Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-09-06
The Cat in the MeaI-Tub.

an old pussy-cat that had become too enfeebed by
age to chase mice, who adopted the expedient Of
hiding in the mea-tub and lying in ambush for her
prev. She managed very WE'LL to conceal her claws
and teeth but unfortunately for the success Of her
plans the fur would not lie under the meal, and the
mice, discovering the cheat, kept their distance as
before
We were reminded of this by two column COM
muncation in the Worcester Transcript Of Yesterday
signed ga true freesoiler'' The editors of that
weak diurnal, well knowing that anything from their
own pens can have no effect upon the minds of men
In this community, sometimes resort to this Esopan
expedient. and under feigned signature, indulge
themselves in the name of Freesoilers, in ugu-
brious appeals to their brehren to abstain from ex-
pressing their sentiments the polls, and come
into the ranks of the wing party. Alter plentiful
outlay for soft sawder at the outset this pretended
freesoiler goes on TO say:
''Fhe order and sobriety of our people, the con-
tentment and prosperity which here prevail, the
peace and happiness which reign within our borders
all consplre to satisfy you that part ofthe country
Is preferable to own. The schools and churches
OF Massachusetts, the institutions for the support of
the poor, and for the relief of the deaf the blind and
the insane, which have reflected so much honor up
on the State at home, and given her name among
all the civilized nations abroad have excited YOUR
admiration, and caused your bosoms 10 swell with a
Just and noble pride. When you have been at home,
you have been satisfied with your lott and when YOU
have been abroad, whether in your own country or
out oft, you have blushed 10 own yourself a
Massachusetts man.
You know that the government of Massachusetts
Tor the last quarter of century, with scarcely an ex-
ceptlon, has been IN Wing hands; and that the gem
eral prosperity which the people have enjoyed, as
far that has been derived from the government is
to be ascribed to them as your rulers.
1t is now proposed fellow citizens, that you unite
with the Democratic party, with which you can have
little or no sympathy, for the avowed object of put
ting do1ca The lch5gs Now most respectfully ask
you, what you expect to accomplish by such re-
suit: Will you increase the peace and happiness of
the people, by carrying out what has been falsely
called estate Reforms;'' You have seen the ex-
perlments of one Legislature the great work Of re-
form, and can you say that anything has been gained
for the people? You know that the session was
heightened out nearly month beyond those of the
preceding years, at cost of some S4S, 000:
you know aso that the leading measures of the ses-
sion were at BEST but experiments, and that they
were calculated to impair the confidence of the pub
lie 10 relation to our currency, and every thing con-
nected with the business affairs of the community
In the midst of all this chat. there are indeed a
few grains of wheat. Some of the statements are
truisms which in his senses would DENY; bu
the inlerences not true Ones and it is an insul
to the intelligence of Massachusetts men, to max,
them. The schools and churches of Massachusetts
the institutions for the support of the poor, and 70
Fpll Of lind nd how ind 70
fected honor upon the State but who can claim then
as Wing Institutions or Wing measures exclusively
when the records of our State Legislature show tina
they have been the fruit of the wisdom and benevo
ience of men of all parties established by the votes 0
Democrats as well as Wings, and paid for with a
much alacrlty by the one the other.
One would suppose, from tie talk of the Trans
cript's "Free Soier,'' that a Democrat could only
find parallel in the character of Satan himself
when it gives the credit 'sof the order and sobriet
of our people to the Whig party, and makes it pa
excellence the creator and conservaor of all that
good in the laws and institutions of the State Fo
our own part, we have never yet learned that mai
may not be good citizen, even though he shoulC
differ upon some questions political economy from
the party which, as the Transcript says "has gov
erned Massachusetts for a quarter of a century,
We think we have met, occasionally, in our walk
with a Democrat who was, in truth, sober anC
even religious man; that we have seen, now anC
then, member of that party active in the work o
promoting the educational interests of the State yot
ng liberal appropriations for the support and i'm
provement OF the deaf and blind land for the comfort
security, and cure of the insane. All these thing
we have witnessed, and no body, with an ounce 0
brains above the small portion which mercifu
Providence vouchsafed TO that pretendedFree Soer
would dare to assert such claim for the Wings a
he sets up.
Massachusetts is, indeed, a pattern State in man
respects, and we glory in her prosperity as whi
Free Soiler or Democrat does not and feel prd
in her institutions and her hardy, industrious, sobt
and enterprising people; but this hardwood this II
dustry, this sobrety, and this enterprise not alon
the offspring of her politics, it is not Indigenous
Wing towns cities, it is not the fruit of special |,
gslaton, it is not the product Of Harvard College
the dividend of bank capital or the profit of corpora
ton privileges; but it is the result of those charat
teriscs which her people inherit from that old Ang
Saxon Puritan stock, which, wherever it takes roo
upon whatever soil makes itself felt, and mpresse
its remarkable influences upon the institutions an
habits Of its age A question in political econom
is not the alembic which separates men into the uE
per and lower stratas of society, as would appear b
the logic of this pretended "Free Soiler,' and make