Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-22

delegate into the District Convention that nomi.
mated Mr.. Burlingame for Congress, went to work
with certain gentlemen, to get for himself the
Wing nomination. Then he went to a certain
gentleman who holds an office in the State House
at the present time, and said to him--"I can act
the Wing nomination, and shall run AGAINST
Buriingame. No,C. can't you 90 doson into vour
tcards and get sac eight iadiuidaals to circulate
ootes? IaoW furnish the tickets and the money:
but Isoant Buriineame's name left off, and mine
put on" The gentleman to whom he applied
who had acted with him in the Wing party. de-
clined doing the dirty work; but the only thing
that prevented Mr.. Gardner from doing it, was
his nomination for Governor.
How has Henry j. Gardner acted of late? How
does he feel towards that race whom we are en-.
deavoring to lberate, and elevate? Why, Ito
show you how he has acted, and what kind of
language it uses) he met gentleman ten days
prior to the Convention that nominated him, and
he said to him" Well, have you had meeting
in yourward ?" "Yes," was the reply, 1--WE have
had meeting" e" Have you chosen delegates
to the Convention ?" Z" No." saws the gentle
man, we have not chosen delegates we voted
not to send' "0,' said the Governor of Mas
sachusetts, II suppose Sam Neal and the Mig
gers were there III was Tie sixth ward IN BOS-
ton to which he referred, where the colored peo-
pie reside The gentleman to whom he referred
member of the last Legislature an anti
slavery man, and highly respected.
Only within few days, that Governor has
been harping about "bad faith" on the part of
those who went into the Convention at Worces-
ter. But what does he say about his position rel
alive to that Convention He says-"I can
honorably accept the nomination of another Con-
vention, for l never was committed, by word,
writ Ofgfrhf En st@ -
And yet, within three days, he has told, gen.
tlemen, that certain men were there "In bad
faith" What right has he to talk about "bad
faith 2" g. Bad faith" to what? "Bad faith" to
whom Not to Henry J. Gardner, certain, for
he says he was not candidates.? And among the
names he refers to are Mr. Dana, Mr. Brigham
of Boston, Mr.. Kimball and some Others in
Guiding myself, Wewere guilty of :" bad faith, %
in his estimation, because We could not vote for
man who we knew only too we'll
In regard to Governor Gardeners course at the
Philadelphia Convention, there is one other fact
that should he mentioned When the question
come up on the majority platform, he did not cote
when the question came up on the minority plat
form, ne did not cote his UOte IS not recorded IN
that CohoentaoR; you cannot find ii GayaoheTe. He
tt that ConUeatisa in the midst ofthe tight, tchen
eeerytbi'lg a0aS an doubt IN regard to tohat the re-
sub a00uta be. When the effort was being made
to get all the Northern delegates to unite that
man took his carpetbag and returned to Massa-
NEAN9SNNS3
the South insisted upon the taoelfM section
which was endorsement of the Nebraska bill,
he might sign his name to the minority report -
But mark you. gentlemen, if that Convention
had adopted Kenneth Rayner's compromise,
which was to ignore both slavery and freedom, the
Hon. John W. Foster would not have signed
Henry J. Gardeners name to the minority report,
for then he would have gone out with the other
Northern delegates. Remember that!
One day, when the Northern delegates were
discussing the question of protesting against The
majority platform, Henry ]. Gardner made this
decaratiou-" III be id If PH be abolition
sEed !" What was it that they asked him to do to
be abolitlonized; To stand up with the North
against the aggressons of the Slave power ag aiLst
the Nebraska bill; that all they asked. Gem
tlemen, if you desire to vote for such a man for
Governor of this Commonwealth, you have the
right, of course, to do so. But it seems to me
that no with an honest desire to sustain the
cause Of freedom, no man with a conscience, alive
to sentiments of justice and honor can, at this
day, and in view of the existing state of things,
and all the factsin the case give support to such
selfish, bringing, dough-faced politician as ne
has proved himself to be.