Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-11

World to condescend still longer to graft fly
their abiect necessities" And these boast
ings were received by the four hundred and
thirty thousand shareholders in the same
spirit and accepted as undisputed and pro-
found truth, as if they had been addressed
to the pig-tailed heads of the Orientals.
Has the experience of two years opened the
eyes of these deluded men? Have they learn
cd the lesson of New Orleans and Vicksburg?
The retrospective history must be written IN
a different vein. What a revelation has been
made! How do North and South stand re-
vealcd in all their strength and weakness!
The very men who, in their own estimation,
held up the world, and saved Europe and the
North from starvation, would themselves have
starved, the proudest and haughtiest of them,
had it not been for the bread of charity dis
pensed to them by the hands of the govern
ment they were cndeavoring to overthrow.
Thousands have been utterly ruined, and the
prosperity that was to dawn upon the south
has been replaced by the bittcrest suffering.
Instead of the sire cts of northern cities run
ming red with blood thro the despair Of starving
millions, the working people have never found
more ready employment. Money has never
circulated more freely, and bread-rots have
only been heard of in the echoes of the south
ern press. The streets of New York and Bos-
ton seem no more favorable to a grass crop
than in years gone by, while Charleston and
New Orleans might as well be turned into
grazing farms for any business that would be
interrupted thereby; and the quartering of
southern armies in the rich towns and cities of
| the north has been all read backwards, and
the south has yielded town after town, and
state after state to the bravery of northern
soldiers, who Git was asserted) could not
fight We know what splendid elements have
gone to supply our northern regiments. No
art, no science, no mechanical skill, but was
represented therein no work offered, but some
skilled hand was found to execute it; no me-
cessity arose, but some thoughtful head was
able to remove it. And so Yankee thrift and
Yankee intelligence went marching down into
ldI uI8Ht Vi DdTDdTISul, anu llS uIOTUlHH
dawned!
1t is true that slavery seemed at first to
give the south an advantage. Their bread
was assured to them; the slaves toiled as
though no war existed; and while the Union
soldier left his home with doubt and fear in
his heart for the future of his family, the slave
holder had no such care to harrass him. The
emancipation proclamation changed all this;
it brought relief to northern soldiers: it para
lyzed the arm that was striking them down.
No wonder the slave masters cry out against
it; no wonder the cOpperheads, the lackeys of
slavery, the feederson and uphoderS of that
vile body, execrate the wise and humane pol
icy That policy has called thousands TO our
lines, has enabled us TO place in the fell those
whose lives and freedom depend on the re-
suit, and whose courage and bravery has done
such efficient service; and it has made the
whole laboring population of the south hostile
to the rebellion. 1t was the most deadly blow
that has been struck at the monster head of
treason. And now in the midst of our won
derful successes, when the bugle of victory is
sounding its inspiring note on every side !;
when the boys from our factories and machine
shops are sweeping everything before them,
when the quiet genius Of northern engineer,
without word of boasting sets itself down
before Charleston, and utterly overthrows the
two years work of the greatest braggadocio
in the world-we will declare that liberty is
best and strongest always, whether in peace
or war The history of the present is we'll
summed up in the following words =
| ''While the keeneSt distress has searched
| tie SOUTH the north has prospered; and while
in the south an irresponsible, cold hearted ty-
ranny has rooted out liberty, and placed itself
above all laws, the great struggle has been
carried on by us without trenching upon a
single right-without the slightest injury to
the liberties OF the republic. 1t is notorious
that if to-day the so-called confederacy could
have an undisputed existence, the form of
government in the south would be that of a
despotc oligarchy. But II we had peace to-
day In the Union, no torn, no law, 10 right
rjust privilege would be changed-all would
| go on as it did before the war"
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