Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-05

We trust that the Friends of Freedom In Wor
cester County, the men who really love the cause
of the slave, and who desire to give the weight of
their political influence in opposition to the en-
croachments Of the slave power are fully prepared
for the contest Of the morrow. We trust that
they have made up their minds, that vote for
Erasmus D. Beach, is an endorsement of the
Kanxas Nebraska Act, and of the corrupt, prof.
gate and pro slavery of the present nation
al administration and that vote for Julius
Rockwell is a vote against the Kanzas Nebraska
Act, and the corrupt proAigate and pro.slavery
course of the present national administration
We trust. also, that they have made up their
minds that vote for Henry ]. Gardner, is a vote
for man whose whole past political career has
shown that his tendencies are on the side of the
most ultra bunker Whiggery, of the straitest Of
that sect. From his youth up, he has been a
firm and reliable advocate of the doctrines of
Daniel Webster's seventh of March speech, and
even when elected to office by Anti-Slayery men,
with professions of Anti-Slsvery principles on his
lips, he showed by his conduct in that Office that
his devotion to the cause of Freedom was a mere
lip service devotion only, and when the trial
hour came be proved recreant to his professions
placed himself between the virtuous indignation
of the people and the unjust judge, Loring, who
for the paity fee Of Eve dollars consigned
law and evidence, fellow man to slavery, in OF
der to crafty the slave hunters of the South.
We trust that the opposition of Gov. Gardner
q 1sfyea fs seru or sIgIrse6tS enacflfenI
are 80 well understood at the present time, that
no man will cast his vote for him, under the de-
lusive Idea that he is friend of Freedom, or that
he possesses any power either moral OF political to
sid in the great work of resisting the Southern
oligarchy. Every political act Of Gov Gardner's
life has been in harmony with the course he has
pursued as governor of Massachusetts, in refer.
ence to the acts we have alluded to above. H,
was born bunker, educated bunker, and con
tinues to be a bunker up to this hour. 1t ID il
evidence against him, that, when the Northerr
delegates in the Know Nothing Convention a
Philadelphia, were striving to unite as one man
against the arrogant and insoleut demands of the
slave-driyers Of the South, he was in favor of a
dlsgraeeful compromise, and declared that " he
sOoaiS be id if he you'd be a5olitlonized," and
that the few feeble words he did utter at last in
that convention, in favor of Northern rights and
Republican principles, were extorted from him by
his colleagues, under-threats OF political annihila.
tion, if he refused to come up to the work Gov.
Gardner is not the representative OF party, but
OF faction. Both him and his faction are the bit.
terest opponents Of the Republican cause in the
present crisis, snd inasmuch as our secret enc
mes are worse than open foes they deserve all the
more the reprehension of the honest anti-slavery
men Of the State. Let no man deceive himself
with the idea while voting for the reelection oil
Henry J. Gardner, that he is doing aught to ad.
vance the cause Of Freedom.