Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-11-08


We have read with care-indeed we may
say with calm and critical scrutiny-the ad
dress of Judge Allen to the electors of Massa-
chusetts, and can deliberately say, that the
man who is not convinced of its substantial
business, and its conclusiveness as a refutation
of Mr.. Gardeners rash and monstrous asser-
tons, denials, and professions, is not in a
state of mind to be argued with, and had bet
ter be left to himself till his reason and con-
science shall, in some good degree, have been
restored to him.
The only question with men of discernment,
with men who mean to be right and to do
right-if indeed with such men such matters
can for moment be observation-disclosures now
to be, whether, as electors of Massachusetts,
they will consent to vote for one as their Chief
Magistrate who stands responsibility charged
with so many glaring falsehoods-one who is
false to temperance, false to freedom, false to
the party he has never acted with, false to the
party he has yet more recently left, false to
the party he has yet more recently Joined, ha-
bitually and grossly false to his boosted pledge
of fourteen years, false to his foes false to his
friends, false to himself, false to the freemen
of Massachusetts,, Of every political name,
IalSe 10 Gne - OnlOll, It's 1neu anu IneaSuTeS,
false to the world, and false to Heaven In
such a case the plea of penitence and the look
of contrition will never do-no, never. They
are but the tears of the crocodile with an in
FAINT in its jaws. Genuine repentance is hon.
est sincerity is its essence. A lying repent
ance is a sollcism. An insincere profession of
it is but a double traud-a mockery of all
truth-an hypocrisy that should be secured
from the earth, and is sure never to rise above
it. Massachusetts should be the last State to
tolerate such q guest-much more, to elevate
to chief honor one whose right hand is full of
falsehoods.
The time has never been, when Massachu-
sets could so dishonor herself as even to
think, in her most excited and unguarded
hour, of such man to make and execute her
laws, to hold in his hand all the most respon-
sible nominations to places of high honor and
of holy trust, and to stand before the whole
country and the world as the representative
of her principles and her rights. Should she
now abandon her ancient and as yet unsullied
renown, and descend to an abasement so
deep, she will, i'll the clearest light, publish
her own shame to the world, and knowingly
spread blot over her history which no COM
ing ages will be able to wipe out.
But the freemen of Massachusetts, will do
no such thing We would hope that they
will not be so untrue to conscience as to hest
tate for moment, or to suffer any seeming
friend to tamper with its ready dictates. 1t is
no time for parleying, for indecision, to stare
and to stand agape for demagogues to oil
their tongues and blow dust into our eyes,
The promptness of an instant aud unmistake-
able rebuke, will be conscious honor to the
present, and salutary lesson for the future.
On this matter there is now left no room for
an honest mistake. The blind are they who
shut their eyes. The upright will see, cannot
but see, that no coveting of Office, no hope of
employment, no lure of gold, no tie of friend
ship, no social pledge, no secret oath, however
smposing its solemnities, has any right to in
terfere with the sacred honor of the State,
the public veal, the open obligations of free
tmen, and the dictates Of common honesty.
CATO.