Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-26
n DAIlsY- sPY~THURsDAY, FEBRUARY 49, 1851

Fans. II is better so. 1t will make honest
men, at last, to have two sides, and no whip
rows.
We call our readers TO witness, that no
amount Of prudence, no care, or Cancellation,
Will save man from abuse or help him for.
ward with wickedness. Garrison and Phil.
lips have squared their guns. and thrown shot
and shell right into the system Of slavery, and
abuse Is all they have got. DR.. Dewey has
put the mlldest powder into his silver gun,
and made siken wadding to cover dough
bullet He aimed the dangerous instrument
Tar above their heads, and with great delicaey
pulled the trigger TIE South has replied
with good round discharge Of shot that had
no sham in them, and the good man is per-
iectly amazed at his way of doing things -
When viii men learn thatmanliness, fearless
ness and downright, straight forward action
is the safest, and in the end the most sure of
PBAcEi
The error with DR.. D., and the whole school
which he represents, is, an unregulated SYM
pathy that does not help, but prevents, deci-
sion. In every-eause and its antagonis; side,
they see same truth. They desire, for the
sakeot fairness and truth, not to deny merit.
They stand between irreconcilable opposites,
drawn toward each, and drawn away from
each. Their sympathy is with the fragments
OF truth, and not with the scope and direction
Of truth warning against evil. Tell them that
the Great Dismal Swamp is pest and a curse,
and they will half admit 1t but replv that
after all, many flowers grow there and some
fruit bearing vines, and these incidental spots
OF good neutralize the repulsion Of all the
evil They live among active men in a state
OF moral reyerie. but not of active and con-
elusive choice.
Our Revolution produced just such men,
They saw good on both sides. There was good
in liberty, and there was good in strong gov
ernments. They thought oppression was
wicked, and rebellion too was wicked, and so
they hung between the two without strength
to choose either.
This IS the phenomenon of our day. The
nation is eonvused with conflict second to
hone since the dawn of Christianity. Right
in the path OF Christianity lies an evil, that
in our day, and in our circumstances, is a
greater hlndrance tothe Gospel than would be
the whole Papacy and the whole kingdom Of
Atheism united, carrying with it the despot.
ism OF the one and the goddess license of the
other. Right in the path of our civilization
lies slough deep as perdition The shadows
OF the past are coming back, aud the spirit Of
three hundred years is seeking to regain to
tyranny on this continent all that Christianity
has wrested from them over the other
There are those who know instinctivey
that there can be no agreements here. There
are two sides and no middle ground in real
life, whatever there may be with moral rev.
erlsts. But there are men who yibrate be-
tween the two-cautious, timid, conscien
tlous, anxious to be true, Bwayed bv the
sense of truth both ways, and they have not
full hearts for either. They break down in
their gentle attractions and sympathies, like
ajpdge that cries to both sides OF plea, and
ends by deciding that lie wishes that the case
had been little different from what it is
1t is not question Of whether all evil has
not incidental good whether all bad does
not clothe itself with some compensation
The sensitive Greek, called toIchoose between
the aesthetic mythology of deathenism and
the humble spirituality of the Gospel, had
thousand times more chances for hesitation
than We have between Christ and the Belial
ofourday
Ii men are so constituted as not to be fitted
for such warfare, they should court privacy.
If they attempt to act as leaders, they must
not be surprised if both sides reject rhem. Let
them go down into their berths. While the
storm lasts, letthem not put their hand on the
wheel. Only rugged men belong to the strife
OF the elements, and the tug for mastery at
the wheel lone party, determined to steer
by the chart of selishness ; and the other par
ty determined that the age shall be guided by
the pass of God s word II