Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-31
What they Mean.

The newspaper organs of the ''people's"
democratic party in this state are friends of
Vallandigham and supporters of the Seymour
party in New York. The Boston Courier has
long been notorious for its sympathy with dis
loyal men; and, since the election canvass be-
gan, the orators of its party have made very
sensible progress towards open and unequivo-
cal declarations similar to those of the lead
ing New York Seymourites, making their hos
tility to the president more and more palpa-
BILE. Vallandigham and Fernando Wood are
only ga little in advance of them. We all
know what Vallandigham says and meana.
Here is what Fernando Wood says in his
speeches advocating the election of Sey-
mour -
Il willItell the president that without we have
a change of measures, that, so help me, God
1clH hare a change Of men. With
out he responds to the voice which has been
sent from Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Indi-
ana, and from glorious New York-without
he hears and heedS, and acts upon the poten-
tial voice of the people, thus expressed in
thunder tones, that as Washington icdS the
first president, abraham Lincoln is the last
My word for it, if this government Is to
be destroyed, despotism will succeed, these
great armies will eventually find some bold,
some popular commander, who will see the
wreck of our civil policy which is going on
around him, and he following the laws of mil
itary despotism, we will find our system sub
yerted and some second Napoleon sitting in
the White House, and debating terms to the
country. Little Macn] And let me say
that if | am to live under tyrant, rant an
able and bold tyrant. = A despotism
has come upon us, and if a despotism has
come, if we are to have tyrant, if we are to
be no longer freemen and republicans, why, l
want splendid brilliant ruler, one that has
nerve and brain, and is equal to the emer-
gency."
What loyal man in Massachusetts is ready
TO go on in that direction, and give his vote in
way that will strengthen the political infu-
ence of such men? Those who at first were
inclined to go with the peoples" democratic
party are Withdrawing with an earnest deter
mination to act against it. At Seymour
meeting in New York, the other night, Isaiah
Rynders blasphemed S. S. Cox of Ohio made
a speech full Of vulgarlty, malignity, and dis
loyalty, and other democratic orators made
the meeting appropriate throughout. One of
them, Luke f. Cozzens' sad:-
"Let every one Of them next Tuesday de-
post his ballot for Horatio Seymour. Elect
him, and they would elect a statesman. a
christian, patriot, beloved and honored ev
erywhere-south, by God! as well as north.
(Cheers.) They would have statesman
who would throw on the south CLEAN of
hope"
Can any one doubt what this party means ?
Their purpose is to depose the president, sub
vert the government, and place the country
under the rule of a splendid tyrant. George
Wilkes, an old democrat, who has studied its
leaders and understands them, says:
'We regard the approaching election in
this state as the crisis of the nations fate.
And we think we can trace the details of the
plot by which the rebel leaders in the south.
and the traitors here, have made it their last
stake in the rebellion. We naturally turn for
this purpose to the Albany convention which
nominated Seymour; and next, to the meet
ing by which he was ratified in this CITY. at
the Cooper Institute; bearing in mind ali the
repeated cries which have been set up from
the Discontinued camp, that the president
Sh0utd DC UepOSed.
On both these occasions we closely read
Seymours speech, and from the mass Of
smooth, superficial, arttul geueralihes, de-
tected two little specks, which came to the
surface so soft and velvet like, as to scarcely
chip the shell. These were illusions TO the
supreme court of the United States, as a
branch of the national supremacy which was
superior even to the executive; nay, the
highest essence, as well as last landmark Of
the constitution. Itpuzzled us at firstto trace
the roots Of this idea, for we felt that mind
so subtle as Joseph Surface Seymour's would
put forth nothing without an established pur-
pose. The reiteration Of the same sentiment,