Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-17
THE WAR AND ITS AUTHORS.

by the federal government iseH' Luis WIN
of preparation was the chief business OF the
men who controlled the Buchanan administra-
ton. The leaders and oracles of the conspr-
acy were his cabinet ministers and confidential
advisers Their plan for breaking up the gov
ernment was formed before lie was made pres
ident, and in this fact we have the reason why
they would not allow the Cincinnati c)nven.
ton to nominate Douglas-a man OF whose
political integrity republicans have not always
had the highest opinion, but who was, never
theless. quite incapable of tolerating any con
spiracy for destroying the republic. They |
nominated and elected Buchanan, whose lack
of principle, feeblencss of will, and besottel |
meanness of character, made him JUS; such an
instrument as they needed
The whole country knows very well what
was done during his administration. Nearly
all the best arms and munitions of war belong
ing to the government were transferred TO ar
senals at the south. Nearly the whole regular
army was transferred to Texas, the Pacific
coast, and to far off stations at the west and
northwest. Everything possible was done to
weaken and demoraize the navy, and when
the conspratols began the war most of the ma
tional vessels fit for service were far from
home Meanwhile the work of military or
ganization went on diligently at the SOUTH
under the quiet direction of jeff Davis and his
associates. 1t is said that jeff Davis arranged
the plan for organizing his army and selected
the officers for it while he was still in the
ate. Gen. Cass protested against such uses Of
President Buchanan and of the official sta
ton under him, and finally left the cabinet be-
cause the president would not interfere to save
the republic from its destroyers. Floyd contin-
ued his unblushng rascaties. Cobb contin
ued to steal from the treasury, and to do all in
his power TO break down the credit of the gov
eminent. All the consprators continued to
use the power of the federal government to
advance their scheme, until the movement of
Anderson from fort Moultre to fort Sumter
put Floyd in rage, and brought matters to
a point where Buchanan was compelled to
change his course to escape impeachment.
But the mischief was done, aud when the trail
tors began the war by bombarding fort Sum.
ter, they had on foot very extensive and well
furnished military organization, while the gov
ernment could command scarcely thousand
men for the defence of Washington.
In view of these facts, what shall be thought
and said of the northern men who have the
villanous audacity 10 talk as if the presen
administration had originated this lamentab,
war. Such men are traitors of the meanes
description. They have not the courage Il
do what might expose them to arrest and pun
ishment fortreason. tThey have not the spiri
to join the secession army and fight openly
for the success of the JEFF Davis conspiracy
They dare not stand out in the daylight and
say openly that they long to have the ''south
ruin over the whole country, so that they and
such as they may become its paid agents and
lacqueys here in the north. MOI Their ope.
rations are all subterranean. They sneak
away from overt acts of treason, and engage
in the yillainy of aiding the southern conspira-
tors by means of lies and false issues. They
even pretend to support the Union and the
Constitution, moving under false coors, just
as some of the rebel regiments used the old
flag of the republic, in the late battle, to de.
ceive the Union troops opposed to them. Prac.
tically they are enemies of the republic and
allies of treason.
1t is because we have such men in the north
that we had such an administration of the gov.
eminent as that of James Buchanan. Their
political rotlenness, in which any patriotic sen
timent or purpose they have ever felt was
long ago swallowed up, made them just such
instruments as the southern traitors liked.
Their behavior in politics occasioned the
southern conspiracy, the Buchanan admins
tration, and the civil war. 1t emboldened and
stimulated the southern leaders to undertake
= destruction of the republic, leading them to
expect great army of helpers in the north,
by means of whom they would expel Presi
dent Lincoln from Washington, or prevent his
Inauguration, and reconstruct the govern.
ment according to their pleasure. Thank
God these INSCRIPTIONS men do not repre-.
sent the great mass Of the northern democrats,
who appreciate the difference between patriot
ism and treason and who have everywhere
shrunk from the latter with indignation.
what a difference there is between the trea-
sonable talk Of these base northern creatures
and the patriotic utterances of such southern
men as Andrew johnson of Tennessee and
Joseph Holt of Kentucky! Darkness and
light are not more unlike.
The war is an unspeakable calamity, and
the men who have caused it deserve the most
ignominious death that was ever awarded to
traitors. Never before was there such cause
less and wicked attempt to overthrow a gov
eminent Igfe traitors had never felt oppres.
on. }aley had controlled the government
the time when they began the war.
3 Without provocation, from the promptings of
the basest ambition that ever turned men into
devils, they have undertaken to DESTROY the
freest institutions on earth, and along with
them, the prosperity and well being of thirty
million people. History will do them Justice,
and we hope they may have justice from the
gaows, also, where all their northern abettors
deserve to hang with them. Every patriotic
man must desire peace, but peace is impossible
while the traitors continue the war. The
government must submit TO them or conquer
them, unless they should lay down their arms,
disband their armies, and become good citi-
zens, which nobody expects Under these
circumstances every friend of the government
Will seek to have them put down and pun