Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-08-17
Chr Doilp 9pp.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST II. 1858.
rhe wings on the Amended Con stitutiOn.

The wings on the Amended Con stitUtion'
The Wings have commenced TO lehearse the po-
tical cemedietta which be performed with the
whole strength Of the bunker press, during the COM
ing fall. The amended constitution is the subject
upon which they are to ring the changes; and, as
even Wing requires 10 practice before he can be.
come fluent and facile in defamation and vtupera-
ton, the ugemen of the party have begun their
less accomplished contemporaries early example.
The Ftchburg Revile led of, last week, in its usual
grog shop style, in contemplation of the amended
Constitutions which is TO be submitted the people,
in the fall. for their approval
On Monday, 18th inst, the Boston Courier TOOK
up the same subject and went into passion oil uec'
lamation about it. The fury of the Courier and the
coarseness Of the Revile, were admirable examples
Of the eBobadi'' and "Moll Fnggin" styles OF
character, which appear so frequently IN low com
edy. On Tuesday the Boston Atlas followed suit,
on ,he same strain and did al could, by misrep-
reservation and bad logic, TO strengthen the hands
OF its two holder and ADLER allies.
These Wing journals remind US oflhe newspaper
vendors oiParis In these days of censors Of the
press and nspid pa agraphs, it is necessary for the
poor seller Of newspapers, in ''the grand city,"
TO get up an excitement in order TO dispose of his
papers, and keep the press in existence an msti
tuition. Two three OF those gentlemen repair to
street in company and begin 10 vocerate at the top
of their lungs and to escuate with all their ght
The effect is wonderful. Old fogies start up from
their easy chairs, and listen for the crack Of doom;
weak young men rush out into the and purchase
papers on the spot; grave and eminent personages
shake their heads, and declare that the canaille
must be annihilated this lime. There is great ex-
element; everybody gets paper, and the stock of
the street CRIES is soon sold out. When the whole
affair is calmly looked into, is found TO be nothing
but sound The Revile, the Courier. and the At
las are adopting the trick OF the French street
criers They have all begun to call out at the same
time, and, no doubt, hope by this concert Of
mere noise, TO influence the old fogies, weak young
men, and grave and eminent personages of their par
ty, vote against the adoption Of the amended Con-
stitution.
But it is not to men blinded by prejudice or ignor-
ance that the Constitution is to be submitted 1t is
to rejecting, rational reemen. The proposed Con
stilulion provides that the ballot shall be incorpo-
rated in the fundamental law; that juries shall be
judges Of the law and the fact in criminal trials;
that the judges Of the supreme court shall be APP
pointed for limited term of years. and that judges
OF the police court &C., shall be elected by the peo-
Pile.
The Governors Council is to be elected under the
new Constitutions; the senators are to be chosen for
single senatorial districts; and representatives of
cities to be baloted for on separate tickets
Harvard College is taken out Of the hands of
lgious sect, and pro-Austran political party and is
placed under the jurisdiction Of The State.
The amended Constitution is hateful to the Wings,
because il is too liberal TO suit their bunker ions;
and yet they nvidiousy quote the criticisms ofradca
papers, alleging that it is not SO Democratic as it
might be. They do not with what weapons
they attack it, if they only succeed in rendering
it unpopular. But even although they have begun 50
early to jibber and cry out against the Constitution,
we believe they are little too late. Nobody
pretends that it is perfect instrument, but no one
deny that il is much more equitable and liberal
than the present Constitution. The people will
accept it, despite OF the clamor olthe Whigs for if
it is less than the radical reformer could WISH
it is much more than the most hopeful ever could
have anticipated, with Whiggery in the ascendant.