Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-10

with unwonted thrill, speak the elOquence OF ma
turo, uttered but unexprcssed. From the din of
the battle thsy have passed to the peace Of eter-
nifty. Farewell warrior, citizen, patriot, lover,
friend whether in the humber ranks or bearing
the sword of official power, whether private, cap
tain, surgeon or chaplain, for all these in the
heady fight have passed away,-llail and Fare
we'll ! Each hero must sleep serenely on the held
where he fell in cause sacred to liberty and
the rights of mankind"
Worn by no wasting, lingering pain,
" No cold gradatons Of decay,
Death broke ut once the vital chain,
And freed his soul the nearest way"
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Massachusetts, limited in territory, aiming to
cultivate and develope the capacities OF both man
and nature, given to no one distinctive pursuit.
but devoted to many, is at once an agricultural
commercial and manufacturing Commonwealth
The individual citizen adapting himself TO the
seasons and the market, is not unfrequently an
expert in divers callngs In the winter he cuts
ice on crystal Lake for Calcutta, and he goes fish
ing in the summer on the banks of Newfoundland.
He carries on his fathers homestead in the grow
ing season, and makes boots for Boston market in
the intervals of farming. liz scours the Pacific
in New Bedford wbaler while he is young and
fond of adventure, and settles down at last the
keeper Of country store on Nantucket. lie
goes to college for his education, and teaches
school himself in the college vacation. He man
fractures piOWS ana TehpeTs III anu
puts his earnings into railroads IN Michigan,
Iowa, and Wisconsin. Massachusetts, buys mate
rial from ali who have it to sell, and vends her
wares in every State. Her sons have been found
pursuing their way in every opening Of the West
and South, while her own narrow but hospitable
borders afford prosperous home to tens of thous-
ands honest sons and daughters of toll, from ev-
cry nation in Europe.
| IL Peaceful, rural and simple in their tustes her
people, forgetting the lessons learned by
| their fathers, not less of War than of Religion,
are found in arms for their fathers flag wherever
it waves, from Boston to Galveston. The troops
| OF Massachusetts in Maryland in Virginia, in the
| Carolinas, in Louisiana, in Texas; the details
| from her regiments for gunroat service on the
southern and western rivers; her ssamen in the
navy, assisting at the reduction of the forts from
Hatteras Inlet to the city of New Orleans, or GO
| ing down to that silence deeper than the sea, IN
the Monitor or the Cumberland,-all remember
their native State as single star of brilliant
constellation, the many in one, they call their
country. By the facts of our history, the very
character of our people, and the tendencies of
| their education, industry and training, Massachu-
sets is independent in her opinions, loyal to the
| Union, and the incorporating foe to treason.
Geographically on one side of the continent,
| her soldiers come from the Golden Gate of Cali
fornia to encamp by Dorchester Heights, that
they may serve under the white flag of the Pill
| grim Commonwealth. We proudly count our
brethren in public station and in all the honored
walks of private life, in Oregon as well as Barn
stable. Her sons have sent from around the
world their benefactions for the relief of the fam
lilies of her braves. Though no drop of the " Fa-
| Their of Waters laves our shores, descended
on any hill top which sheds into our streams; yet
narrowed by no policy of sectional or territorial
jealousy, we would gladly and proudly contribute
through the National treasury, in the interest of
our National defences, for the connection by Ship
Canal of the Mississippi with Lake Michigan,
and Of Lake Erie with the Hudson
Unionists in no double sense, we have held from
the beginning that the Government, greater than
any class of men of interests, has an original
aud imprescriptible right to the devoted and
hearty service of every subject of its protection
and power. We deny the rightfulness of the re-
beilion, and we are in against it; and we
have have equally denied that the rebel States
could righttully be allowed to impose their trea-
sonable will upon any human being whose inter-
est or desires would make him loyal. While our
wives surrender their husbands and our fathers
their to all the peris of a dreadful war wag-
ed by rebellion we have never discovered rea-
son why the rebels should retain their slaves aud
compel thom to be rebels too. Supporting always
the government, without conditions to its poll
cy, we rejoice with unutterable joy that its policy
is that of human nature, and not that of human
sophistry; and we hail the returning day of the
civic virtues, which national departure from
the practice OF justice and the principles OF our
fathers had discouraged in the North and had
overthrown IN the South.
: Gentlemen of the Senate, and
| | ,,.,, ,,.c5E Tv..s g. IL ...o,Is
fEe' Uffted states. A large number of poor
persons without capital their ability to labor
with new motives to industry, subordnation and
/ good conduct, will claim an interest. in the
thoughts of statesmen. Near Fortress Monroe
in the Sea Islands of South Carolina, in New Or.
leans and In its neighboring parishes, they have
already tried the newborn gift of liberty, with
success and honor
In few brief years shall have paid the
national debt incurred during the present war, by
the enlarged value which freedom will have civ
en- to the property of the rebel States the ncreas
ed productive ability Of freedmen over slaves,
ana their multiplied power to buy and consume
the products of manufactures and the arts
The people of America will have saved the
Union, saved demOcratic-republica liberty, DO tn
menaced by the same dangers. will have perpetu-
ated the government magnifed tie Constitution
and made it honorable, and will have crowned a
great career of glory with an act of expedient
justice unequalcd for its grandeur in all the his
| tory Of mankind.