Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-21
Causes of the War.

The accusation has often been made and
reiterated that the republicans and anti-slave-
ry men of the north were the sole cause of the
war. The following extracts of speech de-
livered by the Hon. Mr.. Hamilton, ex-mcm-
Der of congress from Texas, who is demo-
Graf and a STAKEHOLDER, at the Academy of
Music, Brooklyn, N. Y, completely rcfutes
the unjust accusation =
81 meet with men every day who can con-
vince me as they suppose that the abolitionists
OF the north were the cause of the rebellion. ;"
''ltis too late TO ask, but perhaps well enough
to inquire, what were the causes of the rebel
lion. | cannot do better than to call your at
tention to what one of the leading spirits, a
Mr.. Spratt, Of South Carolina, said, who ad-
dressed Il communication OF great length, and.
as he intended, with consummate ability, re-
plete with all the arguments that the school
to which he belonged, could bring to bear up
on the principles upon which their government
was to be based, as contrasted with the gov
eminent of the United States. He said there
icdS no man 1chO deSerued the name of states
man at the south, rho lcould pretend that Sc
ceSSloH WaS caused By any aggression of the
north upon the rights Of the people of the
south He said that it was still less the re-
suit of any act of oppression on the part of
the United States government. What, then,
was the reason? lie said that it was because
of the difference in the organization of society
north and south. 1t was because in the non
Slaveholding states, from the fact that every
man was free man, you were necessarily
democratic; every man being free man, it
resulted that the iaboring class in the non
slavehoding states had the power in the gov
eminent and it required but little argument to
prove that when that was the case, the govern
ment was IN the heels OF society, because labor
was always in excess of the direction of labor ::
that is to say, there were more laboring men.
and there would continue to be, than there
were men who by means of their capital di-
rected labor. He said that when government
was in the hands of those who direct labor
alone, it was in the head of society, where it
properly belonged" He was explaining in
this letter that the government at Montgome-
ry, Ala, had failed in meeting the objects of
the revolution, because it had not provided
for re-opening the slave trade. Said he it
Will involve the necessity of another revolu-
ton. Here is the evil; here are the laboring
men, and they are in the majority too, who
weld the power in the government. They
vote at the ballot-box, snd from the premises
that 1 have laid down you will perceive that
slavery and democracy are incompatible
And, said he, in this second revolution that
Will be forced upon us, although it NAV be
bloodler than the one in which we are now en-
gagged, we must get rid of the last and the
least remains OF democracy, and, to use the
least plain and emphatic of his words, lce
must mare StGUe-driStocrdcy p'
| 1--WE ell, fellow citizens, if that was the sem
tment OF one leading man in the SOUTH if it
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ing spirits of the rebellion to another. the
trusted agent of the state of Louisiana, then
sitting member of the new government.
there might be but little significance in it.
If it had been reprobated by the public press
of that country, if it had been condemned
by the public voice and when | say the
public voice [ mean that of those who WELD
the power of the south; whose voice alone
is heard it might have gone for nothing
but when you bear in mind that letter was
reproduced in the south, spoken of in terms
of commentator, and no man has to this
day uplifted his voice against any one of the
positions there assumed if you knew it as
know it, you would feel. fellow citizens,
that there was something more involved in
TINS revolution, than the simple desire to get
rid Of the hated Yankee"
" II IS not because the men whoinaugurated
1t hated the people of the North. As Mr..
Spratt says, it was not because they felt that
you had seriously wronged them, but it was
deliberate purpose, on their part, to be the con-
HoHtHg sptrtS IN q aeW and different oyoey.
Of government, where hei,. powey pould be
Pe'petDdt, and they Would not be subjected IN
me chances Of a free choice of q free DcoDle in
securing elections as has been the case in Dost
""e m o"r country; and he that does not