Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-22

nominated you for the Office of Governor of
Massachusetts, for the ensuing year.
Very truly and respectfully yours,
\. IL. BULLOCK.
To the Honorable JoHN ANDREW, Boston.
BosroN, Oct. Is, 1862.
Honorable 4. II. Bullock, President of the
Republican State Coarention:
Nv Dear Sir: | am reminded that until
now l have left unanswered your letter of
September y, apprising me of my nomination
for reelection, by the republican state con-
vention held on September 10 at Worcester.
This delay am sure you will pardon, since
the subject matter is 50 far personal to my
self that felt entitled to place it on the file of
those things which, in the pressure of CON
tending cares, might stand deferred with the
least inconvenience to others. Meanwhile,
silence was, in itself, an acceptance of the
nomination.
And now beg leave, my dear sir, to avail
myself of this opportunity to present, through
you, my sincere acknowledgements for this
repeated assurance of fVvor, and to express
my hearty gratitude for the generous consid-
Grafton with which the people of MaSsachu-
sets have received and seconded my humble
efforts IN their service.
Called, two years ago, TO occupy the chair
of chief executive magistrate of the common
northumberland by any experience of
office save that of one years service in the
lower branch OF the leglslature,-I early found
myself charged by the course of national
events with duties novel, sudden, vast, and
admitting no delays, without precedent for
my guide and with no similar previous eXper-
fence OF any other person to assist me. Hav-
ing long studied the character of that peculiar
organization of society which distinguishes the
rebel states, l was not surprised by the por-
tents of the winter of l960-6l. In addition to
the public manifestations making clear to my
own mind the desperate atrocity contemplated
by the rebel leaders, had already been dis
tinctly warned by the private conversation of
the eldest and most distinguished of their num-
ber that the slaveholding states had reached
a settled determination not to remain longer
i'll political relations with our own and hav.
ing once seeded therefrom, not to return
until the principle Of majority government
should be changed by II new distribution
of political power, nor until the New England
states should repeal all laws by which slavery
was forbidden within their own borders. 1t
secmedalready plain, therefore, long before the
fall OF Sumter, that the federal Union was to
be asSailed, the government itself overthrow,
and war to the bitter end, levied and main
tanned against democratic republican liberty,
and the constitutional forms under which it
was defined and preserved. The scheme in
volved a dissolution of the Union as the first
to be accomplished, to be followed by a re-
| construction on the basis of a new distribution
| of political power. 1t involved, as the second
fact to be accomplished, the abolition Of the
majority principle in our government, or in
other and palmer words, the subversion of
democracy. And finally, it involves the legal
establishment OF slavery in all the states now
free. The dissolution Of the Union, the sub
reTSlon0f democracy, and the Mathematical
ton Of SlaCe1y-thesc are the three acts in
the damnable drama of treason and rebellion,
included in the original conspiracy, of which
new and cumulative evidence is found in the
words of Mr.. Van Buren,, recently spoken in
New York in support of the election OF Mr..
Seymour, counsellng a voluntary dismissal
OF the rebel states, read in connection with the
words Of Mr.. Petit of Indiana, spoken on a
similar occasion, declaring the universal es
adjustment of slavery, in all the states, to be
the appropriate means of ending the rebellion.
Meanwhile a body of political Bourbons, such
as are found in every people-who cannot for
get, and who will not learn-play half
sciouSly into the hands of the conspirators, by
crying down every earnest. devoted and zeal
GUS public servant, civil military, who de-
liyers a telling blow against the public enemy,
and by opposing every positive act or decree
which weakens his substantially beg
ging of Jefferson Davis and his confederates
to name the terms Of our concession and hui
initiation, on which they will consent to re-
| turn and govern the country without Substi-
| tuting new name and new flag.
Now-fOr one humble citizen Of the Amer
| lean Union, for one son of the ancient COM
monwelth which guards the ashes of the Pill
| ipI f,o 10 |,
| of our infant Liberty, and on whose rocky
foundations are the earliest revolutionary bat
tie grounds where that liberty was the prize
for which our fathers perillcd or laid down
their lives-I am ready not only day by day
to renew my own allegiance, but with proud
and high defiance to proclaim the eternal
fidelity of Massachusetts to the ideas Of her
origin, and the traditions of her history.
With an immortal faith in Right, and an UNI
dying hate of Wrong, Massachusetts will
pursue her bright career; nor will rest, nor
be content until the conspirators shall be over
| whelmed, their armies conquered, their
| schemes forever frustrated, and the Union,
| Liberty and Democracy reestablishcd on sure
| foundations, defying all the shocks and snares
| of fate and time. But, whether at an earlier
| or later day, the brave endurance of our
! heroes on the field and the patient hearts of
a rich and enduring reward. Peace when it
| comes, will be secure. We shall hear no
| menaces or dsunion hereafter, to scare peo-
| pie out of their manhood; and we shall hear
| no more that the fear of man is the beginning
of wisdom. The industry and ingenuity Of
| free people will not hereafter be confronted
| by the brutal and devastating influences of
slavery contendng for the mastery Of capital
over labor in the new lands and VIRGIN soil of
the nation. Immigration of free white labor
! ers. carrying with them the humble gains of
their INDUSTRY, will be possible into states
| from which slavery has hitherto banished
even their own sons, driven by that monopoly
of land which slavery creates, away from
field, and mines, and waterfalls, and thous-
and natural sources of wealth denied to them
and unimproved by their possessors. The
| states which now hold slaves, never vet cult.
vatng more than a sixth part of their cotton
land nor one fif!ieth part Of their whole SOIL
will beckon back to the shores of the Gulf, to
their natural climate and its attractions, social
and industrial, the poor refugee from slavery
now among us, who, with the instinct of their
destiny, as pilgrims and strangers in the
north, seldom purchase land or strike root
| deep down into northern soil. competition
Of colored labor from the south against the
| labOrers Of the north, here at home. will be
| forever prevented by the only means by which
it can ever be rendered impossible--by rem
| derng it possible for the colored man to live
as freeman in his own home, instead of be.
| ing driven out, as he now is, to seek refuge in
u climate from which he always retres, when
he can, to warmer ATTITUDES. The hatreds and