Worcester daily spy., 1861-04-29

supposed. During these long and weary
weeks we have waited to hear the northern
conscience assert its purpose. Is comes at
last. An impressive pause.) Massachusetts
blood has consecrated the paUementS Of Baltimore,
and those stones are too sacred to be trodden
by slaoes. Loud cheers.)
HOLY WAR.
You and / owe it to those young martyrs,
you and | owe it, that their blood shall be seed
of no mere empty triumph, but that the negro
shall te ch his children to bless them for cen.
turies to come. (Applause.) When Massa-
chusetts goes down to that Carolina fort to
put the stars and stripes again over its black.
ened walls, (enthusiasm,) sne will sweep from
its neighborhood every institution that hazards
their ever bowing again to the Palmetto.
loud cheers. All of you may not mean it
now. Our fathers did not think in l775 of the
Declaration OF Independence. The Long Par.
lament never thought OF the scaffold OF Charles
the First, when taey entered on the struggle !;
but having begun, they made thorough work.
(Cheers.) 1t is an attrib"te of the Yankee
blo0d'-slow to fight, and fight once IRE
newed cheers.) 1t is a holy war, that for In
dependence this is holier and the last
that for liberty. loud applause.
RETALIATION.
When the south cannonaded Fort Sumter
the bones of Adams stirred in his coffin
(Cheers.) And you might have heard him,
from that granite grave, at Quincy, proclaim
to the Dation "The hour has struck Seize
the thunder bolt God has forged for you, and
annihilate the system tchich has troubled peace for
seceny gears !" (Cheers.) Do not say that it
is cod-blooded suggestion. | hardly ever
knew slavery go down in any other circum-
stances. Only once in the broad sweep of the
worlds history was any nation lifted so high
that she could stretch her imperial hand
across the Atlantic, and lift, by one peaceful
word, a mi lion of slaves into liberty. God
granted this glory only to onr mother land.
THE HOUR HAS COME.
The hour has come to US. SO stand we to.
day. The a6otionist who will not now cry,
when the moment serves, "Up, boys, and at
them" is false to liberty. Great cheering
A voice so is every other manu- Say
not it is hard lesson. Let him who fully
knows his own heart and strength, and feels
as he looks down into his chld's cradle, that
he could stand and see that little nesting borne
to slavery, and submit-iet him cast the first
stone But all you, whose love is wont to stir
over Naseby and Bunker Hill, will hold your
peace, unless you are ready to cry with me
SIC Semper IyranaiS! So may it ever be with
tyrants Loud applause.
CIVILIZATION AGAINST BARBARIsM
The noise and dust of the conflict may hide
IL,
some of us may, that we are fighting for forms
and parchments, for sovereignty and flag.
But really the war is one of opinions it is
civilization against barbarism; it is freedom
against slavery. The cannon shot against
Fort Sumter was the yell OF pirates against
the Declaration of independence the ,car cru
Of the north is ats echo. The south, defying
christianity clutches its victim. Tie north
offers IFS wealth and blood in glad atonement
tfi.l,. e. I'M
suit is as sure as the throne of God believe
in the possibility of justice, in the certainty OF
the Union. Years hence, when the smoke of
this conflict clears away, the work will see
under our banner all tongues, all creeds, all
races-one brotherhood-and on the banks of
the Potomac, the Genius OF Liberty, robed in
light, four and thirty stars for her diadem,
broken chains under her feet, and an olive
branch in her right hand. (Great applause