Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-08-21

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city of Boston aid suburbs.
l he commits OF credentia portion of whose first
report mad been ecommed, then offered a second re-
port h which they said that time would not permit
them to nvesg2e the claims of the several delegations
from the towns Lynn, Salem, and Ipswich, and would
therefore, reconpend the admission to seats in the
convention of bh sets Of delegates from those towns
which was adoped
Mr.. Halett, nbehaf of the committee on resolutions
then offered rebrt. He said that the committee had
given the suhsctheir earnest, deliberate and anxious
attention, andsahough at the close of the deIibera
tons and even uIto the time of their entering the hail.
a few minutes PREVIOUS, they had not been able TO
agree ne was hppy now to state, that concessions
mad been made by gentlemen Of different shades of
opinion, upon tn, character of the resolutions and he
was then prepared state that the resolutions met the
views OF the whoe committee, The resolutions as SUBJ
mitted by Mr. HiIett, were as hunkersh set as the
most devoted fried Of the peculiar institution could ask
ior and will no doubt tickle the ears of the southern
wing oil the DemTatc party, as they have not been
Tucked by anythiT IRON Massachusetts, for some time
The First reso lion reiterated the attachment of the
democracy OF Massachusetts, the doctrine of nou-n-
PREVENTION in tn State affairs or institutions of the
several States.
I'd. Approves fthe call for National Democratic
/ Convention at Barimore, in May, 1852 &c.
1 3D. Has reterere 10 the qualifications of delegates
to that Convention, requiring them to be natural De-
i mocrats, sc.
| 4th' he-afhfmsIh he Resolves passed by the Demo-
cratic State Convs4ion, in Faneuil Hail. in 1885, con-
demnng all interference in the question of Slavery and
| condemning agsion upon that subject.
9th. Re afirmithe doctrines of the Baltimore Plat
orm and adds, thereto, another clause pledgng the
Democracy of Massachusetts, the maintanance of all
the compromises II the last Congress, upon which, it
asserts, depends he salvation of the Union.
9Th. Approves ,G the Address of the State Central
Committee calling tie Convention, aud endorses its
! doctrines as the gsgDemocra.ic creed.
9TH. Asserts thItthe Baltimore Platform covers the
whole question Of slavery agitation in Congress, and
that, therefore, the Democracy should go for faith
iul acqWescence nd support of all the compromises
OF The last session # Congress chch haze settled the
whole NATTER
oth' dominates Charles Gordon Green, of Boston,
ii. Ii. Childs, of tsfield, and Isaac Davis, Of Wor-
cester, as delegates at large TO the Baltimore Conven
ton.
9Th Refers to lie new dstricing of the State, and
urges the mportare of the State government being in
the handS oil the Dnocacy, next year, in order that
the people may have fair representation in Congress
loth' Expresseshe approval of the Democratic par,
ty OF Convention to revise the Constitution of the
State.
ll'h. Consrataates the party upon the passage, by
the last Leglsaia, Of the ballot and Homestead
Exemption aws,s nv VI ses ui'e" the democratic COM
srseraliowns, it that the ballot
law has fair trial
18th. Approves of all the measures of State reform
adopted by the last Legislature and expresses the hope
that others in contemplation, may be as successfully
carried.
18TH Cordially recommends Geo. S. Boutwell, and
Henry ~. Cushman candidates for the offices Of
Governor and Lieut.. Governor of the Commonwealth,
motion was made Mr.. Fay of Maiden, that the
resolutions be adopted whole, which was opposed
ny Mr.. Ballard Of Weiboro, on the ground that some
of them were so repugian to great majority of the
party, that it would reluce down to mere cypher,
in numbers and naqene. For one, he would not vote
for any resolve whfh made the ensavement of men
portion OF the derYcratc creed. He wished the ques.
ton taken upon III resolves separately.
Mr.. Gushing oRewburyport, spoke in support Of the
adoption OF the rtfutions a whole. He said, when
the Convention ssembled in the morning, il was seri
ousy anticpatedihat should adjourn in state of
hostility, and weshoud ADJOURN unless they adopted
the resolutions whole. Now, he said, they were |
consistent compromise, strike out one of them, and
you would desty the symmetry Of the whole A good
deal oil coniusolprevaied in the hall while this discs
sion was goingn, and the most violent repugnance to
the resoutionFyas manifested by delegates in all parts
Of the house.
Mr.. Butler 5f Lowell, said he wished to saw few
words IN expiration Of the report which hdd been sub
United by thecommittee resolutions. He said the
committee hd more than in the course of the dav
seriously oofd IN the face Of the possibility of disso-
luton OF thy democratic party of Massachusetts
When they fame into the Convention lust now. thev
had Determined to instruct their Chairman TO report
mat they cdd not agree; but since they had come n
tney mad hq MISREPRESENTATION; they had looked in
the faces O THIS vast assembly from all parts of the
Sate andy each wing of the party conserving to weld
someihingfo the othe they had finally come to agree
upon the fsolves winch had been read. 1t was true
as had ben sad h't resolve pledged the conven.
ton to sqstain the ccnpromise, bn it was so worded
that it did pledge the members to lone them or an
prone them. The gntleman went on in this strain If
sophstca remark aeome length, aud showed BY his |
speech, that he had hen moulded as the potters clav
by the cunning Of hsolleague upon the committee, so
as to sacrifice the pncples which he had before SO
loudly protested, to In IIaIlets nonsense about the
National Democracy.
Mr. Draining of onterey, also member of the
committee, next addrsed the Convention. lie tbouob,