Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-12

| governors; the other states were to follow
their example through the X G. c.. societies
and the armed democracy. The ground to be
taken was, that the administration having
failed to conquer the south, the Union was
virtually resolved into its original elements,
and thut each state was at perfect liberty to
| enter into new combinations. There was to
be formed northwestern confedcracy. New
England was to be left out in the cold &C.,
NC. New York was to be an Empire in itself,
&C., &c. But the future state of the country
was to be settled by a convention, of which the
leading peace men and X. G. C.'s of course,
would have supreme control. Seymour was
expected to announce the revolution in his
inaugural And Storey, Richardson, Mer-
rick, Goudy, Fuller, and O'Melveny (properly
spelled O'Melyany,) who were nearly all here
at the time it was issued, could scarcely wait
its appearance. They wanted to commence
the bloody work at once.
Richardson acknowledged to gentlemen
here at that time that the party had got be-
yond his power to urge it forward or stay its
course in the direction of open and armed op-
position TO the government; that Seymour
was too tlmid. He wanted Cen Fleury,
who (says kinglake in his History of the
Crimean WARP held pistol to the head of
Louis Napoleon, when the latter showed
symptoms of backing out of the comp a. etats.
1t will be recollected that our legislature en-
deavored to inaugurate this peace convention,
10 wlllch ~. u. Cs and others, to be used as
blinds, were to be delegates from this state.
This programme was no doubt n magnif-
cent one. All it needed to insure success was
the defeat Of our armies in the field. And,
Indeed, II prayers, predictions, assertions, en-
to tIn
soldiers to desert, announcement of negroes
as soldiers and laborers. eulogium of the enc.
my, their cause, their generals, &C.. could
assist their defeat, it would have been accom-
pished.
On the battle of Gettysburg hung the fate
of this government and the hopes of republi.
canism on earth. There is no doubt of it.
The horrors of a rebellion in the north, such
as the world never before witnessed, would
have followed our defeat on that occasion.
was there ever before woven in the history
OF the world such devilish plot as this? Or
was there ever one that came so near success
and failed of it,
But, as will be seen by the meeting in Chi
cage, the conspirators have not yet gwen up
their designs. They are still as busy us bees,
weaving their network of treason. They and
their papers (vi1e Chicago Times and State
Register) still hope for French intervention,
or British, or both. They thus whistle to
keep up their, and their co-conspirators of the
south, courage. They catch at every straw
that floats They even clap their hands with
JOY when jeff. Davis arms his negroes
But their most potent argument at present
is that we are now nothing but a despotism /;
that 1t will be impossible to hold another pres
idential election s,s things now stand; that the
people will be 0verawed, &C., &c. Having
also brought their party up to the fighting
point, having their battalionS armed, and four
brigadier generals appointed for this state, be-
side major general and commander in chief,
they must either fight or be irretrievably ru-
med, politically, morally, and socially
Some of the delegates to the secret meeting
being held in Chicago at this writing were also
commissioners to confer with Seymour and
Wood OH the project of inaugurating this rev.
olution, of which New York was to give the
signal.