Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-13
SATURDAY, SEPT. Ia, 1859.
The POLICY of NInssachusctts.

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how he will do it. If he is to build house,
he plans the superstructure before digging the
cellar No railroad company would employ
an engineer to bridge deep and wide chasm
on the line Of their road, who would not be-
fore beginning the work, draw a plan, show
ing to the minutest detail, a complete and fin
ished representation of the whole structure.
A traveller starting for distant rlace over
strange road, first studies and decides which
is the directest route. If he does otherwise,
and begins his journey, with hardly the termi
nus fixed in his mind, he goes astray and
wastes his time in useless explorations.
In word, successfully to carry on any I'M
dertaking, great Or small, a settled policy of
action is necessary to its efficient prosecution.
Recognizing this principle, equally applicable
to nations as to individuals, Massachusetts
through the political organization which COM
prises three-quarters of her Inhabitants, has
adopted and proclaimed her policy as to the
conduct of the war. She has contemplated
but one end to the war, whether near or re-
mote, whether attained by partial sacrifices, or
atthe expense of her last man and last dollar,
and that is the restoration of the Union
Others concur in the end. We have decided
as to the means-the one policy is fixed We
strike at the rebellion through its cause. No
one believes that there would have been any
rebellion, had there been no slavery. No one
believes that there will ever be any real res
toration of the Union with slavery. We say
then, that the rebellion must be crushed, and
the Union restored. As practical men, we
understand that, to accomplish this, the insti-
tuition which gave life to the rebellion, and
which still sustans it, and which stands in the
way of the restoration of the Union, must be
''eXterminated." As honest men, we avow
this determination to do what our reason
teaches US is necessary to be done, in order
to accomplish our end. Here, them Massa-
chusetts plants herself This standpoint she
has reached. Abandoning all prciudices, ac-
cepting all the dangers Of the position, she
has chosen her policy and avowed it TO the
world. "Revoiutions never go backwards"
Massachusetts will never retract the words
her representatives proclaimed in convention
last Wednesday. Over the ruins of slavery
she marches to peace and Union.
There is no longer any particular necessity
of argument on the wisdom of this chosen
policy here The vast majority of the people
have adopted it. Those who have not al
ready, whose concurrence is worth anything,
tot l. 4,o
ment. Those whose concurrence in any good
cause is not to be expected or desired, will
probably get together in convention, show
their bad temper and bad hearts, adopt Satan
ic resolutions. find some candidates to
accept their nominations, and be summa-
rily suppressed 10y the people in November,
SO that here at home, the work to be done is
comparatively trifling. Our elections will al
most take care of themselves. But we want
our sister states to concur in our policy. We
want them to join with lis in sending men to
congress, who, undeterred by the sneers OF
petty military chieftains and their parasites,
and unterrifed by threats, which are begin
ming to be made, OF military relationships
will enact into law the will of the people. II
is important also that the state legislatures be
composed of men who will cause the wishes
of their constituents to be heard and re-
spected.
And then it is our highest wish that the
president should be convinced of the wisdom
of the policy of Massachusetts and make it
the policy of the nation. In his letter 10 Mr.
Greeley he declares what we all well under
stood, that he is laboring and will labor fol-
the accomplishment of the end we are al
seeking But he differs from us in the avow
ed fact that he has not yet decided upon the
policy through which he will seek to accom-
plish it. Here then is the all important point
Again and again has the president called fo
expression of the peoples wish. Let him hay,
it, through conventions, resolutions, petitions
addresses, every means by which he can b.
reached Let our governors, our senator
bring to bear upon him their combined in
fluence and advice. Let them constitute
themselves into Il council, self-chosen j
necessary, but which shall see to it tina
the president knows what the people wish
and is approached by every honest ar
gument and influence. Let the friends
of freedom be as active as its enc
mics. The heart of the president is right
But his ears are filed with the deprecations
Of timid and the threats of bad men. Let
them be drowned by gathering storm Of
united and earnest popular sentiment. Let
him understand that the heart and the will O.
the nation will sustain him and bear him for
ward-in the path which duty and policy in
dictate for him to follow.
All hands to the work then, that the polio,
Of Massachusetts may speedily become tn
policy Of the nation. From our gifted an
honored senator, at his post far in the van @
freedoms battle, our governor with his ear
nest heart and ready hand, down to the hum
blest citizen, let each and every one do hi
utmost to turn our beloved country back int,
that long.abandoned policy through whicl
alone she can secure ultimate peace ant
prosperity.
TRMroRs AT HEARr.-Iti is said that ex
Gov. Hubbard Of New Hampshire has mad
speech, IN which he classcd Gov. Andrew
with the arch traitors who should be pu