Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-16
70 AnvERTIsERs .
ECCENTRIC MOVEMENTS IN THE SLAVE
STATES


that their charm has departed. At the ap
proach of every genuine struggle the cry has
been made that if anything is accomplished
against the insufferable pretensions of slave
drivers the Union would be dissolved; and our
sick ravens at home have repeated the echoes,
of that false alarm till many worthy people
have, for the time, believed it to be true. But
there is such an instructive aversion to being
cheated twice in the same way, that it is safe
to assume the present alarm, like all others of
its kind, will end in nothing.
AT public dinner in Cheraw, S. c., John
Mcqueen, the successor of Preston S. Brooks
In Congress, made speech last fall, which
has recently sought the light through the ap-
proving columns of the Charleston Mercury
After deploring the great degradation of the
Democratic party in the free States, he says:
81 think it more likely that the party is so
demoralized at the North that nothing will pre-
vent the election of Black Republican. 1t
behoves US, therefore, to look this subject in
the face like men, and begin to determine
what we shall do when we are required to sur
render the government into his or his foul
minions' hands. Shall we deliver into his
hands our entire treasure, our army, our navy,
and our all, and wait in humble submission un-
til he strikes the first blow Will you wait
until he distributes his hundred thousand of
fees, and posts his soldiers in every section of
our beloved South, and increase his army to
suppress what he may call your oUn insurrec-
ton, that you may be shot or hung if you
speak of your rights Or will you, like men
conscious of your own power, before you are
shorn of your strength, resist, and resist
promptly, and save yourselves and posterty
from that ignominy and degradation that will
make your memory hated by all that is manly
in the civilized world! Would any one of
you, in the presence of an enemy who had
avowed his determination to destroy you, dis
arm yourself and deliver up your weapons that
he might plunge them into your heart and
stain even the garments of the issue of your
loin, whom you had cravenly fettered and led
up to meet your inglorious doom Or would
you strike whilst you were armed, and had the
acknowledged power to PROSTATE your enemy
and protect and vindicate everything most dear
to you 2"
The address closes with the following ex-
plosion q trust in God that no ingenuity of
party or men shall cause the South to so for
get herself, and the memory of her ancestors,
as well as the duty we owe to posterity, whose
trustees we are, as to submit for a moment to
the inauguration of black republican Presi-
dent; for if she does, in my judgment, the
time may have passed forever when she can
extricate herself from ruin, degradation, and
the very fangs of fiendsP'
The Democracy of Lowndes county, Mis-
sissippi, held convention on the 18th inst, at
xvh IN, NJ n
forward for denomination, and where he ex-
pressed the positive conviction that Mississippi
should resist the Inauguration of Black Re-
publican President Resolutions declaring
that to be ''the true course of the South" in
structing the delegates to bring the subject be-.
fore the State Convention, and nominating
Jefferson Davis as "the first choice of the De-
mocracy of LowndeS" for the Presidency,
were unanimously adopted.
In response to these sentiments the Mssiss-
language
owe cannot permit the occasion to pass
without expressing our warm approval of the
great idea embodied in the resolutions which
were adopted by a recent meeting of the
the spirit that should move over the whole
South There may well be differences of
opinion about the details of movement for
dissolution of the contederacy in the event of
the election of black republican to the Pres
ldency but true patriots will all agree that a
separation will be indispensable to the future
safety and independence of the southern
States. One impulse must animate the whole
"As the earth in spring listens to the voice of
nature, and without the appearance of effort,
bursts forth to life in perfect harmony" so must
the people of the South obey the promptings
of patriotism which will call them to bold and
manly resistance. There must be no dissent
ing voice. A black republican administration,
organized with no other aim than the overthrow
OF the institutions of the Southern States, will
not represent union, but bondage to which
the people of the assailcd sovereignties can
never submit without degradation and the loss
of their birthright of freedom"
Meanwhile a conspiracy, undoubtedly much
exaggerated in the following extract, is
on foot in Alabama, looking toward a Sc
cession from the Union. The Mobile Mercury
exposes the secret thus:
We are credibly informed that conferences
have already been held by leading patriotic
gentleman in this city, of all parties, and the
plans OF Southern organization have been set
on foot, and almost matured, preparatory to
action. We earnestly hope the good work
may go on, and speedily. The country, we
repeat, is ripe for the movement; and, if ju-
diciousy inaugurated, it will sweep over the
land with force that no opposition will be
able to check. We therefore caution our
friends In the country, everywhere, to be pre-
pared for it, and to keep themselves free from
all entanglng alliances which may hinder them
from joining in it untrammelled.
Let us not be understood as quoting these
demonstrations as representatives of South
ern opinion. 1t is only the iujudicious and
indiscreet who expectorate so freely upon
such dangerous topics. The rest, what
ever they may think, act upon the
proverb, "unspeakable is the wisdom of
silence" Yet they are made in the name,
and under the sanction of the dominent party
in the country, and are not rebuked or depre-
Gated from one extremity to the other Where
are the mourners who filed the air with Ia.
mentations, when Mr.. Banks limited at the re-
mote contingency of dsunionl Where are
the indignant journalists whose finely strung
sensibilities were shiyered when Mr. Seward
repeated the truism that freedom and slavery
were irreconcilably hostilel What they
thought they had discovered then and de.
nounced as heresy fraught with instant dan.
ger, Is harmless enthusiasm in the fiery spirits
OF Lowndes County, and the patriotic blood
. Of Whippy Swamp.
lnb OlL MAhkET.-During the present