Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-08

described in decorous language; "the sum of
all villainies;" league with hell and a cove.
nant with death.
The administration is ignorant, conceited,
and vulgar; cunning, insncere, and unsrru-
pulousi fierce, sanguinary, and cruel; full of
all subtlety and all mischief, of all hypocrisy
and deceit. 1t is without truth or honesty
without manliness or decency. Its avarice is
Unsuitable, its corruption unbounded; for gain
it will do any thing, however, infamous, OPP
pressive, and wasteful, and does not scruple
to barter the whole country for profit. 1t is
bully, braggart, and a coward; it domi-
neers by terror over weakness it shrinks
from truth and daylight; il deals in pimpS,
i spies, and informers, and fears an enemy in
every shadow. With bands Of armed men it
strikes down the liberty OF the citizen Mt the
dead of night, when he is surprised, solitary,
and detenceless; wages war on women and
young children.
1t is barbarous and wantOn, for il desolates
peaceful and inoffcnsiye lands with fire and
flood; it destroys cities, towns, villages, and
solitary dwellings; it plumbers wherever its
cmissaries prowl, destroying what cannot be
taken away. 1t does not spare the sacred
monuments of art, science and literature; re-
spects not the grave; has no pity for the
shrieks and entreatieS of helplessnesS and pu-
rity, and the instruments of its crimes are
only less detestable than the crimes them
selves and the criminals.
In everything, and in the most stupendous
proportions is this administration abomina-
bic; the stencil thereof rises towards heaven,
as the stencil of Sodom and Gomorrah. 1t is
foe to all goodness, and whatsoever should
destroy it would confer blessing on man
kind.
Sixth. The southern people are fighting for
our liberties as we'll as for their own. No
greater calamity could happen to us than their
overthrow; the destruction of the one would
be speedily followed by the subjugation of the
other.
Seventh Should the confederates capture
Washington and exterminate the herd of
thieves, Phsrisees, and cut-throats which pas
ture there, defiling the temple of our liberty,
we should regard it as a special interposition
of divine providence in behalf of justice,
judgment and mercy.
Eighth. No portion of this Union is entitled
to public sympathy or assistance or protec-
| ton from southern defensive invasion, so long
as 1t continues to be a party to the present
| aggressive war. There cannot be innocent
accomplices in crimes at which humanity
stands aghast.
Ninth. The thirty pieces of silver" the
price of blood and the general ruin, is not
entitled to protection. Let those who have
grown fat on the misfortunes of the land de-
tend their own plumber, fight a little, and bel
low less.
Tenth. So long as the present war contn.
ues and despotism prevails, we shall have no
disposition to oppose a confederate army,
whether on our borders or in our midst-rath-
er would we hail them as friends and deliver
erS.
Eleventh. We arraign Abraham Lincoln,
president of the United States, and the men
OF his council, before the bar of public Opn-
ion and national justice for the following high
crimes, felonies, and misdemeanors
For the country they have betrayed; for
the oaths they have violated; for tie consti
tuition they have trampled under foot; for the
laws they have perverted or annulled; for the
power they have abused and usurped; for the
Union they have destroyed: for the precious
hopes they have blasted for the liberties they
have taken away; for the rivers of blood they
have shed; for the armies they have slaugh-
tered; for the manifold, excessive and wide
spread defraudings, robberies, plunderings,
desolatlOnS, wastes and cruelties they have
perpetrated.
We arragn them for converting this once
great, prosperous, free and happy land into
land OF disc0rd, strife and despotiSnl-of ruin,
misery and shame.
Twelfth. These pernicious criminals we
propose to try by authority of all the laws
their despOtism has left US, by that very law of
necessity and seh-preservation which they
maiciously, traitorously, and falsely have in
voked, promulgated, and enforced. And we
shall appeal for justice to that universal sem
timent which passes judgment on all such as
are enemies to the human race
Thirteenth Fellow citizens, in the name of
the Thirteen Colonies, we say to you-'Re-
sistance to tyrants is obedience to Cod"
Fourth July, 1868, SPIRIT OF '76.