Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-07
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POPULAR RETRIBUTIoN.-Som when
weary with the presentation of what we be-
lieve TO be truth, to an unresponsiye public
mind, and with combating wickedness in
high places, we feel very much like sympa-
thlzing with Elijah, when he sought the cave,
and turned hermit from fear and disgust.
But, after all, it is a cowardly resort, and it
would not take an inquiry from Heaven to
show us that we were sneaking, or to prove
to us what all history teaches viz that there
can always be found seven thousand men who
have not bowed the knee to Baal. For three
years. the administration of Gov Gardner de.
bauched the morals and the politics of Massa-
chusetts. The people found it out at last, and
wiped him out as it would grease-spot Like
grease-spot the stain will stay, however, for
many years. Mayor Wood of New York
abused the people and his own power from
the first. If half of that which is told of him
De true, it would be infectious to breathe the
AR In his company. The seven thousand are
at last aroused, and, pitting themselves
against the combined rascality of the city. and
against the influence of the national admins.
trauon, they wipe him out, and decency is
again IN the ascendant.
1here Is encouragement in facts like these.
The people move slowly. Seeds do not ger
inmate IN night, save those of species of
gourd, now, be believe, extinct. Trees do not
rise IN day Facts grow but slowly In the
popular apprehension, and ideas make increase
at leisure in the aame soil. But when. at
last, the public mind gets hold of thing
when the popular reason and moral sense are
freely aroused, the good element will prevail.
and a triumph viii result whichit does ones
heart good to contemplate. In the long run,
we believe that history proves that ir this
country rascality is in the minority.
In these facts, rest the hopes Of the repub-
lic' There has been long fight between dirt
and decency in the politics of the country.
Through Misrepresentation, through fear,
through threatening, through party drill,
through indifference, dirt has thus far carried
OH the palm of victory. But dirt does not
know how to perpetuate victory. Dirt is
blind. Dirt is devilish and so carries on its
schemes from bad to worse, from worse to
worst-that the better sense of the people
their Judgment and conscience becomes
aroused, and political revolution must be
the result. Decency almost won the victory
IN the last Presidential campaign. Dirt car
rled the day only to make its destruction the
more certain and thorough. 1t was in iniqui-
ty up to Its eyes before the election. 1t is
now submerged, and with its projected slave
trade, its Kanzas, its Utah, its fllibustering,
and its internal quarrels, is rapidly opening
the eyes of the people. Its momentum in sin
is SO great that it cannot stop, and with pro-
gress which it cannot of itself resist, it is de-
stroying itself, and placing weapons in the
hands of decsncy with which to let out its
last drop of vitality.
SO, when we see such men as Gardner in
Massachusetts, and Wood in New York,
whipped out, and laid on the shelf, we say
there is hope for the republic. The reserve
corps Of deceney will take care of things in the
end. Slavery cannot always rule this coun-
try. After the people have been sufficiently
outraged, and have come to see that they are
in the hands Of monster when they really
see (what it seems strange that they have not
already seen,) that their constitution is made
the chart of oppression, their government a
despotism, and their nationalpo a national
heresy, they will rally and win for deceney
great victory. So may it be Springfield
Republican,
PARCHMENT FROM PAPER.-The days of
sheepskin, as a material for writing on, seem
to be numbered, and it is probable, too, thar
it will be degraded from its dignity of the
drum-head. Paper makers have succeeded
in making from rags n very exact imitation of
parchment; but still better imitation has
been produced almost by accident. 1t has
been found that common unsized paper, if
immersed in a solution of sulphuric acid
three parts Of water to one of acid-and suf.
tered to remain there three minutes, becomes
when taken out and well washed in cold
water, almost exactly like parchment. 1t
shrinks somewhat but it is increased fully
eight fold in strength, while no change in its
,1on A r az.
men in this city, professional and amateur,
have been experimenting on it, and with the
most astonishing results. 1t has been brought
before the Academy Of Natural Sciences and
the Franklin Institute, and the accomplished
gentlemen of those institutions confess that
they are wholly unable to account for the
change that is produced in the paper BY this
very simple process. The only thing known
is that the change takes place, and that the
commonest kind Of paper acquires all the
properties Of parchment. Care must be taken
in its preparation, and the paper before dry
ing must be ironed, or calendered; but moth.
in else is necessary. Philadelphia Bulletin.
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Two OR THREE FROM PRENTIoE.-"A CO.
temporary says there are two sides to every
question: If there were four, or six, or eight,
that's, ifevery question were quadrangle or
nexagon, or an octagon, he would be on all
sides one after another. Whatever may be
said as to his fairness, nobody can Justly
charge him with being satisfied to take one.
sided view of things
Asmall locofoco editor says, that, il occa-
sion arise, we shall find him good at bitin6
and scratching. He is more accommodating
than most vermin. They generally bite, and
let you scratch for yourself.
a South Carolina paper says that the SPUR
rels are emigrating in great numbers from that
State. 1t seems that the South Carolina
squirrels are smarter than the South Carolina
men.