Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-12-25
Another Unien Saver.

Wendell Holmes, the poet-lecturer. 1t is as
tonishing, that. with all his literary laurels
upon his brow, the Doctor should, at this late
day, destroy them all by inconsiderately
pIunaing into the filthy depths of hunkerism.
But SO it is. Hereafteslet him be classed with
those Doctors of Divinity who are SO ready
and anxious to sell their own mothers into
slavery, to " save the Union" Any hte-
rary associations which shall engage the
services of the Deweys, the Lords, the Coxes'
the Oliver Wendell Holmes, the Nehemiah
Adamses, or other Doctors Of that stamp, IN
divinity or medicine, must be hard pushed to
get lecturers.
DR.. Holmes, in his Grafton on Friday last,
before the New England Society Of New York,
as seen by the report, advocated the contin-
uance of the present relations between the
white and black races at the South, as the
conclusion of his moral and political medita-
tons. He makes God respector of persons
by saying that 50 our sympathies should be
bestowed upon our own color first. Whatever
we could do to win the masters from inficting
hardships upon their slaves, let us do it = he
condescendisglg admits, but declares that tive
should hold alliance with the superior race.
The white man must be the master" If
this is not the concentrated essence of po-.
litical saackery and hunkerism, we know not
what is.
{" The white man must be the master" and
the only limit to his mastery appears to be, in
DIR. Holiness view, the extent to which we
can uis the stakeholder from inficting too
great shardships" upon his chatteis.
The doctor then goes on in lugubrious tones
to bemoan the portentous fact, that 60 on the
glorious anniversary of our national indie
pendence-the day when men from all parts
of our country come together and declare
the truths contained in that document the
Declaration of Independencel--w see men
making the question Of Slavery the subject
of their orations.''
Wonderful, indeed and greatly to be de-
plored, that on that sacred day when the mil
lions of this great republic meet to read and
discuss the principles of the Declaration of
American Independence, which declares LIB
ERTY the inalienabe birthright Of all, any
one should SO far wander from the theme as
to think of making the least application of the
principles Of that document to the present
timei DR.. Holmes sees, in the thousand lit.
tie assemblies called spicnics," convened on
each returning fourth of July in every village
Of the free States, where LIBERTY" is chant
ed from the lips of innocent children, " SER
penis coiing themselves around the neck of
the Union y The " little children" whom
Christ blessed, singing hymns of Freedom,
are transformed, in the diseased and distort-
ed imagination Of DR.. Holmes, into s'coiling
serpents" seeking the destruction of the con-
federacy. A cold water bath might relieve
his feyerish brain.
mIHlstereu ms Pu7zncsu Hr rne 'cTUsr
ton, in the shape of an "appeal to his audi
tory to preserve the Union" by swallowing
all the worse than allopathic nostrums, of
which he had delivered himself on that occa-
sion. But the misses which he received, even
from "a New York audience, showed the con-
tempt in which they held snch stuff.
GENERAL CAss's ORGAN ON SHANNoN.-The
Detroit Free Press, General Cass's home or
gan, and the leading Democratic paper in
Michigan, after publishing the petition of the
people of Kanzas TO the President for the re-
lnoval of Governor Shannon, says:-
Accounts from Kanzas are so conflicting
ana exaggerated that 1t Is difficult to deter
Garss :. va tne cono1cs OF
e'e.' .ns1 Ihete Is good ground OF complaint
tSst ts late ;os1t;a s.SS = ~ no aouDs
bic to inconsiderate haste Of wilfui DESIGN On
his part. There was ne need of calling tor
armed voiun'eers,and for United States troops,
ci.; ns lnasIer u the array ABOUT the land
issuing an inAaumatorv nrocIamat;oo. ' Even q,
though there might have been the revolt
governor shannon professed to suppose, he
y W. r,',. .; auUpseu worse ponce 70 quel
preston that the right man Is not in the rio ,
place at the head Of affairain Kanzas."
No doubt all the sensible Democrats at the
0.Ai' = sney ailo"su themselves 10 express
s. o"n oOns.csiOnS' "ouiu emoooy tneir
'A''N."'s ~ sun stronger language tnan sle