Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-25
GOLDSMITH F. BAILEY, of Fi.ohburg
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ICHABOD WAsHBURN, OF Worcester

How THE BosToN COURIER SUPPORTS THE
CONSTITUTION. = People whose conduct is
regulated by great convictions are apt to be
very much in earnest and they usually mean
what they say. Those whose conduct is con-
trolled by other influences are likely to deal in
shams and false pretenses. Our contemporary,
the Boston Courier, is a specimen of the latter
class of persons. We find in the Courier an
editorial on southern feeling in view of the
possible election of Lincoln" in which it is
said that the southern people do not care
much about the Union, and that they will
destroy it if Mr. Lincoln is elected. The
Courier is assured by "letters and news.
papers from Maryland, Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama"
that the election of Lincoln would constitute
a caSus belE." Under these circumstances, we
are told that the best thing to be done is 10
give this southern treason supreme control Of
our politics, by uniting call the opponents OF
republicanism" in support of a candidate who
will suit the traitors. Instead of denouncing
their traitorous disregard of constitutional OBJ
legations, the Courier treats them as if it
were quite excusable, if not in the highest de-
gree reasonable and proper. This is its meth
cd Of supporting the Constitution, the Union,
and the Enforcement of the Laws"
But this old electioneering device, which SO
inexcusably bellies the great majority of the
southern people, has become too antiquated
to be of much service to those who use it.
Those who seek TO gain political ends by
means of false pretenses, and use shams to
defeat the triumph of great principles, should
have decent measure OF shrewdness in the
management of their ugly machinery, else
they will hardly produce excitement enough
even to make themselves laughed at very
heartily. There are disunionsts in the
south; but they are mainly selfconceited
dreainers. Some of them would stand
aghast at the reality of disunion, and
now talk of the matter without meaning
what they say. Others, such as Yancey,
and Barnwell Rhett and a few South Carolini-
ans would, doubtless, be willing to try the ex
pertinent for time. These are wild men pc
ltically. They would be nothing unless they
were wild and eccentric. But the great mass
Of Tie southern people are no more disunion-
lists than the people OF any other section of the
country and, before the close of Mr.. Lin
coins administration, there will be in nearly
every one of the southern states party sup
porting it,
In contrast with such northern men as the
conductors Of the Boston Courier, are such
southern men as ex Gov. Thomas of Mary,
land. Gov. Thomas is nominally an admins
tralion democrat; but he is now an old man,
and stands high above all mere partisanship.
He was long in the public service as governor
Of Maryland, and as a representative in con.
gress. On the 10th instant he addressed
democratic meeting at Hagerstown, Md, and
we subon an extract from his speech =
''Ile said he had come before us in his gray
hairs not to accomplish sinister purpose, or
to aggravate party spirit, but TO speak the
words OF truth and soberDess. The principles
OF tile secession party originated with John c.
Calhoun, who was defeated for the presidency
and then resolved to break up the Union.
They had now withdrawn under the lead of
Yancey and Rhett, who boast that they are
for dissolution. There are many men Of this
character i'll the South, who desire the re-
opening of the slave trade, which they know
they can never obtain within the Union.
The shareholders have already more rights
than anybody else. They are few in number,
ana yet congress wasted all the time in dis
cusslng their interests. He thought the rest
OF us had some rights, too, and that it was
Tune To turn our attention 10 internal concerns
1t was ungenerous to cry disunion, when the
south had gotten all she could ask Disunion
was no remedy for Instructions and abolition
plots. If these could arise inside the Union
they would happen tenfold more frequently
without Maryland had stood by jackson in
1888, and she would declare against nullifca
ton and disunion now.
We have nothing to fear from the election
of Mr.. Lincoln. All formerly stood upon his
platform. None ever doubted the right of
congress to legislate for the territories He
cared not what mans abstract opinions
were; we had had many freesoilers in the
presidential chair. jefferson was rank free
soiler Madison and Monroe were both free
soilers' Mr.. Thomas spoke of the incalculable
evils of disunion, the enormous deterioration
of property in consequence. He cited us to
the downfall of the Roman empire. 1t cost
Europe the bloody struggle of centuries to
balance the powers of her different Kingdoms,
and to this day she groans under the insup-
portable weight of standing armies, which
deYour the substance OF her people.
"In the event Of dissolution, Maryland
would be the chief sufferer. Her land would
glitter with sparkling bayonets. Baltimore
would be annihiated. The burden of her
trade is from the great north west. Maryland
had sent her sons to hew down and cultivate
the western wilderness, and would never con-
sent 10 be separated from them. Mr.. Thomas
spoke Tor two hours and half, and was ex-
eeedingly eloquent throughout. He said that
INC aspirations Of his youth were gone His
locks were silvered with the frosts of sixty
winters, and he longed for retirement as the
hunted mart for the waterbank.
Mith him the hurly.burly's done
WIN MIN the battle lost or won
lie had come 10 denounce marty which
the experience of his past congressional ia
had taught him, was plotting the dissoIutou
Of this glorious Union"
This does not indicate that the honest sen,;
ment OF the southern people is in favor -
treason. We suggest 10 the Boston Courier
that its method of playing the game of polite
is not commendable. In reality, there is 1
politics something better than mere game.
1HE republicans Of the third Suffolk sen,
toral district have nominated Francis
Crowninshield OF Boston for senator.