Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-14

1alth IN mere management. A statesman per.
celveS those great under-causes which in the
end control human volitions and Shane mems
| policies. a politician resorts rather TO expe.
dents and arrangements, and in the end is
| apt to lose faith in anything but the devices OF
| party and the hackneyed motives by which
pad men are controlled, and good men tempt
ed through their weaknesses.
A statesman never loses sight of great NOR
al principles, and a politician seldom gets
sight Of them.
We are sorry to say that New York and
pennsylvania have bred for the last fifty years
a generation OF most astute politicians, of the
most dangerous and INSCRIPTIONS kind. They
have been men without moral convictions.
They have lost faith in human integrity.
Such men must at length cease to reckon
upon moral convictions, as of validity or prac.
tlcal force In the conduct of State and nation
al politics. This training not only ruins its
disciples, but cOrrupts the public mind, weak
ems the government, and lays the community
open to the dangers which arise from the pas
sions of unprlncipled men when thwarted in
their schemes. There can be neither moral
principles nor even patriotism in men who
have learned to put party above country, and
to serve the party, even, by employing the
worse motives for the accomplishment of the
most selfish ends.
II Mr.. Weed has not manifested the worst
features OF such school, it must be attributed
rather to his natural generosity and personal
integrity. So long as his sphere was New
York, and the topics of party were local and
secular, he has been adrot and reasonably
successful. But the moment he attempted, in
these great days of revolution, to transfer to
national affairs the petite arts and snug
shrewdnesSes of a lower sphere, he found
himself impotent He was like a man skillful
in rowing a. skiif on his own fish pond and
thought he would try the Atlantic ocean dur
ing an equinoctial storm! Losing sight of
land, he lost sight of everything He was
used to headlands and shores, but not to stars.
He could not take observations of planets
higher than storms. He calculated by log
and dead reckoning.
great people with little men to lead them
y nation OF grand common people, but con-
temptible politicians. A people of faiths rnd
inspirations deuded by men without convic-
tons, bold only in juggles and towards in
moral principles! Christ came again to this
people, saying as of Old ale hath Amounted
me 10 Preact The gospel to the poor, he hath
sent me TO heal the JrokeH-hea1ted, to pyeach
dettrerance 10 the captures, and gecoUeying of
Sl9h1 10 the ulad, to set at liberty them that
VIZ NfNtScU' anu 10 lIllS MT. w eeu and
those OF his school replied, "What have we
to DO with Thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth?
Art Thou come to torment us before our time ?"
Had there been a full man to counsel this
government and people in the beginning, from
the hour of Fremont's proclamation the vic
tory would have begun. The people were
ready. All the nobler sentiments of the ma
ton were active. Had wise and morally
bold counselor moved the national policy with
the national heart we should have over
whelmed this deSp0ts rebellion with irreversi-
bic disaster long ago. But politicians feared
lest government should go faster than the
people! The president was held back. Ma
turally slow and cautious, weights were hung
lutte. While all the presidents matured con-
viclions were bearing him toward true states
manshp, the old-fashioned politicians were
holding him back, and hoping to seduce re-
bellion by leniency rather than reduce it by
war. The government showed its bosom
when it should have thurst out his sworded
hand
The difference between Mr.. Weed and our
selves is not casual, nor one of degrees. 1t
is radical and irreconciable. If we under
stand Mr., Weed, he believes slavery to be an
evil, but quite consistent with republican in
situations. We believe it to be disease fatal
to republican institutions He therefore pre-
Scrlbcs for the symptoms, and we for the
causes of national trouble. He believes that
the federal government, in time of peace,
should administer impartially toward both lib
erty and slavery. We hold that in time of
peace the government should leave slavery to
state jurisdiction, without a single federal IA
vOr, and give the whole power and influence
of national administration to liberty. We
presume Mr.. Weed belongs to that school
who think that by the compromises OF the
constitution slavery was as really introduced
as an integral element, constitutional prln-
ciple, in the fundamental law of this federal
government as was liberty. We, on the other
hand, believe that political liberty was the
very genius of our constitution, and justice
the instrument by which it was to be secured;
and that the whole framework and the vital
principle of the constitution is civil liberty;
and that the anomalous and inconsistent pro-
visions tor slavery were exceptional, tempo
rary. and doomed to empty themselves by the
passing away of slavery.
We are radicals, then, in demanding that
the national administration under our federal
constitution shall discriminate between liberty
and slavery; that the national government
shall give itself to liberty wholly; favoring it,
and refusing in any wise to favor slavery,
leaving that, as a local disease, to the care of
the states in which it exists.
But now that slavery has rebelled against
the constitution and government of this ma
ton, and now that the evil policy Of such tim
id men as Mr.. Weed has protracted the war
till the national life is in jeopardy, we hold
the government should strike at the root of
all our troubles, and annhilate slavery fortbe
salvation of this Union!
Mr.. Weed would adjourn the conflict and
patch up a settlement. We would fight the
matter home and eEd it now. 1t has got to
be ended first or last by the distinct con-
tlict of liberty and slavery The two are
not going to live together. The attempt to
compress them into one government is an
attempt to divide the country. We are for
the Union. We shall fight for one only ma
tional government over the original terrific
ry of the United States. For that sake, per-
ish everything that binders
The-nOrth was never better prepared to go
through with the work. National redemption
is her work. 1t is near at hand. There are
but two methods; one by the amputation of
the southern states, leaving the north free
and the other, by putting the sword to the
core of the carbuncle slavery. We gravely
fear that Mr.. Weed secretly contemplates the
first that he hopes for reconstruction; and
that he would postpone the anguish of pre-
sent conflict with vague hope that, in the
great future, there will be infinite opportunity
for cunning managers to shuttle the states and
make a new deal, and begin the game of ma
tional life again
But we are no gamblers. This continent is
nt fnlnl fThDsa sfa 70 cards