Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-23
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REP UBLICAN KET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
HON. HENRY WILSON,
OF NATICK.
FOR LIEUT. GOVERNOR,
HON. INCREASE SUMNER,
OF GREAT HARRINGTON.
The Wings aud "HumbIe Origin"

ticle of the 10th inst, on " Our Candidate and
Theirs" Our neighbor seems to imagine
that its loose congratulations are a sufficient
refutation of our statement that the Wings
have sneered at Henry Wilson because he is a
mechanic. And it seems to be of opinion also,
that its dogmatisms about what is credita-
bic to our patrons and what is "flched
from the cesspool of monarchical ignorance -
entirely settle those questions. We have no
objections to our neighbor assuming that no.
body knows anything but ITSELF The conceit
may be some compensation to it for the opinion
generally entertained by the public, that it
knows no more than it ought to know. Still,
we do not admit that the .Fgis is the sum of
all knowledge and that there is no appeal
from its oracular egotisms. We shall dare to
reply to its rhetorical fourishes, although we
certainly will not initiate its arrogance.
The .Egis says;
"The idea that in Republican country
like this, and in a section of it so eminently
democratic in all its internal life as is Massa-
chusetts, the individual is tabooed on account
of humble origin or the mediocrity of his edu-
eational advantages and attachments, is not
simply ridiculous, but it is disgraceful to the
pen that flehes it from the cesspool of mon
archical ignorance for tho purpose of political
argument and altogether dscreditable to the
the patrons Of the journal in which such
argument appears
Now, this is all very fine as rhetorical
flourish, but what are the facts? In 1862,
when the Secret Ballot question was being
discussed, Wing journal i'll Boston, stoutly
contended that the voting at the polls must
be open, because persons of eminence and
gravity ought to have the opportunity to direct
the common people how to vote. To fortify
himself in this position, this Wing writer
flched" arguments from the monarchical
cesspool of Montesquieu. Does our neighbor
think they were disgraceful to his pen: In
1851, wnen Geo. S. Boutwell, was elected gov
ernor of this Commonwealth, leading Wing
journal in this county, made doleful lament
ations over the fact that the chair of Lincoln,
Everett, and Briggs, was disgraced by the in
cumbency of g Groton Shopkeeper." Does
our neighbor consider this an illustration of
the fact that an "individual is not tabooed on
account of his humble origin:'
In 1858, when Henry Wilson was a candi-
date for the governorship of this State, the
Boston Journal abused him, in an article
which it headed with the words " Ne SUtor
ultra crepidane.' What sort of "motor" was
it that induced the whig editor of the Journal
to make these insulting words motto for his
abuse of Mr.. Wilson's: Our neighbor surely
does not believe that it was I" Locofoco mo
tor
When the wings of this city had a jubilee
in the City Hall, after the election of Gov
ernor Washburn in November, 1858, Abbott
Lawrence wrote letter to the Committee of
arrangements, in which he hoped that Wor-
cester would be redeemed to whiggery, be-
cause, said he, &c A large amount of the pur-
est and best blood of New England, is get
within your borders, and 1t cannot long sub
nit to be governed by clique of reckless
| demagogues." We should like to know from
/ what cesspool of monarchical ignorance
the pen of Abbott Lawrence flched these ar
istocratic illusions. The organization of the
banquet committee to which we have Just al
luded, was also, in itself, a striking illustra-
ton of the aristocratic feeling which prevails
amongst the leading wings Every body
knows that in the campaign of 1868, the
grave and eminent members of the party
would not come out, even to preside at whig
| taJ trie od
to accept it in retirement.
When, however, the accession of the Pa
pists and the ukase of Gar Cushing had Civ
en- the victory to the wings, the eminent men
became all at once, dreadfully important and
tremendously active. In this city they push.
ed the working men, of the party com.
pletely out of the banquet committee, ant
treated them as creatures Of another kind
some coarser substance unreined. The work
ing men were so incensed at this treatment
that they held preliminary committee meet
ing, drafted series Of resolutions denounc-
ing that " aristocratic exclusiveness which had
so often operated injuriously to the wing par
ty of Massachusetts,, and proposed to have
banquet-of their own. The eminent wings
alarmed at this demonstration by their follow.
ers, somewhat relaxed their +" gravity" aut
admitted few I" not eminent wings to theil
| company ON the committee, and SO the matter
ended.
Now, we held and do still hold that thu
leaders of the wing party have sneered at
and do sneer at, Henry Wilson, because he il
practical mechanic. We have shown from
understandable sources, notwithstanding ou
neighbours disclaimer, that the wing party o
Massachusetts, is aristocratic in its ideas and
in its action; and that la.oyer and co5bter
Independent Of personal merit, are held il
very different estimation in leading wing cir
Giles.
Our neighbor expends good deal of ink t.
inform us that men of humble origin are no
"tabooed' in this country. We think W.
could show our neighbor if we had space tt
do SO. that men of humble origin in every
| civilized or semi-civilized country between
ours and China, have so elevated themselves
that it was not possible to taboo them. Bu
that does not prove that cobblers are not looked
! down upon by natural aristocrats everywhere
| while militarymen and members of the learned
professions are regarded as gentlemen. Let
wagoner's boy,-a farmers lad, Or black
smiths apprentice give evidence of great