and pound-keepers for the black cattle of the slaveholding States, within the limits and according to the fences of the old United States. Between that year and this, Anno Domini 1854, those slaveholders have broken down the old boundaries, and opened new. fields of an unknown and indefinite extent. They have multiplied their black cattle by millions; and are every day increasing their numbers, and extending their cattle-field into the wilderness. Under these circumstances, are we bound to be their fielddrivers and pound-keepers any longer? Answer me, people of Massachusetts. Are you the sons of the men of 1776? or do you "lack gall to make oppression bitter"? I would willingly dwell upon this topic and others which are in my mind, but I have already occupied more than my proportion of this debate. I have pointed out your burthen. I have shown you that it is insupportable. I shall be asked, how shall we get rid of it? I answer, it is not for a private individual to point the path which a State is to pursue to cast off an insupportable burthen: it belongs to the constituted authorities of that State. But this I will say, that if the people of Massachusetts adopt, in the spirit of their fathers, as one man, solemnly the resolve that they will no longer submit to this burthen, and will call upon the free States to concur in, and carry into effect, this resolution, the burthen will be cast off, the fugitive-slave clause obliterated, not only without the dissolution, but with a newly acquired strength to the Union. BY EBEN GREENOUGH SCOTT, DELIVERED AT THE Wyoming · Monument, JULY THIRD, 1893, ON THE OCCASION OF THE OBSERVANCE OF THE Anniversary of the Battle and Massacre, TOGETHER With the Order of Exercises of the Day. PRINTED FOR THE WYOMING COMMEMORATIVE ASSOCIATION. RECORD PRINT, W.-B |