Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-25
That Resolution.

The free soil journals don't muster " hon.
estv'' enough vet to tell their readers the truth
about the resolution that was once rejected by
their Worcester convention, but afterwards
passed not because the resolution was of any
Importance, for Amasa Walker and and the
other speakers all said it was not, but because
it would +" look bad" to leave the record as
the majority first made it. This resolution,
rejected on its merits, but passed avowedly to
save appearances and nothing more, was as
follows:
7. Resolped That the Republican party of
Massachusetts will not support any man for
office, who will not carry out the principles of
these resolutions.
When will the Northampton Courier mount
its conscientious spectacles, and look into this
little thingf
The above is from the Springfield Republican
of the 22d inst. We do not think it requires
any particular "muster of honesty" on the
part Of free soil journals to tell the whole
truth about the above resolution; as the truth
is no discredit TO them, however much it may
be discreditable to the Wings.
The resolves, drafted by the Committee on
Resolutions, of the Republican Convention,
were six in number, and were passed unani-
mously. The seventh was proposed by per-
son in the body of the hall, who evidently
proposed it because the Wing state committee
on resolutions had rejected it, and not because
it was necessary as a guarantee that the Re-
pubicans would act in conformity with their
principles. The resolution was proposed viua
coce, and was voted down.-lt was afterwards
reduced 10 writing, and was unanimously
adopted.
This is the truth about the resolution, in
connection with the Republican Convention /;
but there are other truths connected with it,
which are of more importance to the Spring
field Republican, and we will recapitulate
them.
The Wing party has resolved, again and
again, that Slavery is great moral wrong, 3
political evil, crying outrage, &c. and it
has resolved, also, that it was the duty of
f-eemen to oppose its progress by all legitimate
means.
But, with the VOWS Of freedom on the ly-
ing lips, this same whig party has given its
suffrages and elected to office, men, who pass
ed edicts which, for hostility to freedom and
cold-blooded inhumanity, throw all the acts
of Metternich and Nicholas into the shade.
They have spoken words of hope and promise
in their conventions, which they have belied
by their acts at the polls. They have prac-
ticed the most callous tyranny while profess
fba ola FOL IL
party, after abandoning, for several years, its
practice of passing anti-slavery resolves, re-
turns to that practice again, and asks the
public to have confidence in its professions,
is it not incumbent upon it to give some guar
antee that it will not also recur to its practice
of acting falselyf We think it is. Some
honest wing on the Committee of resolutions
at the State Convention, held in Boston,
thought SO also, and proposed the resolution
which the Springfield Republican is so anx-
ious to know the truth about. That resolu-
ton was printed in the regular series, but was
rejected by some wings who had the old spark
of treachery in their hearts. The old game
was intended, and, consequently, the article
pledglng the wing party to consistency in &C.
ton, was rejected.
But, as il it was meant to prove the dishon-
esty Of their new anti-slayery professions, the
wing papers in the country, and amongst
them the Springfield Republican, printed the
rejected resolution as one of those passed by
the Convention.
The Republicans had no occasion to pass
that resolution at their convention, but they
did so. The wings were called upon, by the
memory Of their past treachery and falsehood
to freedom, to pass that resolution,-the
were called upon by their hopes of future
public confidence to pass it--but they would
not do so. The people will remember this,
and pass judgment on the wing party in No
yember.