Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-09
Obj @laiI9 Spy.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1854.

~ The Spy complains that the Maine
Wings have stolen their Freesoil platform
Only a case Of re- capture, friend Spy, for you
originally stole it from the Wings.
The above article is from the Worcester
Transcript of the 18th inst. We do not print
it as an example of ungrammatical construc-
ton neither do we refer to it because it is an
utter falsehood We specially call attention to
it as a specimen of reckless temerity. We do
not complain of Silas for writing ungrammat-
ically, as he certainly does not know any bet
ter. We do not blame him, much, for pub
fishing deliberate unuuths about his neighbors,
for, his long Indulgence in this practice, has
made it almost natural TO him. What we
wonder at is the shamelessness with wliich he
will expose his absurd unyeracity.
We did not complain IS that the Maine
Wings have stolen their Freeson platform"
(The grammar is the transcripts; . on the
contrary we reioiced that the Name wings
adopted the Republican platform. So far
were we from making any complaint against
the Maine wings, that we held up their action
as a contrast and example to the wings of
Massachusetts,. So far were we from regard
ing the Maine wings as thieves of "Free
Soil PLATFORM = that we stated they had made
the Republican platform theirs, by legitimate
adoption If Silas did not know that he bore
false witness against US when he ponned that
paragraph, we can only pity him.
Silas speaks about the Free Sellers origin
ally stealing these resolutions from the Wings.
Now, this also is most reckless and baseless
assertion. The Free Sellers obtained the
gitimate manner possible. They obtained
| them at the market place, from Wing orators ;
and in the Town Hall, from Wing resolutions.
They were presented to them in caucus and
convention they were written upon banners,
in the day Of political warfare; and were
spoken by the fireside, in the evening of po-
litical repose. The anti-slavery principles of
the Wings came to the Free Sellers in a per-
fectly legitimate way. There was no stealing
in the matter. The Wings abandoned them
for Taylor, without why or wherefore"
They spat ON them, when they adopted the
Fugitive Slave Law. They tried to strangle
them, when they accepted the Baltimore res
olutions and they repudiated, ignored, and
rejected them when their banner bearer chant
ed, from Buffalo to Syracuse, tie praises of
" that rich Irish brogue."
But though they thus proved recreant to
their own professed principles, the Free Soil
ers did not. They cherished them, sustained
them, proclaimed them to the people, through
good report and through bad report and they
mean to do so still, in spite of all that the
power of placemen, or the hypocrisy of would
be-placemen can do. We received our anti
slavery principles when we were Wings, and
we will be true to them in every extremity,
though thousands of those who once protested
them with us, long since abandoned Them
and do not now seem disposed to return to
Them though they pretend to be anxious to
do SO. But who could expect good faith in
political leaders, whose organ so unblushingly
bellies the most public truths, as the transcript
has done, in the instance in question: