Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-18
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Tn. xVhig. and their Resolutions
III. Who's Of Massachusetts, have held their
annual State Convention, and the result
thereof is before the people. Washburn and
Phnkett are reconstructed for the offices OF
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and the
usual stereotyped resolutions have been pass
ed. Some may be deceived by them but no
man who knows anything Of the past history
of that party, believes that they will be lived
up to any longer than an opportunity is offer
ed to break them. The Wings of Massachu-
sets have passed such resolutions many times
before; they have even passed better ones, but
who ever saw those resolutions operate as
hindrance to the leaders of the party, from
acting out the servlity Of their natures at the
bidding of their Southern masters? We have
said that the Wings of Massachusetts have
passed better resolutions than these; perhaps
these are as anti-slayery in their professions
as any, but they are prefaced with lie.
The first resolution, which speaks of the
Wings of Massachusetts "as ever true to Lib
erty," is a falsehood upon the face of it, and
everybody knows it. Where has the South
found more ardent defenders sof its usurpa-
tons for the last eight years, than among the
leaders of the Wing party in Massachusetts,;
and where have the members of any party
been found more willing to endorse the SER
Witty and meanness of their leaders?
When Boston Representative in Congress,
as Speaker of the House, had it in his power
to constitute the committees of that body in
such manner, that questions affecting the
rights and interests of Northern people, might
have an impartial bearing, how plant tool
was Winthrop in the hands of the slaveoera-
cy. When the tide of public sentiment in all
parts of Massachusetts, was setting strongly
with men Of all parties, against the Mexican
war, who but that same recreant son of Mas
sachusetts, extolled it in Faneuil Hall, amid
tie plaudits of the solid men of Boston, Who
does not know that to Daniel Webster inhu-
ence, more than to that of all other men in the
nation combined, we are indebted for the pas
sage of the Fugitive Slave Law. And who
tlat heard it or read it, "can ever forget the
spaniel-tonod speech of Rufus Choate, in the
Baltimore Convention in 1852, in which he
pledged the Wings of Massachusetts to resist
henceforth and forever, all agitation of the
subject of slavery, and glorifed the infamous
compromises in Congress who had abolished
the writ of habeas corpus and trial by jury, in
all the States of this Union. This talk about
the Wing party of Massachusetts, being " ever
true to liberty is the sheerest humbug, and
the men that talk it. do rot believe it them
selves. What Wing paper in Massachusetts,
ever rebuked that time-serviug scyophant,
Willard Fillmore, for his servility to the SOUTH
What Wing orator at any assemblage of the
party, ever dared to speak manly word
against the fragrant treachery of Webster, Or
expose the downright rascality of the votes Of
Samuel A. Elliott Did not the Wing papers
all applaud these gentlemens Did they not
try to make Winthrop, Senator to Congress for
the long term, knowing what dough-face he
wass Did not the Wings applaud their con-
duct both in city and in country: Did not
the rich Wings of Boston greet Webster with
cheers in State street, and did not they toast
him brown with their fulsome adulation atthe
Revere House, when he made his first visit
home, after his apostacy to the principles Of
the Wing party in its better dayss
Just at this time, the Wing leaders find il
for their interest to express good deal Of
"virtuous indigi alton" against the passage Of
the Nebraska Bill, because they say it repeal
ed sacred compact of more than thirty years
standing but do the Wings of Massachusetts,
have any words Of rebuke in their resolutions,
speeches or papers, against those members of
their own party who voted for the bill !: Are
they not hand and glove with Clay and Badg-
er, and Jones and Bell: and is it not their
greatest fear at the present time, that some
thing may occur which shall break the bond
of union that now holds them together as
members of the " national Wing party?
We do not love to state these unpleasant
facts, and recall "reminiscences so unpleasant
to the feelings of many of our Wing friends;
but as We regard repentance as one of the first
signs of amendment, we cannot but give the
grounds of our belief, that the Wing party of
Massachusetts is determined to continue in its
old track of double dealing on the one hand,
and servility on the other. If the party really
meant to do right for the future, it would re-
greet, rather that ignore the past, and it would
not preface its resolves for future action by
denial Of the plainest facts III its history.