Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-06-29

leader, and that He will BIZ your leader sull.
My friends, take these things home with you,
when you 90 hence ;-ponder and reflect upon them
in your workshops, your farms, and at your fire.
sides; and your judgment shall determine, so act.
loud appIause.]
Speech of Hon. stephen G. Phillips,
Deluered before the Mass State Conueation, June 9Th
[PhOnograplacaHy reported expressly for the Spy.1
Gentlemen of the Convention
/ The Free Soil Partyof Massachusetts, is once
more assembled in Council Properly, as at first,
it has its headquarters established in the Free
! Soil city of Worcester. The heart of the Com
monwealth now throbs with its accustomed inter-
est in our cause; and the people are here to well
come, to encourage, and to sustain Gentle
men. it is a new state of things which has now
called us together chapter is now about to
be opened of our political history; "a new crisis
has arrived-thank God that it is crisis which
we are enabled to meet without being entangled
4 by embarrassments and difficulties which formerly
beset our path.
We now understand by their declarations, and
by their final abandonment of all DISCUSSES, who
are our opponents, and upon what ground we are
to contend with them. And the great fact that
we thus learn, is that the Free Soil party of the
country in the coming election is required to con-
tend alike and in common in all respects, upon
common ground, with both of the former parties
of the country. | saw let us be grateful for the
advantage Of our present position. No longer
does the C Wing party display the banner
! gh - u :
| T fillmore and Free Soil" n
| No longer the organs Of thu, 800.
Commonwealth venture to call upon tn = - oet
recognise in the Wing patty of Massachu<elaP 70
! ''tiue anti-slavery organization" The democrafs
meet us, so far AS their organization is concerned,
where we met them before, and where we vanquish-
ed them; [cheersl and it is presumption, but it
/ Is true lesson which we derive from the con-
seriousness OF our position, that not upon the wings
and not upon the democrats, but upon the freesoil
party alone does it depend to determine the result of
the next election. [cheers] The stale of things I'M
der which we are called to act,-properly ex-
hihted, what is it! Every man knows that there
has been but one issue for tee last four years before
the country, and the reesoilers have been dis
posed to be silent, it because through their
silence, the other parties have been sure to demons
strate what was the only true political division ia
this vast country and we have been content TO al
low them to work that issue into the shape which it
has now assumed
Gentlemen, look at the Wing party A few
months--a few weeks ago, we were told that the
Wings OF Massachusetts the true lreesoil men;
now they find that there is safety and advantage and
expediency q mean political expediencyl in adopt
Ing this Baltimore platform.
".
anti-slavery predictions and ideas, were told
that the Wing leaders of Massachusetts, acting
in concert with those of PENNSYLVANIA, New
York, and other States, would go to the Bati-
more Convention to sustain the nomination of
Winfield Scott, who had pledged himself that he
would commit himself to no declaration of po-
litical faith--to no compromises. How many
were looking forward to such an issue Simple
mem After the experience of the last four years,
what faith could they have in such declarations
10 what degradation have they finally submitted
(Laughter.) They have succeeded in procuring
the nomination Of Gen. Scott and, for the sake
OF procuring it, those who went there to prove
themselves the distinctive champions of in9S~T
pendent action, and Of genuine, though Pen the
hostility to Slavery, are the very p,fatform pre-
Wing party Of the country wind consenting to
cnlei responslolllty oldemands. They have as
~ disability of presenting themselves
s,,r,ad candidate upon no other ground but
III Submission to the ompromises-upon no
5tRer ground whatever. The Democrats who had !
preceded them, had occupied this position, and the
Wings seemed to be afraid to allow them the sup I
posed advantage of it; and, therefore, to make |
it morally certain that neither party should gain
anything at all, they both agreed to stand upon
it together. (Cheers.)
Now gentlemen what else have they done
Look at their platforms. In what respects do t
they differ In what important respects are they
not exactly coincident. in whatpalpable partic-
ular can an intelligent stranger detect the oppo-
stion of the two great parties Of the country
1t is merely difference in language. 1t is mere
y, that, with the utmost subsection to Southern
lictation, they have agreed to say as little pos
ible upon the only points in which they have been
supposed heretofore to differ, (cheers) Each ofths
parties has endeayored to shelter itself behind
mere phraseology Upon what issue do they
propose to go before the people !? The people
have nothing to do but to decide between General
Pierce and General Scott. Do they go before the
country upon the old issues of internal improve
ments, a United States bank, sub-treasury or
high protective tariff? A few months ago the
Wing papers were telling us that our factories
must remain idle until the Wings once more
grasped the helm of the state, and were able to
reimpose high protective tariff But, gentle
men, what has been the fact In looking upon
the reports of various manufacturing establish
ment, we find that during the last six months
some of them have been actually paying 3 per
cent And in regard to the tariff / believe we be-
gin to understand that the expansion of our coun-
try in the present state OF commerce aud loregnlea-
tons, it is agreed upon all hands, that it no long
er necessary expedien TO adhere precise views
Of the tariff policy; but that the matter may be left