Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-25

A GENERAL DELuGE THREATENED.-Mr.
James Brooks of the New York Express is
thrustng his personality before the public.
His latest performance is letter to Maj.
Gen. Schenck. This officer issued an order
that the Baltimore newspapers should not pub
lish extracts from the New York World, New
York Express, Cincinnati Enquirer, Caucas-
ian, and Chicago Times. BY some misunder-
standing the provost marshal issued an order
to suppress these papers within the limits of
the department. Whereupon Brooks writes
his letter to the major general. 1t is as SIM
pie and boobyish most OF Brooks produc-
tions. The following extract from it will pro-
woke a smile =
''While you summon to your rescue such
New York city regiments as the seventh, Ito
say nothing of the numerous others, you de-
prive six out of seven OF the soldiers in them
of papers they are in The daily habit of read
ing at home, and which inspire them with the
patriotism and the principles that prompt
them to rush to save this department of
yours. You thus beg and pray for old line
wings and democrats to come to your rescue
with their hayonets, while you refuse them the
mental aliment and inspiration that brought
them to your protection!
The idea that any man could derive mental
aliment and inspiration from that thing of
shreds and patches, the New York Express,
is too good; altogether too good; we are I'M
worthy to have that joke thrust at us.
Prompted by the New York Express to rush
to the rescued Don't, Brooks, don't any
more! You'll be the death of us.
Brooks proceeds to remind Schenck that
they were both in congress in 1850, and that
while Schenck voted against all the bills for
pacifcation, he, Brooks, followed in the
wake of the great Clay and Webster" We
had the impression that Schenck was also
doughface at that time; but Brooks's recol-
lection may be better than ours. The stupid
creature does not perceive, what all the world
perceives, that the compromises of 1850, so
far from pacifying the shareholders, were
among the most potent inducements to them
to defend the abolition of the compromises of
1920, four years later, and that their success
in this latter project made them confident that
on the election OF an anti-slavery president
they could combine and destroy the govern
ment The rebels understand very perfectly
the character of the Brookses of the
northern states. They have thoroughly
gagged their capacity, morally and in
tellectuaLy. Were the northern people all
readers and believers in the New York Ex-
press, there would be no civil war, simply be-
canse the saveholding despotism would never
be interrupted from century to century. The
people of the country would be divided into
two classes lords and lickspittles; and the
lords would have it all their own way.
Perhaps themost alarming thing in Brooks's
letter is his query to Schenck, Do you intend
to suppress me as well as my newspaper?
Hear the threatening creature!
"Do you intend to ''suppress" on that great
route to the capital, the Editors, as well as
editors newspapers? for | may as well assure
you in advance, that as whig member of con-
gress, intend to talk over there all that whig
'dlsloyalty' which l have now been talking
tor twenty-five years continuously and con-
sistently, in the New York Express, and lust
as you and were disloyal to James X Polk,
during the Mexican war, SO am dSloyal now
to Abraham Lincoln, and so intend to be, I'M
til he (L.) goes back to the Crittenden pledge
and resolutions"
Great heavens! The contents of the New
York Express for twenty-five years are to be
poured out in one weak washy everlasting
flood upon the next house of representatives.
This will be one way of Distinguishing the
flames of civil war;" at any rate, but will not
the deluge be worse than the con1agration?