Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-27
The "Conservativev Brotherhood.


The conservative" brotherhood.
The peoples democratic party in this
state, the Fernando Wood Seymour party in
New York, the Vallandigham party in Ohio,
and the Bright party in Indiana, all mean the
same thing, and what that is, we are told in
the speeches OF Vallandigham and Fernando
Wood, and a little more mildly in the speech
of Gen. Whitney at he democratic state con-
vention. Their intention is to make the war
against treason failure, and betray the gov
eminent into the hands of the southern con-
spirators, by means of compromise" We
do not say that every man connected with
these parties means this, for, in the several
states named, many whose intentions are hon
est and patriotic have been drawn into the
movement, or, being already in, have not yet
forsaken it.
A correspondence between rebel spy and
a leading democrat in Indiana seized
some time since. In one of the letters the
spy asked the democrat how many OF those
who would vote the democratic ticket at the
recent election could be relied on to carry out
the whole purpose of the rebels. The answer
was, ''about two-thirds." This was undoubt
edy an over-estimate of the number. In
Ohio and New York, and certainly in Massa-
chusetts, the proportion would be considera-
bly, smaller. In this state besides the demo-
cratic papers, the only newspaper organ of
the ''people's' democratic party is the Boston
Courier and that journal seems ready to fol-
low Vallandigham wherever he may go.
Vallandigham, it says, is "only little in ad-
vance of the growing conservative senti-
ment" Its aim is to use the ''people's' dem
ocratc party to sustain the conservative
sentiment" as illustrated by that disloyal man;
but it will not be aided by some Of those who
have been counted as belonging to its party.
Loyal men of Massachusetts, you who mean
that treason shall be subdued and the nation
saved, will you by word, influence, or vote,
encourage this political conspiracy to regen-
crate the worst elements Of the old Buchanan
party and establish in the loyal states a malg-
nant opposition to the administration? Loyal
men in the border slave states warn you
against it. The Baltimore American, which
speaks for the conservative union men of
Maryland, calls those engaged in these move
ments ''comforters of treason" and says =
For one, we have had enough of Vallan-
digham, as we long ago had enough of his
compeer the traitor Breckenridge. And it is
sufficient for the loyal men of Maryland to
find any set of men in close utilization with
these, to make them repudiate them in favor
of the party in power-the Union pa7fy-no
matter how little their sympathies were with
our present rulers in the outset of the difficult
ties upon the nation"
''All know too well the proclivities of Fer
nando Wood, and those associated with him,
shown from the very inception Of our difficult
ties; and there is, therefore, no more difficult
ty in stunning dislOyal associations, where
such names are in the programme, than there
would be in avoiding utilization with their al
lies at Richmond. Their very talk about
compromise and conventions betwixt the
traitors of the south and the loyal men who
are fighting in the cause of free government
and humanity, is deadly insult to all loyal
ty; for it is compromise contemplated
with crime, with murder, treachery, rob
berry, unparalleled almost in the history
of the world. Let treason take the conse-
quences of its acts; letyillainy receive its APP
propriate reward; and if there are those who
would shield it for their ambitious pur-
poses, who would patch up wretched truce
Il restoration, the result of which would be
merely to give a chance to prepare for a Hood
Ter and more successful programme tco or
three years hence, or the first time thereafter
when they might be disappointed in their de-
signs on the presidency, we are not with
them; and we shall never cease to condemn
and denounce them as they deserve"
The newspaper organs OF the peoples
democratic party in this state, from the Bos-
ton Post to the Boston Courier, are also
champions Of the Fernando Wood-Seymour
party in New York, and eulogists of Vallan-
digham. viii you do aught to uphold such
an influence in Massachusetts? Many, whose
names were at first given in favor of the Bos-
ton Courier's party, are Withdrawing from it
They begin to see clearly what it means
and intend to save themselves from the mem
DRY of having given a vote for it. Those VIII
mean to sustain the president honestly an
earnestly until the nation is saved, shout
pause and reflect seriously before lendin
themselves to a movement that aims to estab
fish in the state an active and most mischev
Gus hostility to his administration.