The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-09-14
WORCESTER:
WEDNESDAY,. SEPT. IA, 1881.


onenders. During the progress of this at
fair, scenes have been enacted of more
savage and blood-thirsty character, than
any which have occurred in this country
since its early conflicts with the savages,
with the single exception of Gen. Jackson's
barharous massacre of the Indians, after he
had gotten them into his power, at the Horse
Shoe Bend. The blacks made an indis-
criminate slaughter of all who fell within
their reach, without distinction of age or
sex, and the whites, on their part, shot down
the tlacks, even when prisoners complete
ly within their power, and frequently on
suspicion only, with as little conjunction
or remorse, as they would destroy ven
omous reptile or ferocious wild beast.
These barbarltles Indicate callousness of
heart, which could have been produced only
by long familiarity with scenes of cruelty
and oppressien-a callousness and des-
peration OF character, which give fearful
omen, of future conflicts. compared with
which, that now past, is but the merest
child's play. The consciousness of insecu-
rlty and the dread of renewed troubles, are
apparent in every thing we see from the vi
clnity of the late rising, even in those arti-
cles which are intended to quiet the fears
of the community. So apparent are these
fears, that, in papers of high standing, the
atrocious threat has been made and repeat
ed, that another rising, like that in South
nmpten, shall be the signal for the indis-
criminate destruction of the whole African
race in the Southern Country A more
blood thirsty idea never entered into the
imagination of the veriest despot that ever
lived. To give over n whole race of more
than two millions of human beings, to butch
cry and destruction, and ali for the fault of
few misguided and deuded individuals,
would be an act of fiend-like enormity with
out its parallel in the history of modern
times.
If such feelings are INDUCED on the
part of the whites, how much stronger
must those which are now smothered and
concealed IN the bosom Of the blacks. who
consider themselves as deeply injured and
oppressed by being deprived of that fir
dom which they are taught SO highly to
prize, even by their masters, themselves,
whenever they speak in reference to the
Greeks, the Poles, or the oppressed of any
other country than our own? With such
feelings, then, as are mutually3 cherished,
and with such dispositions as have been
be anticipated, and when the evil day shall
come, terrible will be the coming thereof,
MARYLAND ELECTION. Great Victory.
The Election which is to determine the po-
litical character of the Senate of Maryland,
for the next three years, has just terminal
ed, and the result is the choice of % Ma
tional Republican electors, and ii Jackso-
mans. These electors assemble and choose
a Senate; so that the entire Senate of the
State, for three years to come, will be Anti
Jacksonian.
Insurance. We are informed that on
the representation by WIN. Stowei, of his
late loss by fire, TO the officers of the Mutu-
al Insurance Company, they, without hesita-
ton, agreed to pay the amount Of insurance
thereon. We make this statement to cor
rect the many erroneous reports in circula-
ton relating to this subject.
In our account, last week, Of the as
sault by Wakefield upon Livermore, we
stated, upon the information we had recev-
ed, that "the parties were both in state
of inebrity at the time, from the use of ar
dent spirits" We are now informed, on
good authority, that the remark, so far as it
applied TO Lircrmore, was incorrect.
The following communication from an
old Revolutionary Soldier, who thinks that
injustice has been done him by the govern
ment, has been on hand some time. Itw
supposed that the most appropriate time for
its publication would be short time pre-
vious to the meeting of Congress.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS SPY
When the army of the Revolution had suffered
every thing which human nature is capable of, to
ward off the tyranny of Great Britain and Law the
foundation for Columbia to build her glory upon,
VIC flattered ourselves that we should be happy I'M
der the government ofour own choice little think
ing that what we had done, would make life bur-
then in old age. Had those who held the regns of
government called upon all those whe served three
years, or during the war, and divided among them
what money there was in the Treasury mot other
wise appropriately all would have been satisfied
utinstead ofthat, they have granted pensions to
some, and withheld them from others of equal
claim, and, IT we consume dutiabe article, we re-
plenish their Golfers This needs no comment
The President, seeing that in such situation we
could net be so happy as Virginia Slaves. Test no
time to recommend revision of the Pension Law
bill flor the relief Of certain soldiers not reduced
to pauPers) passed the House by large maj ority,
but was lost in the Senate. 1t is said that the obi
um falls upon the States but what will the
bystander says Of such Senators, who have all the
advantages Of the revolution without single effort
and now, while enjoying all the rights and priyileg-
es of free and independent people, arc not even
willing to reward (when it costs them nothing but
doing as they would be done BY, on exchange eff
crcumstances) those who took the field when hog
tilities commenced, and did not lay down their
arms until Great Britain was compelled to acknow-
edge our independence, and we are now reduced
from causes out Of their power to control. Such
rulers are not worthy of our confidence. BY their
actions they glory in making unhappy those to
whom they owe their elevation. May that God
who maketh the rolling pillows sleep, soften the
adamantine hearts Of all those VINO oppose the al
iteration of the Pension Law, to such degree as
to enable the Secretary of War to do justice to the
few,--ycs very few, survivors of the Army of the
Revolution. JOSIAH BOWERS.
Lancaster March IL, 1881.
He says they have lost their reputation, if any
but that is not the worst Of it, they have robbed
human nature of some Of its brightest ornaments.
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