Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-09
Gbe gap spp: aaturust, Saturday yunng September g. 1871.

| Duff Green's son, puts his own and Mr.. Cas-
| sagnac's name on the back.
The ranslators preface is wonderful. 1t de-
serves to be garncrcd in some new collection of
the "Curiostics of Literature" But the appen-
dix is still more surprising, and the long foot
notes are more than astounding in number and
character.
MISTER GREENS FUNNY STORIES.
Instead of seeing, as one would naturally sup
pose, an opportunity for calm and lurd INTRO
duction, fitting what is of moment in NJ. dc
Cassaguac's volume as an illustration of the
"newdcparture" in European politics, caused by
the Paris commune and NJ. Theirs and Marshall
McMahon's red hot cauterizing process on the
lives of the average French republicans, outside
of the provincial peasantry, Mr.. Ben. L. Green
makes it the vehicle for a clumsy piece of would
be scholarly partizanship, that aims to prove
that the dominant repubcanism has in America
assumed that role of Capitalization and
stability, which NJ. Guizot affirmed to
be the distinguishing tendency of all So
ciety gravitating to or acknowledging mon
archy-the rule of king or kaiser-aS the legiti-
mate safeguard of public morals and order.
'NIr. Green" in a variety of ways, undertakes
to establish that slavery was the one only
"anti-monarchlca and anti-aristocratic" sol
vent, which kept this country from going clear
over into the New England current, which, by
citations from John Adams and John Quincy
Adams, he attempts to show to be imperial or
kingly in tendency.
All this is speculation. The amusing part of
the preface, notes and appendix is found in the
audacious statements Translator Green makes
as to the private opinions of leading public
men. If Green is right, what tremendous i'm
posters have been those he names; if not what
an awful and fertile liar Green must be. Ac-
cordng to him.
John Adams was mOnarchist of pronounced
type; John Quincy Adams was worse, being
really plotter against the federal republic.
Abraham Lincoln was opposed to the emanc-
patton proclamation, and desired to convene
the rebel legislatures Immediately after surren-
der, in order that they might have voted down
the thirteenth amendment, result in which he
would have gladly acquiesced..
Seward was really an imperialist, and as a poll
tician sought always sectional policy. His opposi-
ton to slavery was the result of that sagacious
understanding of cause and effect" which led
him TO see that the overthrow of slavery would
be followed by the enslavement of labor. Para
doxical as that may appear, that is the clearest
account 1 can give of translator Ben. E. Green's
views.
With Seward in more or less pronounced de-
gree he ranks Frank Blair, senior, Chase, But
Ter, Trumbull, Sumner, and - even bluff
old Ben Wade. fancy hear him swear, if this
book ever comes before him. After being de-
nounced as an Agrarian, after having told me,
(as have others) not more than three months
since, at his Ohio home, that his sympathies
were with the growing agitation which every
where presages the admission TO the political
arena of that most tremendous issue, we call
here the "labor question" and in Europe that of
social democracy-it is rather tough on the old
statesman to be laboriously upheld as
one whose chief aim is to abolish slavery in or
der that complex Observation-Disclosures should
take its place, ultimately to be superseded or
crowned by some adventurous "man on horse
back" who will serve imperial power. Perhaps
the meanest of Mr.. Green's ISLANDERS is that
which attributes to Gen. John A. Rawlins de-
liberate acceptance of what are termed the John
Adams views, and deliberate plot to imperial
ize this government.
Logan and the G. A. r. come in for a large
plate of the same sauce. But Green is impair
tial. He deals with the south. 1t was not Cal
houn who was disunionist or secessioniSt. His
object was to save that compact against New
England monarchism.
TWAS not Toombs, Stephens, jeff. Davis, Rhetl,
Wigfall, or the savcholding class that made the
late rebellion. That job was brought about by
Joseph E. Brown of Georgia, a statesman sprung
from the poor white class, whose fervent APP
peals to the non-savehOlders, caused them to
hurry on the war from fear of having the negroes
made equal with them.
The best minds of the confedcracy were in fa-
vor of emancipating and arming the slaves, but
the "poor whites" and Gov. Brown wouldn't let
them.
There is much more of the same sort The
book is worth having in ones library, because
the part translated is of value, and the one
added, is curious and rather amusing. AT any
rate the latter is worthy study at this iuncture.
OBSERVER.