Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-27
SATURDAY. SEPT. ca. 1850.
Tbo Coxernors, convention.

forts of certain chronic fault-hnderS can make
it So This meeting was eminently practical
and proper. 1t was a time of sorest need and
peril to the nation. Upon every one rested
the duty of highest effort and sncerest deyo-
ton. Throughout all her borders her gal
liant sons were arming to roll back the tide OF
war which threatened to sweep over her.
Gov. Curtin looked around for aid and coun-
sell To whom should he more naturally turn
than to his fellow governors? He is reported
to have summoned them to council. Wheth-
er this was the origin of the meeting or not.
the governors met, talked, concerted their
plans of action, and separated to their sever
al homes.
One would suppose that such convention
would have received universal appreciation.
The governors are the executive heads, the
chosen representatives of state sovereignties,
which in their federal connection are waging
a mighty war. 1t falls upon them to furnish
the living sinews by which the war is prose-
cuted. Their states are mutually and equally
interested in the conduct and results of the
war. Each one has its sons in the field and
the hospital. 1t can be readily understood,
that while harmony of opinion among the
governors is desirable, concert of action is
almost Indispensable. To promote this har-
mony and concert, undoubtedly, was the OBJ
iect of their meeting. They met as loyal
citizens, who from the beginning have borne
faithfully and cheerfully the great responsible
tiles of their positions as the executive officers
of states in war. They met to strengthen
the hands of the president, to devise ways
and means by which he could most effectually
crush out the rebellion, and restore common
peace to their states. They met to compare
views, to inform one another of their own
wishes and the wishes of their respective
states. They met, as the result proved, to
endorse the president, and tender to him their
good will and cooperation.
All this would seem to be conducive to good
rather than to harm, to strength rather than
to weakness But Notwithstanding this, the
governors were not permitted to enjoy their
little meeting in peace. Their movements
were heralded through the press. They were
accused ofintermeddling and conspiracy. 1t
was even stated in one journal that they had
kept back their troops from the president that
they might have them in hand for their own
revolutionary purposes. Frightful apprehen-
sions of Fremont at the head of these with
held volunteers, with the governors for his
aids, marching with fell intent upon the presi-
dent, took possession of men who had borne
rebel advances with the greatest equanimity.
Now the absurdity of this agitation and crit
cism must be manifest to all reasonable and
thinking men. These carping fault-fnders
are frightened at everything which looks like
making the war efficient, and doing harm to
their old friends, the rebels. They express
opinions and illuminate threats as to
the conduct of this war, but congress
must keep silent, governors must not
concert plans of action. Every avenue
thro ugh which the popular will can find
expression must be blocked up. Every
thing tending to keep the management of the
war under the influence of few old hunkers,
whose treachery caused it, pleases these men.
Everything tending to bring it down into the
hands Of the people and place it under their
direction produces in them the greatest indig-
nation.
But they might as well spare their pains.
The people intend to have voice and hand
in the matter. They will take care to elect
governors who will act for them faithfully and
in season and out of season, in concert or not,
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ability to do just what these fault-fnders fear,
and that is to exterminate the rebellion andits
cause.
They will send men to congress who I'M
derstand the dignity and power of that body,
as representative of the rulers of the repub-
lie. More than that the nation has for its
president man who really marches at its
head, to execute the will of God and the peo-
pie.
The end is drawing near. The triumph of
freedom is sure. Men who ought to have
lived century or two ago, will not find it al
together pleasant to live so much out of their
time. Certainly the less they attempt to in
terfere with the affairs of the present day, and
to criticise and find fault with the actions of
men who are really alive and conscious of the
state of things about them, the more it will be
for their own comfort and reputation. 1t is
time for them to understand that the day of
oligarchies has past that they are living in a
democratic age and country, and that it is
their duty to bow submissiyely to the will Of
the majority, and to keep silence in the pres.
ence of events which their intellects are no
framed to comprehend nor their hearts to APP
prove.