Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-19
GBr 9aiIp Spe,
WEDNESDAY,, AUGUST 10, 1857.
Changed its Tune.

Changed its Tune.
The Richmond Enquirer used to be, next to the
Charleston Mercury, the most ultra, ire-eating
disunion, pro-slayery paper at the South. But
for some cause or other, it has changed its tack,
and stood for some time in an antagonistic atti-
tude to its South Carolina contemporary and for
mer cordial coadjutor in the work of dissolving
the Union For a wonder, the Enquirer, after
expending for years its venom of fire and ven
eeance at the Union. under which the South was
SO terribly oppressed, has now become quite
UniOn.saver. Among other reasons for this
change of policy, the Enquirer of August IL gives
the following:
"The Southern States are at last united in
their opposition to the aggressions of the North
Heretofore our ranks have been divided by party
lines, and insult and assault were provoked by
evidences of the impunity with which they might
be offered and attempted Aboiitonisni has been
encouraged by the belief that the slaveholding
States we're and would continue to be so bigoted
in their partizan prejudices as to leave their in
sttutious unguarded, and.at the mercy Of the
North, while wrangling among themselves 1t
has been their hope that the Southern people
would never relax in their intestine struggles tor
party ascendancy, until they would fall an easy
prey to their Vaccinations and designs And at
one time it really seemed that such would be our
fate But as the danger magniied, and the enc
nv advanced, the Southern people became arOus-
ed to the importance of the impending emergen-
cy, and the necessity of immediate and united
action. Exploded principles were abandoned,
party prejudices were discarded, trivial questions
of political differences were forgotten, and the
slaveholding States, with single exception, all
rallied together around the standard of Democra.
cy, to save the Union and protect their insttu-
tions in the dark hour of distIust and danger.
The assailants of the South were beaten by this
unit cd ~ fla aln rni4h
Grafton of the National Democrats of the North.
The danger still threatens; the storm cloud still
lowers, and the South is recruiting the ranks of
the Democracy at every election.
The disposition of the Southern people to COM
promise and parley with the North, not un-
frequently exhibited in other days, was one great
reason for an apprehension of our ultimate ruin.
But it is longer manifest. We know our
rights, and it would seem at last that we mean to
maintain them.
The slaveholding States are no longer receding
slowly, and endeavoring 10 parry the blow of an
advancing enemy. They are giving thrust for
thrust, and CALAMITY pressing forward in the fray,
not only defending what they have, but demand
ing the restoration Of what they have lost. Abo-
litionism musters mighty host, but it is confined
to section; the Democratic party counts, we
may say, the whole South, and in the North it
retains its organization and gives battle to the
enemy in every State. The principles Of Democ-
TacY are triumphant in the councils of the nation
and in the hearts of the people. Fanaticisuf is
giving way before them, and we cannot but look
hopefully to the future
The substance of which is, that as the govern.
ment of the Union, by union of the Democratic
party with the whole South, may, in the opinion
of the Enquirer, be made a subservent tool to
advance the objects of the slavery propagandists,
therefore the federal Union should be adhered to.
at all hazards.
In this connection, we cannot, a matter of
justice, do less than correct slight error which
appeared in purported quotation from the En-
Quirer, in the Spy and some other papers, short
time since. The Enquirer is represented as hay-
ing Said
For our own part. we have no hesitation in
expressing the opinion that every Governor who
has been sent to Kanzas has been instructed to
act aotth especial Partially to the South
slight variation in one word accidentally
made BY the journal from which we copied the
extract, essentially varies its meaning. The fol-
lowing is the form of the sentence as it originally
appeared in the columns of the Enquirer, as we
understand by the Bay State:
For our own part, we have, no hesitation in
expressing the opinion, that, had every Governor
who has been sent to Kanzas, been instructed to
act with especial Partially to the South" the
final result, as to ultimate freedom or slavery in
Kanzas, would not have been a whit different
&c. The Enquirer seemed to be impressed with
so exalted confidence in the faithfulness of
Gov. Walker to the slave interest, and so buoyant
hope in the pro-slavery tendency of things gem
orally, under the present administration, that
there was no need of special instructions to its
agents.