Worcester daily spy., 1872-06-10

| dcspOndeney, is not altogether devoid of hope.
The man without q magazine writes from
| Omaha. of all places in the world. Since pro-
| gress is his adherence, it would be interesting
| to learn what induced him TO 90 to that new and
| growing little city. He can hardly have been
born there, unless his parents established them
selves long ago on that remote prairie, thinking
it quite beyond the reach of progress 1t is
clearly no place for him now, however, and there
is no western town where he would not be FIRE.
quently reminded that the world does move. Per-
haps in Frankfort, Kentucky, with the Princeton
Review or the st. Louis Central Baptist he
would meet as few unpleasant reminders
OF the fact as anywhere in this country. But he
could not be secure even there. Progress will
invade Kentucky; radical magazines and news
papers have already been seen in the "blue grass
region" thorough going conservative, to
whom progress is hateful, and who believes that
political or religious radiealism s utterly in
consistent with stable and peaceful condition
of society, cannot hope to be happy in this coun-
try. A conservative magazine, if he could get
it, would mitigate his wretchedness but little.
residence in some English cathedral town
with the London Quarterly for light reading,
would be congenial to his feelings, and give him
as much peace as he can hope for in this world.
The auti-masonie convention held at oberlin
Ohio, the other day, made very respectable
effort TO compete in the absurdity Of its action
with the larger and more famous body
which met in Cincinnati about the same time.
The Cincinnati meeting, called by free traders,
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protectionist in the country, but blunted the
point of the joke little by solemnly declaring
that it had nothing to do with protection or free
trade; the Oberliu assembly adopted formal
deliverance against secret societies, intoxicating
liquors and tobacco, and at the same time NOM
mated as its candidate for president, Charles
Francis Adams, mason of so high rank in the
order as TO have been proposed as grand master
of the grand lodge of the United States, and
who also drinks wine at dinner and takes snuff,
like gentleman of the old school, as he is. So
far the 0beriin people seem to have been slight
ly more successful in stulti(yng themselves than
their Cincinnati rivals; but it must be remem-
bered that the former gathering was intended
only for amusement, while some who attended
the latter, there is reason to believe, seriously
thought that something would come of 1t. The
| 0berin nomination for viee-president was about
as successful as that for the higher office. Mr..
c. H Howard, the gentleman selected, declines
| the doubtful honor, saying:
| "a have not vet seen the published proceed
| ings of the convention. 1t is possible | may
| agree with the principles enunciated, but you
| are aware that have not particularly identified
| myself with the movement; and mainly because
| there seemed TO me no sufficient eXi-
! gency demanding it, Without going fur
| ther, this lack OF thorough conviction
of the enormity and magnitude OF the
| evil which you have organized to combat,
disqualifcs me for any position of leader.
will add, for the sake of frankness, that do
not feel compimented by any association of my
name with one who was so prominently before
the Cincinnati convention. That convention
seemed TO me, from the beginning, an attempt
on the part OF leading politicians to defeat, for
personal ends, the known wishes of the masses
OF the republican party.
believe, however, that every moral and so
cial leiorm, as well as political, will be better
| promoted by a united support of lthe candidates
| who shall be nominated at Philadelphia than
| by any other course. The worst secret society
| with which | have had to do is the kuklux khan,
| andno man, am well assured is so well quail
fed to destroy that as Z. S. Grant"