The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1850-04-17
THE WEBSTER TESTIMONIAL.

The New Bedford Mercury talks bravely-Listen:
Eight hundred highly respectable Bostonlans have
thanked Mr. Webster for his recent speech lii an adj
dress which we have already laid before our readers.
Those gentlemen very grateful for beng 'sfecdt-
leL'' to their duties under the Constitutions, and
we much lament that they ever wandered from those
duties Now that they have been regularly admon-
ished it is to be hoped they will behave themselves
better, and need no more TO be 'recaed." Eight
hundred highly respectable Bostonians are very
grateful to Mr. Webster for teaching them the great
constitutional duties of hunting down runaway slaves
of abandoning the Wmot Proviso, of admitting
more slave States, and of doing divers other const-
tutlona dsagreeabe things. With all humility they
bow before the mighty genius of Mr.. Webster, and
In comtly phrases give thanks. We have nothing to
say against this proceeding, but we trust the eight
hundred highly respectable Bostonans intend to sus-
tain Mr. Webster triumphantIy at the polls.
The managers of this important business indeed
appear to be sufficiently confident indulge in the
outset in insoence and arrogance. They were so
overwhelmed with realizing sense of their own
strength and importance that they did not condescend
to send their testimonial address to the Boston At
las fot publication. They thought they could afford
to slight that able and steadfast organ of the Wing
party, and accordingly they magnanimously ignored
its existence. We hope they can afford it, of course
they have calculated their ability to be exclusive and
proscrptive, and find it will pay to follow that
course.
The Boston Atlas occupies proud position Re-
speeding Mr. Webster highly any of the signers
of the address respects him. it refuses to follow him
blndly wheresoever he may see fit to lead. 1t has
opinion of its own, which it has frequently ex-
pressed, and will not stoop to stuliy ITSELF
its own words. Recognizing the unequalled ability
and power OF Mr.. Webster, the Atlas will not sur
render its independence to a superior mind, nor
merge its identity and individuality in any man
though he speak with the tongue of angels. Calmly
and temporarily, but firmly and deliberately, the
Atlas dissents from Mr. Webster, and maintains its
integrity notwithstanding eight hundred respectable
gentlemen of Boston send in their adhesion to the
extraordinary doctrines put forth by great Sena,
tor. If this Webster party choose to open theil
campaign by sighting the most influential and eff.
cient Wing paper in the Commonwealth, we mus
believe that they act nadvisadly We tell those gen.
tlemen that man who the opinions put fortf
by MIR. Webster in his last speech go before The
Wings of Massachusetts at the ballot-box with thC
remotest chance of success. We tell them that NJ
man holding those views can obtain Wing nomina
ton for Governor, out of Boston for Congress-
The Wings mean free soil, and the eight hundred
respectabes will find it out about election time. w,
trust they will not feel constrained to abandon thu
party because they In a minority; but assured,
they will find that they do not reflect the wing sent
ment of this Commonwealth nor do we believe tina
a majority of the wings of Boston concur with them
That Mr. Webster may carry Congress with him i
not improbable, but he cannot carry with him tn
wings of his own State. The men who endorse Mr.
Webster are the same whose suspected sentiment
contributed largely to build up the freesoi organiza
- t.: Tho ni.nrGi of those sentiments will no
drive more wings into foreign organization, but wi
cement the old wing party more strongly together
If another faction is to be formed, it must be com
posed OF exclusive Webster men. They cannot i'm
pose their authority on the wing party, and thu
drive Oft another crowd of wings The wings wi
overrule and outvote them overwhelmingly, and
there to be further schsm the eight hundred res
pectable gentlemen must fly off from the bulk of tn
party and set up business on their own account
We await the course of events with entire conf
dence.