Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-04
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The Democratic Convention.


faithful account of that conflict of influences
by which the result was determined. The
copperhead spirit was predominant, and the
managers were constrained to make full show
of fraternity with it before they were allowed
to carry out their programme. DIR. Loring,
one of the leading candidates for the gubnato-
rial nomination, left no doubt of his views;
and Mr. Paine, who was nominated, made it
understood that he is quite as true copper
head as DIR. Loring or any other man; and he
might have added that. being an ultra Boston
Courier whig. democrat, his apprehension
should not be doubted, while DR.. Loring,
having formerly been a Garrisonian abol-
zionist, should not be trusted at such time
as this.
1t will not escape attention that Gen. Dew
ems was completely forgotten by his last years
friends Not one of them had the generosity
to propose him as candidate for governor
this year. Not one of them mentioned his
name. Those who waited to hear at least a
few formal words of remembrance and eulo-
gy, were disappointed Gen. Mcclellan, too,
was deemed no longer worthy of the favor ex-
tended to him last year. This change is
noteworthy. Itappears that "Little Mac has
become estate and Improbable" to them. We
have not seen the resolutions adopted. They
were long and numerous; and one OF them en-.
dorses and eulogizes Gov. Seymour of New
York, he having been substituted for Gen.
Mcclellan as the demi-god who must, hence
forth, be worsllpped and talked of for the next
presidency, by the Massachusetts, "democra.
cy." We could not get a copy of these reso-
buttons, and, therefore, can not print them to-
day.
The aim OF the men who controlled this
"democratic' convention was sufficiently
manifest. They seek to turn public attention
from the rebels and organize a fierce warfare
against the regularly constituted authorities of
the nation, hoping thereby to make party cap
ital, strengthen apprehension, and restore
the slave power. Those who join them be-
come the political associates and helpers of
the Seymours, the Woods, the Vallandighams,
and their disloyal followers, and partake of
their crime against the welfare of the republic,
The disloyalty of these men is the last hope
of the rebel leaders. Their success would
nowhere be hailed with more satisfaction than
at Richmond; and this is sufficient reason
why no loyal man should act with them, or, in
any way, give them support or encourage
ment.
An Hour in the COpperhead Convention.
The political biologists, with commendable
care and exertion, gathered together the finest
cabinet of fossil specimens that has been made
for many years and under the title Of ''dem-
ocratic convention" had it on exhibition yes
terday at Mechanics Hall, in this city. All
tho strata were represented therein; wonder
full specimens of the old trilobite wings were
displayed; the older fossiliferous rocks were
evidently cracked to obtain them, but admra-
BILE as these specimens of an earlier world
were, there was something melancholy about
them withal. They were poor, shaky old
souls, with nothing but a shell left to them,
and hardly that. The galvanic life infused
into them seemed almost demonic.
The reptilia OF the know-nOthing formation
showed traces of the slime that produced
them, and seemed at home in the mud of a
lower world to which they had naturally fall
len, though their contact with some antago-
nistic. specimens from Ireland produced
strange combination. The king of this re-
markable class was on exhibition dug up
near Boston and presented by gardiner of
that region. The real simon-pure fossils,
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still have its smell about them, were num-
erous and curious. Their speech could hard
iy be translated into the dialect OF the present
hour and their code of political morality was
evidently formed before Moses assembled the
mount.
The curiosity of this exhibition is that it
sets itself up as a governing machine, and de-
sires to put some worm-eaten old fossil in the
place of our live Gov. Andrew. These
strange, old creatures, entirely out of place
in the daylight of the nineteenth century,
showed their patriotism by abusing the gov
eminent that has been their protection, and
the president VINO works daily for the peace
and salvation of their country; and exhibited
their christianity by sneers and curses and
contempt heaped on the poor down~trodden
African race, who are only to these wretches
'damn niggers" if God was TOOL enough to make
them, The hiss of the copperheads drowned
every other ntterance among them.
Boston patriarch, named Isaac (some-
thing of sand-bag) ''believed the aggressions
upon slavery had caused our troubles. The
people of the south were easy to get along
with if they had their rights secured to them"
A wise doctor from Springfield piped out
''that the war was caused by the attacks of
the north on our sister States, and that the
dear south would never come back till it had
its rights protected. All this wicked twaddle
was talked in the face of our noble armies, Of
our glorious battle fields, Of the thousands OF
homes where tears are falling in the shadow
of greet grief for noble lives sacrificed on
the altar of liberty, for precious blood poured
out to cleanse us of our sin.
NEGRO SOLDIERS following state
ment is from reliable gentleman of high of
hclal positio in the state Of Rhode Island -
On Tuesday morning last the colored soldiers
at Providence, numbering from 300 to 400,
were paid the balance Of their bounty money.
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