Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-27


IF ever there was deliberative body which de-
served this title, and which exhibited a general
caying in to the slave power, it is the which,
protesting to represent, exclusively, the Free
States met at Cincinnati on the 22d and 23d inst,
avowedly as representingthe adherents of the mi
nority platform rejected at the National X. Moth
ing Convention in June last. Well, they got to.
gether. with as was generally supposed, the de-
cided understanding that the separation at Phila
dephia was fnal and what do they dol Why,
the full accounts, now received, but render still
more humiliating their subssTyency. than the
earlier reports indicated. They did not adept, as
has been stated, the minority resolution rejected
at Philadelphia; their action,it turns oatamonnts
merely to recommendation Of is adoption, lat
the proposed session of the Natimal Council, td
be held at Philadelphia on the l9th of February
next. in lieu of the 18th section of the national
platform"
So. it seems, this doughface body took it for
granted in the outset. that they had 40. bolted
from the national = body at all! And lest
it might be imagined that there did exist any
such division, they adopted the majority report
of their select committee on resolutions
recommending 10 the National Council which
next meets at Philadelphia, an amendment 10
the Philadelphia platform, the same thing which
was rejected last June, and which they knew would
be rejected with equal if not greater pertinacitv,
next February--assembled, as that body will then
be, under slaveholding influences from Washing
ton, which will be brought to bear with great po-
tency upon them.
What humiliating spectacle does this present,
of body of men, selected for the purposes for
which they were ostensibly chosen, getting to-
gether and surrendering themselves without a
murmur into the hands of those from whom their
constituents supposed they had become forever
disconnected. Panied are we to say it, even the
thirteen votes of Massachusetts were given for
this humiliating proposition, although but FIVE of
her delegates were actually present, and but one
spoke, and he favored it in a trucking speech
viii their constituents sustain them in this
treacheryf Will Governor Gardner and Lieuten-
ant Governor Benchley and others, sanction this
unwarrantable use of their names, without their
presence? We shall see.
The key note to the diabolsm of the whole
transaction. was well expressed by that consum
mate doughface, Stephen NJ. Allen, who alone of
the whole delegation from the Old Bay State,
chosen under such aalti-slarery auspices at the
Know Nothing State Council held in this city on
the 18th instant, had the pluck or bare-facedness
to speak in that Convention at all. And he, for
getfal of the "Springfeld Platform" on which
he had hypocritically protested to stand at home,
got up in Cincinnati and offered resolution task
ing the Grand Council, which meets at Philadel
phia next February, to make platform on which
the North and South can both stand, Stating that
that body might fix up plan to unite both Sec
tions again in national organization. And it
was for this Object that the Cincinnati body sub
sequently agreed to adjourn to Philadelphia three
days before the meeting of that Council, to fix
up" matters to that end, and unite them all again
in pro-slavery body.
The telegraphic accounts state that there was
noisy debate in the Convention upon this prop
osition to accept the majority report of the COM
mittee on resolutions, and sell out to the slave
power, and that it was finally carried by a unani-
nous vote of the Ss~tsss= of Pennsylvania, giving
~ votes, Illinois IL, Indiana 10, Massachusetts
ID, Wisconsin 5, Vermont 5, and Rhode Island 4
while Ohio stood yeas Is, nays g. and Michigan
yeas to nays. Total yote-yeas &c. nays II.
resolution offered by Mr. Gossler Of Pennsyl.
vania requesting the Grand Council IL e. the Ma.
tional body TO expunge the 18th section, and ex
clude the slavery question altogether from the
national platform, was lost. This shows the tone
of the Convention, and proves that it was their
desire and intent to unite again in national body
with pro-slavery platform.
Mr.. COrwin of Ohio offered the following, (which
was lost -
Resolved, That we are ready to meet our broth
ers Of other States in National Convention and
nominate candidates for President and Vice Pres.
ident, whose claims are based upon their patriot
ism, love of country and adherence to the Con-
stitution.
This resolution, undoubtedly, had reference to
union with the Republicans and others in the
Free States on the Freedom issue, and shared the
same fate with the minority report of the commit
tee on resolutions, made by Mr. Spencer also Of
Ohio, which was SO unanimously laid upon The
table. Upon the whole, the Convention in ques-
ton was a complete doughface affair, and its do
ings deserve universal execration at the hands of
every freeman.