Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-11
When Seymour in his sorry plight,
Unfured his banner to the air,
He chose the sable skirts of night,
And barred each ray of glory there.


Unfurled his banner to the air,
He chose the sable skirts of night,
And barred each ray Of glory there.
Then from his kennel, mid the scum,
lie babe his banner bearer come,
And gave into his reckless hand
The sword TO stab his native land
Such was the travesty Of brakes Gamer
lean flag" that sang through our brain when
Gov.Seymour's remonstrance with and com
plants to the president concerning the
draft sang over the telegraph wires. What
would the wise governor have? Anniher
mopf Another cruel, fendish outbreak
against the good and noble, against the de-
fenseless and the weak? Another sacking OF
such homes as the Gibbons? Another fiery
onslaught against forlorn children? Another
hellish sheaf of murders of frightened ne
groes, who, fancying they had fled from the
house of bondage into a city of refuge, found
there smooth, bland d" gentleman"(?) to
slip the leash OF his bloodhounds upon them
tor their destruction? By dastardly appeals
to passion and prejudice (the prejudice of
color and of race the slums of New York
were stirred. The filth dubbed to the surface
III that seethIng political caldron Of damnable
ingredients. Up from cutters, and brothels
and gambling hells, and grog-shops, up from
The haunts of thieves, up from the rat holes of
pollution, up from the hiding places ofinfamy
came the horrid crew of Mr.. Sey-
mour's constituents, and when the raging,
blood-thirsty mob stood before the bland.
smooth gentleman" CD with their imperi-
Gus, insulting demands, what did sweet. kind.
amiable Mr.. Seymour do? Instead OF an.
swering those demands with an emphatic
INC! from cannons mouth, he stood before
his 'reaSonable constituency "roaring as
sweety as any sucking dove,' 81 will endeav-
or to have this draft stopped" ~ will en-
deayor to cripple this government, which
Expresses so cruelty our dear southern breth-
ren!' 81 will endeavor to bring into power
the democratic party with good sound cop
per head" and so, looked across that gulf of
death and destruction yawnng before him to
swallow up the detenceless, he sent his wolves
away 10 pillage and plumber, to murder and
destroy.
And after all this we read this morning of
his petty cavils at the draft, and his request
for the suspension of it ''tiH its constitution
ality as tested" forsooth! This, then, is Mr..
Seymour's patriotisml This When blow
after blow has fallen with stunning weight on
the rebels; when victory after victory has
Knocked at their frightened hearts, and flung
the word surrender" in their teeth; when
o11r unhla
around Charleston; when western harvest
fields are red with their blood; when
the broad Mississippi flows free at
last from traitor thralldom, and goes
singing to the sea its glad song OF
deliverance, bearing, as its best treasure, that
sacred blood, to give it to the broad gulf, tina
the gulf may send it to the broader ocean
till all the world shall find the seeds of free
dom scattered broadcast by the restless waves
when now loyal masses of fresh troops, rally
ing to our standard might remove all need o
further bloodshed, and end the war. II
this grand hour, Mr.. Seymour stands, up ant
palters over the constitutionality of the draft
Thus does this great man show his Eloyalty
ers. Oh, Mr.. Seymour, Mr.. Seymour! you
may have the gift of tongue (would that
were "unknown!'), the Interpretation where
of is most easy. "Drag out the war but an
ottes gear, and hen-and then" Shal
the politician, through his countrys ruin
grasp his base success? Shall Mr. Seymou
institute another New York riot? Will no
the loyal army, and the loyal people, rebuk
such paltering with the public safety, sucl
recreancy to duty, such culpable blindness t.
the right9
The president has couched his eyes. Pra.
God the operation may be successful, ant
when his devils again come forth from thei
tombs, may they see Jesus passing by, in th'
great events of the day, and, driven forth into