Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-26
1Qlortester QaiIg Spg.


den, South Cdoitnd, u. S. Senator
My VALUED FRIEND: What is all this fuss
about in your State One would think that
the North was going to visit her with Thunder
and bludgeons, and fire and birthstone and
tar and teathers-indeed, that we were about
to retaliate upon the Palmetto State all the in.
suits, and injuries, and abuses and wrongs we
nave endured from her Tor the last fifteen
years. On the contrary, all here is us placid
as a Summer lake. The people know very
little OF what is going on in South Carolina.
and care less
Our boys here have been in the habit. on
gala days. OF marching about the streets with
cockades IN their hats ; but it is an amusement
dd not know men resortad TO until | saw the
account from your State A few men parad-
ing the streets with blue cockades must pre-.
sent truly imposing and sanguinary aspect
why did not our WideAwakeS think OF The
cockades
My most honorable friend you threaten
Secession What for l can't discover
the cause, the mode, or the benefit. You say
1t is because we have elected Lincoln for Pres
ldent. Wen, L suppose we had as good right
to elect Lincoln as you had to vote for Breck
lnrldge. | believe we have intringed no law
or right. His election therefore, can furnish
no just cause OF ofense. And how do YOU
propose TO do it Wearing cockades is
harmless matter-sOmewh eccentric to be
sure, but quite harmless. | would suggest
also, the threecornered hats of Revolutionary
notoriety. This would make grand show
our State proposes to levy an army OF 10,
OOO men. Inns Is moderate indeed for if you
are determnedR upon an inernecine war. all
that will be needed TO take care of your two.
listed cattle, aye, and many more as 400, 900 Of
hostile race, strong, determined, and having
no restraint If conscience, when reused, must
be formidable element in your society OF
smaller number. You propose to raise ,000,-
600 TO carry out your plans; offer, just now,
your State bonds to your sympathizIng Union
lovers in Wall Street. Perhaps YOU can sell
them. If you should will thank you to send
me note of it, and tell me how much premi.
um is paid for them. Perhaps, though, you
expect to sell thcm to your non paying banks
II 50, recommend that you employ Mr. j.
Quincy, Jr., TO draw up a short account of the
Continental currency Tor circulation in your
State. After all you may need more than
single million. Ii costs US 10000 900 per
annum to carry on our Government i'll time of
peace. am afraid you resgning Federal Off
GERS will hardly be content with their pick at
81 900 No, we at the North understand
these things better, and we must advise you to
add thirty or forty millions to your first levy,
| would not be tathleSs, nor undervalue the
the capacity OF your pucky little State but
it is not possible, barely possible, that your
revenues may tail a tax of $50 or $50 on
each slave would bear hard upon that species
of property and then, us 10 revenue from I'M
ports, Il revenue cutter or two-I admit it
would not be cordially friendly in the Black
Republicans but Il revenue cutter or two in
the ofiing of Charleston would have an ugly
aspect, and then the first drop of blood shed
by the Black Republicans would set all cotton.
dom on hire. Why, my friend, we don't shed
blood we leave all the peasurable sport OF
hanging and burning with you. Lincoln is a
peaceable man, and though l say it pri-
vately, am not i'll his confidence | venture
the opinion that starving you out would be the
worst, aud certainly the easiest and most nat
ural resource. lGyou don't want Judges, and
Marshals and PostmaSters, and imports, why
we can't aud wont force them upon you
But l see that ToombS threatens to levy
10000 soldiers IN Georgia and march north,
and when he again crosses Mason and Dixon's
line it will be, he says, with sword in his
hand. His enmity is against the constitution,
for letting old Abe Lincoln be elected. He
may Just as well, them tear out the leaves OF
an old statute book and make them the target,
at home, for his soldiers TO shoot at and so
avenge the constitution. Or, it may be he
means TO fight doan public sentiment; for
that, however blank cartridges would do his
work as thoroughly as leaden balls But il he
marches upon Washington and attempts to
execute his reasonable projects, he and his
ten thousand will find it cannot be done
without the friendly aid OF more ''tombS" than
one.
After the 4th of March next we shall not be
governed by the democracy, and shall make a
note OF all bully ing, brow beating, and bIudgeon-
ing. The north are slow, and mean to be about
right; and when they know they are right
they will 20 ahead.
For thirty years the whole country has been
kept in an uproar and teverish excitement bv
the threats OF secession" and Qualification"
in South Carolina She has been dissatisfied.
superciIious, domineering, impudent, and abus-
i've. carving her point by bullyraggiug, and
not by reason; and by her refractory courses,
she las brought dishOnor upon the good name
Of the whole country.
Fri nd Chestnut, have read your stirring
speech at Charleston with uncommon pusto,
IL is truly characteristic The sentiments are
Caroinian, aud full OF grit-suc as naturally
sprout up in the dry and driving sands which
compose your soil. Ii will do good, depend
upon it, DO YOU remember what Pope saws
about Vice &c. So your speech "neede 6ut
to he seen" to have the same excellent effect.
But NV dear friend have YOU ever read a
treatise on constitutional law, and especially
on the law of Secession" published in 1880,
by one Andrew jackson, LII. ID. Is it pos.
sible YOU have not read it? Then let me rec.
ommend it to your earnest perusal. 1t is
worthy OF the closest study for it was penned
by doctor of the common, civil and canon
law. and though you are not familiar with lis
contents. have heard that no work on law
was ever read with so much interest and ad.
vantage nv the fathers of the secessionists in
Sonth Carolina. and a great omission it was
that they did not ordain it a school book for