Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-14

league. In the course of his address bo
said:
SHALL THE NATION OR SLAVERY CONQUER?
When it is demonstrated that the perma-
nent existence of slavery is incompatible with
the safety, and even the life of the nation.
shall not the pretended claims of slavery give
away! Had not the people of Rome right
to drain the Pontine Marshes, whose malari-
Gus exhalations nightly rose and spread over
the city, bearing sickness and death to its
households, although it might interfere with
the water lots of frog breeders and snake fam
ciers? The health of the city was of more
consequence than the vested rights of the rep-
tile-mongers that lived on the margin of the
immense bog. l beg to know just how sacred
this right Of enslaving men is. AT what grad
uated point on the scale of sacred and precious
things does it stand? Is it as sacred as prop
erty! The people will have given thousand
millions of property before this struggle is
over, a 1ree-wlll offering, to save the country.
business Frustrated, the afiluent reduced to
Deggary, bankruptcy which no skill could
loresee and no sagacity avoid, submitted
TO uncomplainingly, for the sake of the
country. 1t can almost be said of the cam
merclal community of our great cities. as if
was OF the early Christians-they took the
spolilng OF their goods joyfully-the one for
Ohrlst sake and the other for their coun
try $ sake. All classes throughout the land
have suffered in their kind and degree. in the
same manner and for the SAME purpose Is
property in the bodies and souls of men made
In the image of God and redeemed bv the
blood OF atonement any more sacred than 9TH
er property! Can every other pecuniary in
tereSt be sacrificed on the altar of public
veal, and this anomalous and impious claim of
property In human flesh remain untouched. as
too sacred to be meddled with? Human life
is sacred. Yet when Ellsworth fell we said it
was right; he died for his country. The
scholarly, and intrepid and gentle Winthrop
was slain, and, grief-stricken, we bowed, saw
ing it was for his country. The gallant Ba-
ker fell at that terrible slaughter of Balls
Bluff and we acquiesced, exclaiming it was
for his country. The noble-hearted LYON
was borne lifeless from the bloody battle of
Springfield, and to assuage our anguish we
cried he died for his country. Gen Wallace.
my nelghbor, and l know not how MANY
scores, gave up their lives on the hard-fought
field Of Shiloh, forty of whom, nv constitu
ents, were brought home, and buried in one
| grave; but we submitted to the terrible trag-
edy, for they were slain fighting the battles of
their country. The story Of Williamsburg
and Far Oaks Is not yet told. What a vast
| and precious sacrifice of human life has there
| has been to preserve the republic Is slave
| ry more sacred than all this human life
! There Is young man, the only son of his
mother, and she widow His country calls.
and he says, ''Mother, am going to enlist
! Then comes the struggled convulsive strnp
| gle-between a mothers love and the love of
| country-an only son and the republic. At
last, with divine energy of self. sacrifice she
says, in broken Sobs, $50, my son; fight
and, if it must be, die for your country" |
have seen this. And now, in Gods name, is
tins unholy thing slavery more sacred than all
these! Shall property vanish, the dead be
piled IN hecatombs on the field of slaughter.
parental hearts pierced with the arrows of an
guish, wife, sister, and betrothed stricken
with grief, and yet the clutch of the enslaver
remain unrelaxed, and the fell DESTROYER who
has caused all this waste of property and life,
all this mental and heart suffering be left I'M
molested! 1t cannot be. We are not thus
berett of reason. | have no patience with
those who cnShrine this stupendous crime and
surround 1t with the sanction of an idol, and
say let it alone-great is Diana of e Ephes
lans Great is American slavery!
| WHAT PRESIDENT LINCOLN THINKS ABOUT IT.
The president is like man driving a horse
in the thills of a buggy, and leading another
behind by a halter-strap. The one in the
shafts is most superb animal-broad be-
tween the eyes, ears small, short around the
throat stitie full and hard, short coupled, and
can clear ditch and hedge, high spirited and
fast and In all points just such steed as the
| pencil OF Rosa Bonheur would delight to
trace, and such as Bonner or Vanderbilt new
er drew line upon. The creature behind is a
very different kind of animal; he can do no.
! thing but hold hack no iorI-s o,J go. 1..1
on the halter; he has a large head. striking
aurlcular development; his ribs are as dis
tnct as the hoops on a BARREL his hip bones
are enormously high, and he bears unmistak-
abe evidence OF never having made the ac-
| quantance OF the oat-bin and his caudal des-
ututon Is precisely that of Tam O'Shan-
| ters mare after she made the convulsive
spring that brought Tam safe across the run
ming stream where warlock and witch could
ma follow. 1t is very awkward managing two
horses in this way, as | know from expert
ence. Now, the president knows that the
horse radical that he is driving can 90
ahead, for he has by him been taken in
| handsome style into the executive chair:
but he Is little afraid that this mettle-
some charger cannot be trusted going down
NIL, otherwise he would let go of the old
rackabones that hobbies along behind. Now.
| the president out or break the carriage. but
to go so steadily that the executive can be
assured that he is safe with the radical steed.
down hill as well as up, and on level ground,
ana then he will drop the strap and let the
| oid conservative ROsenante go to grass | am
Tor pouring on all the steam that the machine
rywll bear, but it is better to get into port few
hours late than to risk the explosion of the ma
| cmnery. If the president does not believe all |
do, believe all he does. If he does not drive
as fast as | would, he is on the same road,and
it is a question of time. The great tide of
events sweeps onward under guiding power
OF experimenting Providence, bearing with
1t president and cabinet and congress. Safe
piotage is quite as needtul now as propulsive
power, for there is a semi-secession foe
crouching in the junglcs of sham democrat
cy, ready to spring upon the Union forces at
the very first opportunity that promises any
success. There may be an eddy in the flow
Of this great river, but the resistess current
sweeps onward.