Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-10
Tgr WORCESTER COUNTY REGIMENT.

fer County Regiment. The preliminary cor
respondence and negotiations were completed
Yesterday Gov. Andrew has appointed the
principal field officers, and put the enterprise
in such train as promises to result in a speedy
and most satisfactory success. Col Edwin
Upton OF Fitchburg, and Lieut.. Col. Augustus
b. R. Sprague OF Worcester, have been desg
mated for this new regiment, and several OF
the most experienced company officers among
the returned three months men will proceed
Immediately TO raise companies. 1t is no dis
management to either of the two excellent regi-
ments which have already taken the field from
this part Of the state TO predict that the
new one will he in many respects the
most desirable of all. 1t will have a
greater number OF experienced officers
and large proportion of the returned
militia will un loubtedly enlist in its ranks
Its arms and equipments will be of the most
thorough description that can be procured.
The class of men who have manifested a dis
position to join it cannot be surpassed
The regiment is to be attached to the divi-
sion under Gen Sherman, one of the ablest
army officers, and is supposed to be intended
for special services of the same general char
acter as that which las recently resulted in a
brillant success The field officers are the
men whom the people of the county Lave
preferred above all others for the place, and,
in Difference to local public sentiment, have
received the POSITIONS for which they are so
highly qualified. fhey are gentlemen admir-.
able alike for personal worth and special quail
ificaions for the work they have in hand.
Up to the present time the city of Wor-
cester las not done its part in sending
volunteers 10 the army OF the Union,
to serve tor the war. Such a population in
any OF the disloy al states would have supplied
long before now at least two entire regiments.
In comparison with Providence, which has
sent forth three per cent of its inhabitants, or
Taunton, or Marblehead, we should be put 10
the blush. Very few sacrifices have been
made, as yet in this vicinity, to join the ar
my. There has not been the slightest drain
upon our resources. And it is high time for
our people to awake fully to the magnitude
OF the struggle and the sacredness of the
cause, and with earnest and devoted patriot
ism engage in the service OF their country.
Massachusetts will not have accomplished
her full duty until nine more regiments have
Joined their brethren in The field And now,
if ever, is the time for the people of Worcester
county to prove by their actions the sincerity
OF. their past professions, and their worthiness
to be counted true sons of the Pilgrims. Under
the most suspicious circumstances, under
leaders whom they have earnestly sought for
will, every motive of honor, patriotism, ant
duty appealing to their manly hearts, there il
no room to doubt what will be the response OF
the men of this city and county.
In Two weeks from to-day let the ranks OF The
regiment be filled with our strongest, our
bravest, and our most reliable citizens.
The ENGLISH PRESS ON AMERICAN AT
FAlRs.-While some of the leading British
newspapers have treated the great contest
going on in this country in very insulting
and ungenerous manner, it is pleasing to OBJ
serve that Il considerable number of them
speak of our affairs in a very kind and sympa
thzing spirit, aud manifest deep interest in
the success Of our efforts to preserve the gov
eminent Of the country. AS a specimen Of
these articles We give short extract from the
weekly Times, published in London, under
date of August 18th THE American people
are turnin', the Bull Run misfortune tC good
account, The new general of the army Of the
Potomac, Mcclellan, works in right earnest TO
restore order and confidence. He selects a
good staff, shuts up the liquor shops, punish
es delinquents, and drills his soldiers in right
martial style"
Speaking Of their "Tories" at home, tho
same article says, "The tories take no pain.
to conceal their discreditable Joy at the mis-
fortunes of republic, but they overshoot the
mark when they direct their arrows of repro
baton at our transatlantic friends. They
persist in the grossest exaggerations of any
errors Or losses the northerners suffer, and tel
us as little truth as possible about the noble
efforts they are making to redeem the past
Another extract will show the view taken
of the question OF emancipation in England
and from having observed many articles of a
similar tenor, in different newspapers from
various parts of Great Britain, we infer tina
this extract gives the opinions of that elias.
who truly sympathze with us IN our presen
struggle.
"In mere questions of military and politca
organization the unionists will rapidly pro
gress but we want to see them brought to
distinct recognition of the fact, obvious il
this country, that without the abolition o
slavery there can he no final adjustment of th'
quarrel between the north and the south. The
ablest American statesmen know this full well
but they seem afraid to speak out, and perhaps
failure of other plans must precede the adop
ton of the only satisfactory course. The
lapse OF six months will naturally alter the
condition of parties, and remove many obsta
Giles to a right course"
Among the many able writer's who are now
endeavoring to influence the public sentiment
of England in our favor, is Lieutenant Gen
eral I. Perronet Thompson, who for many
years occupied prominent position in parlia
ment, and has taken very active part in The
reform movements OF the last twenty years
We observe his articles, which are very clea
and decided, in great number of the news
papers sent here from England.
TnE MARYLAND TRAIToRs.-The "peace'
frai