Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-23
Cbe 4aiIp Spn,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST %, lsg4.


passably ineligible leader on the " Wing
platform again." Our neghbor attempts, no
Icarian fights in that production; and he
does not, as is common to him, lose his bal
ance and wallow in rhetorical mud. The
Transcript, OF Monday, can be understood,
which singular phenomenon, we are happy to
record. AS we have already stated, the sub
ject which the Transcript, on this occasion,
discusses is the Wing platform again" We
do not know exactly, how to construe this
phrase. We do not know whether the word
"again has reference to the resuscitation of
the Wing platform, which was rolled up in
= tattered resolutions and laid on the shelf in
IS47, or whether it refers to second defence
Of the last Wing platform, by the Transcript.
As the phrase is a double eatendre, like the
messages Of the Delphic oracle, we will not
attempt to put any construction on it, but
leave every one to Judge of it for himself
The Transcript says that " the Boston Post
is very much disguised with the Resolutions
passed at the Wing convention. No stronger
anti-slavery resolves have been passed-no
ranker sectionahsn has been uttered--than
may be found in the proceedings Of the Con-
vention." ssThis comment" continues the
transcript, assures us that the convention
accomplished just what it intended to do"
We think the Transcript might have been
sured that the convention did what itintended
10 do, on stronger and more tangible grounds
than comment of the Boston Posi-.
The former actions of the Wing party,
might have assured it,-use and won't that
old familiar continuance of practice, which,
without special prescription, assumes, some
times, the character OF law, might have as
sured it. The Wings have often made strong
anti-slayery platforms, and have resolved
magniloquent anti-slavery resolutions, and
that was just all they f." intended to do and
they never did anything more. We have no
doubt that the resolutions of the late
Wing convention are all that will ever come
out of that convention. 1t had not enough
of earnest strength or vital principle in it, to
produce a resolution, pledging the Wing par
ty to be consistent with its own resolves. 1t
resolved generally about a dozen times; but
special resolve making anti slavery eonsisten-
cy its rule of action, was incontinently spurn-
ell and rejected by the men who managed it.
1t is said that certain place, scarcely less
respectable than the city of Washington, is
paved with good intentions; it may, with
equal pertinency, be said, that the bloody
Path of slavery propagandism, is paved with
Wing resolutions.
Now we take a very different view of the
comment of the Post. from that the 7ranscrif
takes. 1t is, in our firm opinion, askind of
Jesuitical rose of the Post, such as that which
was attempted by Saint Brownson lately. in
oder to pull wool over the eyes of the Know
Nothings. The Post, by denouncing the
Wing resolutions and the Wing party hopes
10 induce sincere ant-slavery men to sustain
them for the sustentation of the Wing patty
is now object of vital importance to t. e
'sNatiopal Democrats" 1t is the only means
b. which they can prevent the masses, both of
Wings and Democrats, from uniting with the
new Republicop party. If there were only
two parties in the countryside party of free
dom and the party of siayery-the national
administration would be routed, in 1856, like
flock of carbon crows; but, with three dis
tinct political parties, and the indestinct
Know Nothings, Frank Pierce and his associ-
ates hope to obtain another presidential term of
public spoliation hence, it becomes matter
of serious moment for the bunker Democrats,
to help to sustain the Wing party, by attack
ing it ga fanatical anti-slayery party
The Boston Post understands this, # the poor
Worcester Transcript does not.
The Transcript, in a burst Of enthus-
assn, calls Governor Washburn a "whole-
souled, whole hearted lover of freedom" We
do not blame the Transcript for its eulogium
of his Excellency. The Transcript, it is said,
is the Governors special organ and Of course
it only does its deooir, like a faithful organ,
when it praises its patron. But whole -souled,
whole-he hearted lovers of freedom are usually
ore demonstrative than the man who placid
ly saw Massachusetts, involved by the hired
ruffians Of Virginia and South Corolina, and
poor man dragged by them from the sane
tuary of Boston, because he loved freedom
with the whole of his heart and soul. The
platform of the National Wing party, that is,
tae Baltimore platform, still exists in all its
entirety and the Wing party of Massachu-
sets have refused to ignore it.
We saw Governor Washburn put his soles
firmly down ON lat platform, and we ave
yet to learn that he has slept off it. Until he
does SO, liberty will probably be cautious how
she trusts him, either as a lover or leader.
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