Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-18
TIVE Lec,urfng Season.

he LecturfBg Season
The result of the Presedintial election of
| 1856 fills the Black Democracy with terror
which they are not able to disguise-terror
for the futuie. The sectional pro slavery par
| ty Is overwhelmed IN eleven of the free states
under an avalanche of ballots from men who
GENE out of the school houses aud lyceums,
and fresh from the reading of the books and
The newspapers OF the country. Four years
I more of increasing methods Of eduea,ion, four
| years more OF books and newspapers, four
years n ore Of lyceums and churches four
| years more OF discussion aud controversy, and
| what will become OF the Black Democracy:
The Southern States may still be preserved,
| by means of laws which impIisou men and
| women who teach negro children to read of
| MODS which drive away Tree minded Profes-
! sors; and OF Postmasters who rifle the mails
Tor anu slavery newspapers but the North
ern mind cannot thus be conquered. We OBJ.
serve, however, that MIR. Buchanan's home
organ, the PennsytUanial. with keen ap.
! probation OF the danger to it's party, has ia
| ken the matter in hand, aud commences the
campaign by an attack upon the ecturing sys-
tenn Here is an article from that paper
"THE LEcrURISG SEAsoN.-Horace Greedy
| is Yankee born aud bred, and has no small
share Of the cuteaess attributed to his coun.
uymen. He is especially aud particularly
shrewd IN the means he adopts to PROPAGATE
his abolition notions. He dislikes going
straight ahead with his free negro principles
boldly emblazoned upon his forehead, and
therefore seeks disguise, deception, aud con-
eealment.
l he "leeturlng season, for two or three
| years, has afforded tn4l scope to his Yankee
cunning and ingenuity knowing that aboli-
tlonism was stencil and nuisance to a large
portion OF the citizens of the North, he hit
upon the cowardiy expedent of deceiying the
| public INTO subscribing their money for the
! propagation OF that which they detested and
aohorred' lie proposed to furnish a list of
lectures IN his paper, the Tribune, so that Ly-
ceutns ana Literary Societies could be furnish.
ca with the genuine article. All this seemed
| plausible ana above board, but there was
MI psnea'p an 'h's seeming
/ tutillSisI oy ms agency were
~ - tile ms nue' we iio
| ~ y ." " 49, W - nat ooou 'ui5 t'
80: 80 a''a'''' "io "Ouiu "o' sct uP'e "
! .l . az " i'l neii ueaso"aoie uoe
M ''au s''he'eu I'i q"ite d uiieien'
/ pup uiPpSe ~ was i'oI !ne en'ef'a a., ,I 10
! "A'Tu .ney hau oten liFHeu' INC oIu OF
100 " y anu Po'ooi sUoSlltu'eu
i,a '4Fo.od yin a,u ~
/ 80 - " my i."ii inns si"'ne'ess
'l' ga. "l'In aS eO eA'ens,,e'y P'acueeu'
..t. s'o ~ Ii'S pepef u -noiluay' tna' the
sou 1uu 70 " it'eih P'eu again. ne gives
AZ, u.s. u tec'ulels lor tine Occurring oea-
sun .r meaIiy an Oh whom are aooiiton ianat-
ics' mere - -, the fhoie trioe OF beechers TO
OeSih WIN, men thefe is Lucy Stone Black
well, cher husbands name is not subpenaed,)
| George w. Curtis, who has recently outsrip-
| ped Mr.. Greeley himself i'll shreking for fee
negroes and Fremont-Dr Elder, whose opin-
| ions need no word of explanation from us
| Parke Goodwin, rockingham, Mrs. Farm
ham. KEY. ). J. May, the cosdutator of w l..
GARRISON hev. theodore Parker and Wendell
! Fhllhps, ana so on to the end OF the alphabet.
II no other lecturesr can be obtained except
such as are recon by Horace Greedy,
the sooner the whole system IS broken up the
Oeuer II VIII De-
| Now If it is true that the people of the
| North have been inveged by Greeley, or any
/ body else, into lyceum halls, for the purpose
| of instilling reasonable anti. slavery ideasin.
to chem, then we admit that the trick ought
to be exposed. But we don't believe there is
any trick about the system. The people who
gs to hear Beecher, Lucy Stone. Curtis.
Greedy, &c. Sc know toerably well what
they are about, and they 90 because they want
to hear just such lectures as these persons de-
liver. The men wLo have sense enough to
appreciate VII ana elOQuence ana learning,
are by great majority on the Fremont side.
just as a large majority of the men who read
newspapers and understand them, are of the
same politics, and just as wherever schools are
most plenty there are fewest members of the
Black brmucfutiO party. There is no trick
ira Wi aoout IT,
why uoes not the FennSytpGn1Gn follow
uieeiey exam PIE ana announce list OF lee
luieis vi 'he otiier sac Oh tne question. CUP"
pose we lry our haha al A. we can ma some
names o. uosiu e[aole elnlhence Let US also
'"'1e 'ii0 i'oet's u Seieo''hs topics lor 'heh'
DAVID X. ATCHIsoN-A Border Rufian
Campaign.
JOHN SLInBL-Ihe Beauties OF Ballot-stuf-
mig
| EkAsTUs BRooKs-Ihe best method of lying
down PRESIDENTIAL candidate.
! JOHN W. FoRNEY-Experlences of Stool
4 pigeon.
| hoBERT y. W1NTHRoP-Uses OF Chiorotorm
IN Fohtlcs'
STEPHEN A DoUeIAs-Climate and topo-
| dents.
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