Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-26

mention of it but because we are not yet
through with the darkness and struggle,
Half OF the night is before us. And the mis-
takes OF the past must be set up as beacons
that they may not be committed again, and
that men may not follow into the ditch,
again, counsels and leaders, that have already
swamped them once
When the Kanzas troubles came upon us,
the eyes CT thousands were opened. DR..
Dewey, in a mild and very gentle manner,
gave his views, II was this that enraged his
Southern friends. They regarded him as
traitor They understood his previous course,
as abolitionists did, as favorable to the South.
When he changed his voice, they regarded it
as going over to the other side For the time
has come, when men must be for or against
slavery. The lines are drawn. Neither side
wants luke-warm friends. The poisonous
days of evasions and compromises are gone
That was blessed wind, even if 1t were the
wind OF battle, that drove away the miasma
which set so many thousand men mid way
between liberty and slavery, burning or shiy-
erlng by turns. chat ering aud shaking, til
er hot nor cold, but lukewarm and nauseous.
And DR.. Dewey has only experienced the
Apocalyptc prophecy, happily from the OPP
pos'te quarter. He ought to be as glad as
ever Jonah was, that at length the South has
cast him forth
He says:
"May be permitted to say, that the imp1tidon
WED by The whole tenor Of this letter sye hard meas
ure ne. have firmly fessf the mot extreme
measures Of the Northern abo'itionists, api ia
gu nee, my been butt and by-word ia their
pamphlets, speeches, aud public meetirgs good
mtny years In my Elm Tree Address equally resisted
the extreme Of inon Of the Suth and the consequence
N let err Does such look tule.servng,
trimming to tut any party people? should have
said that night appeared Re simple uncacuatng
sincerity a. least. Moderate poodle orally
quiet and silent; it would have BEEN good worldly cy
for me to have been 50; The great central
boiy seems to stand ia it. strength. and dom
sire ches out its hands to help its fiens happens
any rate, that as l sought, l have got
much praise IN this slavery agtatonffom any quarter
We accept the plea. We exonerate the
Doctor from trimming or time serving. He
meant well, but was not wise enough to do
well. He could have employed his judgment
for his own guidance, remained in private,
and have been unframed But when he as
sumed to lead others, and led them into
quicksands, it is rot enough to say, :" | did
not mean any ham," Effects follow good
causes, not good intentions. He says he
sought no praise, and got none. We fear this
Is prophecy as well as a record.
Again
swell, them here s'and-between two fres--an1 If
am burnt up, do not say it muol matter. But if
were, think the credit ex ended to her martyrdoms
flplsh honesty am not on this slavery
question did not like Mr. Sumnr's peech-I abhorred
the repriss It net with thuu1ht Mrs. Stowe did ia-
justice to the Shareholders charac in net depicting
higher form Of il than st Clair Mr.. Shel5Y-f1f there
is hisher-but tiink her genius noble and fine did
for Mr. Fremont dil think his atecede nts
his civic experience usied it, did not like the array
OF hostility 70 the South whieh his party presented; hut
believed him tn be q man Of ugh and worth.
What rogue, peasant slave h. to say these
things SO smooth and pleasant co both partes must
be expecting oiieeI ought TO be regarded! See hun
crw on has knees TO the Sou hi the Northern writer
see him crawl Oh his knees u the North the South
Why. il must be incredible monster, han
Oalban and Trincuo, to crawl opposite ways
time"
The simplicity of this extract is as charm
ing as anything in Goldsmilh's Vicar The
doctor has much yet to learn of the expert
enee of being abused Why, my dear sir.
there are men who for thirty years have been
dubbed in every bough. as if they had been
chestnut trees near village schools and the
prickly nature of that which clubs brought
down, did remind one sometimes of chestnut
burs-the nuts excellent, but the covering
somewhat displeasing to tender fingers But
10 thu paragraph we say, by his own show
ing, here is a good and gentle man, utterly
uulitted to NEEDLE in such affairs as guide,
but who is possessed with an idea that he has
misiion-and going from side toside to per-
formit, his innocent inexperience brings upon
him kicks and cuffs from some, jeers and
! jbes from others and he is hustled out of
the way by earnest men that have no time
to tribe with moral cobwebs and iris hued
rainb6ws painted, not on the rear Of depgrt-
ing stirms, but on the front Of coming one ss
ga nan who takes his stand between two parties-op
pons both leaning to neither, however unpopular weak
or bsud it be thought and all the for that-shoud
be allowed, at least the credit Of independence and sin
genessf heart. do profess know what is polite
on tne fhe fr,,lh 7
to txress it. And think would be just as well to
let suchsimple pers ms have place in the woi to say
their sR, unframed If not, then the martyrdou Of
moderation for me-"
SurEy. Most truly. So kind and simple
a maIas is here described, ought to have
place IN the void" The only question is.
aohat ilaces Ought such a simple and un.
politicperson to assume that it is his place to
| go beilre his generation and teach and lead
them 1t was the doing of this that has
made Ihe trouble.
an tbs wild conf ct aud roar of orinioas unclaimed
ard IT pose a. the present day they were be-
ore toeeye thst either of Extremes. whether
iupoitf, or gop Or sociology, is altogether rish or
atsehf wrongs stil less that is just either parry
to chargthe ohr, and everybody else differing from It.
with odf or unworthy motives. In this conviction ex
| pect TO He and die hear always of the magnificent
Lutaertseldom of the mid tdeancthon; and think
sdness Of the one, as vel as the Ieniy Of
| biYs US was tue Illu NelancthOn, then,
so diferent from Luther in aim, in effort. in
INSTRUMENT? Luther was trumpet, and Me-
lancqon flute, but they both blew the same
meloy, and to tue same beats OF time What
| has ths, then, to do with DR.. Dewey's trou-
bes, which are, that he got the wrong tune,
and layed it out of timer He was PLAYING
S0utIin furious dscord with the North and |
thenle played North in furious dlscord with |
the Suth, aud neither Of them liked it, and |
told IN so. requesting him, if he must play, |
TO ply by himself. and not as a band leader |
"Bq believe the time will yet come when lenity for
Dearae. patience, moderation, will nave place in the
stee8f mankind little Thought Of no. when 1t wi he
seen " qulres more strength and magnanimity to
take " place than the extreme right or the extreme left
In the fue Of opinion. God forbid should be- when
our 9e ciyz ton is trod len under foot of contend
ing paies' out even thal time may Come"
Od thing is very certain, that the middle
of thPattle of Bunker Hill was no time for
sermfs about peace, nor hymns chanting
mod@tion. But all this descant OF peace is
false root and branch. A man may talk
low, hd yet talk right. A man need not be
vehee to be earnest. We ask of no man
viuleee or uproar. If it be his nature to act
throSh rild measures, so let him act. That
Wild we demand is, that action be explicit,
diree and right. And we artaign the chap
lainsf the Fugitive slave Law, not because
theyIere kind and gentle, in voice and man
ner, tut because they were on wrong ground
urgi1 false principles, and sowing dragons
teetHn the millest way, with sweet smiles
and acefIl gestures. One more extract -
81 not then, as 1 never did, hold any extreme
pro,nbn this slavery question: aud IL is only by mis-.