Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-06
TuF woB-oRACLEs THEORY.

The Boston CouTier's theory of free speech
substitutes a mob for the law the mob to be
composed OF persons of good principles and
purposes :" and it assumes that the mob itself,
or its instigstors, must decide what to tolerate
and what to suppress. The Courer's reason
for stimulating and justifying mobs is ex-
pressed thus 1.-The sort of free speech which
some are disposed TO protect is in the highest
degree dangerous to the public welfare" So
they say at Vienna and St. Petersburg, but
there they use imperial DEGREES instead OF
mobs. Although the Courier began with the
free speech of the abolitoniSts, It's chief antsg-
onism is to the free speech OF the republicans,
which does not eulogize the Bell-Everett.
party nor contribute il any way to build it up
in Massachusetts. But here are its own
words -
care we so besotted as to sacrifice all this TO
that kind of free speech, which, whenever in
dulged, runs as now into ribaldry ,-into foul
assaults upon the best citizens and best men
which is all the time eXertng itself to deprive
the wisest and worthest citizens of public in
fuence, and to set up crack Drained despera-
does in their place"
There is not another newspaper in Massa-
chusetts capable of dealing SO abundantly in
"foul assaults upon the best citizens and the
best men" as the Courier nor is there any
thing this side OF South Carolina so malignant
as the eminent gravity" which it represents.
That little click of arrogant man will never
again control the politics of Massachusetts,
never. The old wing chariot, always at their
tl,o do, .Io hoe boau
wrecked beyond repair, and it was never
possible for them 10 reach the places
of political honor and power by any
other conveyance. a new generation has
arisen, and there is nobody to restore the
Bourbons. Ii the Courier and its little con-
stituency could understand this fact, it would
save them much trouble and chagrin; and,
if they could understand that arrogant preten
sions are not likely 10 be accepted, in these
days, instead OF personal merit and manly
principles, it would undoubtedly give them
more wholesome relation 10 the rest OF man.
kind AT any rate they will do well to alb
stain very carefully from getting up another
mob TO suppress free speech in Massachusetts.
1t is not wise to attempt carrying out that
menace against Charles Sumner and Henry
Wilson
The Louisville Democrat remarked, not
long since, that one of the misfortunes of the
times is "the uncomfortable position of amb-
tious politicians" The chief trouble on the
slavery question arises from the fact, that a
more civilized public opinion in this country
will bring hopeless disaster to the political
ambition of slavery extremists, north and
south. Therefore they all fight the growth
OF such public opinion. If civilization pre-
walls, they must subside into obscurity. Its
tendencies are denounced as northern aggres
sions," and the pro-slayery politicians whose
personal interests are so deeply involved in
the matter, would do anything to escape
them. The Boston Courier would mob free
speech, destroy Sumner and Wilson, suppress
everybody else whom the i'll bred "Bourbons"
can not tolerate, and produce public senti'
ment in which its click of antiquated old To-
gies might thrive. Yancey and the traitors
OF his sort would destroy the Union.