Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-04


Worcester, July s. 1864.
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The Springfield Repu5sica. says that the
Peoples Convention of the goth ult,, has done
nothing, absolutely nothing, to bring together
the anti Nebraska and ant-slavery sentiment
of Massachusetts,. As proof of this, it says
that ''not paper in the State, but those of
the Free Soil party, susta;ns and yindicates it.
There remains just the same wide line and
bitter feeling between the two sections of
Massachusetts, anti-slavery sentiment"
We have considerable respect for the Spring
field Republican. We admire its ability and
think well of its general independence. We
do not think, however, that it has manifested
either much sense of justice or show of rea-
son in the course it has pursued towards the
Convention. If the Republican could demon
strate that the action of the officers of the
Convention was not IN accordance with the
expressed will and purpose of its members,
then, we think, it would have cause to berate
the committees and speakers for doing
"what they ought not to have done" But
if the action of the officers met the entire ap-
proval Of the people for whom they acted, who
has any right to complain of thems
Have the men who, previous to the meet
ing of the Convention, prognosticated all
manner of things to prejudices the people
against it, and who themselves staid away
from it, any cause to complains Have the
men who, previous to the meeting of the
Convention, had come to the conclusion that
it would accomplish nothing, any reasonable
cause to find fault with its proceedings We
think not; and yet, these are the only per-
sons who do find fault about it. There was
not a Wing paper in the State, with perhaps
the exception of the Republican, that gave any
eountenance to the Convention. 1t was ridi-
culed and sneered at by them all and now,
they nisrepresent, distort, and falsify its pro-
ceedings. They did not wish it to succeed
but when they saw that their wishes and
words had not destroyed its success, they de-
seribed it as they had wished to describe it,
and not as it was. Party feeling and party
objects kept them away from this Convention,
which was called to consider question of
universal importance; and the same feelings
and objects induce them now. to denounce it
as failure and trick.
1t seems to us that the fault-fnding of the
Wings imposes certain duty upon them. If
grave blunders have been committed by the
late Convention, let the Wings remedy them.
If they are sincere in their anti-slayery profess
sions, they can easily remedy any mistake made
by the July Convention. They number sufi-
cient to do SO if they only have sincerity. But
nobody expects that they will do any such
thing. The general feeling, amongst dispas-
sionate, rejecting men, in the community is,
that the wing leaders, desire to retain exclu-
sive possession OF the State Offices and for this
reason Will not abandon their organization,
although as national party, the wing party
is now only a myth. This may be doing
those men injustice, but it is matter of
general belief; and, until the wings exhibit
more patriotism and less partizanship, it will
always continue to be so.
The slave power is extending itself every
day. Kansas and Nebraska had no sooner
fallen into its embrace, than renewal of the
African slave trade was proposed; and now
the annexation of Cuba, with its negro slavery
and intolerant papaI bigotry, is, with the sla-
very propaganda, only question of time. In
the face of these gigantic aggressions upon
freedom; and in despite of the vital necessity
which exists, to resolutely oppose them, the
wing party of Massachusetts, does not seek to
rally the friends of freedom but does all it
can, unfairly, to destroy the strength Of those
who do. 1t is sad spectacle; but we at least
are not responsible for it.
We are sorry to be compelled to believe that
freedom can never expect any aid from the
leaders of the wings until, by some means or
other, the prestige of their strength as par
ty, has been destroyed. But while our faith
in the old parties is small, we still believe in
the people. We believe that they love liberty
more than they love old party fables and names;
and we believe also, that while the leaders of
the old parties propose to play over their old
political games, the people will, like freemen,
dispose of the great question of freedom YER
sus slavery, which now presents itself before
all other issues in the country.
A MEETING was held i'll New York, on
Wednesday evening End inst, at the Broad
way Tabernacle, for the purpose Of organizing
society under the name of the 'New York
Kansas League, to cooperate with the En-
igrant aid Company, and to hear an explana-
lion OF the objects and operations of the COM
pany, from Eli Thayer, of Worcester, Mass.
A business committee was appointed, and the
meeting, which was very full. adjourned, to
meet again at the same place next Wednesday
evening.
e SHocKTNo TRAGEDY.-At Brooklyn, N. Y. I.
on the night Of the I'd inst, man named S.
N. J. Tucker. editor of the Brooklyn Daily