Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-03
European Correspondence OF the spy,

IoNDUS, Dec. los low
We have been passing through all the phases Of
an agitation here hide less violent and exciting than
that which the Fugitive Slave Law has stirred in
your country. The Pope's bull creating batch Of
Catholic Bishops, and appointing them to English
Sees-has provoked John Bulls ire beyond all
bounds, and meetings have been held from John
O'Groat's House TIC Lands End, 10 protest against
even the appearance Of Popsh progress in Protestant
England As in all violent outbreaks of public opn-
ion, many foolish things have been said and done in
defence Of that which needed neither violence nor
passion to del--d t-burning eiigies of the Pope in
the presence of excited multitudes, and mock pro-
cessions of Romish absurdes, have brought painful
recolIections of the old ntolerant ''No Fopery big
otry, which in bye gone days filled the streets of
London with fire and blood Good Joseph Surge
made noble effort to stem the current, at the great
Birmingham meeting on Wednesday, which was at
tended by eight or ten thousand persons 1t was
the stormiest meeting ever held in Birmingham, and
the efforts of Joseph Surge and his friends
cesslu in preventing the adoption of the intended adj
dress to the Queen. The ground taken by J. Surge
and most consistent dissenters being, that whilst they
would firmly oppose all attempts at Papal encroach-
ment, they equally protest against the claims and
usurpations of our own State Church--and deny the
Queens right, equally with the Pope's, to assume
the headship of the Church.
Fugitive Slaves are arriving fast in this country
have seen several of them, and confess, l would
rather shake hands With them, than with the men
whose cruel enactments have driven them from your
shores. What a curious anomaly, that whilst thou
sands of our poverty stricken sons of industry
flying from wealthy, busy, gorgeous England, because
they cannot get bread in the midst ofour abundance;
thousands of Gods children are flying from ''lhe
reest nation upon the earth because there, it is
crime to be free.
There is a deep and growing sympathy felt here,
with those who have made so noble stand on your
side against the cruel requirements of the Fugitive
Bill. l do not know that we can manifest it more
efficiently, than by popuarizing the demand for free
grown cotton-and | tell you that the people re-
spond to this call with an enthusiasm that should
the cottonocracy of the South to take anxious
counsel to the stability Of their hold upon the Eng
fish market. Every where, Henry Garnett is recev
ed with hearty welcomes-his meetings are crowd
ed, free labor associations are formed, and country
diapers writing earnestly to the wholesale houses
in Manchester, for free labor goods. We shall soon
have wholesale free labor warehouse opened in
London, where nothing will be sold that has been
contaminated with compulsory labor. This ware
house will be confined exclusively to the supply Of
cotton goods, and will be a stlong inducement for adj
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cultivation ofcotton. Every bale they can send us
will meet with ready sale.
If the stake at issue were not so tremendous one
would not forbear laughing heartily at the ridiculous
posture In which the great powers of Europe have
been placing themselves during the last two months
-arming to the very teeth, pipe-clay and drill, in
cessantly at work 10 convert hundreds of thousands
of honest laborers into idle and mschievous soldiery
threats and counter threats-marches and retreats
yes, manlfestly all parties afraid to fight.
1t reminds one of two boys quarrelling in the
streets-they get very angry, very abusive they put
their fists in each others faces-one says, syou only
dare to hit me % the other replies, emo you strike
f irst'-they have such wholesome dread of the
first blowfor they have keen sense of the account
they will have to render up at home as the price of
dsfigured face or a torn dress.
Behind all this threatening display of uniforms and
flashing steel-there are the Il.omened spectres of
the National Exchequers crying out ''Vho's to pay
Who's to pay'"
There will be no fighting large scale-and as
the peoples eyes became gradually opened 10 the
fact that governments no longer dare to 90 to war
they will naturally ask themselves the question if
armies can no longer be used, need they be any long
er maintained? " And as our gentle dove wings its
way among the homes of our continental brethren
bearing its olive leaves Of peace and goodwill we
may reasonably hope that all faith IN armed defanccs
will die out, and that the farce.of these military dis
plays and threatenngs will no longer disturb AID
! disgrace Europe.
1851 dawns upon us with many hopeful signs and
pressages-the building for the great exhibition pro-
ceeds toward completion with marvellous rapidly.
1t is the greatest triumph Of English Enterprise en-
ergy, and skl-it is the noblest achievement of mod
ern civilization, and when filed, as it will soon be
with the treasures Of the worlds industry, il will
form the grandest temple of brotherhood that has
u ever risen TO bless and dignity mankind.
am yours truly,
T.
I ga HYMN OF MY OWN CoNposING Abn,, .