The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-09-26
SPEECH OF
JUDGE THOMAS,
Reported for the Atlas, by Henry ~ Pdrthurs
OF WORCESTER,
AT THE WIG STATE CONVENTION

Reported for the alias, 6y Ienre d. TdThhuTSt'
Mr.. President and Fellow Citizens: We
come to-day, if we might believe the declara-
lion of our friends, TO bury Caesar, not TO
praise HIM" We come as the representatives
Of the dead party Of Massachusetts. Gap
plause) And as had the occasion 20 say this
morning, gentlemen, if this be the dead party
of Massachusetts, what will men think OF the
resurrection of the dead q? (Applausc.) In
what bottles do they come? 7" 1t was said at
Philadelphia. by distinguished friend Of
mine, that this Wing party Of ours was dissolv-
ed. There is a chemical process by which
things are dissolved, to be formed anew into a
jewel of clearer water. fpurer luStre, BIZ
CAUSE IT HAS DEPOSITED THE SEDIMENT
(Grcut checrs) 1t is because, as ! had the
occasion 10 say, we are dead party, that we
are met bv candidate from the grave Of pol
itics (Appause) That men have gone
down TO the charnel house Of Locofocoisrn, and
taken a dead man from i;s dusty cells, and gal
vaBzcd it into the sembGnce Of life, and put
into lie old and shrivelled hand, the banner Of
Freedom. (Cheers) Mr.. President, this game
BY which we ale to be def, aed is the old game
of" brag," when men seek 10 supply the want
Of substance by the addition Of noitc; when
conscious OF their weakness, at the truest test.
the polls, they seek The victory before the cleo
ton. knowing that they will rot get il after
(Applausc-)
N5w, gentlemen, We were .old herc--it was
announced in this Hall with solemnity-that
Gen. TAYLOR was not to DO supported fer the
Presidency of Tie United States, because he
was not true Wing. Nay, more, because he
WAS not an ultra Whig;' that was the phrase
repeated in this presence, not IAN ultra Wing
Wemust ties. the sincerity of men, not by their
free lips, bit their free lives; what man does,
speaks what is within him, and not what he
says. i that the true ground upon which Gen.
Taylor was opposed? Not word was said Of
it at the Philadelphia Convention. In that
Convention Of Wings, where tho very question
would arise, whether a man was Wing or
not, not man arose TO SAY Gen. Taylor was
not Wig, but wbcn they came home TO
Massachusetts, when they talked TO their fcl-
low citizens, then General Taylor Was not
Wing was not an " ultra Wing" And then.
gentlemen, few weeks after, men 90 up to
Bufalo in search OF what the Philadelphia
Contention had not given US in search of
true Wing; an " ultra Wing :" and this ''ultra
Wing" this true Wing. that the Wings Of Mas
sachascits could so cordially support, is found
amoag the ro;:en and putrid masses OF Lccofo-
coisIl.
Gentlemen, YOU may lie told that tho " big
marty Is dead in the heart of the commonwealth.
j say to YOU that the pulses of life beat strong
vet / tell YOU that the ears Of the desd can
hear, and correct such nonsense and suphistry
ss that and say, az have always said, that
if we are dead, if the Wing party is buried, l
would rather 60 to its honorcd grave, and pick
IN one Of its old dry bones ard worship that,
than all the combined forces of Locofocoi.In,
whether Of the new stamp or of the old.
When YOU believe that the " hig party is
dca within the heart of the Commonwe
Won must forget that we have been Wigs
froul the beginning that VIC are apt 10 test
and try men by their lives; that VIC know,
when these men present 20 US Martin Van Bu-
rer as the candidate of the Presidency Of the
United States they either have forgotten all
their cwn Wing principles or they ought to
have forgotten Them all, before they made the
northumberland they have afforded us thetest by
viii IA we must try their sincerity and honesty MS
public men. lfihey had gone 10 Buflalo.and put
before us Wing well known to the country ,hav
Ing It's confidence. sound On all points, we might
have believed them. But when this nliscrab' e
farce was PLAYED there, by which such a man was
20 DO nalnlcd upon us,we lost our confidence III
their sagaCitv, il not in their integrity. | say
that the nomination Of Martin Van Buren, Is
bringing back to us those Old friends, who fall
tered at the momentit was shown TO the Wigs
of Massachusetts, that there WAS no other alter
native but the support of the Wing nomina-
ton. Il did not show it 10 Inc. have no A.
poloses to make for my support of General
Tavlor. have nothing 70 say about his being
inv second or third choice. because be WAS my
first choice. saw, from the field OF Palo AL
TO, that Providence was working out its own
results; that out of this ncttle danger" We
were to pluck this flower safety" and that
these sins OF men, under the eve Of Providence
were raising up the very uan that was to pun
ish and suhdue the m and hat is the course of
men, under Providence. They never aniri-
pated that the result of this crime of theirs
would be to dcve!ope the stern integrity The
honesty, the purity, the courage Of such man
as Gen. TAYLOR. But | say TO you, gentlemen,
that it seems to me that these VIC cries Of Palo
Alto and Resacade la Palma were the prestige
ofthe victory which he WAS to acquire over the
Administration which sought 10 trample him
under .heir feet am not going to make n
speech, fellow-citizens; | am glad that YOU
have come here to-day: am glad that YOU
have seen that the heart Of the Commonwea'tl
is not vet still or cold But there are those a
mong us who are still c.in@ing 20 the old plat
form, SatSieu with what lhclr litAerS were sat
islied with who inherit theirprinciples, through
three generations; at least. are willing to stand
by them. Though men deceive us by false
names, and under false guises l close by Civ
ing the assurance, in spite Of this game Of
''brag,' there are men in the county of Wor-
ccstcr, in the heart ofthc commonwealth. who
have not forgotten their old-fashioned Wing
principles.
KENTUCKY AND SLA, L Y.-Ex-Gov. Letci
er, of Kentucky, made speech al fndianaPoi-