The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-10-31

But little was personal to him which was said
by me on the 2lst of June. | did say in respect
to the influences by hich were surrounded
in Philadelphia, that the opinion of the delegate
OF the 9th district there, was counteracted by the
reiterated opinions which met one at every turn,
from individuals from the County of Worcester
and individuals from the city OF Boston, who de-
clared that there was nothing in the statements
which made that the W higs of Worcester Couu-
tY would be opposed to the nomination of Gen
Tayl r, and that Gov Lincoln was strongly in ia
vQr of it. | said ii Gov. Lincoln denied that,
would produce the proof He did not deny it,
he did not deny it, But cannot give hun the
credit OF coming forward and telling frankly the
whole truth in this matter. There some
thing which seemed to me little like evdsi9n.-
He admits that he did say to certain gentlemen
in Boston and he should have stated that some
OF these gentlemen noted politicians, and
saying 1t to them, everybody knows it would
reach Philadel phia,-he does admit that he said
that the County OF Worcester was Wing Coun-
ty and if Gen. Taylor was nominated he doubted
not that this county would sustain him, because
1t was Wing County; -carrying the impression
that it was not in favor Of his nomination, but
that it it was so unfortunate to have Gen. Tay-
Tor as a candidate; Worcester the Wings of
Worcester County true to their party, would sus-
tain him. told you that Gov Lincoln said the
Couaty would &c strongly for Gen. Taylor, and it
was said to produce the impression that it favor
ed bis nomination. The language was ssWor-
cester County will go auth q rush for Gen Tay.
lUr." That was the assertion which was made
upon the authority of Gov. Lincoln, not that it
would submit to the nomination it made, and, be-
cause it was Wing County, sustain it; but that
it would ''go with a rush." ntimating that it
would receive it with cordial and hearty appro-
baton The 9TH OF November will tell how far
that gentleman p ophesied truly in relation to the
views and sentiments OF the treemen of Worces-
ter County [AppIause.]
Gentlemen, did say,-and come now to the
point which is material II did say that the nom
ination was fraud. Why? OF what was the
convention composed? OF delegates from the
wing party was it not And what was IT their
duty to do? To put before the country whig
an principle and not in name merely, as the can
didate OF that party; was it not? Were they
not the agents OF their party, to 20 to Phiadel
phla and there to designate a who was
thoroughly with them, W no conceded with them
in principle and il they have done anything but
that, il they have taken man of different polit-
ical principles, Or Of no political principles il it
not fraud Gentlemen, told you then, did
not come to mince matters. Neither yoGr posi-
ton nor mine would permit such a course |
called the conduct OF that convention q fraud
upon the Whig party, for there was abundant
evidence 10 my mind Of the tact and | doubted
Aut 'idt Tue uitiidte i16ht Oh all men WOuiU
! confirm the truth OF the charge
Now / know that combinations OF men, and
political combinations especially, will do acts of
a character which the same individuals would
not perform in private life and when speak of
that convention collectively, and charge it with
| fraud, will admit that the individual members
OF it would not in the private walks OF iiie de-
fraud men OF their rights But such is the force
OF the too prevalent maxim 8" All is tair in poll
tics that m in bipa icaI
purposes, will sometimes do that which in private
life they would individually abhor to do. Allow
then such extenuation as this fact may furnish.
ct them have the benefit of it; but sill we can
call the nomination OF General Taylor no less
than fraud, if it was an abandonment OF the
principles of the party.
II, then, can establish the fact that those
agents Of the whig party composing the Phla-
delphia Convention, put up man who was not
wing in truth, do not prove that they have been
false TO their party, and that they have commit
ted fraud and II it has been done by a comb
nation OF men, is it not conspiracy? For what
is a conspiracy, but a combination OF men to do
wrong act
My friends Gen Taylor was not then, and is
not now a wing, in any proper sense OF the term.
What Wing Why, he is man who adopts
certain political views, which are the vie rs OF
the whig party is be not? | have endeayored
to show you before, that man who simply calls
himseta whig, is not for that cause a whig, hav-
ing reference to the practita! use of the term at
the present day, unless he adopts the principles
OF the party. II anything can be plain, this pro-
position must be. That Gen. Tdylor,in semi sense
Of The aoord, may be a Whig; in some sense in
which he may think properto the term, will
not deny. In some good acceptation OF the word,
all men in this country, OF the Democratic party,
and Wing party, and Liberty party in former
days, were wings Would they not all say they
were wings wings OF TO wings in the sense
in which the English Statesmen, Hampden,
and his compeers were wings? In the use
of terms with which MIR. Jefferson, in the midst
Of heated political strife between the Federal
lists and the Democrats, who then divided the
country in his Inaugural address declared that
" all were Federasts, all were Republicans"
in that general and original use OF the appellation,
Gen. Taylor may perhaps be called whig. But
when MIR. Jefferson made that declaration, he did
not mean to carry the belief that he adopted the
distinctive views and principles of the Federal
party, which divided it fron, the Democratic par
ty at the tire. He meant to be understood that
in reference to great principles which demanded
the assent OF all, all were entitled TO the name OF
Federalists; all were entitled to be called Demo-
Gratis. When we come to the practical applica-
ton OF the term, and inquire whether, IN rela-
ton to present parties a man is a w hig we ask