Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-03-10
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THURSDAY. MARCH 10, lssa
The victory.

We have been so busily engaged in reviewing the
details of the election oidelegaies to the Consiitu
tona Convention, that we have not had an opportu-
nifty sufficiently express admiration Of the re-
suit. The news of the utter rout, and discontinue
Of the traitor party, came upon thick and fast
that were obliged restrain the expression OF
our delight until we had reckoned up the results
We think the friends Of good government, and Of
constitutional liberty, have to be proud olhe
issue of this election The people have nobly vind
Gated their sovereignty. They have gailanty sus-
tanned the friends of progress and good government
And they have signally rebuked the anarchists who
have made the Legislature of Massac husetts, for
the first time in her history the theatre Of and
proceedings, which would have dssraced the Jaco-
hinlcal Clubs Of Paris, in the palmy days Of Robes
pierre and St. Just The people Of Massachusetts
have taught the coarse and vulgar bully of Salem,
and Ignorance Bliss of Springfield, and other mem
bers of the mnory-najqrity in the leg stature, that
dictatorship in the old Bay State is not only ntol-
cradle, but impossible. They have taug ht them that
the laws, rules and presidents necessary to secure
order,and freedom Of speech in the legislature, shall
be respected, and that all attempts by Legislators to
ignore their 1utes and responsibilities, as represe1
tatues Of the people, shall be visited with their just
indignation, and sovereign condemnation
When the Wings quafed those libations of gin
and brandy in the Judiciary Committee room, and
rushed into the House of Representative 10 howl
down discussion, and, the time, to repeal an
organic law OF the State, they supposed themselves
to be the power Of the State. But the people have
taught them hat they lsbored under derium.tre.
menica illusion. The people will permit no
party-no faction-to usurp their sovereignty They
have spoken, and Bliss and his rulings are dispeed
they have voted, and my Lord OF SaIem's coronet
is stricken from his head and the ears of an ass ap.
pear in its stead.
In looking at the details Of the election it will be
seen that the result is substantially what would have
been the case at the last fall election, if those op.
posed to Wing policy had been united ia their ac,
ton. The Wings have elected. very generally, so
lar as we learn, wi ere they entitled, by their
numbers to elect. They have failed only where they
were in the minority. The result Of the elect.
ion is, therefore, emphatic a,teslation of
the fact, so often denied by the Wings, that the
present Wing majority in the legislature, represents
minority of the people; and it proves, also, that
the repeal of the ballot law, by the represen
Iatives of the minority, an act of high-handed
outrage and injustice, whc! the people have sterny
condemned
The Daily Advertiser, and other Wing papers,
groan in the ugubnus tones over the result Of
the election, and attribute it, amongst many other
thirgs, TO The perfect organization of the Coalition
and the activity Of its leaders. We wish the Daily
and its coadjulors would recur to the articles which
they published after the election in November last,
to grove that the Coalition utterly annihIlated,
beyond all hope of resuscitatioD.
If they will only read thoseartices they doubtless
will be convinced that the Coalition is only myth
now-that il is dream and phantasy which
could not be organized, because it possesses no or
gans Perhaps however, they have sense enough
TO read the signs of the times Alright; and prefer to
extract wisdom from passing events rather than to
attempt the hoolless task Of calling wisdom from
their own lucubrations. They dared the people TO
trial Of their sovereign power, and the people have
taught them the law. We bow respectfully to his
sovereign majesty, the people, and rejoice at the
manner in which he has, in this instance, exercised
his wisdom and his power.