The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-09-06
Wing Convention I'm nra.sachusstts.

Wing Convention I'm Massachusetts.
We have heretofore given brief account of
the Wing Convention held at Worcester,
on the LIST instant. The or
ganization Of the convention having been COM
pleted by the appointment of the Hon. ALEX
AMBER BULLOCK, of Worcester, as President,
together with eleven vice presidents and six
and an appropriate prayer having
been offered by clergyman present, Colonel
BULLOCK addressed the convention as follows:
GENTLEMEN OF THE CONVENTION: thank you
for this mark OF your confidence. Whatever de-
fciencies ! may bring to the chair will be sup
piled by your indulgence, and if fall into any
mistakes, they can be of little consequence to an
assembly like this, convened with determination
to overlook every thing but its principles for the
triumph of its cause.
We have assembled, l hardly need remind you ,
at time of peculiar interest in the history Of the
country and the State We are almost within two
months OF Presidential election. Preparatory to
that event, the party with which we, as Wings,
associate and act, selected its proper delegates in
all the States and in every district, and entrusted
them with the business of naming it's standard bear
ers. Those delegates met together at Baltimore in
June, many, perhaps all of them, having their own
individual preferences, but all bound alike by the
old republican rule of majority. We submitted
our preferences to their consideration and arbira-
ment. In doing 30 We not only by implication
pledged ourselves to a mutual cooperation in the
support Of the nominees, but we intended 30 to
pledge ourselves The convention made it's nomi-
nations. N" State, no district, no delegate there,
questioned the impartiality, order, or strict
honor of its proceedings. There was no fraud
charged, nor any deceit even, and therefore there
was no boiling, but all unanimity in the orderly
close of it's labors 1t is part of our business,
then, at this hour, to discuss that which is longer
an open question.
Nor are we called upon to inquire how far the
action of that convention is binding upon US who
fcin tod in ,haro r. he
party; for, gentlemen, do not conceive that there
il now for us any such question. II there has been
any meaning in past usages; if we ourselves
meant anything By sending on delegates to Balti
Massachusetts honor and good faith; and if VIC
desire TO elect Wing President and not Demo
cratic President, we are here not 30 much to debate
about our duty "a to perform it, Accordingly, We
nave assembled to- day in behalf, doubtless, of u
large plurality, if not an actual majority of the
people of the State, TO select those who, as our
agents and theirs shall cast the thirteen electoral
votes OF Massachusetts for WINFIELD SCOTT, the
nominee Of the Baltimore Convention. He is wor.
thy TO receive those votes, and beyond any reason
able doubt he is bound to have them. Fortunately
we are not under the necessity of apologising for
our candidate, or Of informing the world who he
dictate whose praise might fifty be spoken in the
language of an epigram once applied to Eng
ishman-of whom 1t was written that ii he never
said foolish thing he never did wise one-I will
Scott. His life has been one OF historic action The
anniversaries Of his achievements encircIe the
year. He who would succeed in diminishing their
importance or their celebrity must unsettle the
connexions Of the English nation of forty years
memory, take from Mexico her most recent an
mails, and blot out from the North American Union
the association OF chivaIry and attachment which
make its own and it's hero's history one and iden-
teal.
To my own mind, his triumphs in civil life fur
nish his noblest title to our confidence. The glory
of having successfully carried our flag through
two wars, is ecpsed by the three more terrible
ones in prospect which by his frmness, modcra-
ton, wisdom and discretion, those Presidential
qualities, he adverted from his country. Always
without dishonor and never without success in the
public service; called to go many great emergen-
cies and found equal to the largest of them all; at
testing his nationality by shedding his blood in the
North and perilling his life in the South; not
the warrior than the civilian and statesman; OF
pure character and unsupported integrity in pub
lie and private-we may proudly adopt him as our
guide and leader, whatever be the fortunes that
await us at home or abroad. Elevated to the
magnitude of trust in store for him. and supported
by that true hearted, clear-headed son of North
Carolina, WILLIAM A. GRAHAM, we may be
that he will not disappont his friends, nor, if he
should have any, his enemies
And with the candidates of tho Baltimore Con.
vention we also adopt its platform. If it came
from the forests of the South, ia it type of tho
Union. We need not be too curious to count its
tmbers of oak or ts tmbers Of pine, if it only be
so like the good old ship Constitution that we can
unfurl the stars and stripes Of common coun-
try. 1t is the creed of national party. In its
clear definition Of republican principles-in it's &C
curate balancing OF the powers Of the State and
General Governmcnts-in it's adherence to the
peaceful neutrality of the venerated Warrington
in it's pledge of sympathy and support to Amer-
can labor and to internal improvemens-in its re
cognition of the Constitution in all it's parts and in
all ifa r1atio nd in
ton Of all Wings, from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ocean, to the nationality bequeathed to Ls by our
fathers-it is OUR platform, and upon it we form
our column, to march forth for battle and victory.
Gentlemen, if we have Union to save, we have
State to redeem. What have witnessed at
our Capitol Such avowals from official person
ages, such practices in every department of the
Government, such bargain and sale of the public
patronage which had hitherto been kept free from
corruption and suspicion, such dependency of one
election upon another election, such marriage of
one party with another party, such bad manners,
and such dissolute morals as never had parallel
In Massachusetts, The constitution itself has been
treated like toy or trit1e. And if the pres ent
administration, another like it, be continued in
power, that sacred palladium of our iberties will
have no certain guaranty against Dissertation and
mutllatlon, prevented in one instance, thank
Heaven, by the people themselves in their primary
capacity, pronouncing rebuke on their repre-.
sentatives.
1t is one of our duties this morning to place In
nomination a candidate for chief magistrate who
shall restore the Commonwealth to the character of
its better days. and place the name of Massachu
sets once more before the world in it's original
dignity and honor-who shall administer the go.
vernment in the spirit of its former and honored
governors, without rashness and without timdity-
not faltering between two opinions, while pander-
ing to both. And we to couple with that nom
inaon the selection of fit person for the Office of
Lieutenant Governor. 1t is not to be doubted that
the convention will present such q ticket as will
receive the approval OF the people at the polls in
November.
Let us then address ourselves to the duties beore
US in temper Of harmony and Cancellation. We
come here not to revive, but to bury differences
We are here to unite in sending out to fellow
Wings, everywhere, from Maine to California, the
assurances of fraternal hearts and riumphal hopes.
We have met to impart and 20 receive such inn
pulses as shall bring out and raise up old Massa
chusetts. And we will so blend responsibilities
to the Union and to the State, that while there shall
go forth from this convention voice of Joy and
confidence to the remotest fields of the one, there
ehall be awakened such emotions and purposes az
shall make sure the redemption of the other.
The following resolutions, prepared and pre-,
scented by committee appointed for the pur-
pose, were adopted by unanimous aye: