Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-10-04
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.


The hTt'iIfeeneer is highly gratiaed with
the action Of the recent Mass achusetts Wing
State Convention. ]. Thomas Stevenson, ESQ :,
the President, on taking the chair, delivered
m ABLE address, from which, to show its tone
and temper, we extract as follows:
He said that they had been sent up here
to nominate good, steadfast and unseduced
hlgs tor all offices to be flledat the coming
election. They had no new principles to avow,
no Few doctrines to promulgate, no new lights
as guides into new channels or as alurements
into the rocks and shoals. 1t was their duty
10 nominate Wing Governor for the Wing
state OF Massachusetts,. The Wings stood, as
they ever stood, On their old found ations, deep
ana broad enough for the whole country, and
they VIII not, at the bidding of any leaders
undertake TO entTench themselves in any cas-
Ties OF the air, no matter how gorgeous the
clouds upon which they rest He spoke ut
length IN denunciation Of the new fusion move
ment, which he called an old party under a
new alias, and declared that in regard to the
slavery question within the limits of the Con-
stltut'on no step Of the W higs will be wantir z,
aIc without Its limits no step will be taken
IN conclusion he said, some argue that the
Wing party is dead but they would find fire
IN It's ashes and life in its shade. Those Wings
VINO have joined the Fusion party would soon
90 tired OF the crooked paths they will have
10 travel and be back to the old homestead.
H. however, tie old Wing ship is to 90 down,
be would rather go down with her, with the
nag oEthe Union flying at her masthead, than
10 &c left to struggle for life in mid-o.ean on
single plank, with the mutinous crew who
bad scuttled ard deserted her. Under the
old ships flag, emblazoned on one side with
tod save the Commonwealth Of Massachu-
sattS, and upon tho other God save the Uni.
ted States Of America a victory would be
worth glorying in, and a defeat would be with
out dsho1o-."
lie following is the Mteiltgencer's sum-
mary Of the resolutions adopted, viz:
They declare that the Wing party should
aow, more than ever, keep itself from entar-
cling alliances; that they are now, as ever,
the party vt the Constitution. They repu-
dl4tc the personal liberty BILL" passed by
tie late Legislature of Massachusetts,, al
advocate Its erasure from the statute-book :;
they declare that the present liquor law is a
failure, and go for law which is constitu-
tlonal and will promote the cause of temper
ance; that the organization of Northern
national party on the single issue of opposi-
ton 10 slavery would endangcr the existence
OF the Union. and the defeat of it would par-
aiyze the existence of the Northern sentiment.
II union of parties should ever become ne .
cessaIy, II must be n union of national patrie
otS Of all PaTtiesof the Union to resist the az
griSsion OF fanatieism.'
The following is the ticket for State officers
then anu there nominated:
Governcr-Hon. Samuel H. VALLEY
Lieutenant Governor-Moses Davenport.
oecretsTy of State-W. L. Davis
Attorney General-Reuben A. Chapman.
State TTeasuTer-John Sargent.
AuditoT-Jos Mitchell.
The Union contains an able PHILADELPHIA
letter: from Colonel Forney, we presume. de.
ecrialng the present condition of PENNSYLVANIA
politics, and hoping for little aid from the
wings iEoE the DemOcrat.) in the approaching
election there. 1t strikes US tn at he does not
give sufficient weight to, and place sufficient
roLtde1eS in, the conservatism of the real
wings Of that State. Ths Union also repub.
fishes one Of Dir. Thsyer's rose-colored letters
RON San Juan, about the Kinney expedition.
addressed 10 the United States organ of the fiji.
busters, the New York Erening Post Thayer
Is kidneys Secretary Of State. The Union,
ID republiahing this letter, fails to express the
Adniristration's emphatic disapprobation Of
al that Kinney and Walker have done and are
doing IN Central America. 1t is well known
20 all in Washington, who will take the trou.
bic to converse with any member of the Ad-
IninistIation, that they arc as emphatically op-
posed to the proceedings of the American free
hooters in Central America as it is possible for
aGovcrrment TO be. We deem this statement
Of the fact necessary, least the public should
essay to corfound the sentiments of the Ad-
ninistration on the subject with those of the
Union.