Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-14
The .ns,. VS.. Republican Convention.


made brilliant attack on the Republican
Convention and its nominees. The celebrated
knight of La Mancha never ran a tilt more
gracefully or herocally than our neighbor did
then; neither did he ever come out of pas
sage at arms more successfully. The heroic
Don was not in the habit of attacking things
as they were. A practical professor of the
Berkleian philosophy, he had serene con-
tempt for matters Of fact. When he fought,
he attacked the notifications of his own
ideas, not common things; and he was
laughed at by everybody for his pains. Our
neighbor, emulating the heroisln of the knight
Of the Rueful Countenance, also initiates his
philosophy. He does not attack the actual
Republican Convention and its candidates.
He attacks certain notifications of them,
which cannot be recognized. unless they are
looked at through the medium of partizan
whiggery. We do not mean to deal harshly
with our neighbor or to laugh at him on this
account A hallucination. like Don Quix-
ote's, is respectable, because it is real; an
idiosyncrasy is as muchIa misfortune as poverty
and as we are certain that our neighbor can
not help his blind antipathy to the party of
freedom, we respect his misfortune, however
much we may condemn the form it takes,
the cause of it.
Our neighbor says, in reference to the Re-
publican Convention =
That its resolutions could enunciate
stronger anti-slayery sentiments than those
passed by the wing Convention was an impos-
slbility but that they could be great in little
things. grow inhammatory over details and
be vltuperatiVe in items, was of course ex-
pected. by all who study the policy of those
iTom whom they emanated'
We admit that the Wing Convention pass
ed resolutions full of anti-slavery sentiment.
1t was easy for them to do so. They only re-
newed an old habit which they used to have
at county, state, and national conventions,
several years ago. The wings are emphatic
ally g some on resolutions; they can go up
to the highest notch, and spread themselves
out :" to the fullest extent-to the fullest ex-
tent, in resolving; but then, their anti-slav-
cry resolves are like soap bubbles. They are
blown only to burst and dssipate in air. The
wing resolves that mean any thing, are such
as were made at Baltimore when the Fugitive
Slave Law was endorsed = when the exer-
else of freedom of speech and freedom of
thought were formally denounced as treason
to the wing party-when political and social
ostraeisn was pronounced against every man,
who attempted to raise his voice against Slav-
cry; and when the villainous deed was SOL
EMMY ratified which gave up to Texas SIO,-
100000 and 70, 900 square miles of free terri
tory. These are the kind of resolutions the
wings make to keep; their anti slavery ones
have always been made to be broken.
We do not think it is very material to the
issue between the Oligarchists and Republi.
cans whether or not, the latter " can be great
in little things, grow infammatoIy over de-
tails, and might be vituperative in items"
The question is, have they, like the wings,
ever betrayed freedom Our neigh Dor knows
they have not but they have committed
what he considers far more objectionable
sin. They have made the wing party of
Massachusetts, SO weak and mean that in
1853. it was compelled to buy up and lean on
the Boston Pilot and the Irish Catholic IN
terest of Boston. Lawrence, Lowell, sc. to
place its forlorn stipendiaries in power.
Our neighbor says thai the majority who
attended the Republican convention went
there-specially to listen to Charles Sumner
If they did they were better paid for their
trouble than the majority at the Wing con-
vention, who went there specially to listen to
Otis p. Lord. Mr.. Sumner and Mr.. Lord
are very different men; but they are admir-
able moral representatives of their several
parties and, doubtless. the .Egis is right in
saying that Mr.. Summer drew many to the
convention at Worcester, as Mr.. Lord certainly
did to the convention at Boston.
The -Egis makes very fierce attack upon
General Wilson, the nominee of the Repub-
lican Convention, and after having exhausted
its own deep fountain of yituperation, goes
to the kind and gentle Ella" and borrows
eighteen distinct epithets from. him, to help
it out in its denunciation
There is not one of the borrowed epithets
in the least applicable to Henry Wilson.
Several Of them, however, are very faithful
representatives of the relative power and po-
sition of Emory Washburn. Take the follow
ing, for instance. HE is a deaths head at
your banquet--a frog in your chamber fly
In your ointment-an apology TO your friends
the one thing not needful, Be-
Governor Washburn has been to great
many banquets during the last year, and he
has been all things to all men, while so
banqueting. 1t is probable that he was
deaths head on some of these occasions.
He certainly was not living head to Massa-
chusetts during the invasion and inyestiture
OF Boston by the rufians who stole Burns.
lie has occupied the gubernatorial chair either
very loggishly or very froggishly: laying in
pusiaanlmous inaction when he ought to
nave acted like man or jumping round
muster helds when q he did wooing go" for
military votes. Perhaps the EMS will find
IN November next, as the wings have found
An Maine, that instead of being governor of
Massachusetts, lis candidate, like Reed. will
only be fly in its ointment"
FAILURE OF THE RICE CRop.--The Sa,on
nah Republican doubts whether enough rica
seed, for next years crop, viii be saved on
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