Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-10
From IL noston Telegranh.


combine the sentiment of the State against the
asgressions OF slavery. This failure is not to
be attributed TO any fault of its candidates. or
any mistakes in It's policy. Its candidates
stand clear and unimpeaehed, and its policy
viii be vindicated before twelvemonth pass
es away 1t is not matter of surprise that
its first effort should fail. The failure in 1854
was the great saEter. In Ohio. and the west
ern states generally, the party established it.
self fairly IN that year, and has maintained
It's ground not victorious in all of them, but
what is of greater consequence constituting
in all of them The opposition to the admins.
tration party. Here in Massachusetts, the
people rushed into the Know Nothing order
ana those ant-slaYerY men who led them
there, now see that il is much easier 20 get
men into party than 70 get them ont of it,
Consequently, the leading party here is the
Know Nothing party of last year, shorn of lis
| anti slavery clements. retaining its pro slavery
| governor. and with but limited portion of
! ITS antics slavery strength III the Legislature
The news goes abroad to the country. that the
| people OF Massachusetts opposed to The
administration, but are not willing to oppose
II on It's slavery policy, are not willing to unite
| with the people of the free States in making
| an issue with the South on the question of the
| extension OF slavery. It is of no use to say
! that the Gardner platform was anti-savery
| 50 1t was, IN one sense of tie word the same
| sense IN which the wing platforms fon 1912
| TO 1904, were anti slavery. 1t lacked the i'm,
| portant thing which the Repu bhcan patty pos
| sessed, distinct issue with the Shareholders
and discrimination to fight the battle on that
issue alone. There IS great danger, that UNI
der the impulse Of this election, national X
Nothnglsn viii again revive. Whether it
VIII carry the country, or fail, is matter of
no consequence to the t-slavery men If
It succeeds, it must be doughface power.
under the lead of some such man as Fillmore,
We thought few days ago, that the e was
no way for such men as Washington Hunt,
Rufus Choate and the larger or lesser lights =
OF straight whiggism, to avoid fallingino the
abyss Of Nebraska loooiocoSm. But If they
now seize their opportunity, they may take
hold OF the present Gardner organization, pre-
vent its present leader from making it utterly
contemptible, as he is certain to do if left to
himself, and so make Of it second edition of
the old conservative wing party. The Union
and the Constitution having been saved once
more by the stupendous efforts OF these men,
they may now take hold and make its saliva.
ton perpetual. by reviving parties on substan-
tally the old issues, leaving the Shareholders
to carry out their schemes without molesta-
ton.
Unquestionably this defeat Of the Republic
can party, is great disaster TO the cause Of
freedom in the country. 1t will be so regard
ed by nearly all anti slavery men in other
States and in Kanzas, and certainly bv those
keen sighted men, the SHAREHOLDERS Themselves.
We shall see evidences of this in abundance.
in less than fortnight, and shall have a sort
OF malignant pleasure in placing these evi.
dences before the renegades who have misled
the honest anti-slavery masses into voting this
second year tor pro slavery party.
Ahis is the dark side of the picture, But
there's bright side. We have now a strong,
compact, well organized party OF nearly forty
thousand men, banded together on the RIGHT
ISSUE We are organized and enlisted for the
war; We have more than recovered the
ground lost last year. We have larger an
tl-slavery party than ever before. We can
profit BY the errors and blunders of the old
anti slavery organizations. We have the
sympathy and Co operation of the anti. slave
ry men OF the country. we are in connec-
ton with $4,000 men in Vermont, so 600 in
Name, 100000 in Ohio and m any thousand
more IN New York auG throus bout the West
We form part of a national organization. which
Is stronger in the State of Ohio alone than in
1852 the Free Soil party was in the whole
country. We belong to a party which carries
States, elects Governors, and makes pepen-
sions to Presidential success. We have good
| candidates aud good voters. We have this
| year been overb Ane by the organized war of
| falsiHeaton which has been waged against us
! by the Gardnertes and the Wing huukers,
but this var cannot be again so successfully
| waged. We hazard nothing in predicting
that long before the next fall campaign be-
/ gins, Gardnerism (unless the contingency
happens which we have before mentlonedl
VIII become so odous that ems of thousands
OF Its votalies will flee fIom it as IRON pes
thence.
linen the power of detracton will be gone.
| The work of Islander will then fail into the
hands of the more gentee aud polite artists
| III tnat line, the Choa,es, II lizards, and d Min
Aaeert1SerS, who do not tell vulgar, odtous.
palpable talsehoods, but only insinuate Sian
ders, and make men believe what thew them.
| salves know to be false. These men we think
we can get along with. Before another cleo
| tlon comes round, we shall show the people
that those men who cha. &c us with being dis.
unionists and sediuonists are simply liars
| nothing more non less. Relieved of the we,obt
oil JUSTIFICATION, our principles, organization
| ana candidates will so commend themselves |
! to the people that we cannot fail with one |
more vigorous and united effort, to carry the /
| state Tor Republicanism and freedom.
We have indicated the only danger " bicb
N'i anu tlldl 49, IllaL pro- SlaN |
Know NoIhingism will again arise und " the |
lead OF the old bunker Wings, Gov. Gardner |
resuming his place where he properly belongs.
Inns danger must forthwith be met as far as il |
Is possible to meet it. There will be much |
difficulty in making the scheme work. II
VIII take time; things will require GOOD |
deal Of arranging and fixing In the mean.
while the Republican party must set itself 10
work, Let it perfect its organization forth |
within Massachusetts and in all the other
States Let it prepare to take the field in
1906 as power, determined 10 have its mart
IN settling the great Presidential question. 1t
may fail to carry that election. The baneful |
influence OF Know Nothingism may not be
exercised, and the administration party may |
triumph. But il the Republican party cannot
succeed, its next best thing is to cast a formi
dable vote. The Free Soil vote of l8iS, three
hundrel thousand strong, gave freedom to
California what cannot million, or even
half million OF men do when they are de-
termined to use their political power SOLELY
for freedom, without regard to tho conse-
quenoes to other parties. Year by year tho
people approach more and more nearly to an
appreciation Of the danger and the remedy
There is nought but encouragement in the
signs OF the times. Let no man give way to
despair or dependency because his party has
failed 10 beat down all the hunkerism and in
differentism which was arrayed against it,
Gtat, I,v stan dn wn agcend tho MAINTAIN