Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-02

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In the first part of his speech, he alluded to the
democratic disatfection towards Greeley, and
said that when he heard of the nomination of
Greeley, at Baltimore, it "made him grunt;"
but he had decided to vote for Greeley, for in
this lay the only hope of restoring the demo-
cratic party to power. He then spoke as follows
of the 14th and 18th amendments to the consti-
tuition:
"They say that all men are equal in the eve
/ of the law; that the 14th and 18th amendments
are not to be disturbed. Ii | were 10 stand in
| judgment at the bar Of God before passing
! into the immortal state, should say these two
| amendments were perpetrqted in fraud and in-
| guilty. There is not any power in the land TO
| eXtort from me the confession that believe
| they were right, legally consummated, or that
| the people had the right to adopt them. No,
| my countrymen and my countrywomen! / tell
| you, if | we're TO perish for it, that they were
conceived in iniquity, brought forth in fraud,
| and bear the ear marks of party that from its
/ inception did pot believe in self-government or
| free institutions. Now, can we change them?
| When man can not change a thing, he butts
| his head against brick wall in the attempt.
| The only way they can be changed is by the
people seeing their iniquity, and it will never be
done by republicans, God knowSl The only
way you can do it is TO bring your own party
into power. (Applause.")
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CURED to him that it was imprudent to speak so
| freely during the canvass Therefore, he ex-
claimed; "The republicans would give twenty
dollars for every speech made against these
amendments! They will say, Stevenson is
going for the repeal of these amendments. Well,
| Stevenson aintp Mol Stevenson waits He
goes nolo for a restoration of the democratic
party. If he can succeed in this, with Greeley's
help, other matters now kept in allegiance will
be in order. The republicans will never repeal
| these amendments, he is sure; but should the
democratic party be established in power, by
means of Greeley, there would be hope. 1.-THE
only way you can do it is to bring your party
| into power" Gain this advantage, and Steven
son will 90 for various things which he doesn't
| go for while this election is pending. 1t is of
| little consequence what he processes to go for
now, so long as he shows clearly what is meant
We have long wondered that the patriotic and
| enerprisng citizens of our extreme western
states were content to let Africa take the lead
in the production of precious stones. Ever
since the diamond fields in South Africa were
discovered, we have been expecting to hear that
| Californians had found something better in the
same line. The resources of the country are so
vast and various, and the restless, innvestigat-
| ing spirit of its people so notorious, that it
seemed only reasonable to suppose that we
should sooner or later find among the wonder
| full mountains, valleys and plains of that west
| ern region pretty much every kind of valuable
| thing that other people were capable of finding
| elsewhere. And now we have it. In the region
| bordering on Arizona and New Mexico have
been found, we are told, extraordinary deposits
of diamonds and rubies. Explorers have been
looking for them for some time, stimu-
lated by tradition that the Aztec
rulers of Mexico, before the Spanish con.
quest, used to obtain vast quantities of precious
| gems from that quarter. The fortunate pros
pectors, it is said, returned with one hundred
| thousand dollars worth of valuable stones Of
course company is to be formed 10 work these
deposits. Persons thinking of investing in
this enterprise may probably read the
narrative of the sauguine Boston adventures
who entrusted their money TO plausible rogue,
the pretended discoverer of a gold mine of fabu-
lous richness which he lacked the capital to
to work TO advantage. The creduous Bos-
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their prospective wealth lay buried; but at San
Francisco they missed him, aud have not since
seen either their guide or their gold mine. The
| diamond mine may prove as illusory.
Every year wonder stories more or less start
| ling come to us from 0nondaga county, N. Y.
| The faculty for discovering marvels in that
| quarter was considerably exhausted by the Car
diff Giant; some rest was necessary to restore
| Its energies. Meanwhile, the great serpent"
which lives in Onondaga Lake and makes havoc
of calves and sheep, has appeared regularly and
furnished material for gossip and newspaper
paragraphs. This mighty serpent has come
again, and the people are stirred by another ex-
citement. A resoute hunt for the monster has
been organized. They promised to catch
him, last year; but this promise was
not fulfilled. This year, they have de-
vised new method. We learn from one of
the Syracuse papers that three steamers were to
start, on the morning of August S1st, dor the
purpose of hunting this snake" which has been
seen "by several parties of thorough RELIABLE
ity," who aver that it is from "lorty to sixty
feet long" The hunt was to continue most of
the day, and it had melted great expectations.
-Four Mexicans with lassoes in rest" were TO
be on hand and challenge the creature to show
his head. We hope they will catch him, for he
has troubled that part of the world long enough
We don't want to hear of him again next year
Dispose Of the monster, this time, and give us
hope of hearing something new from that quar-.
| ter, next summer.
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