Worcester daily spy., 1851-04-03
FREE SOIL NOMINATION.
Renresentative to Congress.

Reuresentative TO COhSreSs'
Tn the Egis of Wednesday. letter appears with
tho above heading, signed Quinnebaug, which show
the miserable shifts to which ebell-wethers of Hun
ersm are reduced in their attempts to impose upon
the credulity of the liberty loving people this Dis
trict.
The writer of that letter, not openly or manfully,
but timidy and insidiousy pretends to ardent sym
pathies with the cause of freedom; but at the same
time, in fit of Pecksnlfian indignation, denounces
Judge Allen for what he terms his mastery nactly-
ty upon the fooi of Congress- during the last session
ssWas there no time during the eight months when
the subject Of slavery before the House, for him
TO express his views upon it?'' asks Qunnebaug in
the simplicity of his verdant nature. "Chosen to
represent district distinguished for its agricultural
and manufacturing interests, where are his speeches
in defence of Home Industry?'' says Quinnelaug
again. in the guilelessness of youthful ignorance, and
then he falls to mourning the time occupied by
our representative in malignng eminent citizens of
his own state.''
The letter is an impudent attempt to falsify facts,
and deceive the people in relation to Judge Aliens
services in Congress. The Egis well knows that
it has been impossible for member of the House Of
Representatives to utter his condemnation of slavery
since the advent of Miard Fillmore, in consequence
of the parliamentary gag, which has been revived
since his administration commenced and which has
been applied upon all occasions.
In his speech of 25th of February last, Mr.. Gid
dings shows how ample have been the opportunities
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any attentive reader of the Congressional proceed
ings could see the utter absurdty of all attempts to
discuss that question, since it taken altogether
cut of the range of discussion, by the bargain be-
tween northern wings and southerners of all par
tics. With the terms of this bargain, however, the
South did not see fit to comply, although some very
particular friends of the Egis gave their votes for
The glorious compromises fugitive slave bill and all;
but this does not alter the fact that the tariff question
never did fairly come up in the last Congress, and
the above reasons why it did not, are too well known
to require any further comment.
The hour which Joshua R. Gddings occupied in
the last session. the 9th of December, to discuss
the fugitive slave law the Shareholders and northern
compromises resolved should be the last A reso-
luton Immediately passed, restricting the time
Of debate to five minutes for each member, under
the pre:ence that longer talking would delay the pub
lie business and a. far as all discussion upon the great
question before the people was concerned, that reso-
luton vigorously enforced. Subsequently, twelve
days were spent by the House, in doing literally moth
ng; and during fifty subsequent days besides, the
sessions did not exceed two and half hours per day.
Yes, citizens of Massachusetts, there acaS ample
time to discuss the grievances under which the peo-
pie suffer- but it was because the political associates
of the Egis, and the friends of the modern Arnold
whom it delights to honor, determinedly prevented
that discussion.
Upon the Wings of the Union, upon such men
Webster, Fillmore, Ashmun, and Elliott, rests the
responsibility, and to them belongs the namy of st-
fling the voice offreedom, and thwarting the inter-
ests of American labor, at the Capitol 1t is quite
amusing to witness the great regard which this Qun-
nebaug moralist of the Pecksnfian school, has for
the value of time, in his accusation OF malignity
against Judge Allen, because he has dragged the
cret pecunary transactions of the stpendiary traitor
to freedom, with the money lenders, before the pab
lie gaze. We advise him to go to the sanctum of
the editor of the Egs, who is presumed to be post.
ed up in all matters of ancient history, and he will
doubtless tell him that the highest honors of states
manship have been sometimes gained, in exposing
the bad, and that such services have generally been
counted as worth the time they have cost; that the
glory Of Demosthenes consists in his just denuncia-
ton Of that vile Greek whose lust absorbed his
PATRIOTISM and whose ambition exceeded his honesty
that the best spent hours Of Cicero were those in
which he crcumyented the treason of Catane; that
Burke and Sheridan appeared never to such advan-
tage, as when they dragged to light the dark deeds Of
Warren Hastings; and ifhe passes by the impeach-
ment of Daniel Webster's integrity, by the repre-
sentative from the 5th district, it will not be so much
because that editor does not see as others do the
damning yenality othe Secretary of State, but be-
cause the claims Of party are with him, stronger than
love ofrght To our mind, the greatest service a
man can render to his country is to expose the trait
ors that would dishonor her. The people of the 5tt
district must have other reasons for not sustaining
Judge Allen, than the inuendoes and platitudes
which "Quinnebaug'' proposes.
MuNIFIcEkT.-Abiel Chandler, late Of the firm {,
Chandler, Howard & Co. Of Boston, who died on IN,
22d inst. at Walpole, NJ H., has left by WILL $50 90,
to Dartmouth College, to establish school of nstruc