Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-09-20

Governor, except those of a Judicial character.
4th. To make the plurality system apply ia all
elecncns for State officers by the people.
These are propositions not only 10 amend, but to
reuse the Constitution, They propose q complete
and full retisios Of thar instrument. Well, these
propositions were referred to a Committee, aud that
Committee made report of eminent ability. And
If you wish to see and compare specimens Of the
ability Of the two parties, Coallticc and Wing,
would commend TO your notice on me side, Mr..
.Griswold's report, and on the other, the minority
reoerf bv The Wings. And when you have read
,hese re1ors, yod viii have some conception Of the
superiority Of the'Whigs. (Laughter.)
THE Committed reported the following propo-
sliions.-
LIST. change IN the Representative system; but
the mode OIL change is3not pointed ont.
I'd. The division of the. State Into ~ Senatorial
Distress and into Councillor Districts (unless the
Council is aboshed)
ID. More offices should be made elective. (Sec
rotary, Auditor, Treasurer &c.) No opinion is ex-
pressed as to the mode Of appointing the Judiciary
4th. Limitation OF the session TO 100 days.
9th. General Laws instead Of Special Gas 10
Banks Railroads, &c.)
9Th. Plurality system throughout.
7,h. A change in The mode Of organization of the
Government, SO as to save or 10 days.
sth. Lieut.. Governor, President Of the Senate.
9Th. justices Of the Peace limited to 5 years, and
jurisdiction extended to $50.
10th, Annual Election changed TO day OF Presi
dental Election.
llth. Income Of Maine Lands devoted TO Com.
mon Schools.
Now, sir, the wings propose to amend the Con-
\ sttuton, and we propose to amend it in almost
the same particulars. The simple difference be
tween us, is this; that the Coalition propose to
submit the question to the people, to say whether
they will have the Constitution revised, or not
And if they decide to have it revised, that they
shall choose the men to revise it. We believe
that IT the Constitution is to be amended or re-
yised it should be by men chosen for that special
purpose - men of talent high character, and
large experience, and that Legislature, not cho-
sen for that work, should not do it. In my judg-
ment the Wings take this course, because they
do not wish to amend it, as it operates, at pres
ent, to their political advantage, and they know
that every year that passes, will render it more
difficult to carry any amendments for the equali-
zatlon OF representation | am reminded by your
representative, Mr.. Earle, who, by the way, al
ways keeps sharp lookout upon the doings of
the House, that upon all ofthese proposed amend
ments, whenever test vote could be obtained,
the Wings voted for them, and yet they go into
State Convention, and denounce us, as ''disregard
ing the known will of the people, and making
war upon the Constitution.
Passing, gentlemen from these resolutions, in
which the discarded Wing politicians driven from
power by the potential voice of the people of
Massachusetts, have hurled at the ECoalitionEther
malignant but impotent assaults, [ proceed to
vindicate rhe MOTIVES, PURPOSES, and
ACTS, of the people who made that coalition
What the condition of Massachusetts in
the autumn of 1859, when the people of Massa-
chusetts, in their towns and in their counties,
made the coalition This coalition, sir, was not
made by the politicians, either Free Soil or DEM
ocratc. 1t was not made by State Committees,
or by State Conventions 1t was made by County
Conventions andby the people themselves in their
own primary assemblies. CHEERS When the
Wing party assails that coalition, they assail the
$4,000 men Of Massachusetts, who, in 1850 made
that eoaltion-they assail the 1900 men, who,
IN 1881, continued, approved and sustained, that
coalition. (Cheers.) On the 7th of March, 1850
Mr.. Webster on the floor of the Senate of the
United States, abandoned his protested principles,
and committed himself fully and unreseryedy. TO
Southern slayeholding policy. After the death
OF General Taylor-after Mr. Fillmore had as
sumed the reins of Governments was apparent
that the Wing party of the United Ststes, and of
Massachusetts,, must follow the line of policy
marked out by Mr.. Webster and the President
Congress, in September, 1850, had passed the
compromise measures-had organized Utah and
New Mexico, without any provision excluding
slavery from their limits-had given 10000 so'
miles of Free Soil to slayeholding Texas together
with ten millions of the peoples money. and had
passed the Fugitive Slave Act, an act which
Horace Mann recently said in Congress, ssunaid-
aip a. ha6
endorse his policy. Massachusetts had preyg-
ously committed herself in favor of the abolition
OF slavery wherever we had constitutional power,
(cheers) in favor of the Wilmot Provso-(cheersl |
IN favor OF placing the government s'openly, ac-
lively and perpetually on the side of Freedom
That was her position. The people, with instinct-
tive sagacity, saw that Massachusetts could not
stand IN that position, Il the Wing party held the
power of the State-and, gentlemen, were thev |
not r1ght9 Applause and cries of eyes ")- !
Where are the Wing leaders of Massachusetts |
to-day? Where were they in June last. when |
they went to Baltimore to make nomination |
for the Presidency? The thirteen delegates Of |
the Wings OF Massachusetts,, in that Convention.
accepted the platform endorsing the comnro.
mise measures, fugitive slave law and all
and pledged the Wing party of the country to
"dlscountenance agitation" to ''deprecate agita-
ZION, ana tne wings Of Massachusetts,, last
week, here IN this hall, the walls of which have
echoed to the voice of liberty so often again EN-.
dorsed that platform, without dissenting vote
To-day, the Wings of Massachusetts stand before
the country, pledged to the faithful serecutio,,'
OF the fugitive slave law, pledged to deprecate
agitation and free discussion, pledged to discount
tenance any attempts, whenever however. and
wherever made, to agltate the question of liberty
lhls IS their position--that is gentlemen. thew
are pledged to sditcoamtetaance'' us--to tsn,aEe
races az as They are to diScou1atenaacc apita-
lion, and if there is a Wing here to night SIM.
pose he is discoamtenancing agitation by making
aces at this assemblage of agitators like the
school boy, who, when he found he could NOT
Whip his schoolmate, declared that he wouId
sratlfy has resentment by making faces ot b;s
sster" daughter and applause.
Inc Wing party of Massachusetts has reached
ne precise position that every Free Soil man
aw IN the autumn of 1850 it would reach and
ne question with u.s. in the autumn ofthat wear
Fas whether we would make combination yw;tb
ne, Democratic party of Massaehusetts-zvitb
men we agreed upon Srate policy-take tba
oyernment out ofthe hands of the party that
e saw was abandoning its principles-hoid tbe
nance q po'cer ourselves, and keep the odlBav
tate where she had stood for fifteen wears On
ne side OF freedom or whether we shonId allou
le Wing party to take the old Commonwealth T
no lay her PROSTATE at the feet of the Slave now
:, In order to commend Daniel Webster to the
lpport OF the South. That was the question. sir
40 the Free Soil men of Massachusetts, saw that /
oint and governed by desire to keep Massa- {
lusetts on the side Of Freedom, they in their :
fnsafy assena6heS-in their town and county
eeungs, elected Senate and House of Renre ,
natives, with an Anti Wing majority in both
ancnes, and that Legislature, IN obedience to 8
e actH Of the people, caused the government to
placed IN the hands of the Democratic party.
ID sent Charles Summer and Robert Rantoni
7. TO the Senate of the United States noud
d long continued applause
say that the Legislature of 1851 in so doino
ly obey the voice of the 81, 900 Massachusetts
m, being 5000 majority of the popular vote of
1t year, and yet the Wings in their resolutions e
arge us with acting contrary to the popular
!. (Cheers) Now, Gentlemen, what have we c
lieved for our principles by this coalition?
st and foremost, we have kept old Massa-
setts right-and here she stands To-day eract h