Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-05

The "OppOsitiOn" Resolutions.
The Boston Courier is in ccstaces. 1t re-
joices in the democratic nominee for gov
ernor, as a man after its own heart. POLITICAL
ly it is precisely the same as if the convention
had nominated the editor of the Courier HIM
self Having disciplined and BUNDLED the
Post for inadvertently praising the position of
such war democrats as Gen. futile Of Iowa,
and having constructed the "oppostion'
ticket in Massachusetts to its entire satistac-
tion, that paper is well nigh delirious with
great JOY. The Courier says of the resolves
adopted :-"The resolutions adopted appear
to us of a character likely to reconcile all
differences between the opponents of the ma
tional administration, and to unite the demo-
Gratis and constitutional wings of the state in
one unbroken phalanx" This is doubtless
an accurate statement of the purpose of the
resolutions.
The managers of the convention could not
refrain, in the resolves, from giving utterance
to some of the copperheadisn which was so
abundant in the speeches We ask our read
ers, of all parties, to observe that this ''op-
position" convention had not a word of eXul-
tation for the Union victories gained, nor
word OF detestation for the traitors who
seek to destroy the republic. They
are chiefly devoted to reckless denuncation of
the national administration. Is this what may
reasonably be expected of patriotism at such
time as this? We think not. But these
resolutions do contain such lying copperhead
treason as this: 1--WE are opposed to any and
all efforts on the part of the administration to
continue the present deplorable civil war for
the purposes of subjugation or emancipation"
Which really means that they agree with Val
landigham and the Knights of the Golden Cir
Gle, and will oppose all efforts of the govern
ment to crush the rebels who seek to destroy
it. The facts that honest resolution to
sustain the war against treason was summari-
ly laid on the table, and that Lieut.. Riordan,
a delegate from Lee, was suppressed, amid
Kisses and sneers, when he sought to ascer-
tain whether the proposed candidates were in
favor of carrying on the war against the re-
bellion, show how intense was the copperhead
spirit that controlled the proceedings. The
resolutions express dissent from the doctrine Of
secession, and at the same time indirectly en-
dorse it as follows Resolved that our gov
eminent was formed by people which owed
allegiance to the several distinct and soUeyetqn
states" 1t is this southern doctrine, that the
republic is merely confederacy of
sovereign States" that gave birth to the
reasonable doctrines Of notification and Sc
cession. 1t is false to say that the states
which framed and adopted the federal consti-
tuition ever were or ever protested to be sep
arate and independent soyereignties. At first
they were colonies of Great Britain and re-
cognlzed allegiance to no sovereignty save
that OF the British government. After the de-
claration OF independence their allegiance was
transferred to the sovereignty residing in the
continental congress and the government
created by the articles of confederation; and,
after the war, it was regularly trans.
ferred to the gnrornhlent created by
the federal constitution. The representa-
ton that each of the states was, and continues
to be, sovereign commonwealth, is a false
hood which southern politicians have repeated
until some of them may believe it. Those
who endorse it now may as well accept from
the secessionists, along with it, their whole
gospel of treason.
The whole drift of thought and feeling in
these resolutions shows that the men who pre-
pared them are more friendly to the rebels
than to the national administration; more
disposed to apologize for the traitors,
and give currency to their doctrines, than
to inculcate patriotism and aid the efforts o!
the government to put down the rebellion;
more controlled by partizan fanatclsm that
seeks to restore the slave power and renew
alliance with it, than influenced by honest de-
sire to rescue the nation from its destroyers
and give it permanent peace. The attempt to
restrain the utterance of copperhead senti-
ments was an absurd failure and the hope
that the unpatriotic and factious copperhead
crusade against the government can cheat the
people and become successful, will be terribly
disappointed