Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-15
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TUESDAY, AUGUST Is, 1854.
wh;g Convention.

The Wing State Convention WIZ assemble
...pe Music Hall, Boston, on "Wednesday,
,s,h inst What The leaders of the party will
A. an that occasion, is not very clearly under
s,ood If the Springfield Republican, North
smpton Castle, New bedford Mercury or
.ry other country Wing paper, had any intiu-
,,re with the grave and eminent personages
who dictate the policy of the Wing party we
mgbt exreet some decided nti-slavery action
ss tbe issue Of the Convention; but as those
rrosses cannot effect anything not approved Of
Nv the " Boston Brigade" it is of no use to
.ntcinate ANYTHING from aught they may say.
The Boston Courier is far more reliable ex-
moment Of practical Whiggism than either of
The far more respectable and able. but infn-
;telv less influential papers, to which we have
referrei and the Boston Courier very super
c;Houslv and very decidedly intimates, that
tbe Boston Wings will not permit the Con-
vention to be governed by the advice of the
/" noliticiaus of Western Massachusetts"
IT is singular, that nature has formed the
minds of some men with the same backward
ness and renitency against conviction, which
is observed in old dogs, against learning new
tricks. 1t is singular also, that the leaders Of
the Wing party of Massachusetts, are OF this
nbtuse obdurate class. They adopted certain
oninions about politics when they were lads,
and now. when they are old fogies," they
will not depart from them. Tradition, and
what DIR. Claiming calls elf-exaggeration,
have been befogifying" these gentlemen for
the last thirty years; and interest aud COM
pound interest have all the time been helping
them to do so; until now, it would kill a
{, Boston Wing" to adopt new opinion or
new principle Of action. The country Wings
sometimes affect independence of the "Bos-
ton Brigade" Their presses occasionally I'M
dertake to criticise unfavorably the move
ments of that clique; but the obstinate atti-
tude and granite impassibility maintained by
E the old fogies,' never fails to give them the
control of the party. The facile, supple, con-
senting country Wings, have always
welded hitherto, 50 that the Wing party of
this State has become as rigid and as practical
as the statue of Hiensch's Tiger.
1t appears, from the Courier, that the Bos-
ton hunkers viii stand on their old ground at
the Convention Of the 10th. Country Wings
may consider that the necessities Of the times
require conciliatory and liberal policy to-
wards Free Sellers aud anti-slayery Demo-
Gratis, but the bunker Wings do not admit
that. They hold on to the steady old policy,
the good old policy, the very old policy,
which does not admit of political exigencies,
necessities, nor even principles; but which
goes in for the party as governed by the Gre
liable, experienced men Of the party" The
sun and moon may change, but the obstinate,
laundering, pig headed policy of the hunkers
can know no change or shadow Of turning.
The Courier of Monday, the l4th, says
the experienced veterans of political life,
whose counsels aud advice it is always the
part of wisdom to listen to with respect" will
be at the Convention in large numbers and
the Courier further intimates that those tex.
perienced veterans are bound to renominatt
E nory Washbun for Governor. This is the on
ly point upon which the politicians of West
ern Massachusetts, that is, the Springfield
Republican and Northampton Gazette, have
attempted to anticipate the Convention. They
have proposed Julius Rockwell for Governor,
and some Free Soiler for Lieutenant Govern
or, but the Courier takes them to task for dar
ing to do so, and emphatically tells them that
Washburn is to be the man. The reasons adj
duced by the Courier in support OF Washburn's
denomination, are very satisfactory to the wings
of Suffolk, and why should they not be salts
factory to the wings of Hanpdens The
Courier declares that Washburn has not made
any mistake since he became Governor; sand
has nerer dtsregarded the adoiee Of high
minded and jadicious achigs," therefore he
should be renominated and reelected. Any
body can see what all this means 1t simply
means that Governor Washburn has been led
by the nose, by the grave and eminent wings
of Boston, and that they mean to lead the
wing party, and him as its representative, by
the nose next year, just as they did last. Ii
they do so, after all the anti-slavery talk the
whig presses have made this summer, we shall
feel somewhat consoled by remembering that
it is just what they always have done.