Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-16
Traitors against Congress.

This is the peoples war. They voted it.
Every ballot cast for Lincoln meant hostility
to the sway of the reasonable slave power.
The rights of mighty and intelligent people
had been usurped by Shareholders, and they
voted to reassume those rights, at all hazards
and every cost
They have prosecuted the war from its be-
ginning until the present hour. When the
government stood appalled, at the new and
terrible prospect, the people pressed it for
ward. A cry like the rushing of many waters
rolled down from the north to Washington
,'No compromise, no dallying with traitors.
The rebellion must be crushed and the Union
restored" And a million men stepped forth
from the ranks of the people, soldiers by their
own free will to indicate by arms, the right,
not of any king or dynasty, or oligarchy, but
of the people, to cover the continent with free
and democratic institutions.
And the people will continue to prosecute
the war to the end, and that end victory and
peace. Generals, statesmen, accidentally in
charge of affairs, may fail to comprehend the
magnitude of the crisis, and falter at the
head of the mighty movement. They will
only ruin themselves and check but Temporal
rily the progress of events. The columns
behind, the millions of northern freemen,
fighting intelligenuy for their own rights and
to leave to their children free empire be-
fore which the world must bow in rever-
ence, will never falter, but through dis
aster and defeat press on to victory, and
when they have accomplished their will, and,
by the sword regained peace, they will see to
it that the victory is not barren one, and the
peace not hollow compromise-fruitful of
new wars. Those who talk about the Union
as it was, and fancy that the restoration of a
lost status Is all that is sought, mistake amaz-
ingly, not only the crisis, but the powers
which control it. The people of the north
have spent too much blood and treasure in
the war, not to demand and obtain an equiv
alent. If they cannot receive indemnity for
the past they will obtain security for the fu-
ture.
OF course the people have been opposed at
every step, and will be to the end, by des-
perate and unprincipled minority. This mi
norlty used to cheat the majority by crafty
management and alliance with their brethren
at the SOUTH Thus they monopolzed to
themselves the spoils and patronage of the
Federal government. Left at last to their
own strength by the masters who had used
them as long as they would answer their turn,
their influence sunk at once to its merited in
significance. They bowed their craven heads
before an indignant public sentiment. They
ma their secession flags and flung out the
stars and stripes; and from the beginning till
now they have been striving to obtain an in
huence which they may exert at the prop.r
time to blunt the northern victory, and cheat
the nation out Of the good fruits of the war.
These political desperadoes are now ret
ting ready for an onslaught upon congress
the time Of whose meeting is now approacb
ing. They know well enough that the pres
ent congress represents, and that the mex
will no less fully, the sentiments Of the peo
pie. They are therefore seeking to excit
the army against congress, and to ntimidat
the representatives by abuse Of politicians
and threats Of military interference. Some q
the more reckless journals in the interest q
this minority are throwing out feelers in tn