Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-28
Gbe 4ailp SPY.
MONDAY. AUGUST %, 1854.

course OF Mr.. ELIOT, III SohStesS' lhahes cAe
following remarks
The course now being pursued by the
Commonwealth, the Worcester Spy, and the
Standard, leaves no doubt about the policy of
their party A few weeks ago they were in
favor of uniou-of fusion Of parties
They had no motive but to oppose slavery en-
croachmelts. But their conduct now shows
the cloyen foot, and is sufficient to convince
any rejecting man that they have personal
ends to crafty which they do not care openly
to avow. They sec that the Wing party have
taken high grounds in opposition to slavery,
aud they must do something to satisfy those
they have led for the last few years, that they
are little better than any Wing can be; and
hence they complain that Mr.. Eliot went too
fast and too far.
In relation to the charge that we have
ever complained of Mr.. Eliot. or his course,
it is entirely destitute of truth. When can
didate for Representative, we preferred his
election, we have seen no cause to complain
of his course and were he now up for re-
election, we should wish him success, unless
there Were a favorable prospect OF electng
some other person, of the same general views
on the slavery question, who was disconnect'
and who would, therefore stand in more
indie pendent position. The Commonwealth
has ;lso dtnied the truth of this statement, so
far as j at ploer is concerned.
But, o.. pr ncipal object is to notice the
"oily CANNON of the other portions of this
paragraph. 1t seems that the atlas has made
the remarkable discovery, that our course
"leaves no doubt about the policy of our par
ty." If the atlas has entertained any doubts,
at any time, in that respect, we presume 1t
has stood alone. What ground 1t could have
for doubt, is more than we can imagine 1t
says that " few weeks ago, they We're IN IA
vor of union-of fusion of parties. 80
we were, and so we are still, and we have
taken the best possible means, both of proving
our sincerity and of giving efficacy to our
wishes. When a convention was called, of
ALL, without distinction of party, who
agreed in opposing slavery entertainments we
entered cordially into the movement, and then
and there consented to sacrifice our own party
organization, and our cherished party name,
for the sake of such union. But the Atlas
and its CO workers, expressing the same opin-
ions and the same aspirations, stood aloot, IN
a sort Of pharisaieal "we-are- holier-than-
you attitude, and, SO far as they are con-
cerned, defeated the full accomplishment of
an object so desirable to every true patriot.
If we understand the Atlas, it would have
the inference drawn, that those who desire
union Of all the anti-slavery sentiment of the
State into one party. should unite themselves
to the Wing party. A more preposterous
idea than this never entered the brain of any
man having the least pretensions to sanity
The Atlas says. in furtherance of its position,
that 'the Wing party have taken high
grounds in opposition to slavery" This de-
claraton is simply false The only "grounds"
that the Wing party have taken in reference
to slavery have been in its favor A Wing
administration carried through all that batch
of denominations, the Fugitive Slave Law
and its associate eompro misses, which were so
abhorrent that no Democratic administration
ever dared to propose them. When they had
once been defeated, under the lead of Henry
Clay, the giant Wing orator of Massachusetts
came to tie rescue, and, by the force of his
intellect, resuscitated them, and secured their
passage. Subsequently, at the last Wing Ma
tional Convention, all these measures were
endorsed, declared fnality, and proclaimed
as an integral portion of the PLATFORM OF
THE WING PARTY.
But, say our Wing friends, " the Wings of
Massachusetts do not approve of that plat
form" So much the worse for them. then, in
consenting to stand upon it. But they
may say, awe do not consent to stand upon
it did we not pass famous anti slavery reso-
lutions at our State Convention = True, they
did pass some very passable resolutions at that
Convention, but they passed no resolution re-
pudiating the Baltimore platform. They pass
ed no resolution that they would not again go
into convention at Baltimore or any other
place, with Toombs, aud Stevens, and Badger,
and Dixon, or any other Of the most ultra pro-
slavery fanatics, and submit their con-
sciences aud their action to their dictation.-
Had they done SO, they would no long
er have belonged to the Wing party.
The position of the Wing party of Massa-
chusetts, considered aside from its connection
with the National party, is antogonstic to
freedom. The only hope of defeating the
present administration, or the slave power, is
by a concentration of action of the opponents
of slavery. In several Of the States union
has been formed, under the name of the Re-
publican party, with the most hopeful pros
poets of success. In the midst of this move
ment, the Wing organization of Massachu-
sets places itself IN opposition to it, and thus
gives aid and comfort to the slave power. By
BY so doing, it may somewhat retard the day
of our triumph. but it has also sealed its own
doom. The fgolden opportunity which was
presented it has been recklessly flung aside,
and November will assuredly PROSTATE it to
the ground, and leave its candidates in a
hopeless minority.
Theye was rain in New York last Friday
night, and in Springfield Saturday morning.
In this city, we had fine shower on Satur-
day evening" and it continued cloudy. with am
easteriy WIND. through the day yesterday.
PORTABLE AND UNPIcKABLE Door FAsrpx
Ell, or Travellers Lock, is the name given to
new, very simple, and vet efficient little
continuance for fastening chamber doors or
windows, on the inside. 1t is just the thing