Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-08-21
Cbe Daily SPY.
W0YDAY, AUGUST FL, 1884.


resolutions of their recent Convention, as an
evidence that the party has at last taken po-
sition that cannot fail to satisfy any reasona-
bic anti-slaveryl man of its soundness on the
whole question of slavery, and both presses
and politicians Of that school speak and act as
if there was nothing else to be done, by anti
slavery men of any party, but to fall into line
with Massachusetts, Whiggery, and assist in
the re election of Washburn and Plunkett.
We have already exposed the audacious
falsehood of the first resolution, and we pro-
pose tod day to say few words about the rest
of the series, which those who passed them
claim to be as radical in their character, as any
Free Democrat could desire.
With some few unimportant variations,
these resolves are very similar to those which
the Wings of Massachusetts have adopted and
endorsed at their political conventions, again
and again, but, as in past times, the leaders
never intended to abide by their resolutions,
and never did so, there is no evidence that
they will DO any better for the future. On
the contrary, there is the best evidence to
show that those resolutions are put forward as
the present time by the active leaders,
for the purpose of humbugging the honest
snti-slayery men in their party, or in the
classic language Of Hon. Moses Kimball, at
the Wing Convention in 1851, sto gull the
fats who in the face of all the servile acts of
the Wing party, done at the bidding of the
slave power, still live in that strange delusion,
that it is the true anti-sl&yery party of the
country.
Butitis said the Wings of Massachusetts, adopt
them all with one voice. Well, what signif-
canoe is there in that, of any determination to
act in the spirit of them Is there clause or
line in one of them which rebukes the COM
pro Mise breakers of their own party, and re-
minds them that henceforth they are cut off
from all hope Of receiving any support from
them as members of the Wing party? Is
there a clause or line in one of them which
would stay the hand of Massachusetts, Wing
from voting for such dough faces as Everett or
Winthrop for the Senate, Or such servile tools
of the slave power as Loring, Curtis, and
Lord, Tor any Office within the gift of the peo-
pie Not one Those resolutions were in
tended to be imperative and void, by those
who made them, and those intentions were
well carried out.
Some member of the committee, in the
honesty Of his heart, thinking that something
more than mere words would be requisite to
inspire the people with confidence in Wing
resolutions at this time, proposed resolve
which would have operated as an indication
of sincerity on the part of Wings. 1t was
as follows;
Resolced, That the Wings of Massachusetts
will support no man for office, State or Ma
tional, whose convictions of duty upon the
subiectsof slavery do not substantially coincide
with the principles set forth in these resolu-
tons.
That resolpe soas voted do,On in the COM
mittee, and it was never reported or acted up
on in the convention. The old hunkers of
the party who voted behind the curtain, and
managed the wire pulling, could see the ne
cessity of a sort of an nti-slavery platform,
but they had no wish to see its strength tested,
il such way as would endanger their stand
ing upon the old Baltimore platform of the
national Wing party, and they insisted that
no such test should be introduced. They
were perfectly willing that country Wings
should have some anti slavery resoiUes, but
they did not wish that these resolves should
interfere with their right as members of the
party, to vote for Willard Fillmore or Geo. E.
Badger, in 1856, if the national convention of
Irrational Wings should put either of them
forward for the presidency; and so the reso-
buttons we're emasculated, as we have seen,
and the hunkers carried their point.
Some very honest and well meaning, but
not very seeing wings, affect to believe that
whatever may have been the seryile and pro-
slavery course ofthe wing party heretofore, it
is all right now. Their great mistake lies in
the fact that they are willing to accept resohs-
tons instead of Actions aoordS instead of deeds.
They forget that memorable wing convention
in,Springield, in 1S47 when the wings of
Massachusetts adopted all sorts of Anti Slavery
resolutions, but when asked by a prominent
member Of the party 10 add an additional
resolve, as test of their sincerity they refused.
That Resolve was in these words
Resolued, That the Wings of Massachusetts
will support no man for the offices of Presi-
dent and Vice President, but those who are
known BY their acts and declared opinions to
De opposed 10 the extension Of siarery.
Mr., Winthrop, of Boston, opposed the Re-
solution in a speech of some length, and
though It was sustained by the eloquence of
Charles Allen, Charles Sumner, Charles Fran
els Adams, John G. Pafrey, ]. c. Gray, and
VIM. Dwight, it was defeated by decisive
vote. The defeat Of the resolution of similar
import, by the Convention at Boston, in 1854,
shows just the degree of Anti Slavery which
the Wing party of Massachusetts, has attained
to at the present time, and if there is any
- Wing in the State who in view of the past
history Of that party, after comparing its re-
solves with its acts, its high sounding profess
sions with its deeds in these intervening years.
still believes that the Wing party is "the true
Anti-Slayery party" of the country, the only
hope of the country, and that it will do aught
to counteract or resist the encroachments of
the slave power, let him still continue
to put faith in Wing resolves and
embrace the last opportunity which will
ever be offered him of voting for Wash
burn and Plunkett. The men who left the
Wing party in l84S are not to be deceived by