Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-28
The Union Men OF the south.

1t Is refreshing to read the reports of the
meetings which have been held, during the
last week, in New York and Brooklyn, by the
exiles from the south. Men of ability and
position at home, some of them having rep
resented their districts in congress, in the old
times when it was not crime to love the
Union, we may well turn to them for advice
and instruction, and accept their Judgment as
of highest authority on the subjects now at is
sue before the country.
One of the special objects for which theop-
position is mastering its motley forces against
the administration, as avowed by its leaders,
is to take care of the Union men of the
south. The ''abolitionists" they say are de-
termined upon inflicting indiscrminate ruin
upon the south. They are bound to exterm-
nate slavery, even in the loyal states. In the
address which our fellow citizens of the ''peo-
| pies" democratic party saw fit to issue in the
papers of yesterday, it is made one of the
principal charges against the republicans that
they are not going to spare slavery anywhere,
but having exterminated it by virtue of the
presidents proclamation, as far as the rebels
are concerned, will directly be seeking ways
and means to operate against it in the loyal
states, and where existing under Union slave
holders. This dreadful possibility has so far
worked upon their feelings that they have
been moved to appeal in pathetic terms to the
voters of the state to come away from the re-
publican party and help them to protect their
dear friends of the south against such terrible
designs.
But strange to say, the noble men who have
gathered in New York, driven by the rebels
from their families and homes, martyrs to the
love of true and not a sham Union, do not
share in the fears which so agitate our tender
hearted friends of this ''peoples" democratic
party. Not one of them all has a word of
sympathy or encouragement for the party in
New York, with which this party is cooper
ating. On the contrary, they are on the stump
for the republican party and its gallant candi-
date, WadswOrth; and they speak right out,
in terms which can not easily be misunder-
stood. We recommend our disturbed friends,
who are so alarmed lest Union Shareholders
may suffer loss at the hands of these radical
republicans, to read the resolutions adopted
at Cooper's Institute, last Saturday night,
written by Union shareholders owning slaves
worth a hundred thousand dollars, and adopt
ed amid thunders of applause, at meeting
addressed by Shareholders from several slave
holding states. From the self-consttuted
protectors we appeal to those whom they
would fain assume to protect.
These resolves endorse ''the confscation act
and the presidents emancipation proclama-
ton as eminently just and constitutional
measures which should be sternly enforced.
They rap John Van Buren, soundly over the
knuckles for being willing to halt our armies
at Richmond, and stcrnly denounce that cow
ardly hypocrisy which seeks to aid treason to
the government under the fimsy pretextof OPP
position to the administration. We like these
resolutions. We like the speeches which fol-
lowed them. We are inclined to think the
men who wrote the resolutions and made the
speeches are as competent to decide which
party is acting the most for their interests, and
the Union they love, as the very respectable
and venerable gentlemen in Massachusetts,
who are so much disturbed lest somebody
shall be hurt when slavery dies.