Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-04-21
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WEDNESDAY,, APRIL 81. 1878.

s,aw.,s :. OPINION. 49, Sigma" the refined
and digni6ed octosenarian correspondent Of the
Boston Transcript makes the following chsrac-
teristic comments on the late speech Of Hon. Iii
Tbaver. in q letter addressed to him through the
columns of that paper;
10 The Hon Ell Taayer. N. C.
ST--rhr Boston Daily Advertiser, of April 8,
contain d copy OF your speech, delivered IN the
House Ut Representatives 81 the United States,
on IN. 25th dsy Of March, 1858 In this speech
Of yours, arAong many passages Of an extraordi-
nary character, / mad the following
Where would have been tie eformers Of the
sixteenth century, where the purtans in the
sevenie nth. and the patriots in the eighteen b,
but for Leo the Tenth Charles the First. and
George the Third But Charles the First st
his head. and George the Third his colonles, for
less t. ranBy than has ueen practlSed upon me
peuple Of Kanzas by the two successors of Nil
lard Fillmore II we thank God for patriots, we
should also thank Him ioI tyrahts; Tor what
great achievements have pa riots ever made with
cut the stimulus OF tyranny Without Wee, VI
tue it's II must be insipid and, without wicked
aud mean men there could be no heroes. The
brave man rejoces in the opposition of the enc
ny OF his rights. Wicked and mean men are tue
stepping ones on which the god and great as
cend to Heaven and immortal fame.
These mIscreants, cursed both by God and man,
suoserve important interests. The sacred vol
ume, which unfolds US the life and suHeringS
Of the Saviour OF men, makes record also OF
Ptntms PLATE and Judas Is ,ariot, as necessary
agencies in that great redemption.
SO will denounse no man WAC has fought
against freedom in Kanzts, as entirely useless IN
the grand result. But what a team to draw the
chariot Of freedom Aichison, and Strlngfellow
and John Calhoun; and the two successors OF
Millard Fillmore to lift the wheels!'
This, certainly. Is extraordinary language to be
uttered by member of the House OF Represen-
m he Hnor of Cnupress-in the face OF
the world-and under the very nose OF the chiet
magistrate OF the nation! If it had been vocIf
Grated, on the stump, in the county OF Worcester
or IN any other, BY some rash and reckless aSpi
rant for political distinction, i might have pass
ed off as mere puff of political vapor. and found
it's way into the receptacle Of things lost upon
earth Bat 1t comes not thus Your charact-r
TO- ability and honesty is thoroughly established
and II is not to be supposed that you would mus
apply the actual cautery to the two successors oi
Willard Fillmore, unless YOU truly believed that
there something about them which could on
ly be purged by IRE There is something ALSO
mtelt exeathedral in your manner of dealing forth
denunciati0n against tRe rulers OF the people
En-, of the race OF lthamar, whose name you
beaI and who was Judge over ISRAEL for forty
years, could not have spoken with greater ar o.
authority.
When you venture 10 compare the Two Gees
sorS Of Mr.. Fillmore to Pontius PLATE and Judas
l,carint, you leave US in great perplexity as to
tue precise dpplcdlon o. your Stshuaiu W
NJ ,ssrs Pierce and Buchan (which is Plate
and which is Iscsriot-or whether you may not
have designed to compound the two characters.
and give equal qu nifty to each of the success
sOrS
| have read your speech, Mr., Eli Thayer,
three, and with increasing admiration, Tor the
speakers puwers OF sarcasm, and eleafness Of az
gu nentation-for his genuine patriotism aud
glorio Is independence | cannot come all the
wa 90 Wash ngton, to thank you, ia person. but,
as humble citizsnl II Massachusetts,, whs Is un
willing TO be debt to any man. when he can
help II, thank you from the bottom OF my heart,
anu if had you ~ the hand this moment, you
would recognize the cordial grasp Of New Eng
lander SIGMA.
We think Mr.. ThayeE may well be parduhedf for
the severity of some portions of his speech, when
We take into account its nhpr admirable features,
as admitted by Sigma, especially since the dis
tingulshed flnctionaries alluded TO so well de-
served the criticism they got. AS to the point
whether President Pierce represented Ponlius Ri
late or Judas Iscariot, it is entirely immaeralto
tn case. He behtte1 either, and so did Fillmore.