Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-14

Some South Caronan with the traitor
troops in Virginia writes to the Charleston
Mercury, May 4th, that the fighting must
come. The government may grow impatient
aud begin it,-"or the south, when their forces
shall be organized, will be wearied of constant
expectation, and will herself precpitate the
collision. At present they are not IN condition
for agyresSiUe increment There are soldiers here
in any number, and they are equipped and drilled
enough for any ordinary measures of resistance, but
they haze not as get The unity and form for aggres-
size action. The troops have not been muster
ed into the confederate army Gems. Lee of
Virginia, and Bonham of South Carolina, yet
hold their offices under the authority of their
respective states and until the troops are
mustered in, and the officers accept the posi-.
tons assigned them by the confederate gov
eminent, it is not to be expected OF course,
that they will do more than sustain their pres
ent position and preserve unbroken the line of
the Potomac.
A week ago it was expected they would
cross and sustain Maryland in her position OF
resistance to the passage OF federal troops to
Washington but there is at present no nucleus
ofresiStance to military organization in Maryland.
The state seems now TO acquiesce in its help
less condition. While our forces would sus.
tain that state, they will not assume to lead or
force that state to an attitude OF opposition,
and so, for the present. at least, Maryland
would seem to be out OF view, and our efforts
are simply lent to the object of sustaining the
present position of Virginia.
In the meantime every department of the
service is in the utmost possible activity. Men
are abundant. Virginia herself has an army,
aud munitions are sufficient, when properly
applied and to bring men and arms together,
to get them into working order, and 10 hold
them within striking distance of assailable
points, is the great work i'll which, with many
difficulties, there is the prospect and promise
OF the most perfect possible success. Norfolk
and Huper'S Ferry are already in possession
of large forces, ,0ih reserves IN easy distance to
sustain them. Alexandria is not occupied but
if ii should be taken by the enemy, there wiH be
forces ready to INCEST it; and So III the matter
of deienses and in preparations for defense,
the work goes as bravely Oh as any reasonable
person could expect"
The Richmond Examiner talks democracy
in this style In the northern states OF the
late Union exists, and for some time past has
existed a kind of government Impractical in
the world since the disappearance of the agi-
tated uncertain, turbulent, and tickle republics
of ancient Greece. In those republics, that
principle OF government was fully tried, and
found so little suited to the wants of men that
it has never been attempted since, till the
Yankees actually put it in full operation In the
northern states exists the government of pure
democracy The lowest, most ignorant, and
coarsest part OF the whole people, who make
the majority of it, control the action of the
government by the immediate exercise of their
voition, impress upon it their violence, their
instability Ut opinion and fickleness of feeling,
aud render it, in all respects, the agent OF their
crude and uutounded ideas of a moment.
The essVnce OF the constitution o the United
States was representative democracy. But
the continual strides of innovation, guided by
demagogues, have destroyed the representa-
tive principle in the northern states. Public
officers in those countries reflect the popular
feeling of the moment, instead Of that nation
al sentiment and opinion that is formed after
experience and second thought. In this the
south IS whoLg different from the north. The toweSt
part of the population here are siaves hare nothing
to do ,cth The government, and no influence on lis
policy. The character and political action of tie
country originates ,cih the superior intelligence,
and is supported steadily.
The cutlery Tor war and the rush on the
south are one of the ordinary manias of north
ern mob government. The impulse wiW last a
fer ,Ceeks only"