Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-11
w ORCE S T E R:
FRIDAY. SEPT. II, 1863.
History. Pro.peetive and Retro.peetive

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and itont-herods Herod even. in the actual sub
Unity of its gasconade; it filings down the
gauntlet to out-vaunt and out-boast the world.
and none have been found brave enough to
lift it. This little state, republic, kingdom,
aristocracy, thcucracy, or whatever else for
it seems to be each and all of these in Turn
theocracy, by its seeding priesthood who
worship their god, Calhoun; kingdom, ly its
cotton king; aristocracy through its handful
of dominant save-ords; republic, by the
constitution of the United States; state, by its
persistent clinging TO the onnipotence of state
wrongs this little speck on the earths sur
face which holds the world in lis orbit, and
Restraints it from plunge back to chaos, does
not hesitate, with buster and braggardism to
assert its Selt-suficiency it sits in the shadow
of its superb egotism, and the rest of the world
is nothing but blot of outside barbarism to
its supreme and supercilous self-asserton.
1.-The world needs US, not we the world :"
eve have everything within ourselves" ave
are exhaustive of all art and science, and COM
merce and agriculture! y dogs of the earth,
receive the crumbs from your masters table
and be thankful" Such has been the tone of
this absurd little bit of pretence, and the hot
headed jewellers therein ever since the world
was blessed (?) with a Carolina, ever since
this alniable and lovely consort came
into the family, and this spirit has kept in a
chronic state of spontaneous combustion,
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tonmouth for half century, squirting out in
notification, when Jackson's strong hand
quickly corked it up again. and when poor
weak Buchanan came, tampering with the
stopper, and hankering after the quality of the
tipple, fairly exploding in his face, to his own
great detriment; and at last, in these days,
falling into collapse and swiftly approaching
the fate of poor froggy in the fable, who
aspired to be bull
1t is curious and interesting to look back
two years and read the prophecies of the
southern press as they undertook to write
prospective history. ''The North had better
not quarrel with her bread and butter!"
Cotton is king; sugar, molasses, rice, tohac-
co, are kings and petty princes the North
cannot subsist without them; she will
soon be starved into submission; she can't
live on leather long, and her manufactures
will find no market ''The poverty of the
north is indigenous, her riches cosmopolitan;
war will ruin her, she will soon have moth
ing left but her sterile soil and millions Of
paupers." "War can do us no serious injury
but will be sure to ruin her." "The North
has no soldiers, her factory hands and her
farmers know little about guns, and would
take a long time to learn to stand fire, howev-
er expert they may be at carrying Wide
Awake lanterns" 1--WE doubt verv mncb
rne1r iUInctrs IN among our southern troops.
and we know they will never lead them in :"
Thus prophesied the southern press in page
after page Of pitiful vanity and arrogance, and
thus they proceeded to build up the invincible
81, magnitying its pigmy proportions into
colossal angel. with one foot on the sea and
one on the earth, while his head was the sun,
which enlightened the whole v orld, and being
yelled in displeasure, draped the universe in
zimmerman night. The prophet utters his
voice, Europe and the world depend for sub
slstence on the south, cut off from our mar
kets their millions would go naked and starve"
(Alas, look around and see what nakedness
and starvation have come upon us y "If the
whole southern coast is blockaded, the south
will nevertheless live as comfortably and lux
uriously within itself, as if it enjoyed the trade
and commerce OF the world" (Has two
years changed its opinion, we wonder?)
'W ar can do us no injury. SLAvEHoLDING
BEGErs AND FOSTERS THE WAR SPIRIT"
(lsn't it time to have slaveholding abated and
done away with, then?) The Stare popula-
ton Of the south can support in comfort four
ttntes as many people as 1ce hare wtthin our
confines. We can keep million of men under
arms and nsrer suffer for rant Of comfortable
food end clothing !"
But their prophecies, rich and glorious as
they are, are surpassed by their threats and
promises. Hear, oh, Copperheads, and fall
down and worship! Thus saith your Lord
eve will buy no more shoes from Boston;
unfortunate Boston!D no more iron from
Pennsylvania, (Ah, miserable state I'D no
more foreign merchandise from New York,
unless she sets up for herself, (Beggard
New York, unless Seymour and Wood
VIII set her up for herselt!D and we will
freight no more northern vessels; (Alas for
ruined commerce, and wrecked prosperity,
ana grass grown streets I'D but-but-BUT
WE WILL GIVE HEARTY WELCOME TO WELL
ENDORSED DEMOCRATS from the free states
who come among US to make shoes. or hnild
ships, or import goods or to carry on anv use
full or ornamental trade or manufacture
ga war will bring out our resources. and
force us to produce everything at home, from
professors and parsons down to pumpkin
seeds and pig-yokes, admirable ALTERATION y
and at its end our civilization and wealth will
be increased four-fold (True for the ciyili-
cation, no doubt, through contact with north
ern civilization.) When this door was opened
into the exquisite refinement of southern civ
ilization, it showed us the black ignorance and
barbarlsm that grow naturallylout of the slave
system. In their amazing over-rating of
themselves and undertaking of others, they
snow nation in the state of childhood, with
all 'he vices and weaknesses that belong to
tha' period Of national growth. They stand
al.