Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-23
The conservative Sentiment Explained

attorney General. D WIGHT POSTER, Worcester.
The CONSERVATIVES Sentiment" Explained
The Boston Courier, speaking in favor OF
Vallandigham, the disloya congressman from
Ohio describes his political position very sig
nifcantly, as follows en- VauaadighaBi
has only been a little IN adrancs of the gror-
ing conservative sentiment" This tells u
plainly what the managers of the peoples
democratic party aim to accomplish and ais,
what they mean by the conservative senti.
ment." They follow Vallandigham, who
only little in advance of them. Their pur
pose is to sustain his views; that is to say
they mean to come out in opposition to tn
war to suppress rebellion, and force the fedel
al government to appease the rebels by sub
hitting to their will. AT present, they do no
speak out as plainly as he does; but they fol
low him steadily, and will speak with sufficient
plainness when ''the time is ripe"
1t is well known that Vallandigham OPP
poses the war,--that he has opposed it from
the beginning,-and that he maintains that
to resist the rebels by force Of arms will de-
stroy the Union. Here is his own statement
of his position in regard to the war, taken
from his speech delivered at DAYTON last
August
'Mr. Lincoln says that war is the right way
to restore the Union | think there is anoth.
er, better, the only way to do it. He has
the power to try his. l have not. War is
upon us; and from the beginning, believing as
l did and yet powerless for good, laid down
the rule for myself, and have faithfully ad-
hered to it, and will to the end, neither to vote
for or against any purely war measure of the
administration. Wherever | have voted upon
any question my course has been governed
by other considerations than those having ref
erence to my opinions on the war Accord
ingly have not voted for any army bill, or
navy bill, or army or navy appropriation bill,
since the meeting OF congress on the 4th Of
July, 1861"
His method of restoring the Union is to give
the southern traitors complete and permanent
control Of the government. He contesses sad
ly that he has no power to try his method, but
he hopes to gain such power by means OF that
growing conservative sentiment" about
which th4 Boston Courier dreams and ro-
mances. In his opposition, he has invariably
gone to the very verge Of treason. While the
leading traitors were still at Washington, he
was their intimate associate and faithful sup
porter; and it will be remembered that Brock
inridge and some other traitors remained there
for a considerable time after Mr.. Lincoln was
inaugurated He takes the side of the rebels
against the government, and has been as much
in correspondence with them as Bright Of In
diana
We see in Vallandigham what is really
meant by that conservative" movement
which his eulogists and partizan associates are
endeavoriug to organize in all the loyal
states. Ii means opposition to the govern
ment and submission to the rebels, So it is
understood at Richmond. The Richmond
Examiner talks Of it as tollows;-
"a large portion CT the northern people
eynce the disposition for Il return to the ordi-
nary ideas of civilized society. If they can
prove themselves party sufficiently strong to
secure their own safety they will establish
something like sane politics in the northern
states, and render their government amenable
to the laws of reason.
''This is the matter to be decided at the
next election in New York and other northern
states, now close at hand. If the men whose
bold attempt to recover the ordinary liberties
Of Anglo-SaXon people can elect their cand-
dates and so establish the fact that they con-
stitute majority, the tyranny at Washington
will be rapidly reduced to insignfcance. We
know how quickly the mass of the people in
the northern states, and indeed, everywhere
else rush to the winning side, and, we doubt
not Lincoln and Chase will have no other sup
porters of their usurpation after such de-
defeat, than the aboitionist fanatics who were
wont to vote for Gerrit Smith and Garrison in
the old elections of the United States"
We ask all truly loyal men-all those who
really mean to sustain president Lincoln in
his efforts to subdue treason--to consider this
matter carefully. Dismiss prejudices and an
tipathies, and be controlled by nothing but an
honest sense of duty to your country. The
question is too grave, and the interests involved
too incalculable, for the indulgence Of person
al and partisan antipathies Postpone them for
thepresent; postpone allminorissues andcome
sincerely aud earnestly to the great and far
reaching question between loyalty and trca-
son. You do not mean to aid treason, and
therefore you should stand firmly opposed to
those whose political action operates SO man
ifestly in its favor 1t seems to US that
no man in his senses can doubt that the de-
telt Of Gov. Andrew and senator Sumner in
Massachusetts at the present time Gf it were
were possible) would be felt and cheercd at
Richmond as a triumph. The Richmond
press shows us unmistakably how it would be
regarded there's and is there not in this gooC
reason why even their old partizan oppo
nents should postpone the crusade agains
them to another occasionY We have some
thing more at stake than men or parties. TIT
nation is struggling for its very existence will
tiends who are dragging it down into tn,
valley of the Shadow of Death :" and vii
loyal men support any influence that gives
encouragement to the destroyers?
lam q STAKEHOLDER. Most Of my property
consists in slaves. Yet | will say, let all 60
rather than my government. In my opinion,
regardless Of newspaper attacks and opinions,
the presideat cU be sustained by a large ma
joriy Of the Union men Of this state. Al
WiiO do not Sustain the principles of the pr0-