Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-26
0Ortester 4aiIp SPY.
THE DAILY SPY.
From the New York Evening Post.
How TO Edit a Sound Conservative Union
Paper.

warmest devotion to the Union, nevertheless
play into the hands of the secessionists But
the thing is easy enough--quIte as easy as ly-
ing-n you will only consider it for mo-
ment The editors of such journals are of
course compelled to parade their Unionlsm,
because of the overwhelming sentiment OF the
north; at the same time however, by observ-
ing any or all of the following rules. they are
able to do very effective work for the other
side. The rules we give, by the way, are
without charge to the parties concerned.
LIST. All the military successes of the rebel
armies should be magnifed in their effects,
while those Of the north should be deprecia-
ted. If we lose ten thousand men, set it
down at twenty three thousand; while, if they
lose eighteen thousand, set it down at eight
In this manner the superior galantry and
pluck Of the southerners may be gradually in
simulated into the popular mind, until in the
end it comes to be believed as a fact
I'd. The war reports Of the southern papers
should be paraded at great length, especially
those which swell the number of their army,
or which extoI the exploits of their generals.
But care must he taken to exclude their infia-
ted dispatches and leading articles, which are
evidently, on thetace of them, mOnStrOus Mum
chauseniSmS; for your readers must not be
allowed to suppose that the rebel writers are
ever guilty Of inaccuracy or falsehood; as
that would spoil their credit with the unsus-
picious northern public.
3D.. The efficient and energetic generals in
the loyal service should be illuminated in
every plausible way; insist upon it that they
are blunderers and thieves; and above all de-
nOunce them for utter incompetency. On the
other hand, laud such generals as have distin-
guShed themselves for don0thngism and a
half-taced sympathy in the revolt; call them
the master generals Of the age, whose pru-
dence surpasseS that Of Fabius, while their
lmpetu0sity rivals Napoleon and above all
remark upon that pre.eminence of intellectual
and moral quality which renders them the
stauncheSt OF conservatives.
4th. Whenever The Union army achieves a
signal victory, say very little about it: com
plain, perhaps, Incidentally at the slowness
of the war; but whenever it suffers reverse
Gas all armies do at times), ask boldly and in
dignantiy whether it be not time that this
fratrlcidal and hopeless war should be brought
to an end. Assert roundiy that the people
are weary of it; weary of paying their money
and sacrificing the lives of their brothers and
that we can never hope to accomplish any re-
suit 1t Is scarcely necessary to suggest on
this head that the fact. that during the two
years in which we have prosecuted the war
we have made greater progress than during
almost any two years of war recorded in his
tory, must be carefully concealed.
9th. The finances of the government may
be made fruitful topic Of suggestion. Do
not let your readers know, on any account,
that our securities command better prices
than they did in years of peace; do not show
them what the eXchequerS of other nations
have borne in times Of war; do not appeal to
tbn idnOna |, l.
the commercial circles but talk sneeringly
of ''greenbacks :" ask with a wink of the eve
what has become of the gold; say that our
debt mus. be two or three thousand millions
by this time, is rapidly increasing, and can
never be paid; and mutter Of frightful times,
bankruptcy, stock johbers, contractors, and
shoddy men, 1t would be well if you could,
to contrast the successful management of the
rebel finances with ours but as gold among
them is about four hundred per cent. prem-
UNI; as one of our notes will buy three of
theirs; as their debt already equals ours and
as their taxation greatly surpasses ours, very
little, we fear, could be made of the argu-
ment. Pass it over, therefore, in profound ST.
lence.
9th. In the abuse of Mr.. Lincoln and his
cabinet no regard need to be paid to the con-
sistency of your charges. Pronounce them
an NStth, llIltu, fdSCilldlluS, anu utterly III
capable, in one column; and in another ac-
cuse them of tyranny, despotism, excessive
rigor, and determination to trample the
rights Of the masses into the dust Some of
your readers will believe one story and some
the other, and so the confidence of all sorts
will be shaken You need give yourself no
concern about the truth of your charges, pro-
vided they look plausible, or can be made to
stick. Be sure, however, to insinuate that
the men IN power are not attached to the
Union, but they prosecute the war only to
compel the separation of the south. That
part of the nation, it is well known,
is so earnestly devoted to the national
cause that nothing but the perverse OBJ
stinacy and hatred of the administration keeps
it from rushing into our arms in all the costa
cy of traternal endearment. Mr.. Lincoln ard
Mr. Seward do not wish the south to come
back, and are fighting as hard as they can to
keep it out. Claim for yourselves, at the
same time, the title of the only true Unionsts.
18th. AS it does not hurt ANYBODY very much
in these days to call him a radical, while the
bugaboO OF abolitioniSm has lost its principal
terrUrs, you cannot accomplish a great deal
by reiteratng those nefarious epithets. But
you can protest vehemently against ''nigger"
brigades-against the atrOcity of arming
slaves against their masters, and against the
sui greater atroclty of putting black soldiers
on level with white. On that head you may
be Voiuble, as considerable anti-negro preiu-
Dice still exists among our more ignorant
classes. But in doing all ths be somewhat
adrolt, and do not for the world let it slip out
that the hrst negro troops were used by Gov
Moore OF Louisiana, that they are to be found
IN nearly all the rebel garrisons, and that
their labors are sometimes assisted Inv Indians
and bluodhounds. Should you reveal ALI the
facts Of the case, the common sense of rho
people might rush to the conclusion that az
negroes are to be used in the war ineyitabIv
by one side or the other, it will he bettar -
use them on the side OF the Union than against
it, while it may come to be considered thar
they are better adapted to the malarious re-
giunS of the semi-trcpcal climates A few
even may go so far as to calculate that the
more negroes we put into the service, the
fewer white men will be exposed to the draft.
DenOunce, then, but avoid facts
Sth. The draft-the conscriptiOn-ah that's
your topic Oh topics, which can be played
upon like ''the harp of thousand strings -
BE careful at the outset, not to initiate the
toolhardy Vallandigham and advise an open
resistance to it for Fort Warren frowns an
grily in the distance. Nor yet let it be known
that our enrolment act compared with the con-
scripton laws of the rebels-ot which there
are three or more-is like the sermon on the
Mount to the Draconian code. But clamor
against it IN detail; intimate doubts OF its con-
stitutionality; concealiHg its benevolent eX-
emption of all who have others dependent
upon them, denounce the $500 clause; say
that il makes o1ious Distinctions hat,vann tl,e