Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-18


no such easy escape from our national oubles
as some seem to iIuagne-nO prospect of the
war being short but by being useless, or else
by being radical and determined, and, may
add, in regard to false principles, most unspar.
ing. To purpose therefore that the Union
shall survive and its glory and power be Fri
umphantly resored and perpetuated, is virtual
ly TO doom slavery TO a speedy extinction.
The preservation of the Union and the de-
struction of slavery are inseparable aye
identical now; and he who votes for the one
necessarily votes for the other
l have not thought it necessary TO show.
that, under existing circumstances we are re-
leased from al legal or moral obligation to
longer tolerate slavery in the land, if the safe
ty of the nation demands it extinction The
case is too plain for doubt.
The permission of slavery in the constitu
ton, if such there be, as asserted and general
ly admitted, is only implied, and nowhere ex-
pressly declared. That instrument seems to
have been made in anticipation of a better and
more just time to come. The trainers must
have intended, that when slavery should be
done away, the constitution should still re,
man ; and that with this national progress and
determination of evil, the language OF the con-
stltution should become even now more ammo.
freedom and justice and equal rights are the
inheritance of every man, abide in its right
eousness forever"
The CoNTRABANDs. The fine opper-
tunity offered for missionary work among the
negroes made free by the accident of war is
welcomed by large class OF northern people
little band of colonists has already sailed
from New York for Port Royal, under the
encouragement OF Edward L. Pierce, the agent
for the United States government. Twelve
or fifteen of the missionaries were ladies', and
about forty men, all recommended by the
National Freedman's Relief Association and
its auxiliary, the Educational Commission at
Boston, were OF the party. Mechanics, far
mers, schoolmasIers, schoolmistresses, Ell
gineers, physicians, clergymen, all eager to
go, and chosen out OF five times their number
tor their peculiar aptitudes Tor the great duty
before them, comprise the pioneers in this
noble enterprise. This field of labor embraces
Chain OF islands on the Carolina coast, GOV.
ering large area, and occupied solely by
$4,000 black men, women and children This
territory embodies the most valuable planta-
tons in the United States, and is now entirely
free from the membranes of rebel slave
drivers. Under the protection of the regi-
ments and gunboats OF the Union, missionary
work among the "contrabands" can be prose-
cuted with assurances of ultimate success.
The colonsts only want the pecuniary aid of
friends throughout the country, while they
teach the degraded population how to take
care of themselves. They will establish day
schools, and Sabbath schools, and instruct
their willing but ignorant pupils in agriculture
and the various mechanic arts. 1t is an en-.
terprise fraught with mighty consequences for
the future. And the missionaries among the
contrabauds can do as much for history as the
French Jesuits, whose names are forever
written on the continent of America They
have only to illustrate again the al dent de.
votion and burning zeal of that devoted band
OF missionaries, who, esteeming the salvation
of soul worth more than the conquest of an
empire, unconsciously, while converting the
Indians, made France mighty power on this
continent.