Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-29
Republican Ticket for 1860.
The Southern RebeIIlou.


Pennsylvania. made speech, short time since,
in the Senate, on the Presidents message, in
which, as personal friend of Mr.. Buchanan, and
sort Of exponent of his policy, he guardedlY ex.
pressed himself in favor of freedom in KanzasS
and intimatsd an opinion that Mr.. Buchanan pre-
ferred to see it free State, and that the Pres-
dent elect sympsthies were not with the slavery
extensionists or extremists OF the South. As a
specimen of the manner in which so bold and au-
daeious avowal of opinion has been received in
that section of the Unun where the new PTesi-
dent received his greatest numerical strength at
the polls, we give few quotations from the lead
ing organ of the new administration at the South,
the Richmond Enquirer, on that point, warning
Mr.. Buchanan against pursuing a policy SO an
tagonistic to that on the strength of his being
committed to which, by the Cincinnati platform,
the South went in for him in November. 1t con-
siders the policy foreshadowed by Senator Bigler,
swfully rebelious against what the South bar
gained for at Cincinnati. The Enquirer says
:, Mr. Buchanan finds that circumstances have
shifted his position and he will be compelled to
change his policy accordingly. It is the merest
madness to dream now Of efecting compromise
between the aggressive policy Of the North and
conservative
And the President elect will commit fatal folly
ii he thinks to organize his administration upon
any other principle than that of an avowed and
inAexible support of the rights and institutions of
the slaveholdiEg States. He is who is not with
us is against US and the South cannot attach it
self to an administration which occupies neutral
ground, without descending from its own lofty
and impregnable position"
That is, Mr.. Buchanan must kneel down and
worship the great Moloch Of slavery, and become
an avowed supporter F." in his policy of the Pc
cuiar " institutions of the slaveholding States"
or he cannot be supported by the South. For
this end adds the Enquirer, " it is necessary
that the executive patronage and authority should
be so employed as to strengthen the hands of our
friends and to confound the schemes of our enc
miles, That is, he must give all the important
positions under his administration to the un.
doubted champions of slavery the
FIRE. eaters, secessionists, and nuIifers. of the
Governor Wise, Preston S. Brooks, and David r.
A,chison school, or the South will bolt from his
support This is said in advance, doubtless, in
order to Tighten old Buck, whom they know to
be very timorous man, completely in the hands
of his friends.
Again, referring to the speech of Senator Big
Ter, and to an article in the Philadelphia Penn.
syluaniar, the organ of Mr.. Buchanan, which pa
per has OF late spoken in complimentary terms Of
Col. Benton, the Enquirer says
"If by the extremists Of the South Mr Big
Ter refers only to the small school Of statesman
who proposed the revival of the African slave
trade and the immediate organization Of TIE slave
States into an independent republic, then this ce
claration is equally harmless and supeIerog story
But, if we are to understand that Mr. Buchanan
means to avert his countenonce from all who stand
Appa the rights af ihs SQpth With the resolution
are to understand that the Cabinet are to pursue
= trimming policy, and to be controlled by the
counsels Of men who affect the distine ion Of ex-
elusive mnderation--if we are to understand that
any impediment is to be opposed to the legitimate
expansion OF slavery in accordance with the prin-
ciples of the Kanzas- Nebraska act, then is Sena-
tor Bigler's speech distinct declaration of war
against an irresistible majority Of the Southern
Democracy.
In harmony with this subdued tone of the SEN
atoT, who is understood to enjoy Mr.. Buchanan's
intimate confidence, we observe portentous ar
tice in the paper which is reported to be the spe
cial organ OF his opinions. The Pennsylvania
recently STARTLED the country with a pinegyric on
Thomas Hart Benton. Can it be possible, at once
exclaims every considerable friend of Mr.. Buchan-
an in the South, that the apostate Benton-apos-
tate in double sense, both from his party and his
secton-can it be possible that he is to be restor
ed to full fellowship with the Democracy, and to
be re iustated in power by the incoming Admin
istration: Is it credible that Mr.. Buchanan
intends to bestow his confidence upon one so IN.
worthy oftrust ? Is there danger that the impen-
itentveteran of the crusade against slavery, is to
enjoy the favor of an administration upon which
the South relies for the support of its rights ;"
Col. Benton, true Southron as he is, having rep
resented slaveholdns State in the Senate ofthe
United States for thirty years, yet had dared to
give his vigorous opposition to the repeal Of the
Missouri compromise, and 20 express himself
against the spread of slavery into flee territory,
by governmental action, and for that, notwith-
standing old Billions undoubted fidelity to slave.
~ as an element o. State rights, and his nyeter-
ate antpathy to everything savoring of abolition.
ism, the great Missourian is forbidden place in
the private counsels of the President elect, on
pain of the latter's accommodation from South
ern support!
:" II Mr.. Buchanan says the Enquirer, is to
avert his countenance from the slavery exten
sionists, if "his Cabinet are to pursue a trim
ming policy, and to be controlled by the counsels
of men who affect the distinction of exclu
sive moderation if "any impediment is of
fered to the legitimate expansion Of slavery in ae
cordance with the principles Of the Kanzas-Ne
braska act, then is there declaration of wa
against an irresistible msjority of the Southern
Democracy" and bloody times will surely follow
Gov. Wise and Gen. Quattlebum will be out in al
their msjesty-Preston S. Brooks will march t,
Washington, at the head Of the Southern sqad
rons, and sieze upon the national archives
there, and a separate Southern confederac,
will be erected at once, whose capital shall be a
Charleston or Richmond. Gov. Adams will havr
the African slave trade restored and there shall
be no more resistance to the onward spread o
slavery southwark, forever.