout the United States. The
guarantees OF the constitution will then no
no longer exist-equal rights of the states
will be lost-the slaveholding states will no
longer have the power of selt-goyenment or
self protection, and the federal government
will have become their enemy. Sectional in
tereSts and luminosity will deepen the irrita-
ton, and all hope of remedy is rendered vain
by the fact that the public opinion of the
north has invested the political error with the
sanction OF a more erroneous religious belief
We, therefore, the people Of South Carroll