Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-22

the Fourth of July. Ex-president Pierce is
announced as one Of the speakers. The OBJ
ject of the meeting is thus stated in the ad-
vertsement which we find in the Post:
''The object of the meeting will be to revive
the glorious memories of the past-to repeat
the vows to the tulimen! of which the Faith
ers of the 4TH OF July, l776, pledged their
lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor
to renew the expression of our unwavering
devotion to the constitution and the Union"
Nothing could be better than this; but we
shall have to look farther in order to find
what the New Hampshire democrats mean by
it. They go on to say;
Aroused to a sense of the fearful and inn
pending danger TO our state and nation, in
Volved in the nparalleledassault upon the
This, too, is excellent, but we shall have to
go still farther. The unsophisticated reader
no doubt supposes that these New Hampshire
men are speaking and thinking of the fearful
and impending danger to the state and nation
involved in the unparalleled assault upon
the government which was instituted by jeff
Davis and his fellow conspirators two and
half years ago, and which has succeeded, at
least temporarily, in dismembering the coun-
try, has plunged it into the horrible pit of civil
war, has destroyed hundreds of thousands of
lives, and wasted hundreds of millions OF
treasure. Not bit of it. Read on! 1t is
the unparalleled assault upon the"
detective franchise in the case of our fell
low citizen, Lieut.. Edgerly-in the violent ar
rest by military force and the despotic expul-
sion from home and country of Mr.. Vallan-
digham, and by official threats and orders
against the freedom Of speech and of the
press"
Vallandigham we know all about; but it
may be asked, who is Edgerly? We answer
he is, or was, an officer in a New Hampshire
regiment, who was (very injudiciously as we
think, dismissed from the United States
service for distributing copperhead tickets at
the New Hampshire election. Suppose we
admit that the government made a mistake,
and that Edgerly is fairly entitled to
be considered a martyr, in a small way, still
we must think that the Importance of his dis
charge is overrated by the New Hampshire
people, who hope to make some political cap.
ital out Of it. Turning copperhead out of
the army for carrying his principles to the
polls, may be an assault upon the elective
franchise, but it is not by any means ''unpar-
alleled." We are disposed to think that the
breaking up of this government because the
people of New Hampshire and certain other
states fit to vote for Abraham Lincoln,
in 1860, was an outrage of far greater mag
nitude. There were certain transactions in
Kansas between 1854 and 1856, which seem
to us to have been Of graver nature than
this assault upon Edgerly's rights as a vote
distributor Probably Pierce, who was with
JEFF Davis instigatng and managing the
wholesale attack upon free political action
in Kansas, does not agree with us in this
opinion. We suppose he will break out at
Concord, something in this style =
"Fsllow DemocratS-We are assembled
here to-day, to consider the outrages com
mitted by the abolition despots at Washing
ton on the elective franchise, and freedom of
opinion and speech. These outrages, gen.
tlemen, are unparalleled. When before, in
the history of this country, have the aboli-
uonists committed such outrages? Now l de-
nounce suchasSaults as unconstitutional when
committed by abolitionists. Only democrats
have a right to violate the right of suffrage.
''When JEFF Davis, Caleb Gushing and had
the honor to be at the head of affairs at WASH
ngton, we organized a border rufian raid into
Kansas Tor the purpose of carrying the cleo
uons there; VIC did carry them, though they
would not stay carried. We did more: we
appointed half dozen pro-slavery governors,
but they would not stay pro-slavery, and
Kansas people had their OWL way in spite of
us. When l left Washington, by the unani-
NOUS consent of the people, amidst the plau-
dts OF an admiring country, and the univer-
sal and irrepressible good-riddances from all
mankind, jeff stayed behind in the senate
anu organized a revolt against the govern
ment, to take effect in case the people of New
hampshire and other states were fools enough
to elect an aboltionist. You 4geye fool.
enough; fools did l say; you were 30 un-
mindful Of your constitutional obligations as
to do it; for is it not plainly written in the
SOH9tHue4Oh SAot nv doohllOHlSG snail be
chosen to Office, and that only democrats
shall have the right to govern this country +?
What followed, fellow citizens? Just what
was to be expected my friend JEFF broke up
the government. 1t was not safe for me to
give him any public aid, but could help him
a tritie by bowling free speech, free press
and elective franchise, and this is what l
am doing. Now about Lieutenant Edgerly.
Fellow democrats, who is Lieut.. Edgerly?
A New Hampshire democrat? And
what are New Hampshire democrats
rights! Why, to damn the abolitionists, en-
O~i'SSS the government, discourage enlist
mentS' circulate copperhead tickets, and do
anything else. What are the governments
rights! 10 dismiss him from tho serv;co2
Why, fellow democrats, the very ;a,a :. -
horrent to common sense; it is sacrileoo ond
blasphemy. For the right of New IT.
shire democrat to draw money from tho ,,,t,
lie treasury is antecedent to all other i'll.
dependent on no human power; absolntoII,
inalienable, and was only left out of the con-
stitution because nobody ever disputed it
The Pierces and Woodburys, fellow citizens,
have tested that question, and 1 rejoice to say
that the Woodburys are testing it now, and all
the time What than faIIour .;ti-nus Z. l..