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Show 10 MASSACHUSETTS lN 1\IOUJt!\INO. W c talk of the Anti-Slavery sentiment as Lcing stronger; but in spite of your Free Soil votes, your Uncle Tom's Cabi11, and your New York Tribunes, here is the simple ii!Ct: the So nth beats us more and more easily e·vcry time. So chess-players, when they have once or twice overcome a '''calc antagonist,. think it safe, next time, to give up to him a half dozen piccCs by way of odds ;-and after all gain the victory. Compare this Nebraska. grrmc with the previous ones. The Slayc Power could affOrd to give us the \Vhig party on our side, tills time-could give up to us the commercial inHucncc of Boston and New York, so strong an ally before-it has not had the name and presence of Daniel 'Vebstcr to help it now, nor the voices of clergymen, nor the terror of di sunio11, nor the weariness after a long Anti-Slavery excitement : it has dispensed with nil these;- nay, the whole contest was on our own soil, to defend the poor little landmark ·we had rc .. treated to long before; -and for all this, the Slave Power has conquered us, just as easily as it conquered us on Texas; ].1:exico, and the compromises of 1850. No wonder that this excitement is turning Whigs and Democrats into Free Soilers, and Free Sailers into disunionists. But this is only the eddy,. after all ; the main current sets the wrong way. The nation is intoxicated and depraved. It takes all the things you count as influential,- all the "spirit of the age," and the "moral sentiment of Cluistendom," and the best eloquence and literature of the time,- to balance the demoralization of a single term of Presidential patronage. Give the offices of the nation to- be controlled by the Slave Power, and I tell you that there is not one in ten, even of professed Anti-Slavery men, who can stand the fire in that furnace of sin ; and there is not a plot so wicked 1\lA f':dACIWSETTS IN 1\IOUH.N\XG. ll 1mt it ·will han ', l ike all its predecessors, a suff-icient majority when the I imc comes. no yoll doiLbt this? Name, if you can, a vi ctory of Freedom, or a dcfCat of the t;bxc ])ower, wit hin twenty years, except on the r ight of petition, :mel C\·en that was only a .recove ry of l o::~t gro und. Do you say; the poli ticians are f:tlse, but the people mark the men who betray them! True, they mark them, but as merchants mark goods, with the cost price, that they may raise the price a little, when they want to sell the same artid<' again. You must go back to the original J\ Ii sl'io ttrj Compromise, if you wi~ h to prove that even ~1a~s<H:hn sctts puni.":>hcs traitors to Freedom, by any severer penalty than a scat on her Suprf'mc ]3cnch. For myscl1~ I do 11ot believe i11 these Anti-ShH•ry spasms of our people, for the same reason that Coleridge diU not believe in ghosts, because I ha\·c seen too many of them myself. I remember when our 2.[assachusetts delegation in Congress, signed a sort of threat that the State ·would withdra-w ii·om the Union if 'l'ex_as came in, but it ne\·er happened. 1 remember the State Conyention at Fancuil ] I all in 184.5, where the lion ancl the lamb lay down together, and Goorge T. Cmtis and John G. '\Vhitticr ·were Secretaries; and the Convention solemnly pronounced the annexation of Texas to be " the overthrow of the Constitution, the bond of the existing Union." T remember how one speaker boasted that if Texas was voted ·in by joint resolution, it might be voted out by the srune. :But somehow, we have JlCver mustered that amount of resolution; and when I hear of State Street petitioning for the repeal of jts own FugitiYc Slave Law, I remember the lesson. For myself, I do not expect to live to sec that law repealed ·by the yotes of politicians at 'V ashington. It can only be |