Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-20


ate and strengthen that public sentiment
which the exigencies of the times demand
Our most cherished institutions are mperlled
and our national existence threatened by the
evil Vaccinations and the gigantic efforts of
handed treason. AT such time the de-
mand is imperative upon every good and loyal
citizen, whether at home or in the field to
use his utmost endeavor to uphold the dignity
and preserve the integrity of the country, and
once more to reassert the national authority
throughout the length and breadth of the land
1t is with feelings of deepest sorrow, there
fore, that we behold the exhibition of a bitter
partisan spirit at home, the sole tendency
which must be to discourage the heart and
paralyze the arm of the government in its
honest and untiring efforts to crush most
unholy rebellion. The terrible realities of
the hour demand unanimity of sentiment and
of effort, and whatsoever tends to divide opin-
| ion or diminish zeal, must diShearten our
armies and encourage our foes. There is a
| solemn warning in the illumination of south
ern cities and the dull thunder of the 200
guns that encircle Charleston harbor after the
receipt of news of the fall elections in the
northern and western states.
To rebel authorities those elections indicat-
ed revulsiOn of public opinion in the north.
They reasoned, and justly too, that division
IN the counsels of their enemy would prove
their strongest ally. On this, more than on
victory in the field, have the rebel leaders re-
lied from the commencement of the war. If
was logical, then, that oppOsitiont to the admin
istrati0n, on account f its method of dealing
with defiant treason, should fill the heart of
rebellion with ioy, and nerve them to more
desperate resistance, and whatsoever of dis
couragement exists in our armies to-day, is
the result not so much OF unsuccessful hat
ties and disastrous comprehension our sol
diers are as ready to-day as ever to encounter
the foe-as of the coldness and omen hostility
to our cause on the part of northern svmna-
thzers with secession.
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The memories OF our many battle fields,
drenched with the blood of our noble slain,
the sutterlngs and hardships OF those who
stll survive, ready in defence of our beloved
| country to obey the soldiers summons to the
ueauly strlIe' plead trumpet-tongued against
| tile ueep uamnalon OF THESE nOrthern tral-
tors. Our army has claim upon the moral
support OF every man who remains at home,
and that support Will be most vigorously eX-
| acted. II not glreB e0iuth9ty nor, IRE tyt q
Wq'ntng rolce against the d1eGdfm ''et'ibu-
tom that awadts all Tecreants lchen our t1iUm-
phant hosts shall return to their homes Whose
Soweth to the lclnd shall reap the Whaaiwind.
Believing that they who, after months Of
| traitorous and systematic scheming pointed
the first gun against Sumter, and who are still
fired with infuriate hate toward the best gov
eminent ever devised, are responsible for all
| the accumulated horrors of this inquitous
war, we declare ourselves, now and forever,
unalterably opposed to any cessation of hos
tilities, to any compromise, or to peace upon
any terms than an unconditional surrender
| by the rebels and return to loyalty. Till
this be accorded we accept the dread alterna-
tive of war, confident, not only from the am
pGtude of our resources, but equally from the
justice of our cause, of the ultimate triumph
of our arms and, if need be, we will fight on
| till every southern home be made desolate,
and every rebel be sent to render up his ac-
count to higher than any earthly tribunal.
The south by the act of rebellion put them
selves outside the pale of law; and while we
would hail with rapture the return of an hon
orable peace, we can see no path to it save
through most persistent and vigorous prose-
cution of the war. To this end we would up
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