Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-12-02
The Atlas.

Spy Is GouStng MIR WItherby, the representative
elect from Shrewsbury, because he will vote for
Mr. Winthrop in preference to Mr. Boutwell,
This statement of the Atlas, will be netcs to the
readers of the Spy, inasmuch as the only article
we have published in relation to Mr.. Witherby,
was not abusive but compI imentary to him, so
that the Atas's paragraph eyinces, at the least
a looseness aud carelessuess of statement, not in
keeping with the character of an accurate Jour
nalist. Had it occurred in paper IN our own
neighborhood, we should have known very well
how to characterize the statement
But, it is not alone the falsehood of the para
graph, that induces US to notice it. The Atlas
says that, sit was on this assurance, THAT Mr..
Witherby would vote for Mr. Winthrop in pref
erence to Mr.. Boutwell, that the Wings voted
for and elected him. His conduct in giving such
assurance to the Wings, to secure his election,
the Atlas says, is perfectly consistent and up
right If he gave such an assurance for such
purpose, and his condrc is ''perfectly consistent
and upright, - then, that the other party to the
transaction is, also, upright. Here, then, we
have from the Atlas ITSELF which is so unceaslLg
In the denunciation of coalition, Justification
and defence of coalition in its most obnoxious
form. If, to secure a single vote for Governor it
was Justlilable to enter into coalition, when
every othor act of the person elected is to be OPP
posed TO those who coalesced to elect him, how
much more justifable is that coalition by which
we secure the election f our own men, and
niaca thpr1 IN pOst;on 90 oo..raI IL,
the government. The Atlas does not pretend
that MIR. Witherby is net fully identified with the
Free Soil party, or that he will vote with the
wings on any question except the single one of
sending up the name of Mr.. Winthrop TO the SEN
ate,with that of Mr.. Palfey, as one of the candi-
| dates, from which the Governor shall be select
ed; and the Boston Courier, good Wing autholi-
| ty, says che is thorough coaltionist in every
thing ercept preferring Winthrop to Boutwell, for
Governor" Yet those immaculate Wings, who
have been so Mortified at the very idea of coaIi-
| ton, who have held s'truck and dicker'' to be
| the objectionable sin, are now almost in exta-
cles at ''dcker" which promises them 50 very
little, and endorse it as perfectly consistent and
UPRIGHT
" IT'S strange what difference there should be,
Twixt tweedle DUN and tweedl lie dee"
The Coalition between the Free Soil and Dem
cratic parties goes only to the securing to each,
so far is practicable, its Just and fair proper
ton Of representation and influence in the gov
eminent, leaving all other measures to be Judged
and acted upon, according to.the individual opin-
ions OF the the parties respectively, and with an
express agreement that neither party, IN so doing,
endorses or becomes responsible for any of the
doctrines of the other Each holds its own prn-
ciples, ayowing and defending them on all neces-
sary occasions, and each in voting for the other,
knows precisely the relation in which they rela-
lively stand. All is open and above board,
without any conceament attempt at deception.
Yet this, because ii does not conduce to the
success of the Wing party, is denounced in the
btterest terms, as base, acicbed, corrupt, UiIe,
mean, and so on, through the whole catalogue o
vltuperatve adjectves, by the Atlas and Its coad.
| tutors of The Wing periodical press Let see
then, what sort of coalition, when it subserves
, Wing purposes, meets the entire appreciation o
the Atlas, and is endorsed by it, as ''perlectl,
consistent aud upright.
: Mr. Wtherby had been known, from the form
i alton of the Free Soil party, as out and GU
: Free Soer, having previously been, not Whlg
4 stated by some of the Wing papers, but ;
d ''Liberty Party man. At the caucus which
!, nominated him as a candidate for representative
: he made strong Free Soil speech, reafirmin!
); the principles of the party. approving Of tn
d coalition, and pledging himself to sustain tn,
n principles and measures of the party. Unde
e these circumstances, he was nominated and cho
sen. Since the election, the Wings affirm tina
$ they have his pledge, given before the election
d to vote for Winthrop for Governor-a secre
plecge Withheld from he knowledge of the FREE
II Sellers, and which, had it been known, woulc
y not only have defeated his election, but have re
duced his vote to less than one ffthpart ofheIvot
: town. Yet this is the transaction which the At
las characteristics as perfectly fair and upright
This is a "coalltion" grateful to the moral sense
! of the extra pure Wings, and one which they arr
q proud to show off in contrast with the "rascall,
: coalition between the Free Sellers and Loo,
$ Foco." The contrast may be satisfactory t
4 Wings of the Atlas standard of morality; w,
n hardly think il will be, to those whose morals ar
/ formed on tt e old fashioned basis
: Our readers will observe that we take tn
Wings account oftheir position in this affair. w
], do not intend, thereby, to sanction it, SO far a
< Mr.. Wtherby is concerned. We did not, ion
: the first, believe him capable Of the dupIicity at
tributed to him by the Wings, and so espresso,
ourselves The further defence of his characte
. is now in his own hands. Whether the charge
! made by them are true or false, we think tina