Worcester daily spy., 1851-05-13
"The Union ofthe Uhigs.,,

he siaid and stately .ftlas is patting the brusque
aud Vulgar Springfield Republican on the head, and
The impudent. rufianly Springfield Republican is
bandying agreeable compliments with the proud, pa
trcian Atlas The decency and dignity of Whg-
ism have come down from their Atlantean stilts to
walow in the dirt and mire Of that stripe of whgsm
of which the Springfield Republican is the represen-
atlye; and those two representative extremes ofthe
party, the head and the tail have met Scme unions
are the effect ct love, some of necessity and some Of
convenience. That the Atlas loves the Springfield
hePnOf'can, Is not TO be credited for moment
there is no more unity between them than there is
between a lion and Launce's dirty dog; bat there
seems TO be necessity to muster all the forces of
hggery, from lis scavengers TO It's grave professors
IN order to crush the spirit of liberty that now ami
mates the old Bay State; and SO the Atlas, bending
to this necessity finds it convenient to prouette with
its present Springfield friend.
Ihe Atlas while commencing an article in the
Springfield Republican, takes occasion 10 discuss the
question OF ertremes and it descants in very passa
BILE English, on radical Democracy and radical Free
Soltlsm, both of which radical-isms it denounc-
es and condemns, for meeting and ruling the Stale.
while 1t at the same time very placdly propounds
the creed of conservative Whigism. ssIt. Whiaism.
eschews radlcalism and fanaticism, in whatever
shape they appear;" says the Atlas; ''the middle
giound, inasmuch as truth generally lies between
extremes ofopinion, is the true whig ground.''
From this language, the Atlas would have its
readers to infer that it maintains middle ground .
that proposes pure system of political ethics; and
that the radical democracy apd radical freesoiocra-
cy are pestent organizations, whose asity Of prin
clples only eqnalled by their mpudence in assun
ing the reins of government, and guiding the destnes
OF the old Bay State. Now we do not deplore. as
the Atlas does, that the majority of the people of
massachusetts are represented in the government of
the States neither do we believe in the soundness of
that logic which would seek to impose on thtasredu
my oil men, by representing truth as mere com
parative-as something that might be worse, and
that might also be better. Truth does not lie he
tween extremes of opinion, hut is itself an extreme
OIL winch the converse is falsehood and we believe
1t would task even the acute metaphysical oenins of
he Atlas to demonstrate that all that lies between
ruin and falsehood Is not falsehood But leaving
hose interesting speculaons to our wbg friends, let
US observe and note the union-of the whigs;'' and
let us not make ourselves cognizant of its purpose.
1t Is union intended to rescue (that is the vvor
the government of the State from lis present hands
and to bind it neck and heels and throw it at the feet
of Webster Cotton and Slavery. 1t is a union in
tended to consummate the fusion of our dear old
massachusetts, into the grand national sew and it is
union which we hope the fee democracy will be
abundantly able to control and contravene dasnito
ol te incongruous alliance of forces designated by
the Atlas and Springfield Republican.