Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-11-21

git is somewhat interesting to see how
some of the Wing papers, since the elections,
"speak out" as if they had found a new
tongue, wherewithal to speak. Six months
ago, if the Free Sellers said the same things
that they now say of the party, and they did,
sometimes, say them, no language was too
strong, and no denunciation too bitter to be
let loose upon us for such presumption.
Among the papers whose editors eyes have
been anointed by the election, not so that they
see "men, as trees, walking" but SO that, in
some degree, they see things as they are, is
the Fitchburg ReveiHe. That paper has dis
covered that
"The question of slavery underlies the
whole public sentiment, and hostility to
its extension, another mile must be great
plank in the platform of any political organi-
cation at the North which hopes for year of
vitality
An apt scholar, one would suppose, might
have found this out sooner, as the Free Soil
ers have proclaimed it for the last six years.
till, now, those who most strenuously denied
it, are forced into the conviction of its truth.
The wing party has existed for years, not by
any inherent vitality, for it has had no dis
tinctive principles, but simply by force of a
thorough organization, by which the masses
were controlled and managed, for the benefit
of the leaders. So thorough, SO determined,
so proscriptive, and so relentless, was this Or
ganization, that few dared attempt, even, to
break away from it. When any did leave it,
they were sure to feel the vengeance of those
they had left. They were prescribed, not
only politically, but socially and pecuniarily,
and years would roll away, with scarcely an
abatement of the virulence of that pIoscrip-
ton. 1t was always the policy of the party,
to "shoot the deserters." Controlling, as it
did,the wealth, and the political and social in
huence of the community, it is not, perhaps,
strange, that SO many were SO long retained,
by dread of the consequences to themselves,
within the organization. Nor is it strange,
knowing the means by which they were re-
tanned, that they embraced the first opportu-
nifty that offered, secretly and unobserved, to
escape from it.
The Reveihe seems now to understand the
matter. 1t says
"The Wing party is the object of hatred
too deep and strong ever to be overcome. All
who have left it, all who have failed of their
hopes in it, hnte it,
Men do not hate without a cause, and as
the fugitive slave hates the institution from
which he has fed, SO do those hate the thral-
dom of the Wing party, who have escaped
from its control. Why should they not The
Rere'Ile says very truly of the party, what we
have often said, and for saying which we have
received no small share of abuse from the
ReCetIIe's coadjutorsit says
I" The Wing party of Massachusetts has
been always too much under the control of
fogyisna; its leading men have not understood
the people, and the people after years of patient
federation, have turned and broken 10 frag.
ments the organization which allowed itself to
be ruled BY a clique af men sohOse piston is
bounded on the scest BY the matters of Back Bay.
To do the work they adopted the most con-
yenient and effective means, without much
inquiry into their character, or the probable