Massachusetts Democracy

Gov. Morton, in his message to the L"cr? !aturc puts forih some 110M0 sentiment;?. IIis liieory is rijjlit, ivo pliall 8Be whethpr Iris practise wili correspond. VVe extract the folj O'.villjr. "Never before was the indnstry of man. i throughotit 'Jjc worhl, rovvarded with such ' universal plentifnlness. Yet we have reason I to i'enr tha! priv.it in nnd di-trcss nnvr were jrenter nr tnore wiJe!y spread. Whilo Bnitib I are 'aiirdened with superfinities, rmny nthersi re pininff 'n wnt. lnd idhüt some. are re - 1 jmcinginfrccdnnuolhers bow vnder Ihe op., I pressor's yoke nr rrlvclnntly submit tñ {Jie pot's chahi. Can eitsli a ttáte ofrivU snrtety i be in harmony ioith the ?' of H'im who creaied vs uil of onejleshand mfbd) Do-s i f nol cry aloud ƒ) mrlioration? And althong-h ! j n!l tliese evils d not c.vist in their most j crmvr.r.cd fortn in tliis cotmtry, jet even here, ! inonrown favored Commonwpallh, wn fme ; abundant p'nco that the grent Chrisfmn proppt. 'Wiaisoerer ye would that men phoultj do uiitu yon, d.i ye even so to liiom.' j n.id the oorroíporuiiiifr political doctrine of' the i oqimlitv of man, are nolduly an! pra'clícállV 'J'iie ft'ext pröflfrnph in fhe Wcífsflsre wc ; cotntncnil to the specinl Mttrntinn of ihc j Cónvlnston (S C) hyuch Commitfèe. It is quitr as itjprfhy 6f the flumes ns those nbolij ii'-n dociïmonts wlrich tltoe vijjilaht conscrj vators s'.ole 'Vom (he Post Office, and humt I in the strre's in 1835 - an-I it emanales from a far mo'e dèrigetöiiB so-tcp: "Theidmlityoflhc. humnn mee and tlw . fra'ernily f mttnkind, nrn the basis oftlie i fjreat reiiiüus and politie;:! principie ofe qiiality. On this the philanthropist and the t s'.atpiinaii founct their hopes of progres?1 ive hmnanity. Ati. mkn arm F.quAt. befork i líoD. And tliat slate oí civil society tihirh ,vro.vi;iurcs the ncarce'. to grneral cquulidj tnlo'ngrltsniiiGcrJg, ismastmomdtive of con lenlnient and nappines?: r''üe that which déparlfi most wïüely from if, is ihC' proríuctive of evil paísions'and wrelchedness. VWieir thcre are i-oino very riob, thcre v ill bc majiy very poor. And thosc civil inslitntions whicn have thegreatest tei:dency !o prevent or miti-' jiratelhc extremes of condilions are the best 1 adapied to secure tlio iiigli cbj-'ct for wliich Government is instituted - the greatesti ness ot" the w liólo." It wil] bo observad tliat Uiis pira.gr aph reI piuüatos t!;e common notion of tho " contad me ■ and ha ppincss' of the slavéfi. "Thc r'ght of tven man lo a valer, and an cqual voice in thc government over kim i a a natural and innale rigld. - II docsnot depend vpon Üie occidnit of birth, or thc pnssesion ofproprri. It is nol ihc zrant oj his JellviO'iiuin b-.it'the mmtdiate gift of God, who erra led in his oten image, all men,.1' Tl tho head and heiiri which could n'tor those sublime truths, wül voluntan!; a'd in surrendeririír a free ciuzcn of MaseecbusetteJ to iho Virginia task-masters, tint tliey mny b!ot &om lii brow the m.-ue of God and : stamp SLAVK there, hen do that headandj lioari belongf to 6omethinr iiore or Jessthnjii a MAN. The rgbts of.GEOH.Gfi LATi-j MKIlare the immediate gift of God; nnd, in i the !aiinrnne ot Marrus Morton, "EVERYl ATTf'MPTKD I?sVAS1()N OF TI1EAJ SMOULD HE L00K1CI) UPON WITH : INOKÏ.AT1ÜN and i'UMSIIED VV1TII SEVERITV '