Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-26
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MONDAY. OCTODER 90, 1888.


The aim OF the southern conSprators,-
their purpose in seeking TO destroy the re-
public and establish slave empire on its ru-
s,-has been very explicitly stated by them
selves many times. They have not sought to
conceal it, aud they have seldom equivo-
catedi never, we believe, save in their en-.
deayor to enlist the public sentiment of liberal
men in Europe in their favor; and, in this
case, the attempt has invariably been CEN
sured at Richmond. What they mean and
seek to establish was very fully stated in
that speech of A. II. Stevens, in which he
declared slavery the chief cornerstone of
the ''confederacy." Their doctrine and pur-
pose are stated as follows by that oracle of the
confederate traitors, DeBow's Review =
"The real civilization of a country is in its
aristocracy The masses are moulded into
soldiers and artisans by intellect, just as
matter and tile elements of nature are made
into telegraphs and steam engines. The poor,
who labor all day, are too tired at night to
study books. lfyou make them learned, they
soon forget all that is necessary in the COM
mon transactions of life. To make an aristu-
crat in the future we must sacrifice thou
sand paupers. Yet are lcould by all means
make them--maks them permanent, too, by the
tdWS Of entail and primogeniture. The
right to govern resides in a very small mi
nority; the duty to obey is inherent in the
great masses OF mankind. All government be-
gins with usurpation, and is continued by
force. There is nothing to which the south
entertains so great a dislike universal Sut-
frage. WheyeUer foreigners settle together in
large numbers, there uhtrerSal suffrage wIH
ernst"
Slavery has trained them to hate free nsli-
tutons and to feel and talk like the despUtc
aristocrats of the feuded age, Who deemed
the mass of mankind but little better than ver-
min, and, certainly, nothing more than stupid
material to be used in any way most suitable
to the purposes of the ''arstocrats." The
most despotic soverelgns of Europe are inca
pable of talking in this style. 1t is not likely
that this old scorn of ''the great masses of
men is yet quite dead, everywhere in Europe
but there is not one country in Europe where
it dare assume the tone and use the language
OF our southern conspirators. Such talk as
that of De Bows Review would not be toler-
ated by public opinion in Russia, and not even
in Austria. Nowhere in christendom is it in
accordance with public opinion, save in the
Shareholders "confe deracy." While the EN-
peror of Russia is exterminating serfdom, and
emancipating "the great masses of men" from
subsection to that system which sacrifices a
thousand paupers'' to make an aristocrat,"
and while the rights OF man are winning
,,,l n
old system of arrogant and scornful despotism
finds i'll this republic its boldest and most an.
scrupulous champions This is what slavery
has done; and yet, here at the north, there
are men who are blind or base enough to de.
The Ooppernea GGpI pre5J 'S R6ffth never
portrays the great crime Of the southern trail
tors; never exposes or controverts their doc
trines; but, on the contrary, seeks to shield
them from blame and preserve their influence
in the nation. Many of the copperhead pa
pers openly support their doctrines, and
never tire of denouncing those states and
communities, where these doctrines are most
earnestly opposed, particularly New England
and Massachusetts. They affect to regard the
very emphatic dissent of Massachusetts from
such teachings, as an unhealthy fanaticism,
crime against ''the constitution and the laws
and assume that the republic cannot be in a
sound and proper condition. unless South Car
DINA end the Richmond conspirators are per-
mitted to rule it. We notice that some of
the copperhead oracles are adopting the
conclusion that Massachusetts has been spoil
ed by her free schools. Her people are too
well educated, too intelligent, and too much
inclined TO think on all subjects, to be capa.
BILE of respect for the teachings of DeBow's
Review. Her schools, her style of industry,
and her eElinence in the matter of freedom.
make it impossible to train up within her bor-
ders such ''whte trash" as the ''sand-hillerS"
and ''clay-eaters" of Georgia and South Caro-
lima. Therefore southern traitors hate Mas
sachusetts as most fatal opponent of their
doctrines; and copperheads, moved by their
spirit, denounce her intelligence and free
dom, and talk of leaving her ''out in the cold"
The world never saw a more important con-
flct OF principles than that now going on in
Shis republic, between our free institutions
and small class of men at the south who
aim to be lordIy and ruling ''aristocrats,"
with a hereditary monopoly of political and
social supremacy. 1t involves the whole fll-
ture of the nation. Shall freedom or despot-
ism triumph? Shall we rescue the south.
crush the traitors, and save the nation? Or
shall our free institutions be destroyed and
anarchy and civil war be made the chief bust
ness of the next generations? 1t is lmpossi-
BILE to hide the issue; and they who seek to
divert attention from it, are enemies of their
country.
Military Matters-Recruitinx,
1t is very important that the measures ne
cessarY to secure our quota of men nnhnr tho