Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-29
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THURSDAY. OCTOBER so, 1863.


. The unusual quiet prevailing throughout
the commonwealth in regard to the election
does not evidence a want of interest in Its re-
suits The past history Of Massachusetts is
too full Of proofs of her intelligent apprecia-
ton Of public affairs, and of the alacrity with
which all her public duties are welcomed and
performed, 1t does not require contested
political struggle, nor vehement appeals to
human passions, to show that the greatly pre-
dominant sentiment and power of her citizens
are on the side of the government, and the
cause Of unconditional loyalty
1t is important, however, that the election
next week should result in something more
than a nominal party triumph. Our cause
claims support upon higher and more excel
lent grounds. Wholly aside from the person
al merit of the candidates who are presented
for approval above and beyond the political
considerations, which in ordinary and peace
tul times would command for them faithful
and enthusiastic support, they demand it the
more, in these extraordinary and perilouS
times, as the representatives of the only or
S"hAHNN lu'iiN sentiment tItIc ISs WI hlUS
for the restoration of the Union and in de-
fence of the rights and liberties of all.
We publish on our first page this morn
ing, an address from the republican state com
mittee, giving in PLAIN and forcible manner
the reasons for full vote on Tuesday next.
1t has our hearty and unreseryed endorse
ment This state has been for many years
foremost of those who have fought the good
fight and kept the faith. 1t is her deep con-
viciions, her firm and settled faith, her reso-
lutte devotion to great principles of public
conduct, now for the first time inspiring and
controlling public policy, against which the
rebellion is waging unholy war. Surely, in
this strange crisis she will not hesitate and
falter, and thus bring reproach and shame to
the affairs she has herself set up.
In earnest and effectual work we may well
follow the example of the states whose cleo
tions have been recently held. They tell us,
while unfolding the government with their
strong arms, how patriots duty may be per-
formed at home. For that government is
surely and strongly founded which has no
secret enemies powerful enough to conSpre
successfully against 1t, while it is fighting It's
open foes in the field. And no duty of a cit-
zen can be more clear or urgent, than to see
that these hostile and dangerous infu-
ences at home are wholly thwarted
and overthrown. They are less to be
feared, indeed, in Massachusetts, than in Ohio,
or Pennsylvania, or any of the great states
where the opposition have control OF power
full and consolidated political organizations.
But even here no possible emphasis of rebuke
can he too emphatic for the partisans who lose
no opportunity to declare themselves equu.r,
opposed to treason and to loyalty, to the re-
bellon resting upon slavery as its corner stone,
and to the government striking at slavery that
the rebellion itself may fall.
The state administration itself calls for no
apology or defense. Three times since the
war begun the general course of the state
government has beon submitted to the public
judgment, and il any considerable dissatisfac-
ton existed it has lound no adequate voice to
express It, War Itself is an expensive
luxury, and it would be difficult for war
administrations to be conducted with the same
careful and particular regard to economy
which Is such an ornament to peace govern
ments. But we doubt if there is a state in
the Union where more constant care has been
taken to keep the necessarily large expendi-
lures within just and proper bounds Certainly
the charge of extravaganza is not one that has
excited any appreciable discomfort and if it
had it is still a charge which facts will
not sustain. If there is any especial
virtue for which the present state executive
department deserves to be commended, it is
the particular care that within the scope of
executive authority, its affairs of every char
acter should be not only above reproach, but
above suspicion. 1t is not Il matter of opin-
ion, but historical fact, that the three wears
of Gov Andrews administration have been as
free from the influence of unsafe counsellors
and the devices of political adventures, as any
since the days OF John Hancock and Samuel
Adams. Pure as many intervening admins
trations have been, not one of them presents
cleaner record than Gov. Andrews will when
he chooses to retire from the position to which
the people now hold him.
A HEALTHY DEMONSTRATION. - Political