Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-26
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S1TTRDAY, AUGUST &c, 1884,
The Whix Party.


er Wing papers, which attempt to prove that
the Wing party now stands on true anti
slavery ground, and which are so lavish of
their censures of us, for not concedingto them
that position, and for Withholding from them
our confidence in the sincerity of the anti
slavery professions which they now make.
The Wing party, if it have any existence at
all, must, we suppose, exist as unit; for we
arc told on the best authority, that house
divided against itself must fall. That unit,
called the Wing party, met by its delegates in
convention at Philadelphia, and there cstab-
lished its platform of principles and of action.
1t adopted the bloody and unconstitutional
Fugitive Slave Law, which Wing admins
tration had enacted, with all its denominations
its abrogation of the writ of habeas corpus,
and of the right of the citizen to a trial by
Jury, as a part of its platform. 1t also adopt
ed as a part of its platform, the other COM
promise laws by which slavery was legalized
in the immense regions of New Mexico and
Utah, where it was before excluded. They
went further, and declared those acts FL
NALTTY, and denounced any attempts to re-
peal them, or further to agitate the question
of slavery, whatever might be the aggressions
of the slave power.
Such is the position Of the WING PARTY,
and such is the PLATFORM on sehich IT STANDS
AT THIS MOMENT-in position, and on
a platform, repulsive to the feelings of every
true patriot and liberty-loying citizen. Every
man who adheres to the party, by so doing
sustains this position, and every man who
votes for its candidates, votes to carry out and
enforce the principles of that bloody platform.
Let it not be said, as it has sometimes been
said, that the Wings of Massachusetts have
repudiated that platform. When, and where,
we ask, have they done it The Wings of
Massachusetts,, forming but fractional por-
ton of the party, cannot repudiate it, and
remain in the party. They have no such
power, even if they had the disposition, and
we have never seen any indications of dis
position to do it, in those who control the
action of the party. They had the opportu-
nifty at the late State Convention, and, though
a resolution, looking in that direction, was
prepared, it was smothered in the Committee
and never permitted to come before the Con-
vention. 1t is very true, that, on that occa-
sion, some very well sounding resolutions,
quite inconsistent with the position Of the
party, were adopted; but better and stronger
resolutions were adopted by the party, time
1ofo,- 4l,n Of fha E,,u
Slave Law yet they did not prevent the
enactment of that iniquity, or the subsequent
ratification of it by the Baltimore Convention
which established the partys platform. By
the refusal to pass any resolution which
~ .~.Al5n the action of the party conform
to the re3oluuons, and Lnus Civ ,.--A.. l..
them, they fell to the ground, as stillborn alb
stractions, as it was intended, by tho leading
spirits, that they should The .Egis &C.
knowledge as much, and every well-informed
Wing, if he would be candid, would be COM
PEELED to acknowledge it.
We confess, that for time, after the per-
petration of the Nebraska outrage, when the
Wing papers were making such loud outcries
against it, and declaring that the time had
now come when all who were opposed to the
aggressions of the slave power, should unite
to oppose it, we were deceived by the tone of
apparent sincerity which they assumed, and
believed them to be honest in their profess
sions. We therefore cordially assented to the
proposition for such a union, and were will
ling to abandon our own organization, to fa-
cilitate it. We united in rendering the oil, e
branch to those, of whatever name, who were
heretofore oppo sedto us, but who now agreed
with us on the great questions which SO
deeply agitate the community.
But when we saw admonitions, at first eau
tiously thrown out in the leading Wing pa
pers, against attending the Union Convention,
and when little later, the symbol of harmony
and peace was openly spurued, we were sat
isfed that we had given them too much credit
for sincerity, and that they were but enact
ing their former game of fraud and deceit
This was the more obvious, because, if they
had been sincere, there was no possible OBJ
lection to their uniting cordially in that con-
vention. By reason of their numbers, the
convention would have been i'll their own
hands they could have completely controlled
its action, and formed just such platform as
they chose, and afterwards could have die
( tated the nominations which should be made
by the new party. But the leaders saw, that
90 large an accession of the ant-slavery ele-
ment as the Free Sellers would bring to tie
party, would enable that section to hold them
to their resolutions, and compel them to do as
well as to say, or drive them from the party.
1t was this, and this alone, that dictated their
course. They have thus been enabled
to retain the organization of the party,
but large numbers of its members, seeing
and feeling the position in which they stand,
processing anti-slavery sentiments, vet, in
point of fact, the most efficient and reliable
allies of the slave power-will leave it, and
join the great Republican party, in this most
Loly warfare against the slave power.
For the Pierce and Douglas Democrats,
who, with a bold and open front, avow them
selves the upholders and defenders of slavery
and the slave power, and attempt to justify
themselves in it, we have feeling, approach
ing, in some Sort to respect. There is kind
of sublime audacity in their iniquity, which
reminds one ofMilton's Lucifer, who, though
devil damned was still an archangel