Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-24
The Contempt Ina which the Rebels Hold
Peace Smealks.

We take the following remarkable article
from the Richmond Enquirer OF June ~, in
which the whole tribe of Peace Sneaks, who
are endeavoring to embarrass the government
and thus give aid and comfort to the rebels
are brought under the old-time slave-driver's
lash:
TWO YEARS HENCE.
In two years, as many persons hope, we
may possibly have. peace-that is, always
provided we continue to repuse and defeat
the invading enemy. The Yankee "democ-
racy' is certainly arOusing itself, and prepar-
ing for new struggle Cat, the ballot box) in
the great cause Of The "SpoilS," or, as they
call it, the cause of constitutional liberty
Those democrats are evidently beginning to
9alse peace platform for their merit p,-eSt-
DENTAL election and if they have the good
luck to be helped on and sustained by more
and more serious disasters of the Yankee
army in the field, there is no doubt that the
present dev0urers of the said spois at Wash
lngtOn may soon be SO discredited and decried
that our enemy'S country would be ripe for
such peaceful ballot-boX revolution.
1t Is sincerely to be hoped that those earn
est champions of constitutional freedom will
be helped on and sustained III the manner
eHSS iNHuiiS tietuiCly, ny COnllluSu anu sew
ere reverses in the field; and it is the first
and most urgent duty of our countrymen so
to help and sustain that democratic party
1t is nothing to us which OF their factions may
devour their ''spoils;" just as little does it
signify to MS whether they recover or do not
recover that constitutional liberty which they
SO wdntOnly threw away lu-the mad pursuit of
southern conquest and plumber But ii is of
the utmost Importance to rs to aid in Stimu.
tatiRg disaBectlon among Yankees against
Their 0rH government, and in deBIoratlztRg
and diSiategrating society an that Cod
abandoned country. We can do this only in
one way namely, by thrashing their armies
and carrying the war to their own firesides.
Then, indeed, conscientious constitutional
principles will hold sway peace platforms
will look attractive; arbitrary arrests will be-
come odious, and habeas corpus be quoted at
premium. This is the only way we can
help them. IN this sense, and to this extent,
those democrats are truly our allies, and lce
shall eRdeacOr to do our duty 5y Them
But they evidently look for other and furth-
er help at our hands, and of quite a different
sort. No doubt they are pleased for the pres
ent with the efficient aid which the confeder.
ate army is atfording them. Charlottesville
was GOd-send to them, and the tremendous
repulse at Port Hudson is quite a plank in
their: platform. Yet they understand very
well that no matter how soundly their armies
may be happily beaten; no matter how COM
pleieiy Lincolns present war policy may be
condemned by its results, yet all this will not
be enough to enable the aRte3vifed democyacg
TO clutch the ''Spoils"-or, as they phrase it. to
restore the constitution of their fathers. This,
OF itself would never give them a peace dom.
ocrat president and cabinet; it would only re-
suit in another abOitionist administration,
with new secretary of war, and new COM
mander-n chief, and slightly different pro-
granme for crushing the rebellion" Those
black republicans are in power; after long
waiting, pining, intriguing in the cold shade of
the opposition; and they have now the nu-
merical preponderance so decidedly that they
both can and will hold on to the office with Il
clutch like death. The democrats can do abb
solutely nothing without ''the SOUTH" as they
persist in terming these confederate states /;
and they cannot bring themselves to admit
the thought that ace ioOuld refuse to unite aoith
them las alas ne used to do) IN grand uni
rerSGl prsSideRtial campaign, for a democrat
&c president. rith q peace pldtfo1m and the
''constitHtioa as 1t u.s." In fact, this whole
two years war, and the two years more war
which has yet to be gone through, is itself, in
their eyes, only a presidential campaign, only
somewhat more vivacious than ordinary.
This explains the Valandglam peace meet
ingS in New York and New Jersey; and the
"manly declaration" of Mr.. Horatio Seymour
and other patriots. 'Do not let us forget"
says Fernando Wood, writing to the Philadel-
phia meeting, "that those who perpetrate such
outrases rs the arrest and Punishment of Mr..
Vallandigham, do SO as necessary war meas.
ures. Let us therefore strike at the cause
and declare for peace and against the qcar."
This would sound very well if the said SIDE
clarng for peace" could have any effect what
ever in bringing about peace. If a man fall
ing from tower could arrest his fail by de-
clariug against it, then the declaration of the
democrats against the war might be of some
avail. As it is they resemble that emphatic
pronouncement of Mr.. Washington Hunt =
LET it be proclaimed upon the house-tops,
that no citizen of New York shall be arrested
without process of law" There is no use in
bawling from the house-tops what everybody
knows to be nonsense. Or this resolution of
the New Jersey meeting:-
Resolved that in the Illegal seizure and ba nish-
meut Of Hon. c. l.. ValIandgham, the laws of our
country have been outraged, the name of the United
States diSgraced, and the rights of every citizen
menaced, and that it is now the duty OF law re-
specting people TO demand of the administration
that it once and forever desst from such deeds Of
despotisBa and crime. (EnthuGiasmD
Demand, quotha? The startling that Mr..
Sterne saw in the cage, said only, II can'tget
out 1t would have been more 'manly" to
scream, Il demand to get out proclaim on
the house-tops that ciH get out"
Another of the New Jersey resolutions
throws an instructive light upon this whole
movement, and its objects.
Resolved, that we renew our declaration of at.
tachment TO the Union, pledging TO its friends,
Waerege l9"Hd, our unwavering support, and to its
eheiaes, IA " iialeIer gulSc' our undying hostility,
ana mat Dod wiling we will stand by the consti-
tuition ana laws OF our country and under their sa.
cred seid Will maintain and defend our liberty and
rights, ''pe"ceably II We cam forcbly if we must
(Glcaf cheellng1
This phrase, wherever found" implies
that there are friends of the Union in this con.
federacy, and the resolution obligingly pledg.
as to them the support of the New Jersey de-
mocracy-not surely without an eouiyalent
return.
To the same meeting Gen. Fitzjohn Porte,
writes letter, declaring, OF coufse. for the
constitution and resistance to despotism, anc
ending thus:
s'rhe contest of arms, however, will not be re-
quired; the certain and peaceful remedy wVl b.
found in the ballot box Let us possess our souls
patience. The remedy is ours"
Gen. Fitzj0hn knows well that the remedy
is not theirs, unless "the south consent tC
throw ITS votes into that same ballot-box and
it is for this, and this only that the democrat
hook is baited with peace" But in speech
OF senator Wall of New Jersey, before dem
ocratic club of Philadelphia (Which we fine
printed in the Sentinel, is passage more
fully expoundlng the democratic plan thar
any other we have seen. He says: