Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-11
1.-THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS"
This noticeable event in the history of the
country, affords our Democratic friends pleas
ant occasion to make patriotic speeches, and
eat unimpeachable dinners. We do not per-
ceive that their temper is at all changed, or
their serene confidence in the stability of our
institutions at all disturbed by the fact that
the Union is at this moment assailed by half
of their own party, with constantly accumulat-
ing vrulence and that the cry of DlsUNIoN is
as cheap and common OH the floor Of Congress
as it has been at No. q Cornhill for the last
dozen years. Their equanimity may be re-
garded as satisfactory evidence that the raw
ings of their Southern friends are received at
a great discount, and will soon be driven out
of the market altogether.
The jackson Democratic Club in Boston
celebrated the forty-fifth anniversary of 1.-THE
battle, Monday evening, by a banquet at the
Revere House. The flag was suitably dis
played. The eagle held his accustomed place
of honor at the feast. Festoons of gay and
suggestive colors were pendant from the
ceiling. "The Union, it must and shall be
preserved" over-arched the bust of the patron
of the feast His favorite and traditional eX
preston of purpose, "By the Eternal p the
judicious decorator had cautiously forgotten
to place among the other emblems of his
character Perhaps because it would suggest
how, once upon a time, he crushed the work
of nulifcation-a work in which the demo-
cratic party of the country is at this day most
industriously engaged. The appointments in
general, however, were appropriately made,
and the memory of the old hero was honored
as well as hundred hungry and thirsty men,
eating and drinking from high moral sense of
duty, could honor it.
The sentiment which prevailed there is
worthy of more than trivial notice. 1t was,
to be sure, with slight reservation, a gross and
vulgar libel upon the fame and character of
Massachusetts. The malignant oracles of the
Democracy did their utmost to show that their
chronic hatred had not suffered abatement.
That is not alarming. We have become &C.
customed to it. Itwould be suspicious, if they
were, in any unguarded moment, to utter an
expression of respect, or Of good feeling for
their own State. The following toast, which
is somewhat exuberant in its STYLE having
been presented late in the evening, illustrates
the political purpose and meaning Of the cele-
bratian
The Black Republican Pa,ty-Its policy a
myth, its influence deception, its tendency dis.
union. The bright sun of Democracy will dis
pei the cloud and cause it vanish like the tur-
bid exhalations of early morn.
Whether it would be nearer the truth to
denounce these men as blunderers, or as con-
spirators with treason, we shall not try to deter
mine. Certain it is, that at time when the
air is full Of reasonable voices, hundred
men, claiming to be the especial champions of
the Union, have met and separated without
denouncing one Of them, or even expressing
sympathy with them. That model Democrat,
Mr.. Iverson, says: "The south can take care
of herself. We will be prepared to defend
ourselves, even at the sacrifice of the Union"
Col. Wright Immediately denounces the Black
Republicans. Senator Clay of Alabama de-
CldiSo thde Dy luC hcllOn Oh Inelf
legislatures and conventions, the southern
states, except three, have pledged themselves
to dissolve the Union, upon the prohibition
of slavery in the territories" Ben. T. Hallett
at once applies his offensive denunciations to
the Black Republicans. Senator Gwin of
California exclaims "There is another reason
why the southern states should prepare for
dissolution Of the Union the republican party
has triumphed in almost every state on the
Atlantic borders" And all the less dstin-
guished lights Of the democracy grow dim
for the sake of rebuking the Black Repub-
lcans.
Every threat, every intimation, every i'm
piled contingency Of general breaking up of
the confederacy has been made by Democrats
in good and regular standing, always and still
fellowshipped by the Democrats who mould
the sentiment and control the counsels of the
party in Massachusetts. The audacity of the
men who shout over their cups at the Revere
House, that there is treason in the sentiments
which are cherished in the inmost hearts
Of nnetenths of their fellow citizens is extra
ordinary. Whateverelse may be dispelled with
the exhalations of the early morn" we are
certain that such marvellous perversity from
truth and the proper order of things cannot
stay long upon the earth.