Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-28
Moetester DaiIp Spp
George Raneroft ON the Var.


neouS vote, to nominate me unanimously as
their candidate for representative of the eighth
congressional district. This act | receive as
coming from men who are awake to the perils
that overhang our beloved country, and who
pledge themselves as citizens to be governed
by loyalty to the people.
The next congress will have before it the
most important subjects that ever engaged the
attention of a representative body since the
convention that framed our constitution; and
yet we seem to await the day of election with
a fearful levity or want of considerateness, as
though the old methods Of preparation, which
may prove sufficient in a season of unclouded
prosperity, would serve for this hour, when
our system itselfis threatened with overthrow.
1t is heart-breaking, after the lavish outpour-
ing of blood of those dearest to us, to con-
template the chances of failure from divisions
and wavering in the north. Yet after we have
sent out from this city alone troops enough to
constitute formidable army, we are advised
to manifest at the polls our consent to a dis
ruption of the country. We send men from
every household to the war; they show in the
battle field the most heroic courage, and vet
we are asked to vote that the war has no OBJ
lect, that we fight only to retreat with shame
1t we are beaten, and to submit with shame if
we are victorious.
The only possible chance for speedy end of
this war is its instant and vigorous prosecu-
ton. Hesitation brings chaos and prolongs
she strife indefinitely. There must be one
soul in the president, the army, and the peo-
pie, or the contest will drag along under the
distractions of conflicting, uncertain opinions;
and the short-sighted desire to gain peace by
submission may change it into a seven years
war, or thirty years war, or a war for gem
CREATIONS. Quick, united action can alone
bring it to an early end.
The voice of the state of New York as pro-
nounced in the elections, will ring through
the civilized world. Shall we not do our part
to make that voice clear for the Union! Are
we to devote all our resources to carry on the
war and then go to the polls to express the
opinion that the war, which certainly was
forced upon us and could not have been avoid
ed, was unnecessary and a mistake? Are the
citizens of New York to be so inconsistent as
to strain every nerve to gain the mastery in
the field and then to signify at the polls
readiness to faint and succumb? When the
oligarchy of the south began the war by wan
tonly insulting our flag, this people rose up
with calm and resolute eagerness which was
surpassed only by the sublime patience and
moderation with which they bore defeat and
mismanagement, and uncertain guidance.
Shall we now proclaim that the zeal was a de-
fusion?
The tory party of England, all the old
hereditary enemies to the perfect development
OF our free institutions, have been from the
beginning earnestly hoping to see our beautiful
flag rent in twain forever, and have been
unremitting in their advice to us to let half
the Union go. Shall we adopt them for our
counsellors? 1t is one of the sadest things,
in this time of general sorrow, that an effort
is made to persuade our fellow-c citizens of
foreign birth to give their votes in the interest
of the party of the English aristocracy which
from generation to generation oppressed them
at home.
Our bankers, with noble patriotism, placed
their wealth at the service of the governments
Are they now to be told that their loans were
offered without a purpose and without any
need? That the government should have
sought peace at any price, even at the sacri-
lice of our national character, by covering be-
fore the conflict which all the possible depre-
cation of pusillanimity could not have avoid
ed! Will they consent to see the government
so paralyzed, and its policy so uncertain, as
to leopard the restoration of public credit, and
to invite the interpOsition OF foreign powers?
Are our merchants prepared to wean them
selves from the free use of the Chesapeake
and the Mississippi? Win they, after having
won back these great highways, give them up
to a confederacy which is the child of rebel
lion, and which, from inherent causes, will,
in case of its separation be necessarily hostile
to us. True, our interests are bound up with
the south. But is the surrender of the capes
OF the Chesapeake, and of the Tortugas, and
of the Mississippi, to restore profitable COM
nerce? Will the REIMBURSEMENT forever of
vast tracts of countryside Italics of the Unit
ed States, unsurpassed for beauty, fertility
and healthfulness-prove the best mode of
promoting the exchanges of domestic pro-
ducts? viii the bar of custom houses,
stretched across the channels of our mighty
rivers, help internal navigation? To let the
revolted states go from longing for their
trade, is to die through fear of death; to re-
nounce the old intercourse entirely and for
ever, because to-day it is interrupted.
Our fellow citizens of foreign birth have
demonstrated the power of freedom to blend
them with us in one nationality and brother
hood, and they have shown by their conduct in
the general distress, how they have faith that
they are received into the bosom of nation,
and form part of one great real, living peo-
pie. Shall we send word to those of them who
are in camp that there is no American people
that the Union is a sham? Our city rightly
declared its sympathy with the gallant Corco.
ran, when he returned from his long captiyi-
ty What gave the chief lustre to his serv-
ices and his sorrows except this, that he had
fought and suffered for country and peo-
pie? And shall we now mar the honors
awarded him, by deciding that the Union is to
be given up, that the American people has
ceased to be-that the flag which he upbore is
to be robbed of halfits brightness? Testimo-
malls of regard have lust been sent to the vet
eran Sigel. Is New York to tarnish them by
a record at the polls that the fellow feeling,
with the patriotism which carried him across
the hills of Missouri and Arkansas, and placed
him as an advance guard in Virginia. is flag
ging and dying away?
The party at the south which has made this
rebellion is not and never was democratic
party; it was and is the most embittered hater
of democracy; it rests on the most narrow
and most selfish of oligarchies, which by the
very necessity of its nature seeks to extinguish
the democratic principles to crush the Union
and he power of the people. To sympathize
with them is to sympathze with oligarchy in
its proudest and most corrupt form. They
laughed among themselves at the very thought
of being called democrats. To call or to
have called Slidell and Benjamin and their
like democrats, to have invited them among
us to teach who should and who should not
be held to be members Of the democratic par
ty, would be a superb and unqualified jest, if
it mad not been followed by deadly conse
quences.
Complaints are made against the admins
tration; there never was and never will be
an administration that does not require to he
watched. But the people have chosen their
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