Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-13

AT the wing OlStEACt SOHNenIIOH, Aoiu III
this city on the 4th inst, Mr.. E. w. Lincoln
proposed series of ultra wing resolutions,
which were mainly repetition of the words
Of His Excellency Governor Washburn, de-
livered by that gentleman in 1852. Amongst
Mr. Lincolns resolutions was the following:
ResoEued, That in the language of his pres
emit Exeellency, as expressed in 1852, ''The
leaders of the Coalition in this Common
wealth have shown themselves unworthy of
the public confidence, by their want of capaci-
ty, their want of consistency, and their disre-
gard of the public will.
We admire Mr.. Lincoln's boldness, in ex-
huming the above resolve and presenting it to
the District Convention but we doubt if His
Excellency will thank him for doing SO. In
1852, the auth or of that resolve was mere
political talker. He was distinguished in his
party as member Of resolution committees
as a temporary chairman-and as one that
could be relied upon to fill up gaps at public
meetings, when able men "were unavoidably
prevented from attending them" The re-
solve, which in 1852 was merely an express
sion of Mr.. Washburn's whiggish disposition,
has become, in 1854, standard lSy which to
judge of its author own ''capacity, consisten-
CIV, and regard for the public will" The gen.
tleman who was a mere political fugleman in
1852, is commander -in-chief of his party in
1854 He has been tried, trusted, and tested,
and now, we look through the medium of
what he has said, at what he is.
And what evidence has he given of capaci-
tyr His whole gubernatorial career has been
series of military funkeyism and post-pran-
dial gasconade. He had one grand opportu-
nifty to show himself to be a man and gov
ernor; but instead of doing SO, he only showed
himself to be magisterial cypher, and cham
payne hero. When he should have been at
his post, guarding with the sword of Massa-
ehusetts, her peace and her liberty, he was
skulking round the back streets of Boston,
seeming out John Wnghrs kitchen, where
preparations were being the feast of
the "Burns Brigade
When humanity and official decorum
should have imposed silence upon him, he
stood up before this outraged Commonwealth
and glorifed military violence at the expense
of the sanctities and safeguards of civil law.
The career of Governor Washburn, since
1853, should teach the wings some modesty,
when they are inclined to be censorious about
their opponents capacity.
When Emory Washburn accepted the whig
nomination for governor in 1858, he cmphat-
Al. L Il -Jor
serve our venerated, immaculate constitution
from the hands of ruthless man, who wished
to modify and amend that instrument. 1t
was too sacred to be touched; too perfect to
be capable of amendment. He, Emory Wash
burn, would stand, like the high priest of
Isis, beside the s'venerated constitution and
he would contend to the last, against the sac
religions men who dared to question its per"
lection.
In 1854, Emory Washburn accepts the wing
nomination for governor, in order, he says,
that he may see the constitution revamped,
polished up, and essentially amended. The
man that, in 1868, wished to be governor in
order that he might throw his protecting egis
over the constitution, now wishes to be gov
ernor in order that he may run his hanger in
to it and cut and trim it all to pieces. Oh
rare consistency
1t is needless to make much reference to the
"regard for the public wilP' which the wings
have manifested. Their money and intrig-
uing agents have done more to sustain them
i n power than their popularity. Their pur-
chase of the Boston Pilot and of the Irish
vote Of the city of Boston, did more for them,
in 1853, than all their sudden professions of
political liberality. The ides of November
will show us what the public verdict is on
those past circumstances.