Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-31
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FRIDAY, LTLY 81, Isos.
what They Aim to DO.

What They Aim to DO,
There is nothing so common among those
who apologize for the rebel leaders as the
representation that they organized the rebel
lion in order to save the institution of slave
ry; or "their rights under the constitutions"
as their apologists sometimes phrase it. 1t is
true that slavery trained them to rebel against
republican institutions and it is true, also,
that it was their purpose to preserve slavery
and make 1t the corner stone of new empire
in which majority of the people should be
DISTINGUISHED and excluded from political in
huence; but it is not true that it was fear
that their slavery would be destroyed
which led them to organize treason.
They themselves have declared this in
the most public and unequivocal man
ner. The southern commissioners to Eng
land" VIM. l.. Nancey, p. A. Rost, and A.
Dudley Mann, saw fit to make public pro-
test against the statement that the rebellion
sprang from fear for the existance of slavery.
They said =
at was from. no fear that the slaves would
be liberated that secession took place. The
very party in power has proposed to guaran.
tee slavery forever in the states if the south
would remain in the Union. Mr.. Lincoln's
lhrst message proposes nosfreedom to the
slave, but announces subsection of his owner
to the will of the Union-in other words, to
the will of the north. Even after the battle
of Bull Run, both branches of the congress at
Washington passed resolutions that the war
Is only waged in order to uphold that (pro-
slavery constitution, and to enforce the laws,
(many of them pro-slavery), and out of l72
votes in the lower house, they received all but
two and in the senate, all but one vote
We published their protest, at the time, but
it needs to be reprinted often, until their false
tongued apologists are shamed by the truth
What they said has been repeatedly declared
by their associates in treason; and whoever
candidly considers the political condition and
tendencies of the country, at the time when
they began their conspiracy, will see that they
could not make a contrary declaration and
speak the truth. No, the rebellion was
organized because its authors had learned
to hate democratic Institutions, and were
determined to expel the democratic prin-
ciple from their politics. They had
plotted to exterminate it throughout the
whole union, or, at least, to have it treat
ed as an outlaw in the few localities where it
might retain vitality; but this, finally, seemed
to them impossible, and therefore they raised
the standard of revolt and took arms against
the government. Some OF them believed that
half of the north would follow their lead and
enable them to reconstruct the government
according to their own pleasure.
The foremost purpose of the secession
leaders was to organize government found
ed on the supremacy of class; to achieve
for the ''aristocracy" of the plantation an as
sured victory over democratic institutions
and to make their southern sociology" as
they call it, the basis of all political intiu-
ence. Some of them have talked of a mon
archy as the surest barrier against the
influence of ''free society;" and among
the conspiratOrs generally it is under
stood that, when their independence is Sc
cured" they will so reconstruct their political
institutions as to confne the right to vote and
hold office to the small 'ruling class" that is
to say, the shareholders. They attempted to
introduce this limitation, in Virginia, in CON
nection with their ordinance of secession;
but the time for it had not come. Those
who apologize for the secessionists and aim
to give them triumph over the govern
ment, are participatorS in their crime against
free institutions. Those who aim to conceal
their real purpose by studied falsfcations,
and by storming perpetualy at anti-slavery
men, are perfdious to the republic they have
sworn to uphold.