Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-10
GMOteester aailg SPY.
From Harper's Weekly.
Important Political Movement,

ly taken place In this city, and which is likely
to exercise no small influence upon the des-
TIMES of this state and the Union. 1t seems,
that few evenings since, a select party of
bankers, shipping merchants, politicians, law
yers and editors, met in a private room at one
of our hotels, and resolved to organize a new
party, to be known as ''The Antediluvians."
A prominent merchant observed that in his
opinion, things had been going from bad to
worse for many years. The entertainments
of the executive were becoming intolerable;
witness the execution of the martyr Gordon!
For his part, he believed in leaving trade en-
tirely free, and if a man chose to import ne
groes from Africa he saw no objection; it was
notorious that the spiritual condition of the
slaves in South Carolina was far superior to
that of the negroes in Ashantee or Dahomey.
He went in for saving souls where he could.
He thought the legislation of the United States
rotten, and advised recurrence to the old
colonial laws, under which his ancestors in
Rhode Island had done uncommonly well for
several generations.
An editor, in rising, wished to say that he
was in favor of the prosecution of the war
But he wished it prosecuted with some regard
to humanity. He was opposed to the she'd
ding of blood, especially the blood of our
brethren in the slave states. He could wish
several volleys with blank cartridge in the di-
rection of Richmond, after which deputation
should be sent to JEFF. Davis to offer him the
reVersion of the presidency on condition of
peace. His blood boiled when he thought of
the number Of slaves who had escaped from
their masters during the present war He
understood that Gen. Lee, whom he was
proud to call his friend, had lost two valuable
slaves. Why were they not returned? Was
the government a common thief? He was
not a church member himself but he had a
friend who went regularly to meeting, and
who informed him that in Deuteronomy
Here the speaker was interrupted by boy,
who's came in with a list of our killed and
wounded at the battle of Fair Oaks, which the
editor began to copy for his paper.
A lawyer remarked that the authors of the
war were the people of New England, and
that they were the real disunionists A pop
ular impression existed that it was the people
OF South Carolina who fired the first gun in
the war. This was a mistake 1t was Mass
achusetts which sought a severance of the
Union, not South Carolina. He was bound
to admit that the former had sent a few troops
to support the president, while the latter had
despatched her volunteers against Washing
ton. But appearances were often deceitful.
The South Carolinians were a whole souled
people, incapable ofdshonest dealings where
as he knew from experience that the New En-
CHAMBERS were rouges. He had a case.
Here he was called to order by the chair
man, who remarked that while he was glad to
hear that their friend the lawyer, had got a
case at last-it had nothing to do with the OBJ
ject of the meeting-They had met there to
see if something could not be done to stem
the tide of human progress and civilization,
which was sweeping before it the time honor
ed prejudices, abuses and wrongs to which
they all naturally chung He would call up
on his neighbor the banker, to ventilate his
opinion.
The banker remarked that the great trouble
in this country was the want of an established
aristocracy. His friend, Lord Thingumbob,
had told him so when he met him in Pail
Mall, and he was convinced of the fact At
the south, now, the large slave-owners con-
stituted an arstocraey-not so solid as might
be wished, he confessed as many of the
young men at the south were apt to gamble
away their niggers. He had himself won
yellow girl at poker, and sold her in six
weeks afterward for $500 Cha! haD, but
still the south had an aristocracy, and this
was the secret of the superiority of southern
men to northerners. He was decidedly in IA
vor of the organization of new party at the
north based on sound feudal principles. He
thought the United States required heredita-
ry aristOcracy selected from the bankers mer-
chants, bankers, lawyers, bankers men of
property, and so forth If a plank to this eff
feet were inserted in the platform of the new
party they might count him in.
A politician congratulated the meeting upon
the soundness of the views expressed by the
speakers, and the firm front they proposed to
present to the pernicious heresies of the day.
TY,f ln, e IL
try he had taken his side some time since, and
proposed to stand by it. He was in favor of
the war But after the war he wanted the
st0tu quo ante beltum absolutely restored. He
hoped to see his friend senator (now generaD
TOombs of Georgia, in his place in the SEN
ate his friend and correspondent, sem
ator Mason, now absent in Europe at
the head of the senate committee on
foreign relations his old acquaintance Mr.
Jefferson Davis, restored to the control of the
committee on military affairs, which his eXpe-
Tience during the present war will so admira-
bly, fit him to WELD; and brother Ben appoint
ed United States commissioner of lotteries,
with large percentage on the sale of poll
cies He agreed with his friend the lawyer in
the opinion that the north was at least as large
ly responsible for the war as the south. He
could see no difference himself between an
abolitionist and secessionst-a friend of
freedom and friend of slavery-a defender
OF the government and traitor They were
all one to him. With these few remarks, he
would move the following resolutions
Whereas, The rascally and dabolcal con-
duct OF the northern states, especially Massa-
chusetts, Vermont and Wisconsin. have
plunged this country into fratricidal war.
and whereas, the bloodthirsty representatives
from these states refused persistently to avert
the war by adopting the advice of such pure
patriots as Breckenridge, Vallandigham and
Hunter, and giving up everything demanded
by the southern people;
EAnd whereas, The southerners have al
ready proved their valor, and the utter i'm
possibility Of subjugating them by force of
arms;
''Be it resolved, |. That the times call for
the establishment of new northern party
consisting of all the virtue and worth, and
most of the modesty of the north, to crush
out and keep down the rascaly Jacobinical,
radical faction.
''2. Thatthe cardinal principle of this party
be the restoration Of the Union as it was, with
Mason, Slidell, Breckenridge, Davis and Hun
ter in the senate, Pryor, Stephens and Barks-
dale in the house, the fugitive slave law in full
operation throughout the north, and slavery
in all the territories, present and future.
"3. That with view to conciliate our
southern brethren, the officers Of the southern
army should be admitted into the United
States army with the rank they now hold,
and that the supreme command be given to
zen Beauregard, who should be appointed