Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-09-15
The WING Convention.
EDw, L. KEYEs, Sec'y

The Wing Convention.
No man who remembers what the Wing State
Conventions of Massachusetts used to be, can read
without sensation of pity, the resolutions that fell
still born from the committee at Springfield, on
wednesday last Those resolutions, which are Of
she most attenuaed character, as regards the ex-
preston OF principles, and which are dressed up in
the most tawdry rhetoric had no s'thunderer'' to
usher them into the world no paternal "Sayiour Of
the Union'' to bid them eloquent welcome to the
wing platform Pigmies presided at their birth, and
deep silence brooded their advent TO the place
where manly and eloquent resolutions once had tler
legitimate stations. Alas! the wing party has allen
upon evil times; the lean cattle, such as Messrs
Webster, Elliott, and Ashmun, have eaten up allthe
genius, and honor, and talent of the party and have
themselves grown SO pethorc, that they cannot even
appear at a caucus. The years of plenty, which
were passed IN garnerlng up chat instead of wheat
nave gone, and the poor wings cannot even mourn
or grleye with sufficient ability to extort more than
few expressions Of popular contempt and pity for the
miserable predicament in which the dishonesty Of
their leaders has placed them.
The Springfield resolutions present two phases !;
the first is that Of supple subservlency to the slave
ocracy; the next is that OF bitter hatred to the off,
clal position of the freesoi and democratic parties
On one table OF their testimony, they have written
''Smite us, o South, for we are your doughface
slaves" On the othe other, they have engraven the
words, Massachusetts, we sigh for the lesh-pots
OF your State House, &c. and if lugubrous howlings
rrun ri booo
acter' can induce the people to vote for u.s. we shall
yet again consgn the administration of the State to
she hands Of hunkers.''
In the eighth resolution, after covertly denoun-
eng the present State administration, as abect, mean
and vile, the sapient wings appeal to Gov Boutwell,
as witness of their honesty and capacity as rulers
10 contrast with his own and that of his party. Oh
wise Websterites. lfthe democracy are so utterly
abandoned as they predicate, why do they appeal 10
the testimony Of him they hate the btterest of them
all!
In the ninth resolution, however, is contained the
climax of Wing effrontery and obtus:ty Perfectly
cognizant of the fact that the session was proracted
wholly and totally, on account of the factious at
tempts of the Wings and bunker Democrats TO pre-
vent the House of Representatives from performing
its Unconstitutional Obligation of electing U. S.
Senator, these mendacous bunker Wings at Spring
field attempted to throw it upon the Coalition.-
There was, really, no practical coalition until the
election of Mr.. SUMNER and, after that event.
the people know whether the business was pro-
uacted not.
1t was the Wings, and fraction of bunker Dem
ocrats, constituting majority of the House, who
delayed the business of the session. To do base
deeds and then glory in them, had become of late
characteristic of the Wing party; but they have ex-
eeeded even this point Of infamy, and now adduce
their own mean actions, that they may throw the
odum Of them upon their opponents.
The resolutions very emphaiically iterate and re-
iterate praises of Mr.. Winthrops public principles
We suppose the writer of the resolutions had the
private principles of certain great of the party
in his minds eye at the time, and insensibly used
the adjective public as an anthess. 1t would have
been better for the Wings, to-day, if both the pub
lie and private principles of the leaders Of the party,
had been of higher quality than they appear ever
10 have generally been.
The denuncation of Mr.. Sumner in these resolu-
ons, as GgitGtor seems to US TO be an extremely
coed JOKE. The Wings cannot say, however, that
he forlorn Massachusetts pilgrim. lie has new
er hob-a-nobbed with shareholders glass to glass at
Capon Springs, nor hiccuped blasphemies against
Code law for their especial merriment. Neither
has he ever roamed with disconsoate footsteps
throughout the length and breadth Of these States,
seeking TO delude the young and inexperienced with
the idea that the ''Union is in danger"
II we were to take the Convention at Springfield,
and ats younger brother the Mass Meeting, as the