Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-30
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TUESDAY. JUNE 40, 1858,
Is the Country Lost ,:


the specific purposes Of the rebel general who
is now invading the free states with power.
full army. When journalists, much nearer
than we are TO the scene of the impending
conflict, many ofwhom profess to be acquaint-
edwth military strategy, are utterly unable to
interpret the signs of the times, it would be
waste of time and space for us to speculate on
the subject. But of this we are certain; of
this there is no dispute; the enemy is upon
us. His armies occupy not only Maryland
but Pennsylvania. They threaten the capt.
tai of the Keystone state, or the chief city of
Maryland, or Washington itself, or all three.
Well, no harm in this, we should say, If
the people of the invaded states were prepared
to meet them. The invasion of Middlesex
county in April, 1875, by the British, was not
an evil but good, for the people were pre-
pared to meet the invaders; the assault upon
Bunker Hill in the June succeeding, though
successful in overcoming the provincial arms,
was triumph to those arms, because then
and there were developed those fighting quail
titles which settled the question of the ability
OF the American people to achieve and main
tain Independence. But what do we see
now? We take up Boston newspaper of
yesterday, the Courier. What do we find i'll
it? Its leading editorial is snarling and
spiteful attack on Gen. Fremont and Wendell
Phillips, for which there Is no excuse or prov.
ocation, neither of these gentlemen being in
n1hlNp n RI
Next we have an apology for New York'S
backwardness in filling its quota, accompan-
led by sneer at Gov. Andrews "swarms,"
though it is known and has been de-
monstrated that Massachusetts is from t1veto
seven thousand ahead of its quota, while New
York is many thousands behind. State pride
is not sufficient to deter the malignant cop
perhead who edits the paper from maligning
the republican governor who has done more
than his duty, while he apologies for the
we have a paragraph concerning the ''horri-
Bile" manner in which two rebel spies were
hanged in Tennessee. it is evident enough
from the style of this paragraph that the Cour-
execution as angry that its friends were exc
cuted at all. Following this we have an arti-
Gle which declares that the democrats have
never objected to carrying on the war by fair
fighting, by battles, and by Selling important
strategic positions, but they object to eman-
cipation, to confScation, to destruction of
private property, and to all kindred measures;
which is pretty much Ensign Stebbin's posi-
ton on the Maine liquor law; friendly to the
law, but against enforcing it. Next we have
a snarl at secretary Weles; next, a puff of
copperheads next, curious paragraph
which is perhaps worth quoting
The radical papers are disgracing them
selves and their country by the himsy argu-
ment that we are no worse than the rebels in
burning and robbing, and that therefore we
are not to be blamed. What have we to do
with rebel sins? Enough that we repent and
abandon our own. What use to denounce
sins we are not responsible for, when we have
enough of our own to ruin us? The United
States is not responsible for the iniquites
committed by the rebellion"
Sure enough What have we to do with
the rebel sin of rebellion, commenced at fort
Sumter, two years ago, and now eliminating
in an invasion of the north? Let us mind
our own business, and let ''rebel sins" alone.
Omitting all mention OF half a dozen other
similar paragraphs in the editorial columns,
We turn to the first page of this delectable
sheet, and there we find, first, letter from
New Orleans, containing the cheerful state
ment that our loss in the last repulse at Port
Hudson was 5000 to 1000, and the cheerful
prediction that in ten days the question will
be, Can Banks save the remnants of his army,
and save New Orleans? We find no fault
with this as information, if it is from relia-
BILE and loyal and friendly source, for we do
not believe it is wise to hold back unfavorable
news; but the writer of this New Orleans
letter betrays his copperhead character when
he says =
''lt the results, whatever they may be, of
the operations of tine army in Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Tennessee, eventuate in an
armlstice and peace, the whole country will
be gamers: the victors and the vanquished
will both gain; and acceleration will be givon
to the peace movement of the north, which
must result in convincing the most blood
thirsty that the majority of the people can,
under the law and the constitution, in strict
obedience thereto, easily govern the minority;
and that they can never, by military power,
compel a considerable portion of brave PEG.
pie to submit to what they consider the uncon-
sututlonal acts of the government, or to the
1mpertlnent interference in local institutions
OUTSIDE OF their own state organizations"
Our readers will say that we have sufH-
GENTLY developed the character and contents
OF this Boston newspaper, printed on the 29th
day of June, 1868. But the worst is vet to
come. Two columns or more are occupied
with a report Of the proceedings of the demo-
cratic convention in Vermont, including the
speech of James Brooks of the New York Ex-
press. This speech, it is safe to say, is the
most offensive and Infamous development of
the reasonable opinion and sympathy of the
northern copperhead that has yet found its
way to the light Fernando Wood and Val
landigham have said nothing half SO bad.
Never have we read before such sneers at
loyalty to the government! Never was the
gospel of anarchy so distinctly preached! Ac-
cordlng to this man, who boasts that he was
Drought up IN the school of Clay and Web
''i' inc people owe no greater allegiance to
the president Of the United States than n .nv
0'--e' i.iu''iuuai--Jlm Brooks, for instance