Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-10-05
Wig District Conveulion.

THE wing district Convention, for the NOM
nation Of candidate for representative, from
the Ninth Congressional district, was not a
harmonious convention. There was an al
most equal division of those composing it, up
on the question of nominating straight
out-whig' in opposition to Colonel Dewitt,
the present representative of the district. Col.
Bullock, of this city, proposed that the wings
should not makea nomination, at present, but
should acquiesce in the re election of Hon.
Alex. Dewitt, who had been q strenuous OPP
ponent Of the Kanzas- n ebraska bill. Mr.. E.
W. Lincoln, of this city, opposed this propo-
sition, on the ground that it would be viz
tual endorsement of the course of the Free
Soil party and of the coalition.
The discussion was carried on by the "Softs"
in mild and gentlemanly manner. The
lizards" led by Col. ARENAS Lee, of Tenn
pleton, were coarse, bitter, and vituperative-
especially towards Hon. Alex. Dewitt. They
admirably illustrated the hypocrisy of the
professions made by the wing presses of this
State Immediately after the passage of the
Nebraska bill, namely, that the wing party of
Massachusetts would sustain and help to re-
turn to Congress, every Free Soiler, and ev-
cry Democrat who had combatted the Nebras-
ka iniauity. In the constant misrepresenta-
ton and denunciation, by the wings, Of the
Hon. n. P. Banks and in the bitter person.
alities INDUCED in at the Ninth district, wing,
convention, Wednesday, towards Hon. Alex
ander Dewitt, we see what amount of SINGER
ity thsre was in those professions.
When the precipitancy of mans hatreds
hurries on his tongue to utter them, truth,
which is the essence of debate, and courtesy,
which is its most comely garment are always
certain to suffer. This was eminently the
case so far as Col. Lee of Templeton was con-
cerned. After all his pretensions of love for
the Wing party; after all his assumptions Of
patriotism, self respect, and high toned in
tegrity, (the grounds on which he professedly
secuted the idea of I" permitting Col. De-
Witt to be reelected without contest, hC
finally admitted that he had feeling of per.
sonal hostility towards our present representa-
tive. This was evidently, the true source o
his abuse, the moving cause of his knit brow
compressed lips, glistening eyes, twitchini
cheeks, and kissing utterance, when he men
toned the name of Alexander Dewitt.
There is one gentleman, however, who W
must exonerate from saying anything sever
of the Free Sellers at the Convention W
mean Major General Hobbs. He probabl.
would have been severe if he could. He triet
to be, but he couldn't. He spoke loud, as
Major General should do. He took the whole
Mexican war and the officers who served in
it, captive to his oratorical genius, land paraded
them before the Convention IN the form o.
metaphors, poetical illusions, and logical illus
trations. He tainted with Frank Pierce; and
tumbled into the Matamoras Ditch with "that
other hero much to the amusement of his
friends. But though he tried to defame Col.
Dewitt, he was perfectly harmless. Such
bufoonery as the Generals is great relief to
the rigid procedure of such grave assemblages
as political conventions. Our Anglo Saxon
ancestors had testers to intermit with their
educated follies, the more serious details Of
business. Why then, should Wing Con.
vention not have its Hobbs?
We do not see that, we have any reason to
find fault with the action of the Convention.
We have never believed since lS48, that the
Wing party assuch, has possessed one sincere
anti-slavery idea. Their course on Wednes-
day tended to confirm that belief.