Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-30
WhTE Harmony.

On Saturday evening, Esd inst, the Wings
Of this city, held caucus to elect delegates to
the Wing District Convention, which is to
take place in October, for the nomination of a
whig candidate for representative to Congress,
from the ninth district. The number present
at the caucus during the evening, varied from
eight to bakers dozen. One would have
supposed, from the prestige of the "harmo-
nious wing party" that peace, love, and con-
cord would have abounded amongst this quint-
essential modicum of it; but they did not.
The esprit du corps which used to link the
s'great wing party in a serried phalanx tight,
and which enabled its captains to lead it, like
blind horse, through all sorts of Southern
dirt and Northern debasement, has departed;
and now you might as well expect harmony
amongst flour and twenty roosters locked
into box as amongst four and twenty, or
even twelve, wings, brought together in eau
Gus. We do not know what to attribute this
interruption of Massachusetts wing unity to.
1t would seem as if His Excellency Governor
Washburn, with all his experience as a COM
mander-in chief, and with all his practice as a
banquet orator, had not acquired the art of
keeping the shingles on the ''stately temple
of whigdom. They seem to have very feeble
attachment at present, to the old boards in the
roof of that "stately temple" whose glory is
surely past, and which will never know airy
renewing of "the light of other days" AT
the wing caucus, on Saturday evening, the
feeling of distrust which divided that assem-
bly,, manifested itself in the proposition of the
following resolution, by Edward Lincoln, Esq.
ResoSyed, That the Delegates, from this city,
to the Wing District Convention be, and they
hereby are, instructed to insist upon the NOM
ination of thorough, straight-out whig, fail
ing in which, to withdraw from the Conven-
ton.
This resolution is fully in accordance with
the wing spirit which acknowledges the wing
party to be a party of mutual federation, so far
as slavery is concerned; and which deprecates
all sectional disputes upon that question;
which refuses 10 quarrel with Southern wings
for their votes on the Kanzas and Nebraska
bill; and which would not consent to the
formation of Northern Ant-Slavery party,
as it does not acknowledge the necessity for
any such proceeding The resolution is, in
short, true to whiggery, as it has manifested
itself by its acts. although not accordant with
the whiggery which the Worcester Transcript
and other wing organs have manifested in
words.
The resolution was stoutly opposed by sew
eral gentlemen, who wished the Delegates to
be ''untrammelled;" and earnest appeals were
made to Mr. Lincoln, to withdraw his motion.
He refused to do so, however, declaring with
pointed emphasis that ''if the delegates meant
to sell themselves to the Free Sellers. they
would not sell him.
After stormy debate, the caucus divided
on the question, when 6 voted for the Iesolu-
ton, and against it. The resolution was
therefore lost. We did not learn whether the
six s'Nationals" withdrew from the caucus
or not.
An attempt was made at this caucus, to
elect Wing City Committee for the ensuing
campaign, but it utterly failed. The last city
committee may be expected to hold over but,
the remembrance of the scurvy treatment
which 80, out Of the 40, working wings, com
posing that committee, received last year, from
the "graye and eminent men of the party"
in connection with the wing jubilee, will
make it dreadfully difficult to induce any of
them to expose themselves to similar treat
ment again. We are surprised that the Tran
script should have been silent concerning
these manifestations of harmony and success,
in the "great wing party" We suppose the
modesty of that paper prevented it from say
ing anything on subject which must, new
ertheless, be very gratifying to its party pride.