Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-17

now affixed to the bill and slavery is ban
ished from the national capital. This act will
create profound satisfaction among the 10y al
it will win favor to our cause and become
tower of strength to the government
The other day some secession scamp in the
New York Herald office wrote a paragraph
stating that arrangements had been made to
send large number of southern negroes to
Massachusetts. He had this paragraph print
ed in the Herald as dispatch from Washing.
ton and some Anticipated fellow employed in
New York by the agent OF the associated press
thought it good joke to telegraph this iabri
cation to the evening papers in Massachusetts.
He laughed and was merry while he did it,
probably, certain class OF fools being unable
to get even a suspicion OF the infirmity that
deprives them of brains. If Mr. Craig has
not dismissed this fellow from his service he
has not done his duty by those in this state
who pay him regularly for dispatches.
We notice that the Boston Post ondeavors
to make some political use of this base con-
coction of the New York Herald, without dar-
ing to quote it as authority. The Post says,
"If rumor be true, there are schemes on foot
to introduce large numbers of them southern
uegroesl here" This representation is baser
than that of the New York Herald for it is
meaner and more c0wardly. "If rumor be
true" The Post knows very well that there
is no such rumor, and that there are no such
schemes" unless its own particular circle of
agitators can confess to being engaged in
them. 1t puts forth this unwarranted repre-
sentation in support OF its system of pernicious
agitation in behalf of slavery. One would
think that even the Boston Post might see
that the country has suffered quite enough
from the INSCRIPTIONS misrepresentation
touching the slavery question, which have
heretofore been SO diligently circulated by the
southern extremists and their northern allies.
The question, "what shall be done with the
southern negroes 2" is one of the most impor
tant questions for consideration in this coun-
try at the present time. The abolitionists in
sist that they should be emancipated, without
compensation or delay, on the soil where they
live, and employed there as free laborers
Certain western men who desire to rescue the
republic from the curse of slavery, maintain
that the slaves should be emancipated, and
then colonized in some other country. Others,
like the Post, who have in time past found it
politically profitable to uphold slavery, and
agitate in favor Of its usurpation, are extreme.
ly anxious to retain the baleful institution,
keep it vigorous and strong, and have it
recognized permanently as the only rightful
dispenser of political honors and emouments.
The president suggests emancipation by the
states, with compensation to the slave own
ers and, undoubtedly, nine. tenthS of those
in the north, called "antislavery men," and
probably nine-tenths of the whole northern
people will be found supporting his policy.
No scheme of emancipation that has been
suggested contemplates transfer Of the
southern negroes to the free states. Such q
transfer, like the proposed colonization, would
be utterly impossible, even if the free states
would consent to it. The freed slaves will be
wanted at the south, where their labor " i'll be
just as indispensable as ever; and this is not
all. If slavery should be abolished in the south,
the colored people at the north would gradually
go there, attracted BY the climate, by social con-
siderations, and by superior opportunities Tor
the pursuit of fortune. While slavery exists
its policy will be to kidnap or Danish free
blacks. 1t is slavery that drives them north
ward when they are emancipated, and it al
lows no free colored persons to go south save
through the agency of kidnappers. Enamel.
patton would change all this.
1t becomes every day more and more evil
dent that slavery, by its intolerable usurpa-
tons, and finally by fomenting rebellion
against the government has committed sui
eide. 1t is dead in the District of Columbia
The discussion that will lead to its removal
from Maryland has already opened; and this
discussion takes the ground that its ex-
istence is incompatible with the welfare
of the republic. The sans thought will,
ere long, do similar work in the other
loyal slave states. In the other slave
states, by confiscation, by the behests of mill
tary necessity, or by such other constitution
al measures of the federal government as the
preservation of the Union may demand, and,
after their restoration to the Union, by their
own action, slavery will at length disappear
entirely. A few people at the north may re.
greet this, and labor zealously to prevent it,
but the great mass of the people, with the
whole civilized world, will rejoice