Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-25
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Squat, like a toad, close 10 The ear Of Eve,


had glided into the Executive Mansion, that
serpent could not have Kissed into the Pres
ldenrs ear words more skilfully adapted to
express the precise and opposite of truth. Sir,
these accusations against as intelligent and
patriotic men as ever rallied around the STAN
dard of freedom, are untruthful and malig-
nant, showing that the shafts hurled in the
conflict through which we have Just passed
ranked in his bosom.
Senators express their SURPRISE that we, on
this side Of the chamber, should utter the in
dignation which men who have any spirit
any sense of honor, should feel, at these ma.
hgnant and false charges of the Chief Magis-
trate OF the Republic. Sir, he has undertaken
to arraign US before the world, as making pre-
tensions to one line of policy when we intend
to follow another. He has charged us with
engaging in revolutionary movements. He
has charged US with having entered upon
line of policy that has no possible outlet but
civil war and disunion. He has charged us
with thus acting in the full knowledge that
our path leads ever ravaged fields, burning
cities, and slaughtered populations. He has
charged US with undermining the Constitu-
ton and laws of our country; with arragning
the people Of one section against the Others,
learning them to stand face to face as enemies
Sir, we should meet the scorn and contempt
of all honorable men if we did not utter the
feelings, which these unjust. untruthful and
malignant accusations upon the people, whose
representatives we are, excite in our hearts.
To US, TO the people he has so bitterly assail-
ed, these expressions of the Presidents per-
sonal opinion are of very little Importance.
The Neao Hampshire Patriot, the Boston Post,
and the Washington Union, are little calculate
ed to convey TO the Executive that exact, full,
at vi oh lta
his personal opinions to any consideration.
These charges, however, derive some little i'm
portance from his high position.
There is one member of his Cabinet whose
hand some think they see in this message,
who knows full well the character of this pro-
duction-I mean the learned Attorney Gem
eral His vast acquisitions and treless indus
try, his early associations and correspondence
with the abolitionists of New England, all
teach him that these accusations against the
people of the Moth are without foundation
For years he was in correspondence with the
leading abolitionists of the North. l remem-
Der, sir, the public letter penned in night dress,
dictated by the poet Whittier, which he wrote
to secure abolition votes. remember, too,
sir, that when Wise made the insolent threat
that they would introduce slavery into the
North, he indignantly answered that before
they could introduce slavery into the North,
her cities and villages would be leyelled in
the dust, SO that squadrons Of cavalry could
gallop over them unimpeded as the steeds
sweep over the boundless prairies of the West.
He should have restrained the pen which Ii.
bells more than one hundred thousand sons Of
his native State, whose only offence is that
they have resolved that slavery shall never be
introduced into the North. Sir, these asper-
sions o. the Executive upon Northern men
will recoil upon his own head. He will 60
out of power with the stern condemnation Of
hundreds of thousands who were Instrument
al in elevating him to that lofty position from
which he has hurled his envenomed shafts.
Tho first charge is that associations have
been formed of persons pretending to seek the
restriction of slavery in the territories but who
desire to interfere with slavery in the States.
This does not apply to the Garrison Adolf
tionists--they do not pretend to act infavor of
the restriction Of slavery in the Territories
the Gerrit Smith abolitionists do not make that
pretenson- These words apply to the Re-
publican party of the United States-a party
that has given a larger vote in the Free North
by nearly one hundred and fifty thousand than
any party ever gave there before--a vote
within few thousand as large as Taylor re-
ceived in lS4S, or Scott in 1852, in the whole
Union. VEST ,te0 "a. es $1,000
But the Senator from Ohio lMr PuRh) uu-
dertook to break this charge the other day. by
telling US on this side Of the chamber, that II
our positions were as we stated them to be,
that the President could not have intended
this attack upon us, that he meant it for the
little organization of aboitionists in the North.
l was surprised that the Senator should have
invented that excuse for the Chief Magistrate.
tell the Senator, aud tell, other Senators,
that this excuse will not do, The President
intended to arraign the electors who voted for
Fremont; his words do not apply tothe Gar
rison AbolitioniatS, or to that class Of Radical
Abolitionists who support Gerrit Smith for the
Presidency. Sir,Seuators who have undertaken
to sustain or rather to apologisefo for this extra.
ordinarycourso Of the President, have condemn
cd tho discussion Of tho slsvsEyqusstian during