Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-30

made iealty TO the slavery extremists the test
OF fitness for praise and public position. Is it
your purpose to continue this kind of political
brigandage! Aud do you hope to thrive by it
hereafter heretofore
In congress, the other day, Garrett Davis
of Kentucky discussed the southern extrem-
lists md their INSCRIPTIONS passion for power.
He spoke severely of the abolitionists;
but what he said Of the cotton lords deserves
attention, because he understands them, and
knows very well what plantation life las
done for their habits and character He
said =
The cotton states, by their slaves, have
amassed fortunes. and many OF their planters
have princely revenues-trom fifty to one hun.
bred thousand dollars year. This wealth
has hegot pride and insolence and ambition,
and these points of the southern character
have been displayed most insultngly in the
halls of congress. | admit it ALL l admit,
that, as a class, the wealthy cotton growers
are insolent; they are proud they are domi
neering; they are ambitious They have
monopolized the government in its honors for
forty or fifty years, with few interrupt ons.
When they saw the scepter about to depart
from them in tie election of Lincoln, sooner
than give up Office and the spoi!s of office in
their mad and wicked ambition they deter
mined 10 disrupt the old confederation, and to
erect new one. where they would have I'M
| disputed power"
And these cotton lords have owned and
| ruled the democratic party 1t has done their
bidding, and been in all things their faithful
servant. And here at the north the chief in
"a Al,
been just such pro-savery agitation that
which of late has SO largely employed the
energies of the Boston Post and some other
Journals of similar antecedents By means
of th,ir support, these cotton lords have mo-
nopoized political power, controlled the execu-
tive, made the supreme court their obedient
creature, and menaced the country with ruin.
| They are row trying to destroy tue republic
| because they were outvoted by men who OBJ
| jected to their disastrous rule; and yet, the
! journals we have named, and some others,
seem anxious to keep up that pro-slavery
agitation by which these traitors were main
tanned in power, and without which they
never could have had either position or in
fiuenca to organize and arm treason so sue.
cessfully.
! We say again, is it not time to stop all this
| The country has already suffered enough from
it, and the style of partizan maneuvering and
trickery to which it belongs should be discon.
tinued 1t has had its day and done its work
Moreover, if it could be renewed successfully,
this is not a time for it. 1t is indecent for
those who love the old flag and would save
the republic 70 let loose flood of talk about
slavery and abolionists that serves chiefly as
| apology for traitors, lessons Indignation
against them, and actually seeks to divert at
tention from the JEFF Davis conspirators by
rousing connection about somebody
else. The men and journals who do
this, mistake the present temper of the
people Ii, on one hand, we are not en-
gagged in for the abolition OF slavery, ii
is quite certain, on the other hand, that it is
no part Of the legitimate business of the war
to treat slavery as a sacred thing, and screen
it from injury. The time is past, gentlemen,
when your party could thrive by such pro-
slavery agitation. Your old partizln watch
words and equipments are not suited to these
times. Lay them aside and forget, ifyon can,
that you ever had anything to do with them.