Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-03
WORCESTER:

IN the boarding house of the peace delegates
and implored them to place the north in the
sack cloth and ashes of humiliationl And
the same spirit animates his counsels to-day
He and his associates have recently assembled
in this hall. Did one word escape their
lips in disapproval of the conduct of Buchan-
an and Toucey, who closed their eyes to the
golden opportunity of nations salvation, and
gave up the precious ship to the pirates? Oh,
no? but they condemn his administration who
is laboring, might and MAN, to restore the flag
which their hands hauled down. Did they in
woke the people of Massachusetts to unite as
one man to support the government in sup
pressing the rebellion? Oh no! but they sent
forth howl of denuuciation upon the war
policy of the government, and then attuning
their voice to the pulling cry of compromise
they open place in their capacious bosom for
all such 'mild and conservative republicans
as will accept the embrace of their patriotism
and their love, and be lugged in innocency to
such a sacrifice. Go to that embrace, we who
will; | prefer to remain behind. loud APP
plause.) Go to that sacrifice, We who will;
prefer to stand by my country. CONTINUED
cheering)
Mr.. President, the democratic party as now
recognized at the north is essentially reac-
tionary. 1t is arraying itself against the adj
minstration and its policy, it censures the
most rigorous measures for thessuppression of
the rebellion, and is rapidly reaching that
point of opposition which men in arms
against the government will hail with hope and
JOY. Already it hiss been welcomed in Rich
mond as certain ''to obstruct if not absolutely
defeat an efficient prosecution of the war;"
Already it has proclaimed as the policy of this
party in New York, that the states now in
ttl,o I,o el,r H. 4
into Il national convention to change the con-
stitution, and that failing, that the dismal line
of separation shall be run, God iii his omnis-
cience only knows how or where. Here in
Massachusetts. the opposition is becoming the
same in spirit, though thus far more cautious
in language.
There is really no difference between OPP
posing the war and opposing the practical APP
plications OF the laws of war. (Applause.)
The same drift of dislOyalty which has borne
Cox and Vallandigham and Seymour from
their mornings, is bearing away those around
us who are clamoring that the laws of war
should give way to constitutional provisions
which were designed for the period of peace.
All fellowship with such a spirit, or with
such an organization, is inevitable antagon-
ism to the government. loud applause.)
The triumph of this opposition IN New
DIRK and Massachusetts would be received in
Paris and London as demonstration that the
free aud loyal states are making ready for the
terms of submission. The only question left
open would be of merely incidental impor-
lance, whether the last gun shall be fired be-
fore the new year rings in.
We stand in the breach to rebuke this criti-
cal, this perilonS reaction. Our armies are
about to march in new force upon the rebel
lion, and they should be supported by the I'M
changable devotion of the people. The door
of peace now lies open only through earnest
war, eliminating in victory, or through sepa-
ration, submission and humiliation such as no
people since the world began has been
called to taste. War, then, earnest,
blazing war should be the universal i'm
pulse, the universal Judgment. Standing
as we do between our own living and dead,
between reverse and victory, with certain
union and certain glory before us, five firmly
uphold the government; ''not leaf in the
thickest forest should whisper peace, not
ripple on the farthest Shore Whatever per-
son or whatever party encourages distrust or
discord in this crisis, or in any way, directly
or indirectly, weakens the army of the gov
eminent, incurs responsibility which is de-
plorable, which is frightful. cloud and long
continued cheerng.)