Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-18
PEPTRLTCAN TIC KET.
The whig Parry and the Irish Vote.

ing Irish managers to office.
We shall look at this statement through the
media of few facts, and then leave our read
ers to Judge whether it is true or not. 1t is a
notorious fact that, in 1853, the Irish Cath
ohes of this State generally voted with the
Wings They voted with them on the Con-
siitutional question; and they voted with
them in the general election. These were
new phenomena in our politics. Let us sec
what produced them.
A clause in the New Constitution provides,
that the School fund Of this State should merer
be applied 10 Seetarien purposes. This clause
was proposed by Wing, to the convention,
and was adopted by%that body with great
unanimity. When the amended constitution
came before the people, the Wing presses,
almost unanimously, held this provision up to
the execration of the Catholics, as an outrage
to their religious faith, and as denial of their
sacred rights as citizens The Wing presses
boldly persistently. and almost daily affirmed
those propositions and, of course maintained
their consequents, that is, that Catholics.
had a right to apply part of the School fund
to their own sectarian purposes. In order TO
enforce this infamous proposition, and to Sc
cure Wing triumph thereby, the solid men
Of Boston subsidized tie Boston Pilot, the
organ of the ultra -montane pap;sts; and that
paper labored with all the cunning of a Rodin
and the zeal of a Loyola in the wing interest
1t denounced the New Constitution because
it secularized the School found, and because
1t would district the cities, aud thereby lre
vent Irish Catholics from controlling the
elections IN them, which, it said, they could
now do, upon general ticket. 1t supported
Governor Washburn as the representative of
its own ideas and it eulog;zed Plunkett as
the representative of the Irish race. How
auceessful it was in drumming the Irish to
the support of these gentlemen by these
means we all remember. The ReueiHe saws
that the Wing administration never bought
the Irish support by appointing Irish mana
gers to Office. We recollect of an ." Irish
manager" stumpirg the state for the Wings,
previous to the presidential election of 1852,
General Scott by stating that one of his
daughters was a Catholic, that he caused his
soldiers to kneel in Mexico during the pro-
cession of the host, &c. This gentleman was
elected on the wing ticket to the legislature,
from Boston, in 1868.
In the Constitutional Convention, when
the question of the basis of representation
was under discussion, the Free Sellers held
to the doctrine, that Representatives sh)lll be
based upon voters and not upon population.
In Boston there is an alien. non voting popu-
lation of male adults, almost equal to the
whole number of legal voters. In Lowell
the aliens exceed the citizens in number; yet
these aliens now constitute the basis of repre-
sentation, and give to the voters in cities
Fictitious power which completely neutralizes
that of the country, where almost all the
population is native. Richard II. Dana, in
discussing this question, made some remarks
which the Wing papers perverted into state
ment that it would be as fair to make crows
the basis of representation as Irishmen who
We're not naturalized, and on this falsely as
sumed position pursued him with ferocity and
Commonwealth. They appealed to the pas
sions of Irishmen by every known process of
appeal to visit their condemnation upon Mr.
Dana and his party. They represented him
as chasing Irishmen with crows, and as be-
ing leagued with his Free Soil colleagues to
deprive Irishmen of their just rights. If the
wings were to repeat the same course now,
which they pursued then, Mr.. Dana might
easily be mistaken for the grand chief of
Know-N othingism. and the wing presses as
the fierce, bitter, malignant organs of Roman
Catholicism and Irish sovereignty.
There was no wing paper in this State more
frothy, fierce, or malignant, on those points
than the RereiAe itself, with the exception,
perhaps, Of the Worcester transcript Who
does not remember the tender sentences VI it'll
which our illustrious neighbor mourned over
the awful depravity of the Coalition, which
would not divide the school fund with The
Romanists and which sought to deprive Irish
aliens (who had no political rights here of
Their sacred rights Who does not remember
the iervor and force of It's declarations That
the wings are the true friends Of Irishmen."
AT this present moment the solid wings of
Boston are making tender advances to the
Irish Catholics, while the Lord wings are
paying their addresses to the Know. Nothipes.
Certain men, whose money bought up
the Pilot last year, ware not at the late whig
state convention, in order that they and men of
their class, might not be compromised before
their Catholic friends, by the Know Nothing
resolution Of the Lord wing Of the party.
Choate, Winthrop, Everett, and the other rep
resentasives of whig aristoclacy, were not at
the convention, so that there might be posi-
tive and negative element of whiggery to at
tract both tie Know-N Nothing and Catholic
extremes Of politics, and finally to cause
them to eliminate in support of whiggism.
The Fitehburg Rereille, in our opinion, had
nothing to thank Heaven for, when it presum-
ed to do SO, because the Wing party had new
er bought Irish support. When it feels inclin.
ed again TO exalt the Wing party, on such
grounds, we hope il may remember the Wing
glorifcations of "that rich Irish brogue," their
<tacies at the sweetness Of the German ae
cent" with which it was hoped to catch the
German Catholics, and their pous raptures
because Gen. Scott had two daughters in nun
neries