Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-30
Henry Wilson ana the WING Press.

against the Republican candidate for Govern
or. TO read the Wing newspapers, one would
suppose that there was but one antagonist of
the Wing party in Massachusetts,, or rather,
that all antagonisms heretofore existing in the
Commonwealth, were concentrated in the per-
son of one man, and that man was Hon. Hen.
ny Wilson.
At the sound of that terrible name, every
wing baby in the State has chung closer to its
mothers bosom, or buried its little head be-
meath the bed clothes; and the wing children
of a larger growth have gone to their slum-
bers, only to be disturbed by awful visions of
the "wof that ate up little Red riding hood"
or of the Satanic gentleman with hoof and
HORNS that they have heard old people tell
about And this terrible state of suspense,
excitement, and alarm has not been confined
altogether to the juvenile portion of the pop
ulation. All Hunkerdom has been in commo-
ton, and the most venerable Of old fogies have
been startled from their proprieties. Parson
Hudson has re-driyelled through the AtlGs the
awful story of the coalition times. The Jour-
with additional falsehood, the history of the
''5argaininss" by which Charles Sumner was
made Senator to Congress from Massachusetts,,
by the agency of Henry Wilson. The Cath
olic editor Of the Courier has issued his edito-
rial bull against the Generalissimo of the
Republicans, and the bears that ate up the lit
tie children who insulted the prophet of old,
were not more memorable in their rage, and
more voracious in their appetite, than the pi-
Gus editors Of the Traveller, who have again
Aayed alive and craunched the bones of the
presumptuous shoemaker who has dared to as
pire to the chair of state. The heavy periods
of the Advertiser, freighted with more than
their usual weight of metal, have been aimed
at the same devoted head, while the tadpole
scribblers of the ReUeiue, Transcript, and 9TH
er small fry presses, have pursued with more
than their accustomed alacrity, the congenial
task of detracton and abuse.
And, what is it all fors Does any body
knows The answer is simply this, Gen. Will
son has attended Know Nothing Conven-
ton. Not to get votes, but to decline them,
not to ask men to vote for him, or to aid in
any way in the election of himself to an Office
for whic h he is candidate, but simply, as he
himself stated, to put all question forever at
rest in regard to the reports in circulation that
he was seeking the Know Nothing vote, and
the Know-Nothing nomination, by declaring
in the most positive and emphatic manner, to
receive a nomination at the hands of that
body.
In attending that Convention, it is not al
legged that Mr..Wilson was guilty of anything
secret or undetermined. His friends, out of
the order, knew he would attend the Conven-
ton, and for what purpose, and acting accord
ing to his own convictions of right and duty,
he also acted in accordance with their best
judgment and advice in going there.
q For a whole month prior to the assemblage
of that ConygAtion, the Wing presses of the
State had silenced their batteries of falsehood
and malignant scurrility. There was no know
ing how strong hold Mr.. Wilson might have
upon the affections of the "brethren of the
mystic tie" and after the Atlas had quite ex-
defaming him, an ukase went out from
headquarters to keep quiet for season, lest
so much unmerited abuse might RET act unfa-
vorably to themselves, the opponents of the
Republican candidate.
The results of the Know-Nothing Conven-
ton have not been in accordance with the an
ticipations of the Wings. Gen. Wilson, is
not the candidate of that party, and he de-
clared, in express terms, that he would not be
the candidate Of that party. But gentleman
from the Wing ranks has received that distin-
guished honor, whose election, if we may
Judge from the tone of their newspapers. is
regarded as a probability, even more disaster
Gus to that party than that Of its hitherto most
active and unfinching opponent.
But the opportunity must not be lost, new.
ertheless, for another stab at their old torment
or, who has defeated so many of their hunk
erish plans. and prcslavery purposes; and
thinking it favorable time, (when some
doubts are expressed by members of his own
party, as to the propriety of his being present
at the Convention Of another organization, } to
create prejudice against him. they break out
again in full cry. and with redoubled energy,
about bargaining. corruption and coalition"
which has been the leading staple Of all Wing
editorials and Wing harangues, for the past
three years.
We trust that General Wilson will not be
alarmed, at all this cutlery. The charges bro't
against him, of bagain, corruption, and truck
and dicker, and all that sort of nonsense, are
none of them proven. The action of the con-
vention shows that the schsgs had the entire
control, andif, by the nomination of Mr.. Gard
ner, it is made to appear that the sincere and
earnest desire of their hearts was to defeat
Governor Washburn. annihilate the Boston
brigade. and break up the wing party at one
fell blow, the members of the party have no
occasion to blame any thing; but the stupid
ity of their leaders, who, against the advice
Of Mr.. Gardner, who is now in open hostility
TO their party, opposed fusion of all parties.
to promote the cause of freedom, and for the
hope of retaining few paltry Offices, sacrifc-
ed tho position of Massachusetts in the van of
the struggle for freedom. We think the hum
ker wing presses Of Massachusetts,, which are
now 90 active in the denunciRtion and abuse
of the Republican candidate for Governor,
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