Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-01-15
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Is, 1851.
FREE SOIL NOMINATION.
The Egis.

,Aa. nrint. but nut in tile form of a communication
,rohaby for two reasons The editor was, doubtless
conscious that any thing coming from him would
have very little weight with any body; and, secondly
he. probably wished to sE,k the responsibility OF the
cross and mean personalities upon Judge Alien
Some things in that article we shall now briefly no
First. to matter personal between the candidates
The Hgis, referring to the of 349 SAYS: or
these and representations such these Judge Bar
ton was assaulted by Judge Allen" Now, this asser-
ton of the Egis is entirely false. Judge Allen did
not "assail" Judge Barton IN that canvass nor did he
even allude him, reference TO his speeches VII
SHOW Indeed, there was occasion for Judge Al
LENS 'assaiiing" Judge Barton; for Judge Barton
"broke down. 10 use the language of the Wings
themselves the 1ay lor ratification meeting; ard he
vas not called upon afterwards by them, il is believed.
during the whole canvass; unless it to address
Briney Hall caucus, 60 into some of the small
IONS to lecture. And in this it is believed, he
was not very successful in drawing" houses In one
Instance at least he found so few assembled to hear
him. that be did not feel that it would pay expenses
TO deliver himself; and he returned home without
making speech at ALL This false accusation Of
Judge Aliens "assailing" Judge Barton is, probably
flung in fer the purpose ofgving Judge Barton
quence which he did not then possess.
Other than Judge Barton were called into that
conflict. The acare" of Worcester county had been
assigned TO Governors Lincoln and Davis They be-
ing found unequal to the task allotted them, aid was
sought from abroad A distinguished Kentucky speak
er was brought here and Senator Simmons of Rhode
Island, and Child and Ashmun of our own State not
tdr 4l,oI e. 49,
nestle and imported, who figured violently here, and
who supposed they we're doing great things. And,
finally, the "godIike" Daniel Webster himself. was
brought here to close the canvass. And, notwith-
standing all their efforts and all their appliances the
Wings here, at the close of the polls on the day Of
the election, found themselves fat on their backs,
where they still lie and where they are. probably
doomed to lie for pretty long time to come
Agln, rae Egis says, passing over his" Judge
Aen's) personal attacks upon some of our most dis
tinguished citizens,-men whom the country and
State had delighted to honor, what the positions
he assumed, and what were the predictions which he
then made, and how have they been ful6lled?"
This paragraph seems to deyde itself into three
parts personal attacks; positions; and 'predic-
TONS" We will notice them in their order
First Personal attacks"-From the day Judge
Allen rcpudated the doings of the Philadelphia con-
venton, because of its voting down and Kissing down
all the previously expressed opinions and declarations
Of the Wing party upon the question of the extension
Of slavery, down to the day of the presidential cleo
ton, he assailed by the united Wing press of
Massachusetts,. The theme of every Wing orator
who came to Worcester, seemed to be Judge Allen /;
and he who would say the foulest thing of him. was
II. Al a.
ings, lin one Of which the people were lured from
great distance under the preence of hearing General
WILSON, Linus Child in another meeting, and Win.
throp and Choate in the State Convention of that
year. and Myron Lawrence in Faneuil Hall each and
all, not to mention others, in their speeches made
Judge Allen the object of personal vtuperation and
abuse He quietly bided his time The hour of re-
tribution came. And he replied to his assaiIans and
rnagners in speech, which one of the most learned
and able men of the Wing party after careful perusal
Of it, pronounced to be triumphant vndication Of
the truth of his charges against the convention !" and
further that athough his retorts upon his assaants
were terrible, yet no one who had watched the con-
tes. attenvely could say that they were not richly
deserved"
Secondly, Positions" Judge Aliens positions
States I'M that Convention had abandoned their princ
Piles and surrendered to Slavedona." The great and
leading principle of the Wings in the free States at
that time, was opposition to the extension of Ameri-
can Slavery. In that Convention, no acknowledge
ment or recognition of that principle was admitted
but the contrary. every thing of the kind that was
offered, was not only voted down, but Kissed down.
Third, " Predictions" Judge Allen predicted from
that abandonment and surrender off the principles OIL
the Wings fthe free States consequences disastrous
to freedom disastrous to the rights and power of the
free States and subversve of the principles upon which
the Government was founded.
Have not these predictions been verified Have
not the principles of the ordinance of 81 been repu
dated by the Wing party? Has not the Wimot Pro
yiso, which Daniel Webster in 1913, claimed as his
thunder been repudated and rdicued by this same
Daniel Webster ere enactment of The ,oi of God?'
Are not all who still adhere to the principles which
the party, in all their Conventions through long Sc.
ries of years, proclaimed paramount. and unatera
bic, now denounced as fanatics" by the whole Whio
press Of Massachusetts, and by the leading WING pa
pers Of the countryY Have not meetings been held
in this State, by leading Wings to suppress even The
utteranco Of these principles? Has not tho most in
famous law boen enacted that ever disgraced civza
tion-a law compelling the citizens of the free State.
10 put themselves the base level with slave catch
ers and negro hunters and this, too under the pains
and penalties Of fines and Imprisonment. And finally
have not free citizens in the free States already un
der the operation Of this law, been seized and deliv
cred to slave-hunters be carried into slavery
But to the Egis again. The editor of that print
R.I.-H