Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-22
THURsDAV. MAY &c. 1862.


considered discreditable business. Serving
slavery with false pretences Of patriotism
is no better In time not long past, the
words constitution and 1.-THE laws" on the
lips of certain politicians, meant slavery;
and, at the present time, those who SYM
pathize with secession traitors and 'condi-
tional Union men, generally mean slavery
when they speak of the Union. They pro-
fess great desire to ''restorc the Uuion as 1t
was" meaning the Union as it was uuder the
administration of buchanan, or under that
other administration in which Jefferson Davis
was the master spirit, and that atrocious
''KanSas work" the exponent of official re-
gard for the well being of the republic. They
mean the restoration Of slavery and slavery
extremists 10 supreme and permanent control
of our national affairs.
Our national Union, as it was under Wash
ington, Jefferson, and jackson, with South
Carolina as she ought TO be, is the earnest de-
sire of all prtriotic men; but no sincere pat
riot can desire a restoration of the barbarouS
power, born of injustice and violence, that
has waged such INSCRIPTIONS warfare against
republican principles and brought the country
to its present condition. What a united,
great, and magnificent nation this would be,
if that foul thing, slavery, had never been
heard of among us. What great and glori-
Gus nation it will become when that curse is
removed! Those men at the north, whose
chief business in politics is to defend slavery
from harm and restore it to power, are enc
mics of the republic rather than its friends.
Instead Of seeking to bring it the great dcliv-
erance it so much needs, they uphold the de-
stroyer. Some of them are controlled and
blinded by the old partizan infatuation; others
are secret abettors OF treason, and desire moth
ing so much as to see the secession traitors
restored to their old places in our politics,
with power TO transform the Union into slave
despotism.
The Union as it was in the first years of its
existence, was a Union in which freedom was
national and slavery 4 local and apparent
" dying institutional Union in which all
the leading statesmen believed that slavery
would soon disappear, and that it ought to
disappear They would not name 1t IN the
constitutions they did not scruple to speak
against it strongly; they provided carefully
for excluding it from all the national terrific
nv; they did not believe it could, under any
circumstances, become what we have seen it
during the last twenty years. True patriot
ism studies the condition and hope Of
the Union, as they were then, and desires
to restore the national spirit by which our pol
itics were controlled when the founders of the
ton Of the Union now possible Is a restoration
that shall bring back the spirit which reguat-
ed its formation and made it the hope and JOY
Of all lovers of freedom throughout tue world
Nothing short Of this can give us assured peace
or save from a long series of desoatng
civil wars. To bring the separated parts to-
gether again, under the restored supremacy
of the slave power, would prepare for us great
er calamities than have yet suffered, and
secure nothing but the utter destruction Of the
republic. He has learned nothing from the
experience Of the last fifteen or twenty years,
who does not see this very plainly.
Every earnest man sees and feels the diff
cultes that surround the slavery question, at
the present time. There should be generous
forbearancc towards those on whom rests the
responsibility Of adopting and carrying out the
necessary policy in regard to it, so long as
they are honestly at work to rescue the nation
from both the rebellion and its cause. There
will be differences of opinion as to the meas
ures best adapted to secure the removal
of slavery while we establish the rcpub-
lie. There are many to whom the pol
icy of President Lincoln seems too slow
and cautious. They would instantly en-
ploy lightnings and hurricanes against the
black devil that has tomcnted tins rebellion,
and we cannot blame their Impotence. New
ertheless, must not forget that the president
is honest and sincere, that he has started a
movement against slavery that promises good
results, and that he has clearly indicated his
purpose to employ against the evil thing
whatever measures may be found neces-
sary to save the nation Among the people
of the north there is no desire to trample on
the constitution or disregard it in any way;
but there is among them very earnest desire
to smite with swift destruction the leaders of
the rebellion and to exterminate the institu-
ton that caused it. The protested loyalty
that cannot sympathize with this desire and
rightly interpret its meaning, is not as faithful
to the nation it should be. To accuse. IL
bel, and denounce it, is to do the work of Sc
cession traitors without the courage to enlist
openly under their ugly banner