Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-24
Mottester 4ailp Spp
For tho Worcester Daily Spy.
Who are the True Union Men!

Yes, who are the true Union men at the
north as well as at the south? Are they those
whose sole occupation seems to be to SANDER
and Witty the noble governors of the loyal
states? Are they those who under the guise
of friendliness to the president, the constitu-
ton and the laws of the United States, seek
every opportunity to cast odium upon the pres
ident by striking hands with rebels, in defam-
ing his proclamationS, which are the laws of
the land? No sane man can believe it, and
these men make a most woeful mistake to I'M
agine they can impose upon the intelligent,
working, thinking masses of the Old Bay
State, or any of the free states of the north, so
far as to be able to any great extent to palm
off any of their transparent hypocricies or po-
litica humbugs. The political history ofthese
men is too well known and too well remem-
bered for their success in such audaciouS de-
ceit.
In the Kansas embroglio where were these
men found? When the free people of thai
territory were imposed upon by corrupt off
Gals, by bogus legislatures and ballot stuffing
elections, when the free settlers were hunted
like wild beasts from place to place, stripped
of their property, robbed of their rights, and
murdered in cold blood, by the pro-slavery
ruffians, because they preferred freedom and
liberty to slavery and despotism, they were
found where we find them to-day, the sympa-
thzers and apologisers of slavery and its out
RACES upon humanity! When the eloquent
Sumner portrayed with the vivid lightning
flash of truth the depth and intamy of this aw-
full crime in such glowing brlliancy that it start
ed the tyrant on foreign shores, and made the
souls of all liberty loving men everywhere
thrill with Joy, what did these men say? They
denounced him with vile epithets as they do
now. How many times has it rung in the
ears of the intelligent masses, who do not so
soon forget those two words sneeringly eiac-
ulated, ''bleedIng Kansas, bleeding Kansas"
coupled with the assertion THAT it was the
whole stock in trade of Massachusetts states
men, and republican politics." When senator
Sumner with prophetic vision predicted with
unsurpassing eloquence the evils and crimes
that the institution of slavery would entail
upon the country by proving witls unanswer.
able logic the crimes OF which it was then
verify guilty, every statement of which has
been more than verified in the course of the
progress of the diabolical southern rebellion,
and the consprators against the country
thinking that one, honest, able and truthful
had discovered this plot attempted to put him
out of their way by assassination where
were 1OunQ tneSe men That are now getting
up new political parties to denounce the loval
men of the country? They were found up
holding the base conspirators in this ATTEMPT
to take the life of a noble man. while i'm the
faithful discharge of his duties in the senate
chamber of the United States. We have
heard the statement made bv one of these
men within a month"; that 'tdey ueye soyg,y
that Brooks did mott kill Sunaer!" 10 these
men the lives of their fellow citizens were
nothing of serious account in the Kansas
struggle, for then slavery was to be extended;
and now the lives of our brave soldiers are of
but small account, and the lives of our best
statesmen are of no account whatever, for
slavery must be saved and pe1petuated
What have the governors of the loyal states
done to which true patriot could make OBJ
lection Let us examine their history for
the past year and a half. When the rebels
opened their batteries upon fort Sumpter the
president called upon the governors of the
loyal states for men and means to defend the
capital of the nation. They responded with
alacrity, and none more so than gov ernor An
drew of Massachusetts,. Owing to his fore
sight and energy, the troops from the Old
Bay state were the first to arrive at the scene
of danger, and Massachusetts blood was the
first to be shed on the same day Of the same
month, and for the same cause, that it Grim
SOneu IQe plains OF Lexington Ill II 10
When communication with Washington was
cut off and many feared that all was lost the
governors besought that noble patriot Gen.
John E. Wool to assume the responsibility of
sending supplies, men and muntion to Wash
ington. opening a communication via the Po-
tomac. il proved successful and it proved
the salvation of Washington. One of the gov
ernors went outside of his own state. by the
reoueSt of Gen. Wool. and seized the arsenal
at st. Louis. thereby preventing it falling into
the hands of the rebels of Missouri who were
lust on the eve of bouncing upon it, as they
did upon Harper's Ferry and other places
Tins was ST. Iouis. and through ST. Louis,
Missouri saved from secession. and to-day is
in the Union. On the oath of September tlgo
daus after the president issued his emancipa-
ton proclamation. tbe governors met at AL
toona, Penn, to consult and advise together
and adopt nlans and a concert of action.
whereby they could most effectually assist and
sustain the government in its efforts to crush
treason. They called at Washington on
their return. and exchanged courteses with
the president. cordially endorsing without
reservation his plans and policy for the
future But as soon as it was known that
the governors had met at Altoona, the whole
rank and file of the slavery sympathizing
cabal set up a howl of dscordant fault
finding. Said they, "These governors must
be plotting treason; they had no business to
meet-GH these governors had not" sit is
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