Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-19

OF lllTec IOuTInS Oh them. but LOT lillS most
unjustifabe measure the republican party
would undoubtedly have dwindlcd down to
moderate proportions; and even after this, it
is doubtful if they could have succeeded in
the presidential election of 1860, if the seces-
sionsts with Yancey at their head, had not
determined that they should succeed. After
Mr.. Yancey and his party had, against their
wishes succeeded in getting their altmatum
of non-intervention incorporated into the
Cincinnati platform, they went to work to
conjure up another to present to the Charles
ton convention. Abandoning their doctrine
OF non intervention, they went to the oppO-
site extreme and demanded that the inter-
vention of congress for the protection of
slavery in the territories should constitute
part OF the Charleston platform. This de-
mhnd they well knew would not be complied
with nor did they desire that it should be.
Their object was to procure the SECESSION Of
the delegates of the cotton states from the
convention, and thus by defeating the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Douglas, and rending asunder
the democratic party, to insure the election
OF Mr. Lincoln, and thereby forge for them
selves grievance which would seem TO JUS
ttying them in the execution of their long
meditated designs of destroying the Union.
All Of this they accomplished and the cleo
tlon Vi MI IducOin was perhaps nailed with
greater JOY at Charleston than at New York.
L will do them the justice to say that they
also claimed to have other grievances =
among them, that some of the northern
states by their statutes ohstructed the execu.
ton of the fugitive slave law, but the only
states that could complain mucE upon that
score, were willing to remain in the Union,
while South Carolina, the state which set the
ball in motion, perhaps never lost slave.
But 1t must be borne in mind that no act of
the national government constituted any part
OF their grievances. They did not pretend
that any act Of congress intringcd their rights,
ana the decisions OF the supreme court were
manly such as they would themselves have
made. Nay, even at the very time of MIR.
Lincoln's inauguration, if the cotton states had
allowed their senators and representatives TO
remain, they would have had a decided
majority in both houses of congress in fa-
vor Of the extension of slavery, and in op-
position to the policy OF the party which elect
ed him.
The great cause of comnlaint was that =
man onnospd to rho ovtonsio, of sIn,,ar,, IN
the territories had been rInctad 1residani NJ
the limited States ACCORDING tn thn forn,s If
the constitution which he was sworn to def.nd
and protect. and who disrlnimrd anv other
than sonstitntional means in the o,.,nn,nl,Sh.
ment of his objects. Under those rirrnm-
stances il seems that If ,hoy Lad Iah,rod n,In,.
anv real grievance tbnir course ,yas rlain
They shonld have taken the ronrse M onr no.
volutionnrv fathers Whom thn states assem-
bled in convention. instead nf nroca,ding at
once to declare their indpnpudrncp-f,r tho
idea of secession. 73eacenbie of ,.ioht seems
as Publius saws. TO have rxuloded and u,yen
up the ghost-should clearly and concis.lv
have stated what their pri .yances were. and
demanded redress in respectful. vet firm and
decided terms. They sbould have exhausted
ere,,u constitutional means If obtaining omar
antres-if any were needed-bv reurpsenta.
ton. bv Renaissance. Inv petition. and fail
ing in all these. they should have done as our
revolutionary sires did. 4 e. tiuht n, the TTnion
#. Sucn course wouId nave procured Tor
nc az il did for our fathers. the respect. the
e,,nnathv. and the assistance of other nations.
J,.tn,d If that we have NOT a friend in En-
rmnn lInt such was not the course which
.tso !, our ast,mation-visa Statesmen
- Ca uursua' Whom snch . cou..a a. 3
S''',,,(,s,pd ar recommended to the,u th.y
.7''3rd il nv 81 long LIST of n.onifcnnt ,,,,o,,,-
rs ,yh,J, innl,ed So srIendidi,, AZ ,I,,,.t +,
d.,1zl,, thn r,ind viii tbair brilii.n,y
E;rst and fnron,ost tLo,, rrnn,is.J chat CO
,.nss;on ShoulJ ho ,,o1ceaLie
Secondly, they promised that if perchance
war should ensue, it would be a very short
war; that it would not last sin months-that
the Yankees would not fght-that one south
erner could whip from ten to one hund,.ed of
them-thut ENGLAND and France wouId speed-
iiy recognize ms and render us every assist
ance we might desire-that Whatever mioht
he their abstract oninions Of the subiect of
slavery. their interests wouid imnal tIan, I'm
nromote it's nernotnitv in tho souibern st.tes
that if after NH tnev shonld not he discussed to
,ssist ms co,5o,, ,roe k,,,l, and ,yonId soon
hrnr nj tho cro,vnod ho,Js of Eurnra IN
their knens in snnnlication IN nc. wnnld com.
mel them TO raise he blockade-sbonld one he
established-in thirty DAYS in sixtv davs in
ninety DAVIS. in one lIundrnd and twenty dnvs.
in six months, in nine months. in ONE 1,enq' at
fartbest.
Thi1olLy. they promised us that all the slave
states except Delaware would ioin The south
ern confederacy--thats slavery should not OF "
be perpetuated in the States but that it should
be extended into all the territories in which
the negro could live; that all the grievances
occasoned by the non execution of the fugi-
tive slave law should be speedily retIressed;
that slave property should be established
upon basis as safe as that of landed prop
erty.
Fouytbly. they promised us that the new
Government should he u moro confodor,,.v of
states of absolute sovereigutv and eGuoI
rights; that the states should be tvrannized
over bv no such ..ceut,.a1 dcspotisnz" as the
old government at Washinoton. that the oIor-