Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-07
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TIE DAILY SPY.
Extracts from southern Papers.

has long article, WHICH has Tor It's text the
Connecticut election. 1t says
democratic men in Connecticut, then,
finding that fire and sword are unlikely to
bring in the money invested in them, with
cent. per cent. interest, bethink themselves, it
seems, of resorting to 'reason'-to see if that
will pay. We know exactly what they mean
by reason. We shall even put the PROPOSE
ton they would make us thus: Come now,
ye hayward sisters Has not enough been
done tor honor, as you call it? After all,
what do you make by this war and carnage?
We democrats have tried it, and behold it
did not pay. On the contrary, all the pay
and all the profits go to those wretches, the
BLACK republicans, whom you and we togeth-
er so long abused and kept out in the cold.
You know we abhor them as bitterly as your
selves can do. 1t is true we Joined with them
in the employment of general coercion to
retain you in our glorious and lucrative old
Union; but we are reasonable; when
speculation is found not to pay, we
drop it; shall we throw good money
after bad? God forbid! We think it
is time-we are now ready-to make COM
mon cause with you against the common en-
emy-namely, the party that is in. Suffer
the democratic party to lead you over once
more into the green pastures of federal office,
and by the still waters of federal patronage,
and we shall make fair divisions of the spois
on the word of patriots and gentlemen. What
shall stand in the way of such blessed re-
union? Shall the blood of sons and brothers
slain, the shrieks of violated women, and
smoking homesteads and desolated fields, and
all the pride and passion and agony of the
mortal strife, be suffered to rise up be-
tween us on the sacramental day when we
meet in that august and immortal convention
to distribute the patronage Of a hemisphere,
and feel that the wide, unbounded continent is
ours! Perish the thought Let us drop
from our hands these bayonets and bullets,
and make a peaceful presidential kind of
campaign, as in the golden days of Tyler,
too; let us marshal the gallant old legions of
the unterrified, and charge at the rate of two
hundred millions per annum, to the war-cry
of PlUribuS Uaum 7"
This is the sort of treason" which those
Connecticut democrats propose to try. To
them it seems reason; to us the very extrem-
ity of hopeless delirium. We shall watch
those ''confederates" $50 called who may
show any inclination to hearken unto those
eloquent democrats; who may praise their
lofty patriotism, or sympathize in their noble
struggle for their constitution. Such con-
federates will be fit subjects-to say the least
of medical treatment as lunatics. To shave
their heads and half drown them with shower
baths might do them good; but to answer
them according to their folly, would only
exasperate their paroxysm. If there be but
few such confederates, or none, so much the
better"
THE PEACE PROBLEM.
From the Charleston Mercury. March IA.
The march of events during the last thirty
days has done much to dispel the hopes of
early peace, SO generally entertained at the
Degrading of the year. Since the bloody at
fair at Murtrec5baro, the hostile forces in
Tennessee, as well as those-uP"9 the Kappa
hammock and the Mississippi appear 10 nave
been at dead lock. But though the military
status is in the main unchanged, our enemies
have not been idle. Never have their prepar-
ations to crush us been so active and ener-
getic az during the present lull in the tenn
pest of the war. In the desperate resolve
to rob us of our rights, they have mad
ly thrown away their own. With a bank
rupt treasury, with a constitution trampled
in the dust, with an army which has invaria-
bly, been beaten in every pitched battle, by
troops inferior in number and equipments,
and with a government derded abroad and
deSpised at home, the Yankees have deemed
all that was left to them-the shadow of free
and constitutional gevernment-not worth
preserving and they have deliberately cast
the lives and the liberties of their whole peo-
pie in the scale against the hitherto invincibe
sword of the south. The northern states have
welded together all that remains to them of
strength and wealth, to form an efficient wea-
pom, in the hands of the vulgar despot at
Washington, for our destruction. They have
learned already to applaud the tyrannies of
their master, and they salute him Dictator.
There are some among us who hope that the
spirit of republican government will yet as
sert itself at the north, and that the people OF
the northwest, at least, will ere long rise up
to wrest their independence from the grasp of
the new autocrat. But in vain do we look
for any material indication of this counter
revolution. The whole Yankee nation, from
Cape Cod to the prairies of the far west, is
this day substantially a unit in the determina-
ton to subjugate these confederate states if
their subjugation be possible.
Meantime, the dreams of foreign interyen-
ton, that have SO long deluded our people,
are passing away. England was never so res
olute in herpolicy of non-interference as now;
France stirs not in our behalf without the CO.
operation OF her jealous rival. Thus, to our
cost, we have learned the wholesome lesson
that upon the blows yet to be struck by our
own right arms rests the only hope of peace
and independence. Henceforth let our gov
eminent bend all its energies to strengthen
our armies in the field; and let our planters
everywhere, as they desire the salvation of
our cause, as they prize the success of our
living defenders and the cherished memory of
our glorious dead, see to it that the soil is
titled with the single view of feeding the ar
mes, whose breasts are the barriers that pro-
tect that soil from the tide of desolation.
AFFAIRS AT CHARLESTON.
A letter to the Mobile News gives the fol-
lowing regarding affairs at Charleston, and
measures taken to repel our forces:
The orders just issued by Gen. Ripley, who
is the brlgadler commanding this district of
Gen. Beauregard's department, are signif-
cant. No more blockade running steamers
are to pass forts Sumter or Moultrie bv NIGHT.
if they succeed in running the gauntlet of the
federal squadron, they must anchor until dav-
light outside and under the guns of the forts
and report by small boat at fort Sumter
Every channel in the harbor bristlos with tor
pedoes, and woe to the hostile vessel that tries
to pass in, without pilot familiar with the
position of the submerged and slumbering
thunderbolts. By another general order all
furloughs are revoked and absentees recalled
to their commands. The hospitals are to be
Immediately cleared, and all the preparations
which denote the expectations of an action at
any moment are going on with great energy.
The struggle, when it comes, will certainly
be of a fearful character twill be the shock
of tremendous forces, the relative powers of
which are yet untried. The long-mooted
question Of the fighting value of ships against
batteries will be brought to a test more con-
elusive than any to which human warfare has