Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-25

rEou lilc SldilCieSteE tEISJ GudIulai'
A rough but sure instinct has already told
England to which side its sympathy is due.
The very arguments addressed 10 it by the Sc.
cessonsts were sufficient to show their true
character, and to put them in the wrong.
England" they said, 'cannOt do without our
cotton, and therefore cannot afford TO be
against us. An embargo ON our port means
tor her Il rebellion in Lancashire" The mere
use OF such an argument is sufficient to show
how utterly the American slave owners mis-.
understood the feeling OF those whom it most
concerned. 1t is one OF the class which be-
tray the motives actuating those who use
them, by exhibiting their notion OF the ill.,
ducements likely TO operate upon others. 1t
supposed that Englishmen were simply bypo
critical i'll their protesiatlons against slavery,
and would throw their objections to the winds
i'll order to secure their own material prospect.
ty. 1t has already received its answer. This
country proved the sincerity OF its aversion to
the horrible system, by the price it pad tor
the emancipation OF the slaves in its own colo
MES But 1t has never been slow 10 recognize
the difficulties which have opposed similar
step i'll the United States. So long as SLdUery
,dS there regarded in the light hrOWa upon 1t by
the first founders Of the UntoR, as a great but in
Superdbte eUt so long ITS eriStence treated by
ERgtiShmen as an occasion rather for pity than
reprouch II aoaS not till they saW 1t openly de.
Tended by blessing justified by erts of Scripture,
supported by ministers OF the Gospel, that they be-
gan to reuoH against the people aoho could maintain
such outrageous doctrines.
1t has often been remarked and by Nj. DE
Tocqueville among others, that the negro race
is viewed with stronger anupalhy in the free
states than i'll the slave, and we are accused of
certain Inconsistency i'll hurting our censures
at the latter, where the blacks are, in many
respects, well treated, and admitted to familiar
intercourse with their white owners, Wine we
spare the former, where they are generally re-
garded as outcasts from society. But first, it
is scarcely true that we have spared the mlOl-
s era Saf maturity to ajSGIgye Ii 0pes ON
want of the requisite experience and, secohu-
ly we do not allow that there is any true par
allel between the cases. In all material results
the antpathy felt i'll the north is NOT one mo
ment to be compared for evil with the actual
slavery existing in the south. 1t has really
none of the frightfully demoralizlng Influence
exercised by the peculiar institution, Tue
''nvountary servitude, or any other name
by which the south, i'll some cOnsclence-smlt-
ten moment, has sought TO disguise ITS dlstlh
gushing characteristic. When tie lauleS OF
Charleston subscribed to present token OF
their admiration to the rutiian who struck
down Mr. Sumner on the floor OF the les
islature at Washington, the power OF this III
| huence was dis play ed III Il manner more con
viucing than could he done by any number OF
| Uncle Toms.
This is the source of the feeling which de-
cides the partizanship of England III the pres
ent conflict, even while we see clearly enough,
with Tucqueville and other Observers that
slavery Is only an accident IN the dispute, anu
that It's real origin lies deeper, i'll the differences
pointed out by Mr.. Seward, i'll one OF his cleo
ton speeches last summer. "Ihe controVer-
| tb,n said for New YORK, is
between two classes of white men-one having
negroes, an aristocratie class, that wants 10 ex-
tend Itself over the new territories, ana the
other the people, who have no negroes and
won't have any, and WHO mean that the arts
tocIatic section shall not be extended. 1t is
an eternal question between classes, the eier-
nal question between the few privileged and
the many unprivieged, between aristocracy
and democracy, and the nation that is willing
to submit to such an aristocracy, The riding
of the privileged, booted and spurred, over
the unprlvileged, deserves no better fate than
that which "Details the cowardly ami the unwor'
thy. Every man arriving here from Austria,
Hungary, and Naples, finds in another form
the irrepressible conflict which crushed INN
out an exile from his native land. Ihls we
believe TO be in the main true, and we are glad
to think that political liberty as well as moral
Justice and the right OF defense against unpro
} yoked aggression is on the side OF the north
in this great quarrel.
But although slavery may not be the actuai
source of the contest, from the moment tnis
began, it has furnished the distinguishing
badge of the combatants. Without slavery
there might none the less have been war be-
: tween north and SOUTH but without slavery
! that war would have been exempt from the
! malignant and deadly character winch 1t now
: seems fated to assume. The south as Dyhting
, it man be said, under the pirate flg. 1.-THE usaa
penalty is not inflicted on prisoners taken from IL
ranks, it ,cH be because humanity, after all, TeooH
: from such Drdcon,an justice, not because me sen
tence would be andese1Ued. When we read tina
two unotiendlng farmers who hau Diough
down load OF grain to some place on th'
!. Mississippi, were summary hanged by th'
! mob, because being challenged as to their pc
o litical sympathies they waved their hats TO
Lincoln, we feel that scarcely any judgmen
can be too severe for the spirit which permit
i, ted such crime. THIS country must therefore
% rejoice an the uRdnilnify acih SUhich the north la
4 risen TO put doWa these denominations, to put the,
= do,cn not merely for the moment, but for once am
torerer. We may quote one token OF thi
=. unanimity. Mr.. Dickinson of New York, i
% described as having been for years the eade
. of the southern wing of the democrats in tina
s. CITY. and one of the chief supporters of MI
{ Breckiuridge against MIR. Lincoln in the pres
'e dental contest Well, at a recent publ,
meeting this gentleman spoke as follows "Le
Of us settle this thing speedily and surely. l
y u NAV ruin this generation, but we owe it TO til
y next that they should have no such trouble
u as we have had. Let us now strike IN on
'e might and, if necessary, wipe the soutn IroI
AZ tac,, ot the earth. know we shall hay
civ,l war. and what is far worse, servlle war
" and | prophesy that by the time this matter
d settled the peculiar institution Of the sou. soul
ia will be swept away. Let US finish thing
Ak while we are about it, and leave nothing O'
lie hind us. a.
n. These words may furnish some clue to tn
re spirit in which the quarrel is likely 70
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