Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-09-09

RThe Wing presses are unable to give any good
rrason why The Amended Constitution should not be
adopted by the people; and they ave therefore re
SORTING to gross perveIsion and direct alsehoud in
order to make the public believe that it should be
rejected. One Of The most melancholy evidences Of
the desperate straits to which the wings are re.
dnced, in their warfare on the amended Constitution,
IL TO be found in the position assumed by The Boston
Atlas. That paper, with recklessness discredt-
able TO the character OF the political press, delib
eratey pr.nts deceptive statements, in order sub.
serve the base interests Of the faction which il
represents.
In an article GU the unansweTabe Epeech Of Hon.
H. " ison, delivered at Natick, the editor Of the
Alias accuses Mr. Wilson Of Inconsistency, because,
says the Atlas, while he and his colleagues propose
30 abolish the properly qualification Of voters al
State and National elections, they not only neglected
but absolutely refused carry this principle and
let the poor for town officers Of appropria.
tions for schools, SECS
Now, Mr.. Wilson, in the Convention, distinctly
and unequlvocaly declared, 81 ulsh to see the tax
qualification forever abolished IN Massachusetts, n
all our elections, STATE, County AND Town"
General Wilson objected abolishing the tax
qualification Of voters in town meetings. The state.
ment thai he did is not true!
When the proposition was before the Convention,
10 abolish the property qualification Of voters, it was
Suenuously opposed by portion Of the Wings, and,
when they found that their opposition to it,by direct
means, would be unavalling, these self same men
wheeled abou,as they did Oh several other occasions
and became the most ultra reioImers. Gov. Briggs
made motion 10 extend the provision to voting on
all elections and other town affairs. This was we'll
understood, at the time, being dictated, not by
friendship, but by hostility to the extension of the
right Of suffrage, and with hope of aiding to
defeat the main proposition The motion was OBJ
ected to and defeated by the reform members, on the
ground, that, towns being corporations created by
law, their elections, &C., should be regulated BY
law, and not by constitutional provision. Such is
the case now, BY the existing Constitution, and SO it
would be best TO leave it. Furthermore, the provs-
ion is unnecessary, because by the existing laws the
qualification for voting in affairs, are made the
same as for voting for State officers.
Towns having always managed their own affairs,
under the existing laws both of the Colonies and the
State, without any constitutional prescription of the
details of such management, The Convention did not
propose to interfere with the old usage but lett the
General Court to regulale,as il always has done The
mode Of voting in Town meetings. The charge
brought forward by the Alias against Gen. Wilson
and the Convention, is then eore gratuitous and FALSE
II the Amended Constitution is adopted, we have
not the least doubt but the Legislature will allow the
voting in towns sill, to couform to the general prac.
tice. We are certain that il the Wings do not Oh.
ject to such a'proposition, nobody else will.
II the Wings chooRe TO perver truth and employ
direct ialsehocd in their crusade against the New
Constitution, lie; them do so. We win lei the peo.
pie know that they do SO, so far as we can, and we
shall await with perfect confidence the verdict Of
Of the intelligent fieemen Of Massachusetts