Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-10-21

a The Party OF Negatsors
The leaders IF the Wings, having abandoned
every positive idea and objective principle, which
they once proessed to hold, have now fallen down
10 the only platform left for traitors and maIcon-
tents. and that is the platform of negation. Hay-
ing thrown their antisavery resolutions head-long
from their platform; and having also buried their
tariff below the mantle of oblivion, thew do not
possess positive idea, upon which 10 rally their
old partizans. Yet they manage to maintain
public life by opposing their nominal opponents
and they gather round then. those who have chung
TO them from personal motives, and from tradi-
ton, even though they have forsaken the issues
which 1t was once their glory to uphold.
The principle which sus,ains the Wing party.
inits present nominal strength, is as old as Lu-
ciier, and Is identical with the idea which even
tuated in his descent from Heaven. 1t is. simplv
the principle of opposition, independent of mo-
raty. They planted their feet upon universal
NO, and with that NO, they have met, and are
determined to meet, every proposition, which
comes from either Free Soile,s or Democrats, all
though the motive for it may be as pure as Chris
uanIty, and although the necessity for it may be
as apparent their own spiteful recreancy to
liberty. Men like the Wing leaders, although
conscious of their bankrupt condition in the mat
ter of true principles, know very well, that oppo-
stion, ''pure and simple'' combined with good
pay is sufficient to secure to them, all those
minimizing and unreasonng soldiers of political
fortune, who do not care what the cause may be.
SO that there is somebody to oppose, and some
thing 10 be got by opposition and, therefore, do
they illuminate their delamations against liberty,
vituperate republicanism, and vociferate their
NO. NO! at every measure which truth,
justice, and freedom demands from our country
and our age; and therefore are they sustained by
men who never reason, but who eyerIastingly de-
ny.
The Wing opposition TO the proposition for the
revision of the Constitution of Massachusetts BIZ
the people, cannot be defended by them upon any
rational, logical ground ; and can be accounted
fer, on no other principle than that of mere fac
tious negation. The Wings by their attempts at
argument admit this. They tell US that the expense
Of convention for the purpose of revising the Con-
stuon will cost $50 600 ;and also, that The leg
isture can amend the Constitution independent of
the people In the FIRST place, they seek to sii1e
examination into the essential, fundamental laws
| of the State, upon the plan of economy !; and
then, knowing that idllacy to be untenable amongst
free and generous people, they attempt to sub
stitute the representative for the people, in a
case of popular Legislation, and :!!:s .., too, for
the purpose of imposing, if possible, minority
Constitution upon a majority.
1t will not cost the people of Massachusetts ten
cents apiece, for the expenses of revising The Con-
stitution and vet, men who THINK II economy W
Duy polrIelans, at the rate OF nifty Thousand dol
lars head, hold mp their hands and lift up their
voices, in denunciaton of the extravaganza,
which would expend such sum, TO ''secure JUS
tce and perpctuae liberty to our posterity,'' And
when there exists body of mendacious politi-
clans, Who will come before the people, with the
logic of Austria their lips, and tell that the
legislature can revise the Constitution ndepen-
IDENTITY of the people, it is time for that people to
ask, for what purpose our Constitution was de-
| vised
We believe that it would be no loss to the COM
munity, even if Convention Of the whole people
should meet every ten years, for the purpose of
revising the Constitution, or for some such SOW
ereigu fet. If no secondary action should result
from such a Convention, it would at least tend to
preserve, in the popular mind, the full conscious
ness of the peoples sovereignty. 1t would serve to
maintain, in perpetual vigor, that grand idea Of
Anglo-Saxon law, which has come to US from our
early ancestors idea first embodied in Ian
guage on this continent, in the immortal Declara-
ton of Independence, and now menaced and de-
MED, by the Wing government Of the United
States.
The doom of the Wing party is written, how
ever: the fiat has gone forth that 1t must die.
Destitute of any positive principle, it must fall 10
pieces, even though it could succeed in crushing
the opposition, which, with bold, aggressive en-
ergy, combats it and will sweep it from the path
of progress. An indscrimnate negaion of pro-
gress only increases its Impetus 1t only obstructs
the stream until Its waters gather and concentrate,
and sweep before them the mud and slime OF
Wing stagnation. Long shall the broken frag-
ments Of the Wing party regret the day, when
they abandoned all their past professions for an
indiscriminate NO.
PRoGREss,-The stone machine shop, in
the south part of the city, the foundation of which
laid only four months ago, is finished and some
Of the rooms already occvpied. Messrs Allen
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