Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-01
Can these things be,
And overcome us like Il summer cloud,
And not excite our special wonder"

Had these men eaten of the insane root? Do
they suppose that nicknames have any terrors
for the descendants of the pilgrims and that
because Beauregard IN his letter to Bragg, in
tercepted and published has given out that
Yankees must hencetorIh be called abolition
lists, they can win any credit for wit, or digni-
ty, or patriotism by adopting the traitors war
cry: DO they suppose that by sophistries so
shallow, by pretencgS so transparent, the pa
triot commonwealth is to be directed from a
manly and thorough support Of the admins
tratiOn and all its policy! Do they suppose
that Massachusetts in her old age is about to
turn tory? Gracious God do these men sup
pose that at their invitation the people of Mas
Sachusetts are going into masquerade, when
graves are opening for their sons and BROTH
ers on every field of treason? Let the ides of
November answer. Earnest and long APP
plause.)
And how is it proposed to give effect in
Massachusetts to this disguised and this open
hostility to the administration? In the first
place by striking down the approved and re-
cognlzed representatives of the policy of the
administration in the house of representatives
and senate of the United States. | am utter
| ly unable to understand why all this tone of
bitterness against Charles Sumner. This
much, however, the electors Of Massachusetts
do understand and appreciate, that having la
| bored in the senate ten years in minority, in
| the last eighteen months, since those with
whom he was associated politically have been
in the majority, he has risen to Il leading and
! commanding position among all his peers
! (great applause) in that body. That he has
! labored with constancy uncommon among
public men,-that he has been attentive, ac-
tive, and efficient in behalf Of every interest
of Massachusetts, (applause) and in support
| of every honorable request which any Massa-
chusetts man has made upon him, whether of
| business or courtesy, that he has presided
| over our foreign relations with thorough
ness and comprehensveness of states
manshp not often equaled, that he has dis
played like ability in forensic debate and in
the details of business, that he has been the
intimate, confidential, undertaking friend and
adviser to the president, that he has been at
his post Of duty early and late beyond the
usage Of even his fellow senators, these are
matters attested by the journal and by the
common understanding of all impartial men.
A strange cry is raised for practical men.
But in the high subjects of state, pray, tell
me, who is the practical man, he who has
shown talent for making up sharply a bill of
costs in court, or he who has advised and
shaped our treaties with the great govern
mentS of the world? (Great applauSe.) He
| whose experience is confined to making an
invoice or the management Of goods in the
package, or he who, with scope and vision
large enough for the whole north and the
whole west, sounds to the depths of the ques-
tons Of finance and the national tariff? (Con-
tinued applause.) He who thinks he does
well if he understand his own tax under our
complicated law, or he, who, ever attentive to
the interests of all branches of business which
sent their committees to Washington throng-
ing around him, comprehended them all and
aided to bring them all into an equitable and
Ineligible commercial system? Let the Bos-
| ton committees from Massachusetts, who have
visited the capitol to look after their affairs,
| give us their impartial answer. Col. Bullock
| here recited the testimony Of Lieus Child
himself in favor of the great practical eff
cheney of Mr.. Sumner in the senate. 1t was
received with great applause and merriment. !
No, no, fellow citizens, you desire to in
| dulge in no unjust or irrational judgment upon
| Mr.. Sumner as your public servant. With
what industry, with what fidelity, with what
marked ability, with what labor and patience
of theory and research, in commerce, in for
| eign relations, in internal administration. in
behalf OF humanity and the rights of men, let
the journals and all his colleagues bear wit
| ness, he has represented Massachusetts in the
! highest OF councils now twelve years, save
| only that vacation which can never be obliter-
ated from your memory or from the memory