The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-08-20

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in that condition very short period of
rest, and it becomes rock, hardly yielding
to the energies of gun powder and fire.
So have we found the South. They were
once undecided. Time and the stupidity
of Government have consolidatedga hesi-
|tating into hostile people. Yet Mr..
Gordon is traitor if he calls fool a
fool sa a'+@ 9st - ssa@a s.. ~
ABoL1r1os SPIES, INFoRMERs AND rRUds.
The man who attends to every other
mans affairs, whether his own arc attend
ed tofor net, is almost exclusively a Mas
saehusettsl nuisance. To Massachusetts,
society meddling is, indeed, a. scourge SO
great that it may be doubted whether it
does not fully counterbalanee5 every com
fort and blessing concentrated In this ia
vored country Puritanism, which exalt-
ell the manly English spirit to fanaticism
onothe one hand 3, degraded it on the 9TH
er hand to espionage; its churches, were
mutual assurance societies for the morali-
ty of their members. Its doctrines are
forgotten. But the evil which the Puri-
tans unconseiouslY did lives after them,
and churches which detest their memory
andldepy their teachings are managed on
their principles. New England today is
covered with societies. in which the best
of men and women eouscientiousiy, but
reluctantly. and the worst of men and
women, eagerly and with a, deyilish de-
light, perform the part of spies and In
formers upon each other To say that
such a gigantic system of mutual espionl
age does not tend to degrade character,
is simply to say that caves dropping and
tale bearing are. not low and mean occu-
.pations.-. Under its influence, nothing is
known of a mans real character or dis
position. Habitual Batchfulness on the
one side awakens habitual hypocrisy on
the olher. And it is only when the little
saint of Boston expands into the gigantic
villain of New. Orleans or San Francisco
that you can tell how vast a benefit you
derived from hi. emigration. Thewicked4
ness looked little here, because We saw
but little of it. The enormous pressure
of universal listening and peeping had
| driven it deep. into the. innermest fbies OF
yoar society. SO pressed, i produces
smelling eommittees-iitt. elects His Legisl
latures, it brings such men as Deacos
| Palmer, to associate, out, Of. fear, with men
like Mr.. Washburn, Whom they receive
into their cellars and dismiss through
back doors Nobody viii deny the fact
or its application here, who is not. pre-
pared to. deny the. existence of the fcy
Mr, kallochx or his church members NJ
! Hayes, who peeped after. him, and blacl
mailed him, and then exposed him 1T i
1 Mr. Hayes turn o-day, i. may be- Mr.
Kalloch's turn to do that dirty work. fol
Mr. Hayes to5morrow,ss 80 >. -.aa.,o-I
!. It. is Mr.. Washburn.s turn now: i
may be the Gord5ns' turn by and by Bu
1 be- the turn whose iii Smay, the; system q
a. barbprousage and people applied to thu
j control of civilized inank ind ava kens th'
4 forcest resentment. Men have put VI
/ withothe ,savagest task masters; They
: have endured the bloodiest. tyrants with
; out resistance for many years. The,
t have submitted to the King Of Prussia
! to the Czars--to the House Of. Austria--
and even 1.-THE Turks but a government
!, Eef smeddling philanthropistss they canno
!, BEAR 1t resembles. the government Q
: yermin Il, moreathan any shumon .despotism
, Individually vile and odious, but quit
RI insignificant, when collected they are all
t pervading, all devouring, appal ling, loath
). .tsemest to every sense, and intolerable to th
: strongest. body and the frmest mind
RI Thus the government of the Robespierres
j, the Murats, the Washburns, the. Hobart
: and the Hayes, is the oppression whiel
max eth the wise man mad 1t made tn
Gordons mad when it was first applied +
: them. and what they uttered under it
7 influence was temper-pot treason. -
4 WHICH WOULD MAN PREFER?
, Yet there was sense as we'll as temper
ST they preferred jeff. Davis to ansAbo
lition government AS I understand s. a
: abolition government, manvmight en
| dure the goyernmentsof Mr.. Phillipsqfo
/. he is a gentfeman-.or of Mr.. Garrison
] for, whatever may have been Thought 9
: his sanity, his integrity was.aeyert qsses qssses
9 Itioned; buta the IA baiition goyernmen
. (which they understood wac che ineuisi
E ftoriarA cellar4the sink and cess poe
a committee which stood before them, OF
q dering them to, put out a fag--and
tnluk tuSI0 lS HO ludu VI otiti ~ MILL Gid
3 in his mind aq.who would, not prefer tn
:. wolfshness of a Davis to the pediculous
ness of Wash burn. ,~ss-, - -
y The Gordons have done no wrong
y They do not hate their native count,
d though they cannot like its imbecile GOV
: 4ernmentf A governinentwhichhas every
o thing given to sit by a generous peopl,
y and whielrT does nothing but waste time
P make broclamations and feed contractor
d cannot be liked OF trusted until it alter
d its course. 1t must continue isuspeete
d and unpopular, if it is, with every ai
u vantage and opportunity, sunable to 81
f cure peac. or make warlsaThose. sent
d ments Understand them to expires
If They have right, moralaasSwell as iega
y to express such sentiments. They ,ougl
is to express them; and won to the fanat
n who shallimeddle with them, or with an
|? one else in this way. hereafter. 80
'e TThe Commissioners then delivered h
IT. opinion. He said there was no case provel
1t and dismissed the complaint. The crow
IS in the court-rooml burst into applaus