Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-21
SATURDAY. FER. 81, lses.
very mysterious to CopperMeOds.


One of our contemporaries takes notice OF
the fact that most of the Union men of the Sc
ceded states are earnest supporters of the
presidents proclamation against slavery
And. it is seen, also, that in all the slave !
states, the majority CT the Uniouists are eman-
cipationists In Missouri, the loyal people
are determined to get rid of slavery, and they
desire to see faithful enforcement OF the
proclamation. They hold our northern cop
perheads in adherence, and see but little dit
ference between Knights Of the Golden Cir
Gle in Illinois and Indiana, and armed bands
of rebel guerrillas in their own state. And
when we 60 south into the gulf states, 1t Is
found that Union men, whether shareholders
or non-slayeholders, have become anti slave
~ men. Refugees from those states have
fully declared their views in public meetings
at the north; and all other testimony shows
that they fairly represent whatever loyal peo-
pie still exist in those states. Gen. Hamilton
and others from Texas have spoken very free
ly on this subject, and it is known that there
are thousands of loyal men in that state who
all think and feel as they do. In New Or
leans, the other day, meeting consisting al
most wholly of native southerners, and many
of them life long shareholders, adopted the
following resolution by unanimous and en-
thusastic vote
''Resoleed, that we are prepared to sustain
the government of the Union in all measures
adopted for the suppression of the rebellion,
4Jn FIJI,
set out in the proclamation of the president,
of Jan. l, 1868, as one called for by the eri-
gencieS of the contest, concentrating at once
an act of justice to one class, and inflicting at
the same time on another class persisting in
rebellion, the b!oW best calculated to reduce
them to obedience to the lalcS."
These views of southern loyalists, so differ
ent from what our northern copperheads
would prescribe for them, naturally engage
the attention of those who have assumed that
northern msloyalty must be acceptable to eve
rybody at the south. The mere politician,
however shrewd, does not comprehend this
condition of things. He is not familiar with
the forces that produce such results; they
have never been visible within the sphere of
his activity; his favorite political machinery
was constructed without any regard 10 their
existence, and therefore they confound his
calculations and give him facts of the highest
importance which he feels ought not to exist.
One co -mentator on this characteristic of
southern Unionism, after contrasting it with
the pro-slayery and copperhead tone of GER
tain politicians at the north, explains it as fol-
lows =
In g 9qF s9siaj9R 4 Peenomena is owing
the rebellion; and, second, the surviving in
fluence of party spirit at the north, which at
the south has ceased to exist
This explanation is not wholly without
reason; but he might have added that the
southern rebellion has given these southern
men new revelation in regard to the charac-
ter and influence of slavery, and forced
upon them the conviction that it cannot exist
in this country without being the persistent
enemy and destroyer Of republican institu-
tons. They that its influence created
the rebellion and is one of its most powerful
supporters, and they would have it DESTROYED
that the republic may live; and all men, north
and south, will feel this just in proportion as
they become really in earnest to crush the
rebellion and make another like it impossible