Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-05-31
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THURSDAY, MAY 81, 1855.
II. j. Gardner.

There is boy out West who makes somersets
so rapidly that nobody can distinguish the end
of his back as he goes round He has long been
considered wonderful phenomenon-an unpar-
alleled voltiguer- unapproachable whirlegig-
and such has been the subject of universal quo
tation. 1t is now conceded, however that the
prestige of his fame has departed-that rival
has taken the wind ont of his sails-that, in Short
the Governor Of Massachusetts disputes the palm
with him as a rotary. So far as we can judge we
think the Western boy is now number two in his
line. If he wants to turn somersets faster than
His Excellency, Henry J. Gardner, he must bor-
Tow high pressure engine, and stow it away
some place under his jacket
His Excelency began public life as Wing
He was youth then, and had very loose notions
concerning the principles of his party. He mod
lied his principles, after little experience, and
came out full hedged Webster Wing. a North.
ern Wing was supposed to have objections to
Slavery, while Southern Wing was supposed to
have objections to his northern brother on that
account. Each was supposed to be altogether ig-
norant of the Slavery question. A Webster Wing
was Wing who left none ofhis ideas to beguess-
ed at or supposed. He was Compromise'man
"a National man. &C., which means he
doughface and bunker, &c. Asa Whig Henry
]. Gardner drank hard cider, ate crackers and
cheese, and hurrahed for Old Tip. As Webster
Wing, he discountenanced the agitation of the
Slavery question, acquiesced in the :" Compro
mises," and helped personally to send Sims back
to Slavery
Mr.. Gardner supplemented his political con,
nections with one of purely moral character
He became Temperance man in the abstract,
and, customer to George Young in the concrete
1t did not seem to cost bin any trouble to assume
his various transmigratons and posi- tons. There
is suppleness- resihency-an agility in the man
that enables him to whirl round or rebound with
astonishing, but facile velocity. One remarkable
evidence of Mr.. Gardner's accommodating moral
divisibiity is the fact hat,although Temperance
man, he was of the first subscribers to the rum
organ inBoston; any otherman would have suppos
ed himself inconsistent in such circumstances, but
H. J. Gardner did not. In 1854, Henry j. Gard
ner eschewed Hunkerism, and became fusion1t
then he gave up Fusion for Know Nothingism
Anti Slavery Total Abstinence, and eternal-hos-
o-Southern-aggression. He was elected to
the Gubernatorial chair upon the faith of his lat
ter professions, and proessed those professions
for whole four months.
Then the Legislature, confding in his dramat-
ic denunciations of the Fugitive Slave law, ad-
dressed him in constitutional form, and asked
him to remove a man from State office who had
executed that abominable law; but the gallant
Bobidil, who had disarmed three companies of
paddles" backed down before the Beacon Street
aristoeracy, and would not remove him. ihen
again, this governor, who urged the legislature,
in his inaugural, to % fence round the fugitive
from slaxay, with the safeguards of the law
and who declared in his letter to Judge Allen,
that he would rather be the poor quivering
wretch on the road again to the agony of bondage.
than volunteer guard to aid in his return,''-
when the legislature had fenced rourd the fugi-
tive with the safeguards of the law, and asked
him to approve of it, refused to do so, on the
ground that the Supreme Court of this State had
declared that law to be Unconstitutional. His
real reason for refusing was because he wanted to
strengthen Known thingism in the South-gain
personal eclat for so dong-and obtain nation
al office in consequence. But the best laid
schemes of mice and men gang aft agley." The
defeat of the X. Ms in Virginia has struck Mr.
Gardner all aback, and he is round again on his
pivot. He tries TO explain away the falsehood he
told about the opinion of the Supreme Court, in
relation to the Personal Liberty Bill; and init
mates that there has been some mistake about
his vetoes.
I'VE may well ask, in relation to him, what theIrsh-
man remarked Of the rowdy who had struck him
kicked him rolled him in the mud torn his clothes,
spat in his face. pinched his ears, &C., :" Bother
me, what will the fellow be afther next 7"