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MASSACHUSETTS OFFEySE.

tdOhSUa T., DECENBER IS. 1852, i
MASSACHUSETTS oFRESsE.
The telegraph reports Garret Davis as:
saying in his speech in the Senate that
+" He denied that slavery was the cause Of
the waT. It was because Massachusetts, |
and other States had abolished slavery, and
commenced crusade against the States
which held on TO it. He thought the peo-:
Pile would arise and reconstruct this Union,
and leave Massachusetts out in the cold
and frozen regions" Ali shareholders
hate Massachusetts,, They would sink her
5nto the bottom Of the Northern Ocean, if
in their power. The s1aTe-breeding gentry
believe that but for the Puitans of NIassa-
chusetts there would be no free States at
this day, which is quite possible. If the
people Of that State had not set the exam
pie Of abolishing slavery within their lin
its, it would be difficult to name the State
that would have done so. IF A1assachu-
sets had supported the 'pcculiar institu-
ton" by her voice and example, slavery
would extend to-day oyer every North
western State. It would flourish in New
York and Pennsylvania as it does in Vir-
giria or Carolina and Ohio and Illinois
wou1d be as badly afflicted with it as Ken
lucky and Missouri Massachusetts, would
be beloved by South Carolina and adored
bv the brokers in human flesh. The Afri-
can slare-traders By this time would have
transferred half the population Of Africa
to this country, and the blacks to-day
would outnumber the whites three to one.
1nsteed Of millions Of European emigrants
that have sought our shores and doubled
Our white population. there would be tens
of millions Of negroes, covering beneath
the lash or turning at bsy upon their task
masters, re-enacting the scenes Of San Do
mingo. Instead Of the glorious GALAXY Of
Free States with their twenty millions of
white freemen-with their wealth, enter
prise, inventions, progress and civi1ization,
there would be twenty States populated
with isnorsrt negro slaves and more ig
7lorant and wTetched butternut whites, the
former owned and the latter ruled by an
arrogant, brutal, cruel. gambling and dissi-
pated oligarchy, whose passions and lusts
would be the supreme law.
The example and influence of Massachu-
sets lave crested twenty happy and pros
7,ero,,s free commonwca1ths, abolished the
African slave trade and resisted the aggres-
sions and thwarted the schemes Of the
II - ~ a.
free communities that the potential infiu-
cncc of the sturdy little State is felt, but in
curbing the gTasping ;ayarice Of the oil
sarchy for domain. But for this restrain
ing Influence slavery would now be ex-
tended over California, Mexico and Cen
1ra1 America, and the slave code of South
Carc!ina would be the Constitution of the
American Union. Is it any wonder, then,
that the slave-dealers hate Massachusetts,
with a fenGish ma1eyolence? She has
spelled their programme, and falling 10 re-
sist her influence in the Union, they are
now employing their utmost efforts to de-
stroy it, and Tn its ruins they purpose
7easing slayeholding despotism, and
carrying cut the long bat1led but never
abandoned darling idea Of establishing q
government whose corner stone shall be
human bondage, society in which capital
shall own labor, where the man that tolls
shall have 10 rights that the man that tolls
moi is bound to respect.
The present struggle is between the dis
Eiiles Of Massachusetts ideas and the adEo
Gates Of South Cardinals dogmas. K1assa
chusetts started the ball that liberated tht
colonies from British tyranny, and true tt
her professions Of democracy, she abolished
Slavery within her own limits, and asserted
by example as well as precept, the equa
rights Of all men. Had the people of til
old Bay State been animated by the feeling
and principles that prevailed in Sout]
Carolina, not only would slavery e1is
now in every part If tie Union, but thes
States would hare remained colonies {
Great Britain to this day. The indepeu
dcnce Of the Republic from the rule {
England, and the freedom OF the Mort
from the curse Of slavery, arc due to th
ideas, efforts and sacrifices Of the Radical
Of Massachusetts,, who propagated the
opinions with an industry, zeal and succes
shat has no parallel IN the history of hu1na
affairs.
Let the Calhouns dogmatise about IL
f:iyinity Of slavery-the JEFF. Davises COZ
init treason to en6ow it with empire, an
tl:c other Daviscs vex the cars Of Senate
with owlish l,ooting against free instit'
lions and the Old Bay state-the day
tho triumph Of her teachings is at han
Let her preach and pray and fight lit
longer, and the glorious old common~sa;-
will witness sight seen Only t::sA= =--E
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Republic without slGxe
GROWTH OF CHICAGO.
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