Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-02-29
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1856,


Fillmore and Donelson at the head of its col
umns.
This is as we expected. We never had
doubt in our minds that Governor Gardner
would endorse that ticket, or that his leading
statelites would join him in the laudation of
nomination "not fit to be made" The Know
Nothing party had Southern origin. The
. whole design and object of its leaders has been,
from the first, to subserve the interests of the
slave power, and while processing to be an in
strumentality for securing some obviously
needed reforms, we have never regarded the or
ganizRtion as anything else than slavehold-
ing dodge, to divide public sentiment at the
North upon the real issue of the times, and to
distract the attention of the freedom loving
voters of the Union from the persistent ag-
gressions of the Southern oligarchy.
With this view of the case, we have done
what we could, to warn anti-slavery men
against being deceived by the heartless probes
sions Of the leaders of the American party,
who, while claiming to have at heart the pro-
molten of the cause of Freedom, were all the
time in league with the most ultra pro- slavery
politicians, not only of the South, but of the
North. to make the American party an instru-
mentality to promote the darling schemes of
these intense sectionalists, who would make
slavery national and freedom sectional.
We have received not a little abuse for the
course we have seen fit to pursue, at the hands
of many who could not see the shoals upon
which they were driving, by the false beacons
that were lighted to allure them to destruc-
ton, and the scoundrel politicians that pro-
fessed to steer by the old landmarks of free
dom; but, confident that the time was not far
distant, when the scales would fall from their
eyes, we have been willing to bide our time
and await the result.
And now, what do we see At the first
great national gathering of this SO called
American party, convened for the purpose of
nominating the standard bearers for the Pres
idential contest, as the fulfllment of all our
predictions and the realization of our worst
fears, we see Willard Fillmore, the most SER
vile tool that ever disgraced the North by his
reereancy to the institutions under which he
was born and reared whose hand signed the
infamous fugitive slave law, and thereby
abolished the habeas corpus and trial by jury
in every State in this Union, nominated tor
the Presidency.
He who made the hills and wales of New
England vocal with the baying of Southern
bloodhounds; who converted the Boston Court
4 House into a slave baracoon, and compelled
the judges of this ancient Commonwealth to
crawl under chains erected by Southern man
steaers, to the tribune of justice who armed
the thieves and burglars of the metropolis of
New England with sabres and revolvers to
the streets; WAffs fH6g Of ths pilgrims in
engaged in trampling our statutes and Bill of
Rights under their feet we see such man
as this, put in nomination for the Chief Mag.
istracy of the nation, by party that processes,
through all its organs in the Free States, to
be thoroughly anti-slayery, and devoted to
the support maintenance of free institutions.
And as if the nomination of the chief Of
Northern doughfaces was not enough, to IL
Illustrate the entire subserviency of the Amer
lean party to the Slave power, its complete
and absolute thraldom to the lords of the lash,
it filed the measure of its mendacity, by nom.
mating to the Vice Presidency the man de-
sciibed in the appropriate, if somewhat inele-
giant language of one of the delegates, upon
the floor of the Convention, " the large, fat,
greasy Tennessean," Andrew ]. Donelson,
who, when the vote was announced by which
he was nominated, arose in his seat and
boasted that he ,oGs the o,Oner Of more than
hundred SiGres, and that he iOas as devotedly
attached to the institssion oslauery as any man
south of Manson and Diron's line. To such
complexion has it come at last, and the hum
plugged and betrayed northern constituents of
the servile crew that went to Philadelphia to
consummate this infamous bargain with the
shareholders, hayeno even the poor consola-
ton of knowing that their delegates tried to
be manly, OF firm and patriotic. The tele-
graph, it is true, brought us the intelligence
that the Massachusetts men exhibited some
degree of manliness under the Southern whip,
but the Boston Bee, the organ of the party,
contradcts the rumor as a libel, and says
:" 1t has been represt nted that the Massa
chusetts delegation bolted from the Conven-
ton. This is not true. All who were in
Philadelphia at that time eleven in number,
If we are correctly informed,) remained in
the Convention and took part in its delibera-
tons. But one (Mr Thurston) subsequently
seeded. Mr.. Pangborn, who has been nam
ep among the boilers, was not delegate"
Where is the Springfield platform to-day,
and what has become of those solid anti.
slavery planks that we have heard so much
vaunted of late by the American leaders in
Massachusetts, Does the nomination of Mil
lard Fillmore TO the Presidency harmonize
with the declaration made at Springfield, that
4" the independence and sovereignty Of the States
in its legislation and in its Judiciary, should
be maintained inyiolate :" Is the declaration
also made at the same time and place, That
the great barrier to slavery ruthlessly broken
down by the repeal of the Missouri prohibi-
ton ought TO be speedily restored, and that
in any event no State erected from any part
Of the territory covered by that compromise,
ought ever 10 be admitted into the Union as
slave State in entire coincidence with the
sentiment uttered by this Tennessee slave
holder, when, in June last, in the city of New
York, he declared that Il ,oas impossible TO re-
store the Missouri Compromise because the
people Of those teyritoyies have, under exist