Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-27
@Ottester Daily Spy.
Who are their Friends

Let the mudsills of Massachusetts read
what the chivalry say of them and their mas
terS the friends of the rebels here.
DIR. Bellows informs us that the slavehold-
ers are brave and fascinating aristocrats with
small hands and feet!
Lucky for us since we were made only to
be trodden upon. Their fingers are certainly
Light enough! Witness their exploits in pill
lage before which the chivalric Dick Turpin
and captain Kidd sink into nsignifcance.
We always knew they were born to rule us,
but until lately they claimed to do it through
their dear friends the pro-slavery democrats.
What new light has broken in upon Mr..
George Fitzhugh?
He now talks of waiting until the ''gentle-
men, conservatives, scholars, and christians,
who have always ridden our masses, shall be
again in the saddle!"
If we are such asses as to let them mount
may their spurs be sharp and their lash heavy,
for we shall deserve it
What has lately happened in Massachusetts
to lead these chivalric, small-footed gentry to
expect a revolution here in their favor?
Can it be the ''No PGgty' movement for
sustaining the president?
Are they so infatuated as to believe that
the people of Massachusetts, entrenched be-
hind their common schools, are to be caught
by such fiimsy chaff as the no party concern?
The old proverb says it is wise to learn of
our enemy!
Let honest and patriotic men who have been
seduced by their prejudices into this no party
movmeent read Mr.. Geo, Fitzhugh and con-
slider what sort of company they are getting
intoi
Let the people of Massachusetts read him
and keep sharp look out for the virtuous
and intelligent g0CegHing class which he SO
soon expects to see riding them! AUDAX.
We shall not offend our friends in Massa-
chusetts by legislation directed at the party
now in the ascendant Never were baser
set of wretches in possession of power than
those who have ruled and voted in that state
ever since the time of the Hiss legislature;
and yet no state possesses so many men emf
nently fitted to rule. The creatures born
with saddles on their backs have thrown their
riders. The dogs have escaped from the ken
mel. But horses and dogs need masters they
cannot long live without them. The present
governing class in Massachusetts are natural
ly the lower layer of society. They are in
capable of fulfilling, for any length of time,
any other offices than those belonging to that
lower layer. They will soon subSide into
their proper position, and be glad to get gentle
men, and conservatives, and scholars and chris
tians, torule over them, while they 'hew the wood
and draw the water These outbreaks of So
ciety, in which ''the meanest get uppermost''
will occasionally occur. But in the long run
virtue governs vice, intelligence governs ig-
norance, religion controls intidelity. Let us
of the south be patient, and wait for that pro-
cess of subsistence and qualification in north
ern society, which will be sure to put our
friends uppermost; for it is as natural for
them to ride as it is for the masses to be rid
den. He who denies that God made the null
titude to be directed, governed, and controlled
by the few, and that this common multitude is
happier, more virtuous and prosperous, when
governed, than when governing, quarrels with
the course of nature, and disputes the wisdom
and benefcence of Deity. Universal suffrage
may put society wrong side up, but nature is
all-powerful, and soon brings down the lower
layer or stratum to its true place.-GeOrge
Fitzhugh Of Virginia.