The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-11-11
TO THE ELECTORS


OF THE With CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
For two or three weeks past some of the
friends of Gen. Taylor, in this CITY and else.
where, have been busily insinuating, that disclo.
sures, Injurious to my character, would be made
to the public. Curiosity has been kept alive, by
the daily promise of the forth coming charge and
proof. Still, the charge has been kept back,
until this late hour, when it was doubtless sup.
posed the calumny would reach many minds,
which could not be disabused, before the Con-
gressional and State elections should have taken
place. The True Wing and Egis, of Wednes-
OF the present week, have spread the charge,
without giving shadow of proof IN support of it.
In long and ostensibly editorial article, full
of virulence and personal abuse, headed ssThe
Traitors The Verdict find the following
accusation.
Charles Allen was himSelfan aCcomplice in the sole
fraud which has yet attached discredt TO the PatIadeI
phla Convention. ConSpirator he met with his .'ura"
Wing friends, on the first day of last June to prepare
protest against the nomination Of z chary Taylor
That protest was prepared and were affixed the sig.
natures of the entire Mutual Admiration clique Charles
! Allen among the numher-and then, with his hands tied
WI his tree lips' struck dumb by pledge that he
! would not aCquesce IN its possible determination this
d,
out blush took bis seat delegate among honorable
| men,
CHS name was already in print, before the candidate
bad even been selected signed To circular OF which he
publication only the act III the deliberate, ma
| lgaant treason. The Fifth D.strct was betrayed IN
| Boston, on the first of June"
The answer to this gross attack, prepared by
individuals, who have not the manIiness to give
to it the responsibility of their names, is brief
| The accusation is FALsE-UTTERLY FALSE.
/ attended no such meeting signed no such
protest or circular The paper, to which allu-
sion Is made, is doubtless the circular, which was
| published in the Boston Wing, after the Phila-
| delphia nomination was made When, and by
| whom it was prepared, know not, to this day.
| 1t was not prepared with any knowledge or aso
| sent OF mine. 1t has not received II Y signature,
to this hour When the paper was first published
in the Boston Wing, it will be found, on recur-
renee TO it, that it did not purpor to have my sig
nature Many days afterwards, with additional
names, which had been procured, subsequent to
the original publication, mine was associated,
upon the presumption Of the Editor, that, after
my return from Philadelphia, had authorized
it, But even in this mistake, though harmless
one, was made by the Editor.
My first knowledge of that circular was OBJ.
tanned at New York, several days after the Con.
vention was dissolved. | need not add, that after
the nomination If Gen. Taylor vas made, | re-
joiced to such evidence the circular fur
nished, of popular movement in Massachusetts,
In he right direction.
lInw mo tn add at NV ul al noursa oa
ton, as your Delegate, is known to you. There
is nothing concealed, and, therefore, there is
nothing to disclose. My Instructions were con-
tanned in the following resolution of the District
Convention, which appointed me their Delegate,
Resoired, That in the opinion Of this Convention no
Candidate tor tie Presidency receive the Electoral
vote OF Massachusetts, who publicly known 10 be
opposed to the extension OF Slavery territory now
fee.
endeavored, earnestly and faithfully, to select
such candidate and such only, as the District
Convention declared could obtain the electoral
vote of Massachusetts. When the National Con-
Venuon nominated man, whose opinions, on the
subject OF restricting slavery, there was every
reason to believe, were in direct opposition to the
frequently expressed sentiments of Massachu-
sets, declared, in few words, written after
had voted for the last time, my belief that her
people would not sanction that nomination. Has
not the popular vote justified that opinion
have thought that the ialsehood, related SO
circumstantially, might mislead some minds, and
since the authors, for the purpose oil giving Plau-
sibility to the fiction, have the hardhood to
&c challenge a responsible denidf' of 1t, that de-
NAL is made. Let the anonymous, but perhaps
not wholly unknown, writer's now give to the