Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-11-03
Conclusion to-norYo,e.)
WING NIendacitv.

The nendacious fasehoods contained in the
following, from the Worcester Transcript of Sat
urday,would need no comment from us, were it
not for the fact that they caught up with avid
ity by the Hunker presses in other places and pub
lished as facts.
1t was declared by Charles Allen who knew
well how to estimate the prejudices of delegates
from the country towns and rural districts. lie
knew they were generally averse to foreign lnttn-
ence--that an appeal 10 their sectarlan predllec-
lions might and the selfish and sinister designs of
himself and his associate leaders. And what
said Charles alIea as the mouthplece of his par
ty! He declared plainly and distinctly, that
we have large foreign population acho are
NO MORE ENTITLED 10 BE COUNTED
IN THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION
THAN ARE THE SLAVES OF THE SOUTH!
and that the large towns and cities now enjoy
representation based upon them which they are
not entitled to! Here was clear declaration in
favor of measure, and for which, also, a reason
was assigned measure, which, il carried out,
would basely deprive large and respectable for
eien population of some of theiI most valuable
rights and privileges.
Now, the Transcript knows as well as we do,
that this is falsehood, and that the statement,
as they put it, by garbng the language of Judge
Allen, is perversion of the sentiments he utter
ed at the Convention TO which it alludes. "GIvE
THE FOREIGNER VorE, ''sAID Mr.. ALLEN
"AND THEN LET HIM BE REPRESENTED,
and am in favor of his having vote as speedily
as possible His argument had especial refer
the fact, that in the large cities like Bos-
ton and Lowell, the Foreign population was
reckoned as a BASIS of representation, but that
the foreigner was actually deprived of his repre-
sentation for the reason that he WAS PRoHIB-
TIED FROM VOTING UPON THAT BASIS and
that the political power which legitimately be-
longed to rim, when he is made the basis of rep
resentatlon, is monopolized by party whom he
considers dramatically opposed 10 his interests,
| aud with whose men and measures his heart has
no sympathy. For instance, the fifty thousand
foreigners in Boston, made the basis of repre-
sentatio1, by which THIRTEEN of the forty
four Wing representatives of Boston, are elected,
and yet they have NO VOTE. In their hearts they
utterly detest the name of Wing, and would
steadfastly vote, if they had the opportunity,
against that party. Who does not see the inc
| quality and unfairness of this; to reckon men as
the basis Misrepresentation without giving them the
right to have any voice in the choice of their
representatives. It's literal fact, and it cannot
be gainsayed, that the fifty thousand Foreigner.
of Boston, who have emigrated to this free land
with the settled purpose to make it the home oil
themselves, and their children after them, forev.
er, haven no more vote or voice in the election o
the men who make the laws under which the,
Fen Feanhat the Free Democracy propose to remed,
Audrey can, by making the representative who i
c. Men, representative ofthe people, and not o
u1rty or clique, who deprived portion of tn,
AApe OF their votes, and claim double repre
r, ehtatlon themselves by reason of this unius
inasls of representation.