Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-24
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The mgi. ON The WING Resolves.

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The Egis ON the WING Resolves.
The .89gis Of the 23d inst. rejoices that the
following resolve was rejected by the Commit
tee on Resolutions, at the late Wing Conven-
ton;
"Resoloea, That the Wings Of Massachusetts,
will support no man for office, State or Ma
tional, whose convictions of duty upon the
subject of slavery do not substantially coin
eide with the principles set forth in these reso-
lutions.'
Our reishbor reioioes at its rejection, be-
cause, he says, the motive of its movers was
insidious; and because it would have the
practical effect of breallingi up the national
Wing party. He says:
.. Our party is one of mutual toleration.-
AS Wings of Massachusetts, we claim to man
age our own State affairs without unseemly
interference from abroad. We coneede the
same liberty of action to the Wings OF the
South Aud, as members of a confederacy
which embraces conflicting interests, while
demanding perfect freedom of opinion, on the
subject Of s5aoery, we are not disposed to ex-
act of our ally in Kentucky or North CARROLL
ia, that his views upon that point should
agree with ours"
we sldtSO lew uuNS uSOs NAV 0A4S ASSNANN
tons passed by the Wing State Convention
did not mean anything-that they were only
for Buncombe. Our neghbor, in his issue of
The 2Sd, amply sustains our statement, al
though, at the same time, he attempts, very IA
cetiously and sarcastically, to impugn it. If
those resolves were intended to lead to any
thing practical, why was the only one pledg-
ing the Wings Of Massachusetts, to act up to
the spirit Of the3series, rejected The .Egfs
answers the question, by telling us that the
adoption Of that resolution would have pre-
cluded the Wings of this State from voting for
the Nebraska Wings of Kentucky and North
Carolina, for national offices. The .Egis has
no idea Of beng deprived of this privilege,
which deprivation would not at all eomport
with that papers =" mutual liberation prin-
ciples. Every Wing in Congress from Ken
lucky and North Carolina voted in favor of the
Nebraska Bal. Our neighbor condemns the
vote. but tolerates the voter. He goes into
Wing Convention, composed of "l776 "
Wings, lacking i" 49, and endorses about a
dozen general resolutions against the "Ne-
braska perfdy;" but, at the same time, he
rejoices that one particular resolution was
kicked out of the committee room, because,
you see, it condemned. with practical con-
domination, the perfdious Southern Wings
who helped to consummate this "perfidy.''-
The Wing leaders are ready to resoIoe the
mott terrible anti-slayery resolutions conceiv-
alile-for Buncombe; but they are not no'o
ready to condemn one Southern co-partizan
for his course in Congress on the Nebraska
question.
Our neighbor says that the Wing resolu-
tons ''speak for themselves y that is just
what we have always said. They do not
speak for anybody; nor do they speak for any
living thing they are mere collection of
words, which serves as an epitaph for certain
dead Wig ideas.
Our neighbor says that we have "one pre-
rogatice Of the Almighty omniscience; )" and
that we have consequently discovered that
/" what is apparent, in the Wing resolutions,
is not really meant" Now, SO far were we
from supposing we possessed the prerog-
Gtiue of Omniseience, that we did not suppose
Omniscence was a prerogative. We limo
Gently believed that it was an attribute of the
Almighty, indivisble and immortal as Him
self; but the .E7is knows, .and of course we
cannot expect that it will admit any explana-
ton" Job says, " The inspiration of the AL
mighty giveth them understanding" We
think we may say, without seeming to initiate
the rbald profanity of our neighbor, that the
inspiration of the Almighty-human under
standings amply sufficient for the detection
and exposure of Wing hypocrisy. 1t is notso
difficult process as to require supernatural
agency to perfect it.
In 1852, the Wings. in national Convention,
at Baltimore, resolved
ssThat the series Of acts of the 3Ist Con-
gress, the FAgiti0e Slace Lar included, are ae-
quieseed in by the Wing party of the United
States, as a settlement, in principle and sub
stance, Of the dangerous and exciting ques-
tons which they embrace, and SO far as they
are concerned we will maintain aud insist
upon their strict enforcement, until time and
experience shall demonstrate the necessity of
further Liquidation, to guard against the eva
sion Of the laws on the one hand, and the
abuse Of their powers on the other-not i'm
pairing their present efficiency"
This resolution was cordially endorsed by
the -Egis in 1852; and the Wings of Massa-
chusetts still cling to it, as the main plank of
their platform. This resolution, we have no
doubt, encouraged the Southern Wings to
vote for the Nebraska Bill and the .Egis is
certainly not inclined to see those true
Wings" punished for acting up to the full
measure Of such encouragement. The .Egis
is astrong anti-Nebraska paper in the abstract,
but IN the concrete it goes in for sustaining
the Wings who voted for the Nebraska bill
we have no apprehension that our neghbor
Will ever be so inconsistent as to do ANYTHING
70 prevent slavery extension. The circum-
stance OF resolving seems to exhaust all his
anti-slayery force and vitality With such
Wings IN the North. there is no danger of the
Southern Nebraska Wings ever proposing the
disruption Of the /" Great National Wing mar
ty.''
A PUBLIC MEETING OF the citizens of Wor.
ecestcr and vicinity, win be held at the Civ
Hal. Tomorrow evening, for the adoption Of
such measures as win facilitate the emigration
movement to the territories. Among those
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