Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-06-30
A New Party.

York Tribune
1t is right the world should be instructed by clear
headed, consistent, and conscientious men, We
have, therefore, not word to say when the ex-
minister to the Celestial Empire and present Mayor
of the CITY of Newburyport, in the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, formerly Wing member of Con-
gtess, and author of several bOny speeches against
the Sub-Treasury and Locofocosm in general, and
in favor of Wing policy and Wing men, and more |
atterly, General in the Mexican war, who fell in
the service of Mexican woman and barked his |
shins or broke his ankle, undertakes to lay down the
law and the gospel to the Union Locos of Massachu-
sets, and to teach them their duty at the present
crisis. That snug little party, numbering in the
State just about enough to fill what offices would fall
to the share of Massachusetts under Locofoco Ma
tonal Administration could not have better leader
If the party is not already Conveniently small' he
will be sure to make il SO. No gentleman belonging
to the State possesses larger capacities in this line
We will not even except very distinguished per-
sonage of that Commonwealth who has handsomely
loored the Wing party there, and whose friends are
just now engaged in publishing posthumous memoirs
ofhls popularity, by subscription.
General Gushing is Chairman of the grand State
Central Committee, and managing head of the pow
erful party he essays to lead. The strong hold
of this party is among Robert Rantous constituent
cy, where it numbers 700 good men and true of l5
600 voters who lately went to the polls in that dis
trict. In his late manifesto (termed Report of
the Executive Committee" made under instruction
of the State Central Committee,) which we find in
the Boston papers, the General very adroy ignores
all past and present politics, and plants his compen-
dous forces ona single position. This is stroke of
military policy introduced into civil affairs Ahand-
ful of men cannot defend a long line They must
take to fortress The point of his discourse is that
he goes against making Fthese now great and happv
United States Golgotha'' That is to say he heads
an anti Golgotha party in the Bay State Well,
II other people may get up anti-Slavery, ant-Ma-
sonic and all other sorts of antiparties, we do not
know why the General should not be permitted to
get up an-Golgotha party As usual. when
new enterprise Is started, the first business of the
projectors Is to magnify its Importance. Thus the
General magnies the subject of his discourse in the
very best terms of rhetoric he can command. He
tugs, and strains, and sweats at sef-punishing
rate And in the height of his wordy unhappiness
demands to know if it be the command of God TO
make these States "a Golgotha." We certainly
nave no hesitation In promptly expressing our de-
cided opinion that no such command has ever been
issued. We claim some familiarity with the "high-
er law, but we have never seen anything of this
sort IN our book of revelation. And we have no
idea that we could have overlooked a command of
this significance. We quote from the General:
"To make Of these great and happy United
States Gogotha, thing to shudder at and despise.
like that awful beacon in the pathway of nations the
wretched negro-empire of the Island of ST. Domingo
These The commands of God! Away with the insane
self concet and the pesumpuous mpety which cloaks
its ignorance, folly and passion under the basphemous
preence Of being the miraculous recipient Of the imue-
date command of the Most Highi'
But the General would evidently be indisposed TO
take our No. for an answer. For he constantly es-
Inmates that those who not outandout supporters
OF the Fugitive Slave Law are Golgothians. This
is the nub ofhls discouTse and upon this assumption
he purposes to found his anti-Golgotha party The
movement is ingenious and adroit and the General
should have credit for it. 1t would be very ayyL-
ward for him to meet his old party associates in anv
coming Presidential or other political contest on old
issues. But on the Golgotha question he can toe the
mark and deal his blows, man fashion, and have no.
body to twt him of having once been on the other
side.
IT is not little exciting to the sense of the ridicu
ous to witness the zeal and inconsistency with which
the General labors TO enforce the general idea that
the last and reatband that holds our Union and Gov
ernmenttogether, is the Fugitive law ofIS5O. These
Union and compromise gentlemen are really getting
to be "one idea" men of the very worst SORT They
cling to the adjustment SO convulsivey and hold Il
to their noses SO closely, that they don't see nor ac
knowledge the existence Of anything beyond. They
make the Fugitive law their meat and their drink,
is their cloud by night and their pillar of fire by
day. It's their sole organ Of political ocomotion-
1t is the fin by which they scull about in dirtv water
and the wings which they ascend to the subIimest
heights Of barney. No hen with one chicken. nor
woman with her first baby, was ever more conspio-
uous In silly devotion or fussy seccnsequence. Ac
cordlng to Mr.. Gushing, it is the very last chain and
anchor that holds the ship of State to her moornos
amid frghtful surges that now dash their spray from
stem to stern, and make every timber culver. and
every soul on board quake. But upon all such trash
as this, we have hitherto, on previous occasions IN.
dulged In sufficient comment. Ifthere are those who
yet believe that the salvation ofths Union and Gov
eminent depends upon Northern dexterty in trppinp
up the heels OF escaping negroes, they are past cure
We need not waste words upon them.
One remark of the ex-Minister, however. dronnod
in the heat of his dissertation is so malapropos CON-
siderng the view he takes of the Fugitive law. that
we cannot help abiding to it. He makes an obser-
vauon common to all good Union men, that il is
the duty every good man and good citizen to leave
the subject of Slavery where Washington, and Mad
son, and Jay and Hamilton, and the trainers Of the
Constitution left It, Now the first step toward doing
this, would be to repeal the Fugitive law of 1886
wouldn't it! For this is a heel-tap upon the foo,
OF Slavery, that modern cobblers have put on. To
be consistent with himself, therefore, the General
ought certainly to be advocating the repeal OF the law
instead OF striving to head party founded unon tho
principle ola rigid adherence 10 it. 1t is thus. after
uischargng the guns of his battery all about him the
%eneral applies the match TO his own magazine, and
blows himself sky high. Let those look after his re-
mains, who feel desire to erect monument TO his
logcal ana political consistency. The Union Com
mItiee Of Safety could not be better employed Tbex
would, in SO doing, follow at least one Scripture in.
Junction,-"Let the dead bury their dead''
10 Another fatal accident has occurred in the
Pyrotechnic Works in Jersey City, which exploded
few days ago, killing the proprietor, Mr.. Dawes.
Since that accident, they have been superntended