Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-03-25
Correspondence of the spy3

vetO-message : and i have nursed my wrath
and kept it warm " for two weeks. But why
should deprive the ten thousand readers Of the
Spy of nv valuable correspondence, Just because
you, Messrs. Editors, did not put the same esti-
mate upon my lucubrations that (and, doubt
not, the public) do True mislaid the letter. so
that it did not reach you until you had, editorial
ly, discussed the veto-message. Still, 1 have
more than paternal Partially for the productions
of my pen, and can't dispossess myself of the no
ton, that what is worth my writing, is worth
your printing And,-besides, though you may
have thought the game not worth the candle, we
here know more OF the audacity of Gardner and of
the servility of certain "straight Republicans,
and therefore the message was entitled to more
ottention-snd the result proved that zoe were
right. Even one Of your senators, Mr.. Mixter,
was absent-(dodged y when the vote was taken.
Did ever Massachusetts Senate exhibit itself
SO abject in its servility The resolve had pass
ed unanimously; Gardner insulted the Senate, by
charging it with an "unjust, arbitrary, an un-
constitutional invasion of the privileges of the
executive and then, a Senate, with two thirds of
its members elected as " straight Republicans
without word Of debate, except the five min
utes' milk-and-water, apologize speech of Mr..
Breckenridge, sustained the veto, every line eff
which was impudent an insult as if Gardner
had spit in every one of their faces.
The humiliating feature of the whole is, that
the Senate did not know that they had been in
suited, until three four days after they had en-
dorsed the veto, when Mr.. Hoar of Worcester in
troduced an order for a special committee =" to
consider and report what are the just and proper
limits of legislative power, under the Constitu-
ton, and whether it is expedient for the two
branches to express their opinion concerning the
same" After sleeping ten days upon the mes
sage, they screwed their courage up to an inquiry
into, nobody knew what, at the time the order
was passed. Gardeners message now turns up,
the cat under that meal. II Mr.. Hoar had told
the Senate what he was after, when he introduced
the order, the crack Of the executive whip, from
the West wing, would have brought the Senate
on their knees, and Mr.. Hoar's committee would
have gone down, with the unconstitutional
unjust, and arbitrary resolve.
However, old fogydom need not be alarmed
The committee consists Of Messrs. Hoar, Church
i'll, Haynes, Stone and Greene If Mr.. Hoar's
notions of the /" just and proper limits of legisa-
tive power correspond with his ideas of the |
rights Of jurors, Gardner has not much to fear
from him. Churchill is more than half a jack
Know-Nothing, votes for Andrews, the gallows,
&C., &C., though, row that it is getting popular
to ''pitch into the fourteen years amendment,
he goes against that; Haynes is Gardner's most
ser,ile lickspittle; Stone of Essex elected as
one of the straightest of straight Republicans
!
as Republican, is one of the intensest hunkers
in the Senale, and, though he did notyote for the
veto, lodged When we get anything out of
thsah committee as that-and, by the way, it is
sueS aiece with all the committees appointed by
o. P.nRam, that straight Republican and for
Aur' 'Npot-when that dish of SKINNED milk
eleher 70 Sbrave action, will advise you.
S'Ls y Any i Gardner knew his men, when he
put .noasI esnate he put his To- =
he insulted the clergy of Massachusetts in his
last proclamation Let me repeat the passage:
ssMay those called to minister at Gods altar,
impressed with the truth that national trans
gTessions can only be corrected by removing indi-
vidual sins, abstain from political discussions and
secular considerations, to address the spiritual
wants of the individual heart, that this season,
may not degenerate from holy day to a holt
day"
Pious Pecksnif We are no longer to have a
Public Fast, with public prayers for public sins;
but only closet prayers over "individual SINS
You win soon see published " Gardner on Devo-
tional Exercises on Public Fasting and Prayer
for Private Sins, aud Private Fasting and Prayer
for Public Sins"
Not such were the "prayers and practice of
the fathers. John Adams, in the days of the
Stamp Act, touched the New England heart, in
his appeal =" Let the pulpit delineate the noble
rank man holds among the works of GOD. Let
us hear that, conserving to slavery is sacrili-
gious breach Of trust" And most heartily did
the pulpit respond to Stephen johnson, when he
said ;-t But, Bedford, and GreenYille will be
had in remembrance by Americans, as an abomi-
nation, execration, and curse. This peo-
pie cannot bear it till they have lost the memory
of their dear fathers, and their affection to their
posterity. The Americans will call to mind revolu
ttnny prime pies, such as, where there is right,
there is remedy" Mayhem, when he preach
ed from the text -" would they were even cut
off, which trouble you for, brethren, ye have
been called unto liberty :" and all the people said
"AEen" And Oliver, the stamp officer, resigned,
or he would have been cut off !" and Hutchin-
son and Bernard fed to the castle, SO effectual
were the prayers and practice" of the reverend
clergy of that day. So also preached and prayed
Hopkins and all the popular clergymen Of that
day. And this Gardner, to give effect to his n
soent dictation to the living clergy, outrages the
memory Of the reverend dead.
However, be has overshot the mark. One Of
the most popular clergymen Of one of the lead
ing denominations of Massachusetts, told me that
he s'wouId not read the Governors proclamation
from his pulpit" and it seems to me that no
clergyman, who breaches the gospel of Him who
came to preach deliverance to the captive, and
the opening Of the prison doors to those that are
bound, " can read that proclamation, and preserve
his self-respect. The usage of reading the Gov
errors proclamation, this year, will be far better
honored in the breach than in the observance"
Yea see what e muss the federal Office holders
are in. Freeman is 10 be sustained as Marshal
as you have stated, because, as Peaslee and Hal
lett say, he 9 caught niggerp That Is reason
enough But that is not the only one. The fact
is, there has not been a single applicant for Tho
Offer Of United States Marshal IN Massachusetts
Isn't that something gained that the post is so
infamous, the service 80 revolving, Cand withal,
in the temper Of the people, since the bred Scott
ukase, SO dangerous,) that not a border ruthan
can be found 10 ask for it. Even Whiting
CriswoId Won't take III The world moves