Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-08-15
The wings and the Convention.

The Wing papers are one after another coming
out against the Convention. For few days they
were little shy about it; but being somewhat o.
the predicament Of the sailor, who
"Knew not what to say, so-he sscore,
they were finally compelled TO let out the pent-
up Indignation of their virtuous souls at the Coal
tonists for not destroying themselves, for their
benefit The Fitchburg Reve sets lis bel-power
in operation; the seni!e Salem Gazette, and the
antideluvian Iaverhill Gazette, pour out floods OF
dirty debility, and the other country Wing pa
pers gradually follow suit. The Boston papers
have this week made their demonstrations
Smallweed of the Atlas, with his peculiar logic,
comes to the conclusion that the Constitution
ought to be rejected, because the Convention cost
so much Now, ifthe reverend renegade who
edits that paper, would give his bond with sat-
isfactory security 10 pay the State Treasury the
money which the Convention has cost, on condi-
ton that the people will reject it, there might be
something in this argument; but he does not pro-
pose to do this The Alias says that the COnven.
ton viii cost $3.50, 900, or Whereabouts; it may
be that it will, but as that paper, in making
up its items, has got several OF them too high,
and told one, or more, outright ialsehoods, its
innate must not be taken as the exact truth, Just
at present 1t says that ''a portion of the sta
tionery used by them (he Conyention) was al
ready on hand, having been obtained for other
purposes Every dollars worth of stationary
used for the Convention charged to its
count and goes into the account of its expenses.
The Wing office holders at the State House may
be safely trusted to place to Convention account
everything which properly belongs to it.
the Daily Advertiser comes out decidedly in
opposition to the Convention, on two grounds;
first, because the Convention repudiated the ed
tors fogeism the subject of the life tenure of
the Judges; and second, because it was not quite
prepared TO sanction his extreme Red Republi-
can Empire Clubisin, which sought to overthrow
the system Of representation under which the
State has lived so long. As Mr. Hale was all the
time of opinion that the Convention, in which he
sat as member, was an unconstitutional body,
it is not TO be wondered at that he urges people
to vote against the Constitution thas agreed up
on. The wonder is that he ever so far sanctioned
the Convention as to take seat in 1t.
The Boston Courier talks as if the editor had
been fishing at Hull, or so assduousy waiting for
a revised copy Of MIR Choate's Eulogy, (Which,
in an unprecedented fit of newspaper enterprise,
he promises to print in two or three weeks, or
about month after the whole world has read it);
for he does not seem to be aware that while he is
inveighing in such Infatuated style against inc
quality, and then advising people to vote for the
old Constitution IN preference to the new, he is
stullilyng himself, for the Representative system
in the old Constitution, is SO bad that not even
Wing was found in the Convention to defend it
aud the new one provides that the darling Dis.
trict system of these new. fedged Equality mon
gers shall be submitted to the people for their ap-
prova in 1856, only three years from this Time
But, perhaps we should make allowance for the
probable fact that the Wing arguments against
the Consultation were prepared for state of
things which does not exist. Thus, the Boston
Journal prints John Sargent's speech as an argu-
ment against the CONSTITUTIONS very good speech
in the abstract, no doubt, but unfortunately good
for nothing fer snch purpose, inasmuch as it Is
an argument Ggasnst plan a0hich acaS not
adopted, and in favor Of plan which it was "a
greed should be proposed to the people in 1856.
The publication of Johns speech, and the edito-
ria slof the Boston Courier may be excused on the
ground that they were prepared, and SO much
Indignation and tabular statement ought uot to be
wasted-LoloeU .4mericGn.