Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-10-28
The Cat in The meal.


One year age, the question Of Constitutional
Convention discussed before the people Of every
city and Town in the country There were two par
ties to that discussion
The organs OF the whig party joined issue against
the Convention. They declared that the Constiiu-
ton did not need revision. They extoled its wis
dom and equity, and charged those men with desc
cration who would lay their sacreligous hands upon
that sacred instrument, framed by the Fathers of
the Commonwealth The gravest among the
charges, trumped up against the Coalition, in the
bombastc resolutions adopted by the party at their
Convention, was, that its members were seeking TO
modify that old Constitutions by subecng it to re.
vision by the proposed convention. Ii was affirmed
that the Supreme Judges of the State had declared
that the calling OF the Convention was unconstitu.
tional. The accidental Governor, elected by the
party, in his Inaugural Address, dressed in his blue
coat with gilt buttons, and hooking so very fney
sneered at il, Of stdoubtul constituonalitv -
Whence sprung that deadly partizan hatred against
the call for the Convention Ii was in the con.
seriousness which the Wing party felt, that the Con.
ventIon, II called, would establish something like
political equality, and that, in the establishment Of
that equality, the power of their rotten and corrupt
organization would pass xway forever. They knew
that some plan would be adopted by which the bloa-
ed aristocrat of Beacon street would no longer be
represented by four hundre, and forty four men in
ten years, while the farmer or mechanic of Paxton
or Auburn could have but four and in certain condi.
tons Of parties might not have even that number
They knew that the Senate would be established
upon some ba sis, thai its members might be
elected by the people, aud longer by the forty
four Boston Representatives elected in Office by the
caucuses Of State Street politicians. They knew
these things, and therefore, they opposed the Con-
Venton with the most cunning ingenuity and desper.
ate determination. The people said through their
shallow and selfish hypocrisy and' voted them down
as they will do again this fall, so elTectually that
they will keep down hereafter.
NoW, how does this double dealing, Janus faced
Wing party stand before the people of TIE State?-
Having forgotten their whining cant about The sa.
credness Of the old Constitution, they oppose the
new, because its reforms not sufficiently RADICAL
No longer declaimng against the constilu,ionaity of
popular Convention, they now go for calling an.
other one, if necessary to accomplish their prposed-
the 9TH resolution adopted by the Wing Convention
at Fitehburg, and he can doubt no longer. 1t is
there "Resoved, That we are in favor Of the fol.
lowing leading amendments 10 the present Constitu-
ton, TO be obtained il possible through the action of
the Legislature, and failing there, by neo popular
Convention, based upon equality Of repi esenia-
ton" They here eat their own words, with regard
to the perfection Of the present Constitution, and
the unconsluiionay Of the Convention. Gentle
men Wings, the cat in the fable tried the game be.
fore you. Your disguise is not so complete as was
hers, and your will he no better gu uttered
ialsehoOd, and put it on record when you adopted
that resolution, and you know it. You could not be
consistent IN your lying. Your President, with all
bis eoquence, if his beautiful but soulIess elocution
can be called eloquence, auded the old Constution
you yourselves, Immediately after the adon.ion OF
thai resolution, proposing to up the old Cous,i
tuition, root and branch, gave three cheers for it,.
Your candidate for Governor declares II his destiny
20 s'protect our venerated Constitution" Surely.
did we not know to the contrary we should suppose
you were not used to fbbng, you do ii 10 SO very
awkward way.
Men Of Worcester County, The Wings, by their
Snprincipei and shallow tricks, are seeking to dis.
tract the friends Of reform, that they may thereby
defeat the Constitution, and shackle the old with
al It's enormous wrong and injustice, down upon Us
forever. Will you be their willing tools 10 The con-
summation Of this niqnitous projecti Have you
some little prejudice against some portions Of the
nc" Sons'''uiion3 Weigh il against twenty years
more 0, boston rule, and zee how like feather in
the balance 1t ia. Are there some G,,ls dGs,snoss
= 'p'A'O" ""o'g you on other subjects, which pre-
vents your coming together on The con.,n,;o.o
arc lucy "o''n me sacrifice Of your own ndepend.
ence, and tina, Of your children aC,., vo,, - ,,:
tain7
Friends Of Reform Be vislam be ear0e., n.
NOT d''irac'edi De not turned aside from the
ir"e issue. Such an election as the one before
US occurs but once IN lifetime. For years we have
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