Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-11-22

| has, at least, " astonished the natives" what
ever may have been its effects upon foreigners
/ The " Know Nothings," who have swept the
"augean stable " OF Massachusetts clean of all
its former politics, were not less surprised than
others, that at the first tell swoop " they
should clear the political race course of every
! obstruction which threatened to block its own
rapid fight to victory. There may have been
! such revolutions and such victories before, but
we venture to say that there was never before
such revolution and such triumph with
out more distinct and palpable cause. The
immediate cause of the origin and sudden rise
OF the organization which has ostensibly gain
ed the victory, is unknown and Incompetent
sble, and more especially so to that vast
throng who have aided in the accomplish.
ment of its work. The Roman Catholic
Church and its sectaries, against which the
victorious organization raised its banners, has
been in existence some two thousand years,
and has never, in all that time been less dang
erous and vindictive than at the present time.
For years, before the organization of the
f." Know Nothing Rebellion, it had made no
invasion of our territories, and no assaults
upon our creeds or institutions, more than
proceeds from the quiet and constant protest
of its creed, which has existed for almost two
thousand years. What, then, was it that, all
at once, stimulated nearly so 900 men to sun
der all those ties which bound them to party,
and caused them to rally, with friends and
foes, into one compact mass of loving brothers,
sworn to act as one man for veal or woe, as
chance and change might dictate What was
that powerful and commanding impulse which
compelled or urged, at least forty thousand
men to vote in manner such as only a few
months before, they would bave regarded as
extremely offensive to their views and princi-
pies How happens it that we find, waiting
but for a couple of moons i'll order to take their
seats In the capitol 1.-THE Common wealth, and
at a later date, in the capitol of the nation, a
body of men who three months ago were no
more thought of for those places, than were
the persons composing the crews of the Ere
bus and Terror, the Inflated ships of the lost
Sir John Franklin? Who can answer these
questions That opposition to Roman Catho-
licsm had the chief to do in the business may
be the belief of few individuals.
If we are TO seek for the cause within the
empire OF reason and common sense, there may
be found other excuses Of more practical
kind, if not Of more commendable quality. In
the first place, the ambition of men-chiefy
oficals-for office, which could not be graft
fed but by the rallying Of vast numbers, serv-
ed to stimulate eXertion and to put in action
all available means for the increase Of the
order Second the temptation held out to the
humblest members that the highest offices
were not too high for that ambition which was
based on TIE elevated pillars of hatred to the
Roman Catholic and third and last, and we
would fain believe the true reason was seen
in the contemplate action of that party, which
has used its last two years of triumph in eA-
hibiting its contempt for all the people who do
not bow at its footstool, and confess its sureri
GRITTY. The Wing party by its recent conduct,
has illustrated its hypocrisy and meanness in
many ways not known to the people at large,
and in many other ways open to the public.
1t has shown its hypocrisy by refusing to join
the friends Of freedom in carrying forward the
plans which it falsely processes to favor; and
it has shown its inetfable meanness III all its
conduct towards the members of the opposi-
ton.
A meaner executive council than those
which have advised Clifford and Washburn,
has never sat or offciated in the State House.
A meaner Senate aud House of Representa-
tiyes has never legislated in the capitol of the
Commonwealth, than those which sat there
the past two years. To appoint fogie Wings
and Brad Wales hunkers to office, and to turn
out and insult the members Of the Free Soil
and Democratic parties, is all that has excited
either the luminosity or the ambition OF the
| Wing administrations of the past two years.
Il
ed its reward. Let it not lay the hattering
unction to its soul that it has received its
| death blow from a stranger party, which rose
| out of thick darkness and which it never saw
before. No, it has received the deadly thrust
from the stout hearts and unconquerable will
of the Free Sellers, who, from the retreat of
6 Know Nothingism,' have dealt them a final
retributary blow, for their past insolonce and
misdeeds. The people at large have long
been Of the opinion that The Wing party, as a
political party, with all its wealth, newspa-
pers, and lying professions, was tyranny
aud burden, but they have never been will
ling openly to confront it. By means of the
secret ballot, few years ago, they partially
strangled it, but the loss of that weapon dis
heartened them, aud they lay down in sloth
and despair for couple Of years but the
burden proved too heavy, and out of just re-
yenge for the loss of secret ballot, they adopt
ed secret organization and from the dark
and quiet recesses of that retreat they have
emerged, armed with the weapons of immedi-
ate and perfect humiliation. No party
ever deserved its mortal fate more. For the
| two years since it was resuscitated by the
combined Efforts of Wales Locos, and Irish
voters, it has strutted in pride and insoence,
| splitting its contempt at its opponents, but now
| it has fallen to rise no more.
MI OdlulIOL lletS HOI OIlIN dUdHuOuGQ lIS
sunken raft, but thousands of others have gone
along with him. He has been trusted with
faith stimulated by the strongest opposition to
the Wing party, and the strongest hopes that
he will not leave one stone upon another of
all the ruined and fallen temples of Wing
gerry. His Spartan brevity, which CLOVIS and
sparkles in his letter to Charles Allen will new
er permit him to countenance that contempti-
BILE trickery whereby all the Wing officers be-
came Know Nothings, in order to save their
bacon in case Of the fall of Whiggery.
He has been supported, defended, and elect
ed by men who would be Disguised at auch
hermaphrodte way as that of ekeing out the
dishonest life of Whiggery. Let him then en-
JOY his triumph like man. The Wings
have, during the past two years, and always,
set him an example which he should not fail
to initiate, even for their own good. Let him
commend the poisoned ehalice to their own
lips, or let him cease to rule. The fall of
Whiggery in Massachusetts is a most glorious
and happy event. The great and impossible
barrier against the union of the people, in d.
fence Of their rights and liberties has fallen,
and the dawn of better day is seen. Six
Free Sellers and two liberal Democrats in the
House OF Representatives and two Free Dem.
ocrats in the Senate Of the United States, and
"a majority Of Free Democrats i'll the House
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