The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-13
Tn. wing state Convention OF Massachusetts.


Nv this body, which met at Springfield the 10th inst
The result Of its doinss may be summed up in few
words Il has expressly reathrmed the whole anti
slavery policy and doctrine Of the wing party of Massa.
ebusetts as held and acted for the last fifteen years.
and has nominated for governor Robert c. Winthrop
the representative OF those opinions. The recent adj
u,ment of the sectional controversy is alluded TO
directly in the address or the resolutions but the recent
caueus call OF the New York whigs-a document i'm
hodvns the policy OF Mr. Senator Seward upon the
,ooa controversy and expressly affirming the whole doc
trne of the proviso, and the right and duty OF further
agitation against the fugitive LAWS "enrely concur
red" in as udcious" paper, forming an excellent
:. bass of union" for the wing party OF the coun'
trv So the New York wings and the Massachusetts,
wings have now confedeated, in the language OF the
leading southern wing journals, to perpelrate "a ehsa"
unon their wing allies the South and TO set "a snare
for southern votes.
IN one par,icular only have the wings OF Massachusetts
failed to play their game of dupey upon the South with
caution and adrotness They have shown their hand TO
the whole country in their unanimously confirmed nomlna-
ton for governor Mr. Winthrops position among the
most eminent anti, slavery wings of the North is too well
known TO be denied or CLOSED over. That position
taken early in his political life and is unfnchlnsly ad.
hered to now He opposed the admission oil Florida as
saveholdng State he opposed the annexation OF Texas
on the same ani-slavery ground: he condemned the
Mexican war TO extend slavery: he is the SELF
STYLED author OF the Povlso in its modern application Tor
he moved to attach it to the Oregon bill on the I'd OF
March, lsa7 he voted attach the same Pfovlso to the
three million bill in ls4l and 1912, he voted steadily Tor
the reception and consideration of abolition petitions
IN the osth of February 1912, Mr. Giddings presented
netton for the division of the Union by line separating
the sayehoding and -slaveholdng States; motion
was made 10 Law on the table, and Mr. Winthrop voted
AGAINST the motion few weeks before, he had voted
against LAYING on the table petition to enter into dplo-
matte and commercial relations with Hayt on the 7h
OF February 1884, he voted for the reception OF apetton
presented by Mr. Adams, for the adoption of meas
ures TO dissolve the Union the 22i OF March he
voted against Mr. Weler's resolutions censurlng Mr.
Giddings for introducing resolutions sanconlng muir
der and piracy on the high seas the Creole case and
nm the 10th of December 1885, he voted against laying
on the table memorial for the abolition of IIuy (not
the slave trade) in the District of Columbia. Having
Tins during his ten term Congress- voted steadily
with the abotonss the sectional questions, he pre-
served his consistency by voting and speaking against all
that portion of the Compromise which was intended TO
Utah bill because it did not contain the Proviso: he
voted against the New Mexico bill for the same reason
he opposed to the last the passage Of the fugitive law,
and recorded his vote against it, openly proclamng IN
his Mace in the Senate that Massachusetts, would never
acquiesce in it, 1t is not pretended IN any quarter that
Mr. Winthrop would not give these same votes again if
he were in Congress- that he would aid or acqulesce
in the maintenance OF the Compromise, it stands, as
final adjustment
In this state OF facts, the wing party OF Massachusetts
have completely defined their position Of open hostility 10
the Compromise. only by the nomination OF Mr. Win
,hrop, but by the adoption OF the following resolution,
emphatcally approving of his throughout his
whole congressional career
sResoipeh That this convention unanimously nomi-
mates Hon Robert c. Winthrop, OF Boston, the wing
candidate for governor, whose history has long been IA
mar TO every wing in the State and whose character
il among richest who has added fresh uste
10 a name already among the brightest in annals and
whose talents Integrity, and patriotism well known to
the people OF Massachusetts during long AVID briHant
carer in the Coagrea Of the Uaited States rsa as IN the
hsau, Of his native State and pho'e services IN every
station phich he has been pacsd-as representative, as
Speaker or a. ssnaorhaps been marked 0th signal do-
su.n 6dsitv and abiityi and whose private virtues and
sho public prueips Wh ALIKE attract inc regard ana con-
fitn Of all good csen and whose administration oil the
chief executive will be proudly associated with
that OF the Puritan pauiot S'Nei"o'' " ~'N' ,'
II is OF course obvious that this nomination and
approval of Mr. Winthrop give the coup de grace
in Massachusetts TO Mr.. Webs,efs position and pei
lev on the compromise question; If, indeed-between
Capon- Spring speeches and Buffalo " back-track"
speeches between Wssicheser letters and Unionmeet-
ing letters favoring a fugitive law with trial by jury
in,erpola,ed-his position and policy be satsfac-
toriIy ascertained 1t is well known that Mr.. Wal.
lev, Of Roxbury, was the favoite candidate OF the
Webster wings for governor, as he had been Mr.
Websers candidate for Congress against Mr. Mann, the
whig abolonst Mr. Mann beat him.for Congress, in
spite Of all Mt Webster could do, and Mr.. Winthrop
now beats him Tor governor four to 1t needs then,
neither the re-eecton OF Judge Alen-Mr Webslers
cuser in Congess-n the strongest wing district OF Mas
sachusets nor the omission Of the convention 10 make
nomination for the presidency, notwithstanding the sub
.crption scheme" for that office, TO Mr. Webster
and the administration that they and the compromise
policy are repudated by the Bay wings II proper
TO add however, that the convention, with all its forft-
ter in re-" yet deemed itno more than decent towards an
old and faithful servant to adopt the suauter IN modo
and So in one Of its resolutions il told Mr. Webster that
"hs name was engrayen on the pillars OF the constu
ton"
II only remains to say that this wing convention, in
hercey and loudly denouncng the OF those demo-
Gratis who in the legislature coaesced for the time with