Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-22
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Ra,nblican Convention held at Worcester, on
,bs 9oth dav of July last, have issued cali
Cor q Deleqate State Convention, at Worcester
ON the eth day of September next, to nomi-
INTO candidates for State officers, and take
sncb action as may be thought proper, in order
- ,,ro,note the cause of resistance to the slave
power,
The denomination Of Washburn and Plum
kett by the Wings, and the refusal of that
party. when assembled in convention, to make
anv pledges of fidelity at, the ballot-box, to
the resolutions that were passed, banishes the
last hope, that that party in Massachusetts,
will cut loose from its Southern allies, and
act in this crisis for the maintenance of North
ern rights, against the usurpations of the slave
power.
While the Wings in most of the free States
of the Union are taking their stand with the
friends of freedom, of whatever party, and
under the leadership of their ablest men,
uniting in the only movement that gives the
least hope of success to the cause which they
profess to have so much at heart, the Wings
Of Massachusetts, alone stand out in open OPP
position. They cannot give up the old party
name. They cannot act with men who en-
terrain similar opinions to theirs, upon the
great question of the time, unless those men
will take upon themselves the name of Wing
a name which has become odious to the peo-
pie for its association with some of the basest
surrenders of Northern rights; and acts the
most cringing and cowardly servlity to the
slave power.
In Maine, in New York, in Ohio, in Wis
consin, in Vt, the Wing party and the Free
Democracy stand upon common ground in de-
fence Of a common cause. Party names and
past differences are all alike discarded, and
shoulder to shoulder they go into the contest,
animated by the same patriotic purpose, to
rescue the institutions Of the country from the
grasp Of slave-drivers, and to restore the con-
troll of the government to the hands of men
who will administer it in the spirit of and ac
cording to the intentof its founders. But in
Massachusetts, under the selfish and ill-ad-
vised dictation of their mercenary leaders, the
Wings stand aloof from the moyemnt, and,
desirous only of the spoils of Office, reject the
olive branch of peace and good will, and ask
the sufrages of their fellow citizens for ticket
which the rankest Wing slave driver in Yir-
ginia would cheerfully deposit in the ballot
box.
In this state of affairs, there is only one
course that the friends of freedom in Massa-
chusetts can with safety and with honor pur-
sue, and that is to go forward in the good
work they have already begun. To nominate
ticket which shall truly represent the senti-
ments of the people upon the all absorbing
question, which swallows up all others by its
importance, and to elect that ticket at the
polls. If the wings of Massachusetts will do
nothing but resolce, if they will reject in full
convention, resolution pledging themselves
to vote as they talk, if they will after the bit
ter experience of the past year, still hold the
Nebraska traitors to their hearts; then, only by
an overwhelming defeat of such party
can the true sentiments of Massachusetts peo-
pie be made manifest and her voice be made
potential in the national legislature against
new outrages and fresh aggressions.
1t is earnestly to be hoped, therefore, that
those who are willing to unite in some prac-
tical effort to roll back the tide of Southern
aggression, will lose no time in making ar
rangements in their respective towns, for a
full representation at the Republican Conven-
ton, which is to be held in this city, on the
Seventh of September. We know that the
best feeling exists among men OF all parties,
in the interior towns Of the State for fusion
of parties; for an union of men, regardless of
old distinctions, and old animosities, upon a
platform which shall be Republican IN the full
lest and best sense of that word. The Wings
of Massachusetts have seen fit to array them
selves in factious opposition to the course of
their own brethren in other States, and they
refuse to bury the Ratchet of opposition to the
friends of freedom in this. If they are defeat
ed, as surely they viii be, in the approaching
contest, they will have none to blame but
themselves, and, if in the final triumph of
freedom over slavery, which is sure to result
from the movement now commenced, they are
not among the yictors, the shame and the dis
grace win be theirs alone.