Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-11-12
Uhe u lip SPY.
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER ~. 1882

no xvbirs Mean to DO If they Can.
The Whies intend to defeat the Convention Tor
tho revision of the CONSTITUTIONS If they can secure
n CONSERVATIVES in the House. The
leode,s Of The Wing faction declare in private that
sucb is their object and intention The people nave
declared, by a large majority, that the Convention
shau he called and the Constitution revised ana
amended; but the Wings, in the desperate sta'e 0.
their fortunes, mean to disregard aud DEFY the WIN
OF ,he people IL they only sec"re malor"y \
If the representatives to the General Court me"
uurpose is this. Ii they can elect a majority u
whios-cr what is equivalent to 1t, II they ca" pre-
vent the Democrats and Free Democrats from GU
.lescino in the towns and thus secure the ascehu"l
90 !, tho House. which is the more important branch
&c rho LEGISLATURE; they viii fill the vacancies IN
,ha Senate with Wings; they will elect their own
Covenor. Lieut. Governor, and Secretary OF state;
.sba-;og thus secured the Executive, they VIII
r,oceed to repeal the Act authorizing the calling OF
The Convention. Their Governor and Secretary Oh
State will of course refuse to take any action III re-
l,;o, 70 said convention, after the act IS thus re-
pealed. And what are the people going to do about
II? This is desperate game,-a bold coup a a@'
worthy of that eminent French Wing, Prince En-
neror Louis Napoleon; but nevertheless, the Mas
sachusetts Wings, who have now nothing 10 lose III
noltics and have become desperate, are determined
70 trv if they cannot proong their existence, by such
f. course. They know that, under the operation OF
the present Constitutions the country representation
is fast diminishing, by annual disranehsemen'; ana
that the influence ofthe cities is correFpond'nsy m
creasing. |. they can defeat and DEFY the people
next wear. in relation the constitutional Conven
ton. they hope to retain their power, and pefpetuae
Injustice, through the preponderating bunker lnhu'
ence of Boston, and places Of kindred spirit
The revision of The Constitution is a proposition
of the Democrats. Are the members OF that party
willing that this just and necessary measure should
be burked al its present stage, by the Wings by
refusing to coalesce, they render this IneVlIahle-
We know that no Free Democrat is willing that the
present unjust system Of representation should be
continued; and vet such will be the case, il the ma
;orties in the towns do send representatives to
the General Cont to prevent it,
The revision of the Constitution can be secured
only by concert Of action amongst the people, and
a-.-es ,iee Of a rnaiarity Of CoaItionists to the
30; but they say they asi do il, and we know yer
well chat they have very little respect for law, an
very little scrupe about counteractng il, if such
course is to serve their own party purposes
The Act passed, in 1852, 'sRelaling to the calm
of Convention of Delegates of the People, for tn
purpose of Revising the CONSTITUTIONS" sets fort
that the people shall vote, yea or nay, on the I'd G
November, 1852, in answer to the following ques
tom
els it expedicnt that Delegates should be chose
IN in tha 81
altering the Constitution Of Government Of hi
Commonwealth
1t prOvides, if the people vote yea, that the Gov
ernor shall, ascertainng that fact, make procls
NATION of the same, before the first Wednesday
January. And the people shall elect Delegates O
the first Monday in March, 1858, TO mt Ell in Coz
venton at the Stale House, on The first Wednesda
in May, 1858. 1t would seem that the ne,
legislature cannot repeal this act; and that the Coz
ernor cannot refuse to the provisions Of il
but the whig managers willing TO lake the ri
sponsibillty Of repeating the act in the Legislature
and, by this means, checking the operation of i
even after Governor Boutwell, and the present Sc
Rotary Of State have done all that is required in ii
premises. It is for the people to look at this, an
to prevent it by rolling up large coalition majori
on Monday, 22d November, inst