Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-14


The only argument that can be conjured up by
the Boston Post and other hunkies of the admin
istration, against the Republican party, is its pre-
tended "disunon" tendency Our principles are
correct enough, say they, but they roll up their
eyes in feigned horror when we exhibit our fealty
toboth "Liberty and Union" by our declared de-
termination to take the only course which can
prevent the dissolution of the Confederacy, by
making it worth preserving-by making it what
it was intended to be by its trainers, the Wash
ingtons, the Jeffersons, the Franklins and the
Adamses, a place of refuge from oppression, in
stead Of land of chains, and manacles, and fet-
tiers, to be forged anew for human limbs
Our principles are right, say these BUCCANEERS,
of course, for they themselves profess to be in
favor of liberty, only they say we are out of the
way in Illuminating such "disunion" ideas. Lib
erty, they own, is desirable thing, but as it can
be preserved only by disruption of the Union,
chains and slavery are to be preferred to anarchy
or breaking up of the Union, which they hypo-
critically charge we are aiming to accomplish.
Now, let us see who are the disunionists-
whether the Republicans are not the most loyal
body of men to be found in the Countrywide true
conservatives Of. the Union-and whether the up
holders of Pierce and the advocates of Buchanan
not the real disunionsts, and favorers of that
policy which, if not checked, must soon termi-
nate in bringing to an end our present faif fabric
of government.
Washington, in his Farewell Address, warned
his counrymen against the evils of sectional
policy-a policy like that which has been upheld
b1pf oF
Pierce. viz. the catering to the views and preiu-
dices of particular section of the confederacy,
to the interests of few hundred thousand Slave
owners, against the interests of the twenty mil
lions of non -slayeholding freemen. 1t is the
reckless pursuance of policy like this which
has brought the present administration to the
detestable position it occupies before the people,
and James Buchanan, by endorsing it, and merg-
ing his ideality in the sectional pro-savery plat
form erected for him at Cincinnati has rendered
himself odious before the people to the same OBJ
noxious extent, and will share the same fate
meted out by his party, to his New Hampshire
competitor at Cincinnati.
Let us examine little into the sayings and
doings Of some of the more prominent support.
ers of the Buckaneer ticket As South Carolina
looms up into peculiar prominence at this time
as a staunch upholder of democratic" policy
we will commence with that State, and then pro
coed to other sections. Senator Butler occupy
ing the high position Of Chairman Of the Judi
ciary Committee in that "demoaaic" body, tn,
United States Senate, says, among other declar
ations Of like nature, 81 do not make the saIva
sior of the Unsoa the paramount question" 1t il
the extension of slavery into the Territories b.
government aid, which is "the paramount ques
ton with him; and unless he get that he is 70
''disunion;" and he isreckoned sound, judieiou
democratic the right stripe, rampant for Buchan
an and Breckenridge, by whose election he aims f
secure the furtherance of his policy. What care
he for the Union? Quotations of a similar pur
port might be made from speeches Of Senate
Mason of Virginia. Says Senator Yulee Of Flor
ida. "for my part, am ready to proceed to ex
IRENE measures, eoen to the dissolution of the In
ion." Says Senator Brown of Mississippi, 81
slavery is restricted by Congressional enactmen
from the Territories, it will raise a storm tina
will speep aloay this Union, AND PRAY Coz
DEvouTLY 1T WILL DO So" This Senate
Brown made a rampant speech in favor of Blu
chanan a short time ago, in the Senate.
Said Isaac e. Morse, Democratic Representative
in Congress from Louisiana, in 1850, now a sup
porter Of Buchanan -" The Southern man VIII
will stand up and say that he is for the Union
NOW and forever, is more dangerous to the peopl
be represents, than those who are in open hostil
ity fthe bill for the admission Of California b
trammelled with preamble declaring the terri
tory free, am sOtliiag to diss0loethe Union"
Said Mr.. Stanton, Democratic Representative
in Congress from Tennessee -" When the vii
mot proviso is adopted, and the South arc read
20 aoaik ose Of TIE Union"
Said Mr.. Coleaitt Of Geo. -" II the wilmt
proviso should pass, in any form, will introduce
bill for the dissoidion Of the Union"
Said Mr.. Meade Of Virginia =" you exclude
US q. e. slave property from the territory, an
not willing 10 submit We intend to have III,
land, psaceably II zoe can, .toyci5iy II zoe must
Said Mr.. Melville Of Mississippi -" The PEG.
pie OF the South know their rights, and will main
tain them az all hazards, sDea should dtswaion
result. The South must defend their rights, at
the expense Of blood"
Rccollect. these are all solemn and deliberate
declarations ofgood " national Democrats sup.