Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-02-05
WORCESTER DAILY SPY:
,uEnNEspAY. FEBRuARY 5, 1851.
For the Spy.
Union Meetings.


In tho carefully prepared addresses read and recied
NJ the unconstitutional meeting in FaneuI Hail. Nov
q. 1885, remarkable coincidence of opinion on one
subject runs through them ala strange hailucina'on
if they really believe their own siatemen's-'hat ue
bGc mind is in state of ineuse excitement ana iear
full connections tending directly to treason ana reVou
ton.
From recent defeat at the State elections, or some
cher ,lan,,v thew see med to be seized with mono
,o,a ,b.t the ecoalon'' are sending in irtters the
c,oe;ors fabric of our confederaed Union; and with
soemnity becoming themselves and the occasion' they
Summon the ghosts Of Capt. Shays nsurgent army oil
SO. as warning and to all rebel agltaors'
The GOOD old Doctor anxiously asks, sis there any
one DESTROYS of returning to the disunon OF l7oo IL
there is, cannot 90 with him. l go for the whole
Constitution and the Union the best security Tor the
liberties of the people, For these stand here.
Mr.B r. Curtis next led of in gallant STYLE 81
understand we have come here consider particu-
lar measures ofgovernment, but to assert that we haze
government; not to determine whether this or that
law be wise Or not but to declare that there is law, and
its duties and power; not to consult whether this or
that course ofpocy is beneficial to our country but to
say that hare country, and intend to Keep 1t sale.
These are the objects for which understand we have,
as American citizens here met, and for my own part,
cannot think we have come together too soon."
ssThere is very excited state of the public mind all
over the country ''Many good men, among us with
very tender conscences, but not very sound practical
judgments apparently not all aware of the direction
in which they moving, the results to which they
hole fo he a
doves and feeling no doubt, quite they wise
as serpents, V-zF- HAVE RUSHED INTO THIS
CONTEST.'' 'sOthers who love excitment or notori-
ETY., influence and power, who are smartng under
disappointment, have found here field of promise.
Others still, whose daily food is contention, and whose
daily drink is the water of STRIFE have rushed hh
into QUARREL and brought with hem temper and feel
ings which have been justly characterized malignant
philanthvophy.'' "Whe influencing more less all
these and thousands OF Others who have suffered them
selves to be led into this excitement and lending
tain dignity and power the bad passions which
enlisted, is that deep and neradcable love of hui
man liberty, which beats every throb of every heart
of the true sons of New England" s'In my humble
Judgment it is state of things calling for the sober and
careful consideration of good citizens of all parties in
the State, and for the public expression Of well
sdered, temperate, but fixed opinion hereoh. els it
not time that those who love their country and respect
the laws should together and sobery ponder these
things?"
Mr.. Hallet sag, Snow the threatened modification
comes from Massachusetts,
Mr.. Bradford says, "Unhappily we have an enemy
Within and in vy nidst; the spirit of disunion and
INSTRUMENTATION to the laws. There are persons among
us, who doing all they destroy our glorious
Union. They would enter the temple of Liberty raised
by the hands of our orefahers after SO many years OF
labor and sacrifice, throw down the pillars which sup
port it and scatter the broken fragments to the Winds
Mr.. Choate was in the fog, and his vision less
clear than his fellow he had witnessed, with his
eyes, the rebellion and treason, Sin our midst
which they saw. Mr.. Choate had not attended, with
the other gentlemen, the mysterious rappngs and could
only see men trees walking he had, evidently, no
learnt his lesson before coming on to the STAGE He
says, 81 concur then, fellow citizens, in expressing my
sincere convictions that the Union is in extreme peril
this day. And what do mean by this will tell
you where think the danger lies. 1t is, that while
the people sleep, politicians and phanhropists of the
legislative ha--the stump, and the press-will talk
duu hIite us Ott Ol our OnlOn Mf. OnOdte mad not
been mcsmeized enough the fanatics ''throwng
down the pillars in the temple of liberty
Now every body knows that all the clamor and blus-
ter about secession comes from the South and not the
North II the Union is in danger, the danger is at that
end oft; and it by just such demonstrations as these
"Unon meetings" make; by false alarms, exagger-
atoms and misrepresentation the of things here
that Juror Of excitement is kept upat the South Such
newspapers as the Daily Advertiser, Boston Courier
and New York Herald, have done more, in one year,
by misrepr senting Northern sentiment than all the ab
clifton speeches and rapers in twenty years. The Cour
rer of Dec. 27h contains letter from Savannah Ga
dated Dec. lsth in which the writer says, sOne thing
uSat this distance very strangely, that is, that
the Northern people suffer religious fanatcism to enter
into the negro politics question deeply l cannot
imagine how congregation can sit under the weekly
preaching against the sin of slavery to the exclusion Of
all other claims Of the decaiogue upon the sinner. am
quite repe many seriously inclined people,
and drive them from the sanctuary infdelity' The
Courier publishes the letter, from which the above is
an extract without word of correction If our hunk
erpapers were half as prompt in correcting misappe-
tensions they in disseminating error, complaints
like the above would be less pregnant z.
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