Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-17
W oRCEs TER.
WEDNESDAY. JULY IA, 1879.

The caucasian" published al Lexington,
Mo-, has had Horace Greeley's name at the head
of its columns as its candidate for the presiden-
cy, all summer, and, probably, ever since last
autumn. Its editor, one of the EXTREMIST of
rebel secessonists, has received very sweet-toned
letters from Mr.. Greeley, and published some of
them. OF course the Caucasian supports him
with redoubled zeal since he was nominated at
Baltimore. 1t had predicted the nomination
and now it puts forward the platform which
would rise TO power with its party, if it could,
with the aid of Greeley, carry the presidential
election. Here it is:
'State Sovereignty, White Supremacy, and
REPUDIATIoNl This is LibertyPj
"0ur platform: The Constitution of 1860, and
the Rights of the States p
"This is White Mans Government, made
by White Men, for White Men and their Poster
lily, forever"
"DowN WITH THE FIFTEENTH AMFNn-
MENTy
Equal Taxation and the Rightful Repre-
sentation of all the states, or ANOTHER REBEL
LIoN"
he is a free talking democratic Greeleyite; but
he means what he says and his platform has
many supporters. The Baltimore Convention
accepted the Cincinnati platform" just as they
accepted Greeley for the presidency, because this
foul way of proceeding seemed to them the way
TO power. What they actually mean is sup
pressed elsewhere. The Kentucky democrats,
at their last state convention, repeated in their
platform the following declaration:
eve must earnestly assert that Kentucky has
the right TO regulate the political status of the
negro race within her territory, and candor COM
pels us TO proclaim that whilst we shall protect
their rights of person and property, we deem it
both lneXpedient and insecure to permit them to
exercise the rights of either jurymen or UOterS,
and we should regard any attempt upon the part
OF congress to interfere with our rights in this
respect as not only an infracton of the constitu-
ton, but also gross and palpabe invasion of
the reserN ed rights of the states"
This declaration was first made in 1866 1t is
repeated without modification and with no
abatement of purpose to maintain it. Does it
mean less than is meant by the Caucasian 1t
is to win opportunity to carry ont these views,
as far as possible, that Greeley has been made
the democratic candidate for the presidency.
MIR. Greeley has been changed and placed at the
head of the democratic party, by an intrigue of
men who mean in politics what is declared and
repeated by the democrats Of Kentucky. 1t was
only last year, before he had begun to feel the
influence of this intrigue and yield to it, that he
could see this matter clearly and speak of it
strongly. Here is what he said then of the
democratic party:
'It is rebel at the core to-day, hardly able to
reconcile the defeats Of Lee, Johnston, Bragg
Hood and Price, and the consequent downfall of
its beloved confederacy, with its traditional
faith IN Divine Providence. Ii would hail the
election of democratic president in 1872 as a
virtual Reversal nj no An c1,rr
1t would come into power with the hate the
chagrin, the wrath, the modification of ten bit
ter years to impel and guide its steps. 1t would
devote itself TO taking off or reducing tax after
tax until the treasury was deprived of the means
Oh paying interest on the national debt and
would hail the tidings of national bankruptcy
with unalloyed gladness and unconcealed ex-
utation. Whatever chastisement may be de-
served for our national SINS, we must hope hat
this disgrace and humiliation will be spared u.s."
The editors of the New York Times have late
" undertaken project quite out of the usual
line of journalistic enterprise. This is the or
ganiEaton of children's excursions from the
city TO some of the seaside resorts in its neigh
borhood. The excursonists are gathered from
the Five Points and other mission schools and
from the streets; the poorer and more forlorn
the better Funds for the purpose to the amount
of several thousand dollars have been contribu-
ted from various sources, but the suggestion
came frsm the editors of the Times, and the
management has been in their hands Two ex-
cursions have already been made, one on Thurs
day and one on Saturday of last week. Steam
boats were chartered and hundreds of the little
people were taken on board, RECALLED with sand
witches, ice cream and lemonade, and treated to
sail up the East river and into the sound. They
were landed at a pleasant spot where
arrangements were made for various amuse-
ments to suit the tastes of all. There was music
and dancing, swings, croquet and base ball,
copenhagen and other games, and the boys
frolicked in the water to their hearts content.
Several hours were spent in this way, when the
party reembarked and returned to the city after
a day of rare enjoyment which they will never
forget. The description OF the children'S enjoy
ment as given in the Times report is almost
pathetic. Most of them had never been out Of
the city before and to all of them an entertain
ment like this, a day of feastng and pleasure,
was something quite beyond the range of their
hopes as well as Of their experience. The fresh
sea breezes, the bright waves, the cool green
fields, the smooth beach, were all delicious nov
elites, as well as the abundant and tempting
provision for their hunger and thirst. The con.
trast with the noisome and sitting alleys and
courts where they spend their lives, made
the steamer to them ship of delight, trans
porting them to fairy land. Some were so over
whelmed with happiness that the tears would
come in spite of them; while others were bolster
Gus and restless in their glee, and could not be
restrained from climbing everything that could
be climbed, standing on their heads and per-
forming all sorts of boyish antics; but all were
good humored and docile. The girls had gen
orally done their best to appear neat and tidy,
but many of the boys were as ragged and dirty
as any street urchin about the docks or the Five
Points. Other excursions of the same kind are
10 follow. There are few ways in which the ex-
penditure of similar amount of labor and
money would give so much real pleasure to those
whose pleasures are few.