Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-23
MONDAY. JUNE es, 1859.

extreme FeIe Jhey hdJ lce frequently hedTQ
their motires impugned for the fercenesS Of
their opinions against their orn section Of
the Unioa.-Men,phiS Avalanche.
Since the restoration of Tennessee to the
''old government" the fercest organs of the
secession conspiracy have become meek as
doves, and only refer to past events for the
sake of finding palliaton for their offences.
The above is one example which the Ava.
lanche puts forward among others as an ex..
cuse to be weighed in favor of its appeal for
lenient treatment. We have no doubt that its
Impeachment of northern-born citizens of
Tennessee is in part just and true. We have
in mind instances in which citizens of Massa.
chusettS have, upon removal to slave states,
forgotten the traditions of their fathers, and
Joined their fortunes to slavery with all its
crimes. Tennessee may have been unfor-
tunate enough to catch some of these rene.
gade sons of honest parentage, who took
the first opportunity to show how far they had
fallen away from the grace in which they had
been educated.
1t might be interestingly would not be
dificult-to trace the consecutive steps of
their decline, by which they came, from toll
cradle patriots at home, to be Of 1.-The ex-
treme southern class" in Tennessee, winning,
with unexpected justice, the suspicion and
contempt of traitors born on the soil. 1t
would appear that they took their first lessons
IN that vicious school of politics which forty
two years ago initiated pro-slavery legisla-
ton, and for the intervening period kept it
the settled policy of the government 1t
would appear that they improved upon their
instructors by accepting slavery, not as
thing to be tolerated till it should die natural
ly, but to be saved from death-cultivated and
strengthened. 1t would be seen that they
took seriously what their partisan teachers
said for partisan effect of the improving and
increasing northern sentiment against that de-
structive system, and tried to convince their
slaveholding neighbors that the purpose of
the controlling sentiment of the free states
was to break up the government andintroduce
reign of red-republicanism or OF anarchy in
its stead. And it would be seen, finally, that
tiIS SONSlhHiSlt DIT ldSl lcll lIlO IltlIluS
which were strong enough and able to save it,
when the people they had misrepresented and
outraged came after long exile into possess
sion of their own, these northern born men
of the extreme southern class" these despised
betrayers of their own household, fell natural
ly into the only remaining infamy which was
left to them, and attempted to lead the as
saultupon the hearthstones they had betrayed.
There is much that is suggestive in the
singularly just impeachment which the hum
bled southern editor makes of his northern
friends. Those who speak in the interest of
that old and now, fortunately, declining school
of politics, will not allow us, even now. to
forget how long and persistently they forced
the poison of their Misrepresentation into
every southern family that could read--or
with what persevering industry they labored
to preserve the vast political power of slavery
in the government when nature and provi-
.dence had decreed that it should die Even
now, when it stands red-handed in the path of
all prosperity, when in the words of Gen.
Rousseau of Kentucky, "a negro before the
eyes of Union STAKEHOLDER casts black
shadow upon the sun ITSELF" they hold back
the hand that would remove the impeachment,
and let in daylight and peace once more
They charge the purest patriots with disloyal-
ty, if they fail to treat this obvious difficulty
with proper respect. They arraign the high
est statesmen in the land before their vain
tribunal, who anticipate the necessity of saw
ing the government at the expense of remov-
ing its troubles. They tell the revolted states
to-day, that in the presence of such
a purpose their rebellion would be
justified, and encourage them to hope
that the time may come when the influences
which favor such result will be overthrow.
Vain and foolish prophets! Half million
northern men have not taken this sacrament
Of fiery baptism with the expectation of back
sliding into the old career of political profit
gacy, which came so fearfully near ending
with the ruin of the republic. Millions of
families throughout the loyal states have not
endured the sorrows of bereavement by bat
tie, or the heavy sickness of anxiety or of
hope deferred, with the purpose of receiving
again into social and political union the enc
mics who have caused their sorrow, with the
mischievous elements of their power still in
operation, and the purposes of their long-con-
ternplated revolt still unfulflled.
1t is fortunate-more fortunate than any
thing else-that, with an army competent for
its work in the field, there is also civil power
at the head of the government that compre-
hends the signs of the times, and means that
whatever else may happen, the republic shall
hereafter be worthy of the sacrifice. Con-
gress and administrations will pass away; but
laws founded upon justice-public policy es
tablished upon natural rights-the consttu-
ton construed for a whole administration as
the colonial laws were made, upon the basis
of equity-will carry their salutary influence
and example through all the future of the re-
public, for generations more fortunate than
ours to enjoy.
HE PRESIDENT AND THE PRooRvss,vr
fRiENDs'-The religious society of Progress.
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