Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-15
0bt lalIp Spg.
The American platform.

The tone Of the speeches at the State Council
Of the American party, in this city on Tuesday.
and at the subsequent meeting at the City Hall,
shows pretty plainly the course of action which
the great majority of the party have marked out
ts pursue for the future, in this State, the
slavery question To be sure there is in the ranks
"a little band OF bigots and fanatics headed
By Dan Warren, Farwell, A. B. Ely, &C., who
are ever ready to swallow the Philadelphia plat
form or any other obnoxious dose which the South
may propose, but their counsels proved of no
avail.
At the open meeting in the evening, the only
exception to the unanimity Of expression of anti
slavery sentiment was an attempt OF Colonel
Brewster, in entire contradiction to the whole
tenor Of the previous portion Of his Speech 10
commit the party here to the support OF the ma
tional nominee for President, "whetherit oeJohn
Bell Of Tennessee, Msrd Fillmore of New
York, or Renry J. Gardner of Massachusetts -
This was received with perfect GOODNESS and actual
sstonishmsnt, especially since Colonel Brewster
hsd iust been arguing that the American party
had done more for Freedom than any other party
had dared to do. and would ever continue to act
true to that cause. He said he did not come
there TO psnder TO Free Soil audience, but in re-
ply to the eloquent Sumner he would say, that
rather than consent 10 the extension of slavery
over one millionth part of q square inch of free
territory he would go into his coffin and be buried
alive. fOf course, then he would rather see his
party shivered to atoms, than that such con-
tingency should occur.
The American party, be said, was more ready
than any other TO take decided stand on this
point, and lay the slave power bleeding in the dust.
He seemed greatly offended at any intimations
from any quarter, that his party would not stand
up to the rack with frmness and backbone on this
matter Of slavery. He pledged Governor Gardner
as decided and unfinching in his position, and
as sound and true Oh the question of Freedom,as
any man who treads the soil Of Massachusetts,.
He then went into glorifcation of the Spring
field platform, which, having been built by Gen.
Wilson and Col Foster, and being declared by the
General to be anti-Slavery enough for him,
he said, ought to be anti Slavery enough for any
man.
After such an ayowal of anti-Slavery senti-
ments, and after, too, the idea tad been
repeatedly expressed BY the other speakers
that they had broken aloof at philadelphia, final
ly and forever, from the National Organization,
how ludicrous was this aea of Col Brewster to
re.unite them again, in this connection, to those
from whom they had effected such total separa-
ton, by asking them to support Southern nom
inee for President. 1t ia well known that the
whole party South with the New York delegates,
adhered to and now support the majority plat
form constructed at Philadelphia. John Bell and
Millard Fillmore are both fully committed in favor
of it, and the latter gentleman is the most
intense pro-slavery bunker to be found in
the whole North, and the most obnoxious to an
ti-slavery voters of any that could be men
toned. Such are the candidates propoted to men
Of Massachusetts, standing the Springfield
platform, for their support for President in 1856
The idea Of the thing utterly preposterous
that the sachems call it a Iapsas Hngue on the
part of the speaker to mention the thing. We
leave them to settle their own inconsistencies
among themselves