Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-09-13
Wing Illusions.
EDw. L. KEYEs, Sec'y.

Wing Illusions.
Our worthy contemporary, the Egis, was in pro-
phetic trance on Wednesday. The mantle of Camp
bells Wizard had fallen on his shoulders, and,
through the impalpabe mists of the future, he be-
held vision. He saw the Wings of Massachusetts
come in ''outpourings of men, down the mountains,
and along the Connecticut Valley to the Springfield
Convention. He beheld that stupendous assembly
called to order, the chairman elected, the committee
resolutions chosen candidates for State offices
nominated, the banner of the Wing party shaken out
to the breeze and the first step taken in the march,
which is, according to that martial of the Egis,
to lead the wings to the field, which they to
''restore the Commonwealth to honor and safety"
The old wizard that Campbell wrote about, ex-
claimed to Lochel,
s'The sunset Of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before"
and there is, we apprehend, kind of contradictory
analogy between the experience of the poets wizard
and our clarrOydnt contemporary. The sunset Of his
party fills the eye of the atters soul with spec
trail shadows, and excites him to the utterance OF
pressions whichhave actual force butwhich usual
y pass under the designation of "mere patitudes."
The Egis, aware that falsehood, however gar-
ing, when often repeated, assumes, to some minds,
the apparent consistency Of truth, has persisently
declared that Massachusetts is dishonored by her
democratic government, and that she trembles on the
brink of rum in their dishonest hands, 1t wants the
people to believe that the present State admnstra
ton is composed of reckless men. who have neither
common honesty patriotism, and assuming that
its maudlin deuuuclations have convinced the peo-
pie of the truth of this miserable libe declares
that the wings are about to restore the Common
lcealth to honor and safety.
Now, nobody feels the Commonwealth to be in
danger, in its present political position; nobody be-
levesher be dshonored so that theburden of prov
ing these allegations rests with those who make them
But, granting for moment that such WAS the fact,
and leaving it TO the Egis to reconcile the ogica
discrepancies Of the argument best can, we hold
that ethicaIy the wings incapable of either saw
ing State, or restoring her to honor. The knees
Of the leaders of the party SCARED and sore with
the effects of their abasement before the Juggernaut
of Slavery. From Daniel Webster. down, they
have dishonored themselves more or less, by the
most shameless apostacy, and aggravated the orgi-
nal weakness of their moral natures
1t is easy to imagine that untred men are capa-
BILE ofgreat works; but trial disspates Imagination,
and presents us with naked realities. Pretenson has
often passed specifically for TRUTH but it was new
er able to prove itself to be such. The ass, covered
with lions skin, looked formidable to beholders,
but he was only stupid ass after all he seemed to
be lion only, to the foolish beasts who did not
know his voice. The wings pretended to be viz
tuous party, party of freedom, and the people, be-
lieving their pretensons, imagined them to be SO
but they were tried, and they fell,-'even at the
foot' of Websters statue, fell. The lions skin wa.
rven from the ass, and all the traditions and prnci
pies of the wing party discovered to be the
unsubstantial illusions That wing who speaks o
his party saving States from ruin, and restoring then
TO henor, does not seem to know much about mora
possibilities. To draw anything up, you must b
above it. In order to save anything, you must b
stronger than the thing you would save. In order t
restore anything dishonored to Its original purity
YOU must be able, from the superabundance Of you
own purity, to give away enough for that purpose
Now, granting that Massachusetts is pauperized il
her honor, where is the wing, who, from his afilu
ence, can afford to make her rich again? sit Ru
fus Choates Is it Daniel Webster Is it Georg
Asllmun9 None Of these, everybody knows, ha
more than enough of manly frmness, common integ
rity, or general temperance, for any one man. Be
fore the wings pirate saving the State, restoring
its honor we advise them to acquire the ability Il
do SO. We shall never believe that party, which
has sunk down under the pressure Of one bad man
example, will ever be able to lend themselves to an,
work, requiring strength Of purpose, and honest in
tegrity. Thank God, the State does not depend up.
on the wings, for either salvation or honor, or Gas
pattern wing, Of Venice, once said,) - -----
"she would be poor indeedl" l4
The fall election, however, will dispel the illu-
sions Of our disconsoate hunkers, and show them
that Hope has been ,befooIipg them, as they were,
heretofore, in the practice sf befoong Liberty. ~