Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-04
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THE DAILY SPY.


the more WORTHY of attention -
"The progress of the government has been
so easy, prosperous and glorious, it had at
tanned such high rank with states of greatest
strength and renown, that scarcely any sound
mind supposed it possible that an assassin at
tempt would be made to close its career by
sudden blow, as if its life were as frail as that
Of an individual. There is no parallel in the
history Of the world of a similar assault on
vast, benecent, beloved popular government
without even an alleged act of oppression on
its part to provoke it, and while it was actu-
ally administered and its advantages enjoyed
by the very men who aimed the stroke for its
destruction.
''But while prosperity made us insensible
to the danger, the wise and patriotic men who
founded our government, saw in slavery a
mine by which frenzy and selfish ambition
might lay their work in ruin. The slavery OF
one race they felt was not compatible with
the freedom of another. They hoped the su-
perior race, influenced by thes benign tender
ness OF the government they managed and en-.
Joyed, would ultimately extend the blessing
of liberty to a dependent people, and effentu-
ally remove their disabilities on a new scene
OF useful and Independent exertion. These
considerations induced the sages on founding
the republic, not to disturb that poisonous ell
ement which they believed the vgor of the
constitution would work out of the system in
time. They lived to see their fond hopes
proved decisions. The noxous plant of bar
barouS African growth, taking root in the ac-
cumulations of avarice, worked by the energy
OF great race, outs tript all the sweet shoots
OF harmonizing culture given to our constitu-
ton by the benevolent philosophy of our fore
fathers. In plain truth, slavery has propag-
gated in IFS rpUInn in urodiuiuue MI
that is evil in the nature of our eountrymen
and stifed all the virtues in which our glorious
government had its origin. How strikingly
this is demonstrated by the fact, that while
there was not man in the south
who contributed to establish the free
institutions among us who did not de-
nounce slavery as a curse from which the
country must somehow be redeemed, now
there is not one Of that slave-breeding and
governing class who does not proclaim it as
the all-essential blessing for which life itself
must be sacrificed. The process by which
this melancholy change has been accomplish
ed is illustrated by the drunkards career
This unhappy class of reprobates once felt
that decency, sobriety, industry and purity
were the true sources of happiness. But long
indulgence in intoxicating draughts renders
existence burden, unless stimulated into en-
travagant feelings wild hilarity or sensual in
dolence then becomes their only good, Negro
slavery is that black opium drug in the south
which excites it into delirious frenzy or sinks
it into that sad ethargy, both alike fatal to its
prosperity. 1t pamperS every vice and inn
pairs every virtue.
''And can state prosper under system
working such demoralization2 The picture
now presented in the land of slaves tells the
same 81 'ry which is to be found in the annals
OF ever Slave empire All Asia has been
corrupt ~ slavery. Africa, its birth place,
has ever On a desert The glorious ancient
republics persisted under its influence after
reaching the highest point of civilization by
the hardy virtues of free prople, and
modern Europe only redeemed herself from
the common fate by the extinction of the
feudal system that originated serfdom.
"Reverence for the hopeful idea of our
fathers, that the inherent virtues of the con-
stitution would eXtinguish slavery, induced all
who felt that Its permanence would be de-
structlve to acquiesce in passive resistance
to its eXtension although that resistance had
proved unavaillng to its first encroachments
west OF the Mississippi 1t was hoped that
the passion for extension would be allayed by
the surrender of Missouri and the acquisition
of Texas, and that the compromise line es-
tablished in 1920, and reafIirmed in 1850, as
the northern boundary, would be respected.
branches of congress- and the supreme court,
the slave power resolved to break all contracts
and strike for the empire of the government,
Kansas was taken by force, and slave gov
eminent was designed to be established bv
fraud, and the supreme court then affirmed
principle in the bred Scott case which car
ried it all over our country. Slavery, the
court said, was property which was held I'M
der the constitution of the United States, and
Tor that reason could not be excluded from
the territories by their lawful governments
The reasoning applies to the states as well as
to the territories, for the constitution of the
United States is equally paramount in both
Their hlllbusters or pirates having failed in
their attempt to seize Cuba and Central Amer
lea, they proposed to take these countries
openly by the power Of the government.
''Such were the means adopted prior to the
war to make the constitution of the United
States what that Of the coufederacy now is
an instrument to increase, diffuSe and perpet-
uate slavery, and make it a continental insti-
tuition. But the ohgarchy saw, by the cleo
ton of Lincoln, that the peaceful action of the
ballot box would reverse these wrongs, and
prevent future aggressions, either to extend
slavery further south or to maintain i. in the
regions subjected by the supreme court.
1hey were prepare for this contingency.
1hey LOOK up arms to assert their doctrine,
that slavery was the best foundation for gov
eminent, and undertook, like Mohammed, the
propagation OF their faith and institutions by
the sword"
''Ihe president, to whom the defence of the
government and the command of its armies
belongs, has labored to avert the dangers with
which are encompassed, by various meas
ures in aid of the armed forces he had sent To
the field. He would save the Union with mr.
without slavery-would save it any way, at
whatever cost. The Union in peace under
the constitution again and again his over
ture. If there could be no assurance of this
with rebels, bent on subverting the republic
to establish an ollgarchy of shareholders, then
to the loyal friends OF free government in the
south he rendered emancipation with compen-
sation, and deliverance by colonization from
a war of races, which could My end in the
determination of the negro race, or amalgama-
ton with it, This failing, after nearly two
years of eXpostuation, and torbearance to
exert to the utmost the military power con-
ferred on him under the constitution, the
president felt himself constrained to issue
that proclamation of freedom to the slaves,
who were in every sense the enemys sinews
of war. Some of them were found fighting
in their ranks, multtudes in erecting and de-
Tending their Notifications, the greater mass
in the fields at hume, enabling their conscrp-
ton to drag every able-bodied white man into
the fields of battle against the government,