The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-08-23

demned itself to serve the deyil and then Horace
Greeley, and such sylogsts would have had prece-
dent measueless and immortal for their propositions of
moral anarchy.
So much for the major proposition, for the mi
'h Wrong to reject the good ace might secure, because
IRE cannot along c another good perhaps Of great
or consequence.
Every body will agree that it is wrong TO reject any
good per if offered for their acceptance, but every
knows that it is often absolutely necessary to re-
nounce much that is good, because of some i'll with
which it may have unfortunately become alloyed Pure
water is good to the thirsty man, and perhaps would
be wrong for such to reject it, when placed before hm
but drop of Prussc acid might be concealed in the
draught, and then it would be death to drink. The
principle of liberty is dear to the freeman and he would
do wrong if he rejected the operation of that principle
in any spot Of EARTH but liberty might be presented for
his acceptance, alloyed with base compromise
and then it would be his duty, as true man. to hur it
back from him poison. Beneath apparent truth, the
greatest of asehoods often concealed and no man
knows this better than certain editor Men of preence
have often imposed upon mankind the dIest evils un
der the innocentappearances. The wooden horse
innocent piece of wood ever was burnt or wor-
shipped by the shores of the Adriaic, but LAGOON
knew better He knew that it Nas wooden horse as
we'll as any body did, but he knew also, that it might
contain Greeks with swords and bucklers and other
elements of destruction. He knew that it was false
hood and snare though all his people believed it to
be sacred is often right, then, reject the greatest
good secure, because that good may be allowed
with evil. 1t may not be enough indeed to scare
man of expedency; but nevertheless it will be suf
cient to make the man of principle reject the richest
personal advantages that might accrue to him from his
''easy virtue"
And this is the gist and drift of Mr.. G.'s the
sis, that, in politics, there is no conscience
That whatever he pases to assume is the best thing
he dds the best thing do; and that is wrong
to live sink with principle even to Tartarus while
he can, like political mudark, pick up the best things
possible from amongst the mud on the shores of Stvx
In short, the political faith embodied in this syogism
amounts to thisFirst, that is right to do whatever
you please, and what you please to consider is all that
you can do, is right That Washington might have
rightly supposed, Arnold and Gorgey did, that the
best thing he could do was, betray his country and
then betake himself to drinking and smoking to-
bacco, supplied to him by his countrys enemies the
price of his treason And second that il an insoent
debtor, who you dollar, superciiousy offers YOU
cent, and insists that you shall have no more then
you are to make humble acknowledgment of your de-
sire to settle differences present him with discharge
and pocket the copper.
It'll such doctrine this that has ro.4lAr4d tho
'0u" "o5f0sSfre, domlneerlng, and insolent. Such
spanelism has, by the law of duality produced the
. buiylsm that hectors the floor of Congress- and
shakes the savewhip in the face of northern Repre
sentatives 1t is this oily morality that has invited the
South to insult the North and has told the chyalrv
the sky-rocket chivary = of Texas that we
could not afford 10 put their smoke out with little
cold water firmly administered, because it was more
erpedien to be bullied and insuted Until for this
miserable principle of Jesuitism there is substituted in
our Northern politics the principle of eternal Justice,
this nation will always present the two humiliang as
poets, OF despotic passionate South and parasite
, North; of King and Polonus, pastry cook and
dough- But we have faith that the sentiment Of bis
nation will reject this miserable ideal of political mo-
raity' and that it will prefer to stand by truth, with all
It's trials and struggles, unto death, as our fathers
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