Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-28

than to glory in her shame. She applauded
and fcted the instrument Of her disgrace, pre-
scented him with canes unnumbered, and at
last buried his fetid body, in all the dishonor
Of her praise, under lying heap Of marble.
Year after year have these things gone on,
but the day of reckoning has come at last,
terrible retributon knocks at her ocean doors.
Justice has put on cher robes of hell-fre,'
and in the thunder of cannon, in the flame
and smoke of battle, Carolina is called to her
account Has not Nemesis always following
closely on the heels of sin, come up with
her at last ? Is it not pOetical JUS
tice that Massachusetts men are investing
Charleston and forcing her nearer and nearer
to a sure surrender? That Beauregard who
performed the mighty exploit of taking
Sumter against Il half-starved handful of fifty
six men, should now be forced to defend it in
vain, and see its walls crumble before his
eyes after two years granted to him to build
his Notifications and plant his batteries? That
| Cardinals Indictment, First to begin the
war; first to shut up the federal courts; first
/ to withdraw her members from congress;
! first to pass the ordinance of secession; first
to lay hands on federal property; first to fire
on the national flag" should be written in
fire, sealed with the precious blood of heroes,
and carried forward to Judgment and punish
ment by the hands she has most despised?
les, does it not pass poetical justice, and be-
come divine, whenwe see the wronged andop-
pressed race transformed into valiant soldiers,
and rushing with invincible courage against
the very walls that protect their house ofbon-
dage, becoming in Gods hands the house of
their deliverance? The thunder Of cannon;
the dropping of shot into the very heart OF
rebellion; the flight of the inhabitants; the
gathering closer and closer of the iron-clad
fleet; the noble endurance, the sublime
courage, the sweet self-sacrifce exhibited be-
fore those walls, all whisper the prophecy,
sCharleston is taken!' What vengeance
shall be taken on the wicked rebel state?
What price shall be exacted for all her wrong
and insult? The wrath of the Lamb is kim
| died at last, and 10! the vengeance shall take
the form of blessing. She has shut out light,
and we will punish her with flood of it. She
has barred her doors against northern intelli-
gence and discussion; she has frightened
strangers into being deaf and blind; north
ern gentleman walking in the streets OF
Charleston has been followed by the police
for days under the suspicion of being an abo-
ton agent, and only an accident saved him
| from arrest and Imprisonment; it was unsafe
for a traveller to have northern newspaper
in his pocket, and now all this is changed.
Where the army goes newspapers go with
them-''pestiient Abolition journals" sutfi-
ciently outspoken to drive all the patriarchs
mad in the neighborhood. These papers have
been issuedin Virginia, the Caroinas, Flori-
da Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky and
| Tennessee, and the negroes have learned to
read them We will punish Carolina by
giving northern newspapers, Uf the freo-t
kind, to all her people, to uplift and enlghten
them.
And finally, as the bitterest of all punish
ments, we will bless her barbarism with the
| gift of free schools, the music OF northern
school bells shall be heard through all her
borders, ringing benediction to the Outcast
and the poor. The gospel of ignorance has
been preached there long enough. Yankee
schools, Yankee books, Yankee civilization,
have been sneered and rallied at long enough.
This has constantly been the cry of the south
THAT it detested schools of all wicked
things in this wicked world-that spelling pro-
NOTED inidelity. and that reading made men
fanatical-that popular ignorance was public
safety, and popular cnlightenmentpubic peril
that the smaller the number of the educated
class the greater was the stability of the po-
litical body See what common schools have
dene for the north See what newspapers
havr done for New England. See how the
art of printing has promoted unbeliet and
skepticism. and the incontinency of the mar
ried and single, until all New England is no
better than a very bad Sodom-while vel
well. if YOU want pure. infleXible, and inimita-
BILE virtue, and enlightened, Incorporating,
and rational religion-you must look to US
Now we will punish them with the blessing
they despisc, and, sweeping out the filth of
their house, force them to a higher plane of
living, force them 10 see the ulSHlly anu uleEs-
edness of labor, force them to acknowledge
the value of CIVILIZATION over barbarism; and to
bring them forth from their house of bondage
into the light and glory of permanent pros
perity and peace.
The song Of our fleets and armies as they
advance to this blessing of punishment and
punishment of blessing should be:-
"Thc Day of the Lord is at hand, at hand!
Its storms roll up he sky:
\ nation must fall for its wickedncss-
For its curse of slavery.
But the night is darkest before the dawn
When the pain is sorest the child is born,
And the Day of the Lord at hand!r
"Gather you gather yod, angels of Cod
Freedom, and Mercy, and Truth;
Come! for the Earth is awake in her might,
And alive with the vigor of YOUTH
Wisdom, Self-sacritice, Daring, aid Love,
Haste to the battlefield, stoop from above
TO the Day of the Lord at handm
| ''Gather you, gather you, hounds of hell
Famine and Plague, and War
| 1dleness, Slavery, Cant and Misrule,
Gather and fall in the snare!
| HirelingS, Mammonites, Pedante and Knaves
| Crawl to the battle .feld-Sneak to your graves
In the Day of the Lord at hnnd?'
"Who would sit down and sigh for a lost age of
| gold,
While the Lord of all ayes is hero?