The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-08-16
NATIONALITY OF PARTIES.

wa UT FAMILIES.
The Lowell Courier and other Taylcr papers
have not unfrequenty asserted that the Free
Soil party is not only confined in its political dis
cussons TO idea, but also that it is sectional
instead oil national, in its organization and The
character OF its creed
We shall readily admit that political party
which has for its object, the control of our ma.
tional councils, should be national in ITS charac
ter, its creed and ITS objects. If our oppone ITS
can succeed in convincing us that our political
principles must necessarily be limited in their
application to only small portion, instead of the
'ehofe oil our Union, we ale ready TO abandon all
efforts OF our own TO sustain or defend them a
moment longer.
Such, we are confident, is not the fact. Who.
ever will take the trouble TO examine the princi-
Pies put forth in that admirable compend-fhe
ButdfO PtGUorm-will TAIL to discover one that
may not as we'll be believed, defended and acted
upon in South Carolina and Texas, as in ,Massa.
chusetts or New York. Take, for example. the
leading doctrine OF the Free Soil party-no more
Stdre territory IN our UuiOn. If that doctrine
may not as well be defended in South Carolina as
10 Massachusetts, ii is not account OF its inap
PlcablIlty or want OF nationality in its character,
but solely on account of the want Of lberalitv
and national patriotism in the people Of South
Carolina. The doctrine may be unpopular there
Tor the same reason that Temperance NAV be
unpopular among drunkards, or the GOSPEL
among nhdes. 1t the people in a certain sec
ton OF our country, either from pecuniary con.
sideratoDs or even for local causes, see fit 10 ar
ray themselves against the PRONUNCIATION OF Ger
tain republican principles, we certainly shall not
cknowledge this TO be sufficient reason Tor us
40 abandon those principles, or TO stigmatise their
PRONUNCIATION as sectional or narrow minded
proceeding. Ii we oppose Slavery IN South Car
olIna, we should be prepared to do the same thing
IN Massachusetts,. We ask for no special legisla.
uon IN relation TO the subject; that is, we ask for
no legislation that will not apply with equal force
10 citizen in free as in slave State If we
deny 10 VirgiDian or Cdr0linian the right TO
hold his fellow man as property, when in New
mexico or California, we would apply the same
principle, and enforce the same laws precisely,
70 cluzen OF New England or any OF the free |
States.
So far we have been acting entirely on the de. |
tensive. But we have few considerations 10
urge, lew questions to ask of the great /" ma
st0nGl wing party. We are all aware that ia the
Tree States-e especially is this true in New Eng
land-not State, not a County Convention can
De holden OF the wing party, in which resolutions
are not freely passed, bitterly denouncing the in
sututlon OF Slavery as totally inconsistent with
our republican government, and pledging the
ting party to oppose, with all its power, lis far.
ever, do these seltsame wings meet in Ma /
t.0ndf Convention, than the introduction of
similar resolution into that august body is de-
nounced as treason to wing principles, and
howilng is, at once, raised at the mover that
would taiily distance " all the hounds OF hell"
And yet In the face OF these well known facts. /
me men, who, true TO their oft repeated princi- !
pies, continue 10 adhere to these State resolu |
tons, instead of this National nothing arianism.
are denounced as raising sectional issues, and
abandoning 40 National Wing principles. AS pc
htlca party, il party the friends OF the national
administration may be called; the wings have
now no national principles that they dare pub.
icly to avow. They elected a man Tor Presi.
dent, who unequivocally, emphatically, and re-
peatedly, refused to become cir candidate or the
exponent OF their principles. To call such
medley OF contradictions as now compose the
Taylor faction, a National party, would be, il
possible, more ridiculous, than was the election
Of Gen. Taylor ITSELF LotceH American.