Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-08
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Iney nave Deen STRIVING Tor long time, VIZ:
party in which they are not only uppermost
but all-in.all. The Valleys, Stevensons,
Choates, WInthrops, billiards, have always
been disturbed by the Auti-Slavery tenden-
cies of their country brethren, Tor whose sakes
they have been obliged to make hypocrites of
themselves year after year by pretending to
hold Anti Slavery principles; and now that
the country Wings have abandoned the party
for an honest one, there is no obstacle to the
fullest outbursts of old Hunkersm. And ac-
cordingly we find that the Convention held
yesterday was the most decidedly pro-slavery
body that ever met in Massachusetts. The
Beach party cannot compete with it in its dis
gusting subseryiency to the slave power
Eclipse is first and the rest nowhere. A good
deal was said i'll the speeches and written in
the letters about adhering to 6 old Wing prin-
ciples," but there is no trace of old Wing
principles left in the resolutions adopted Yes
terday. Just compare them-now that they
are fresh-with the resolutions adopted last
year.
MASSACHUSETTS WING RESOLUTIONS:
ResoIced, That the recent act of the Nation.
al Legislature,in wantonly and faithlessly an
nulling solemn compact which had stood for
more than thirty years, and of which the
South had received the full benefit, leaves no
restriction upoa the action Of the Free States on
the subject Of Slauery, beyond the exact proUi-
sions of the Constitution itself
ReSct0ea, That the repeated and long con-
tinued aggressions of the advocates of Sla-
very extension, have awakened the people of
Massachusetts and of the Free States to tie
fact that their end and aim is political suprem-
aey; that by this last browning act, the repeal
of the Missouri Compromise, effected through
Southern faith lassneSc ood Nortbarp ,rooob
cry, stimulated by the corrupt use of execu-
tive influence, the naked question of Liberty or
Slavery as the controlling principle of the gov-
eminent as presented to the american people -
and for ourselves we declare our readiness to
meet that issue, and our determination at all
times and under all circumstances so to exer-
else our constitutional right as " to secure the
blessings of Liberty" 10 ourselves and our
posterity.
ResotOed, That we are unalterably oppo. ed
to the extension of slavery over one foot of
territory now free; that we will seek the i'm
mediate, unconditional repeal of so much of
the Nebraska and Kanzas act as annuls the
Missouri Compromise, and that we will op-
pose the admission into the confederacy of
any new State, formed out of our territorial
possessions, unless slavery is prohibited there
in.
RESOLVED, That the Fugitive Slave Law of
1850 contains harsh and unnecessary provis.
ions, which are unnecessary to secure any
rights OF shareholders under the Constitution
provisions which are justly obnoxious and
odlous to free people, who claim by inherit.
ance the right of trial by jury, and of the
writ OF habeas corpus, as the great safeguard
of American liberty, and that we will never
cease to demand such amendments as shall
make it consistent with the constitutional
rights of the free States, or failing IN this, ats
unconditional repeal.
Now turn to the report of the proceedings,
and read the resolutions adopted yesterday,
and see If there is the slightest resemblance,
IN language or in spirit, between them. Not
the slightest. They are as wide apart as light
and darkness, truth and honesty.
We have no fear that the people of Massa-
chusetts Will endorse pro-slayeryism, either in
the person of E. D. Beach or Samuel II, Wal
ley. Mr.. Stevenson introduced to the Con-
yention the gubernatorial candidate, as the
next Governor of Massachusetts. Mr.. Ste
venson is not joker, like some other mem
bers of his party, and we can account for this
strange remark only on the suppositon that
he has got the idea into his head that the
plurality system, which has been adopted in
our elections, gives the election to the candi-
date who receives the smallest number Of
votes. Such is not the fact. II Mr.. Steven
son will reflect for moment, he will see that
though candidate is not required to have a
majority Of the votes, he must have the larg-
est number. He will therefore see the alb
surdity of his remark, and can account for
the general merriment with which it has been
received.
1t will be seen that the Convention have
made rush for the Liquor vote, which it was
supposed had been securely dragged by Mr..
Beach. There has all along been considerable
dissatisfaction among portion of the liquor
dealers, with the thimble rig game which was
played upon them by Col Wright. The Chron-
tcle has never supported Mr.. Beach with
much cordiality, and this morning it speaks
very tavorably of Mr.. Valley.
The nomination of Mr.. Davenport and of
MI Wendell I. Davis on the Wing ticket, is
a concession to the Liquor dealers. these gen.
tlemen both having been previously nominat-
ed by them, and it would not surprise us if
the strife for the subterranean vote should be-.
come quite exciting. Whether Beach shall
draw from Valley or Valley from Beach is a
matter of but little practical consequence. 1t
Will be like the process of the gentleman who
slept cold, and who tried to remedy the evil
by cutting piece off the bottom of his blan.
ket and sewing it on the top. Neither ofthese
candidates will draw from the compact and
constantly increasing Republican party, which
has put Julius Rockwell in nomination, and
viii elect him, in spite of all opposition.
Boston Telegraph.