Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-22
SATURDAY, AUGUsr se. 1853.

SATURDAY, August &c, 1863.
The radicals have carried on wretched
game of bold deception as to public sentiment
at the south. They affirm with blood
thirsty spirit that has a parallel only in the
first French reyulut IN, that there is no Union
element there in order to nurse up subjugat-
ing spirit here.-BosfoR Post.
1t was your friend Valandigham who said
he had travelled and inquired throughout the
south without finding single Union man in
all that region. The friends and supporters
of the administration denounec his statement
as a malignant falsehood; and Gen. Logan,
using strong Saxon terms, said he "led, -
lied deliberately. But the Boston Post does
not mean Valandgham and his associates,
when ii employs that term radicals" They
are its political associates, whom it upholds,
sometimes in cOwardly, sneaking way, but
always with purpose to act with them and
aid their schemes. By "radicals" the Post
means supporters of the administration, and
the falsehood it utters in regard to them is
just as deliberate, unwarranted, and ineXcus-
able as that OF yallandigham in regard to the
Union men at the south.
The radicals" have constantly maintained
that there are Union men at the south, and
that they have been over-awed, silenced, and,
in many cases, savagely prosecuted, by means
of that machinery OF terror organized by the
secession leaders in preparation for the work
OF treason in which they are engaged. This
machinery If ha traitorS iii not rravant
Louisiana and Virginia from voting against
secession, at the outset; but menaces, armed
mobs, violence and terror, finally succeeded
in overcoming the Union influence, and those
states were forced into the ''confederacy." In
most sections of the south, the fear of perSe
cution and death kept the Union men silent,
while in East Tennessee, western Texas, aud
some other places, their existence and suffer-
ings have been manifest to The whole country.
The Post cannot utter more deliberate false
hood than to say than those who support the
administration and the war deny that there are
Union men at the south.
1t is by means of the war that the govern
ment will crush the power of the confederate
traitors and rescue the Union from the reign
of terror by which their influence has been
overwhelmed. 1t is only by military force
that this can be done; and those who clamur
against the war do so because they are friends
and allies Of the traitors themselves, and de-
sire to see them triumph over the govern
ment. The Post desires this without daring
to say so distinctly. Vallandigham, also, de-
sires it, and says so plainly They have no
sympathy with the Union men OF the SOUTH
and no desire to see their influence made par
amount in the affairs of the south. Who has
ever heard the Post, or any OF its political as
sociates, speak of such men as Andrew john
son, VIM. G. Brownlow, and A. j. Hamilton,
as their bold and unwavering devotion to the
Union deserves? Or who has ever heard
them denounce the rebel leaders and their
crime as such atrocious enemies of the coun-
try should be denounced?
The difference between the Boston Post
and those whom it terms radicals is this ::
The Post and its political associates seek to
close the war and restore the Union by means
of a compromise with the rebel leaders and
to do it by crushing treason and traitors and
placing the affairs OF each southern state in
the hands of southern Union men. The diff
ference is very great The Post and its friends
would have the orignators of the rebellion
treated as if they were the legit-
mate owners and representatives of the
whole south, and would have the
southern Union men permanently subjected
to their power. 1t is not the safety and well
fare OF the nation that the copperheads and
semi copperheads seek Their aim is to re-
store the political party that bred secession
lists and enabled them to work so much evil
and there is no interest of the country, no de-
mand of justice, no sacredness of truth, no
honor OF patriotism, that they would not sac
riiee in order to make this aim successful.