Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-26
EpTRLTCAN TICAET.
REPURLICAN TICK Il =.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON, HENRY WILSON,
OF NATICK.
FOR LIEUT.. GOVERNOR,
HON. INCREASE SUMNER,
OF GREAT HARRINGTON.
The Transcript and The Constitution

In the Worcester Transcript of the Sth Oc-
tober 1868, we find the following passage;
keep it before the people, that the main
object of the Coalitonists, i'll the forming OF
the new constitution was to deprive the emf
grants rho lire in or cities of their Just and
equal rights as american citrens."
Now, we are happy to comply with the
transcripts wish, and place the above sem
tence before the people as a "reminiscences of
the mode in which that Wing organ attacked
the advocates of the new constitution, and
also as specimen of the arguments which it
used, to excite the Catholic voters against that
instrument.
The main objects of the trainers of the Con-
stitution were to prevent the cities from alb
sorbing, upon an unjust basis, the whole po-
Etical power Of the State-to prevent rich
corporations from controlling the poor mans
vote-and to prevent the Catholics, or any
other sect from approprating the School Fund
to sectarian purposes. The Transcript at
tackled the new constitution with all the rabid
fury Of which it was capable; and it acclaimed
against its trainers with all the falsehood and
unfairness which it could draw, both from its
co-partizans and its own natural resources.
The friends of the new constitution objected
to aliens being computed in the basis of rep
resentation, and this just proposition the
Transcript repeatedly denounced as an at
tempt to deprive :" our 70 eigs population of
the large towns and cities of their due share in
the government This was said by the
Transcript, of foreigners not naturaiized.
What, then, must that papers opinion be of
" the due share in the government" by those
who are naturalizeda The transcript held
that the foreign population. we mean those
not naturalized, had "equal rights as Amer
lean citizens" and, upon that ground, did all
it could to prevent the basis Of representation
from being changed.
The friends of the New Constitution pro-
posed to district the cities, so to distribute
the political power, and thereby prevent gross
elections, on general ballot. The Boston Pr
lot, Catholic wing paper, opposed this prop
osition with all its might, because, it said,
the Catholics would soon control Boston,
but that they could not do SO if the cities were
districted. The Transcript, and all the whig
presses, concurred with the Pilot, in sustain
ing the general ticket system, as well as in
opposing the proposition to make it unconsti-
tutional to divert the school fund to sectaran
purposes. 1t is easy for the Transcript, now,
to affect holy horror of the Roman Catho-
lies; and to pretend to have an anxious de-
sire, that the school fund may be placed be-
yond the reach of the claws of Jesuitical po-
perry; but we remember that it was on the
other side in 1858. and felt mighty proud of
its Catholic allies in those days. Who does
not remember the enthusiasm of the chairman
OF the Wing City Committee when in public
Hall, on the 4th of November, 1858, he gave
three cheers for Plunkett, " the American by
choice" This was mere wing trick to catch
Irish votes, for Plunkett was born in Massa-
chusetis, and unless he was uery early gifted
with preternatural strength of will, had, we
suspect, no choice in the matter. 1t shows,
however, where the wings were in 1858.
Who does not remember the glowing fervor
with which Parson Hudson. of the Boston
AgGs, declared, after the defeat of the consti-
tuition, that the Irish citizens were, after
all, amongst the truest and best patriots in
the country This was because they had
helped the wings to defeat the new constitu-
ton, upon the grounds that it deprived Cath
oics Of their ''due share of the school fund,
and of their g due share of the government
The Transcript may try to dodge these facts
as much as it pleases but, if it remembers
any thing, it must remember the circular
printed in the Transcript Office, at the in
stance of the City Wing Committee, in which
Irishmen were called upon to vote against the
"coalitionists who have said that you were no
better than crows; and who would prevent
you from getting your share of the school fund,
&C." If the Transcript has forgotten that
wing document, we viii "place it before the
people" to let them see what the wings said
in 1858, when they thought they could make
something by protesting to be the "only true
friends of 1rishmen:.