Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-22
W OR c f S T E R
FRIDAY, AUeUsT ee, lsoe.

It's generally believed that one result of
the present war will be the destruction of
slavery. Even those most anxious to avoid,
as much as possible, doing injury to the insti
luton by our method of conducting the war,
usually express the belief that slavery cannot
very long survive the contest. 1t may be so;
but if the ''copperhead'' policy could prevail,
and give the traitorous slavery extremists
triumph in the Union, the result would be
very different. In that case, freedom would
disappear, and the slave power, an hundred
fold more malignant and INSCRIPTIONS,
than before, would be everywhere supreme.
Col. Wilcox, at Washington the other night,
said very truly that the rebel conspiracy is
"a monster that has arisen to swallow up our
liberties" and it is time for loyal men every
where to appreciate this fact We must put
down the rebellion or it will put us down.
There is no other alternative. And it is high
time to understand also that to put it down
and keep 1t down, we must exterminate the
cause of it.
We usually say the rebellion began with
the bcmbardment of fort Sumter. That event
did at last arouse the north and summon loyal
men to arms; but the traitorous conspiracy is
many years older Some of its leaders de-
clared at that time that it had been in progress
for more than thirty years. Its aim is to eX-
terminate the ideas out of which our free in
stitutions grew, give the slave power pcrma-
nent supremacy over vulgar Yankee MAORI
ties and establish over us all, to use the
words of Col. Corcoran, ''the worst des-
potism on carth'' This is the purpose
with which the secession leaders began
their work, and this is what they will
do if they can. Nothing but slavery
could have produced such men in this
republic, and nothing but an extermina-
ton of slavery can render continuance of
the race impossible. These consprators
have plotted long, more or less aided by
southern control of the government; and in
1858 their violent proceedings against the
welfare of the country began with their Kan
sas work. No other class of men in the
United States have ever been capable of such
proceedings; and never again can we have
permanent peace until the baleful influence
that bred them is annihilated.
The government and a great many loyal
people have been slow to recognize the real
nature of this struggle. At first many seri-
ously believed the rebellion could be paciied
by few simple palliatives; and when this de-
lusinY, 6isSipata6 tl,arn va still q fail
ure to see that the conspirators had actually
resolved nevermore to submit to the sway
of a free and equal government, and
that they had made the war with determin-
alton to destroy the republic, orbe themselves
destroyed. They expected to succeed. They
did not expect to encounter such general oppo-
sition in the north, and felt sure Of suppressing
president Lincoln and establishing themselves
at Washington, before the loyal people of the
north could be in a condition to make much
resistance. They have been in earnest from
the beginning, while we have even now hardly
become as much awake to their real inten-
tons, or as much in earnest against them, as
the occasion demands. 1t WILL however, be
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clearly developed that none can remain blind
to it.
And every day brings also a deeper and
more widespread conviction of the impossi-
bility of crushing the rebellion in such man
ner as will give the Union assured security
and peace until slavery is dead. Men who
have never in their lives been abolitionists,
men WHO have heretofore constantly acted
in political association with the southern ex-
tremists, find themselves forced to this conclu-
sion. They see more and more every day that
the destruction of slavery is indispensable to the
salvation of the Union, and the government
itself, which has not kept pace with the pro-
gress of conviction on this point, will al
length be controlled by it. 1t is plain
enough that without slavery such
war would have been impossible; and quite
as plain that henceforth there can be no safety
for us until the institution which bred the con
spirators and created the condition of society
that has given them influence is swept away
and the sooner this fact is allowed to contro
our policy in the cabinet and the field the bet
ter will it be for us.