Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-19
IndicntIons of Progress.

1nefe are some Journals III inc lOyal states
that are far more anxious to restore slavery
than to restore the Union. Should slavery
disappear, they would be inconsolabe. OF
course it cannot be expected that they will
deal impartally by this question, nor that they
will show their readers what progress the anti
states. the pres1ucnI-j~G je3haho9dar slave
receiving much favor in some of those states.
and the time is approaching when his sugges-
tons in regard TO emancipation will be adopt
ed in Missouri, Delaware and MARYLAND.
The Providence Journal gives the following
summary of recent expression against slavery
in Maryland and some other localities =
1.-The Baltimore American is foremost in the
able discussions of the question. 1t sees with
great clearness the present wants of the state
But several other Maryland sapers agree with
it in sentiment. The Cambridge Intelgencer
says that the largest shareholders declared
that they knew the Union was the surest pro-
lection for their slave property. 1t shows
that such property is every day declining in
value, and that the planters, if wise, will con-
slider whether they had not better save a part
Of it by accepting the offer of the govern
ment 1t declares that it shall not heed
at discussing the question. 1t says We
don't intend TO let them ruin our slave
property and then frighten us out of taking
the money for it. The Kent News as
serts that the secessionists have done more
injury TO the institution OF slavery in the past
twelve months than the crazy fanatics of the
north could have done in one hundred years
to come The Annapolis Gazette says Our
belief is that emancipation is the only hope
for the slave owner The Denton Union at
firms that slavery, because of this rebellion,
has received a mortal stab from those profess
ing to be its best friends from which it will
never recover" The Cecil Whgi speaks
thus:
''We advise the people to take the money if
they can get it, for their negroes are running
away as fast as they can. All of the slave
holders we have heard speak of the project are
in favor of it. But the miserable poor devils
that never owned a negro, and never will be
able to own one, if they are surrounded with
slavery all the days of their lives, to vary the
notes of treason a little cry out abolition
whenever they hear a negro spoken Of"
We observe in the report of the general
synod of the Lutheran church at Lancaster,
Pa, speech by Prof. Eggers of Nashville,
who made some interesting statements res
pecting affairs in Tennessee. He is thus
"He said he had preached in Nashville
throughout the whole reign Of the late confed-
eracy. He had a conversation a short time
ago with business man in Nashville, who
said that, though property there was worth
little now, it would soon be worth more than
ever; that emancipation must come; that the
negro must go SOUTH and advised that he be
colonized in a nation Of his own, somewhere
in Texas-Texas deserved that for the trouble
she has given us. Then they would have
good times in Nashville. That this trouble
was caused by slavery was as clear to them as
the plaques which afflicted Pharaoh because
he did not let the children of Israel go. A
great change has taken place in the south on
this question; slavery is something different
now the people are Union where he came
FROM he said he couldn't have staid there if
he had been a secessionist. The emancipation
Of slaves in the District of Columbia, some
years ago, would have set Tennessee in a
blaze now they took it quietly, and did moth
ing"
we lately took occasion TO quote from a
speech OF prominent Kentuckian who was
running for some Office in his state, and who
expressed views similar to those we have
found IN the Maryland papers. We have inst
met WIN inc following extract from spepch
maze oy Col Metcalf Of Nicholas county.
KY, the owner Of some twenty slaves. IL
not particularly elegant in phraseolopv. il il
at least plain and forcbe
''You all know that niger is the raw-head-
and-bloody bones, the scarecrow that is con-
tinually held up to your view, a never-ceasing
agitation. You must stand sentinel all night.
you must stand sentinel all day. with your
muskets over your darling black angels, while
they work in the field, to keep somebody from
stealing them. And you must stand watch to
keep down insurrection-eternal vigilance is
the price Of nigger All this hue and cry is
kept up when there is not the slightest danger.