Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-04
WING s,a,e Cnnrention.


This body met at the fremont Temple, in
Boston, on Wednesday, and was organized by
the appointment of Hon. Robert c. Winthrop OF
Boston, as President, and about thirty Vice
Presidents, and FIVE Secretaries.
Mr.. Winthrop having been conducted to the
chair, made speech, chiefly devoted to Union
saving.
A Committee on Resolutions was then ap
pointed consisting of George S. HiIlard of Bos.
ton, and others.
Hon. ]. I. Stevenson was then called upon,
and made a long and very dull speech. He de-
clared that he could not support either Buchanan
or Fremont, though he preferred the former to
the latter. The Boston Telegraph says:
"While Mr.. Stevenson was speaking. he kept
walking back and forth upon the platform and
his oratory was certainly fine combination of the
style of Demosthenes and of Hughes the pedes-
tIian.
He closed in an impressive strain, in which
Fillmore figured as lightning rod, to conduct
the angry bolts now in the political hemisphere
into the ground in safety"
The Committee to nominate Attorney General,
&c., reported as follows:
For Attorney General-John H. Clifford, of N.
Bedford
For Secretary of state-Wil!iam S Lincoln of
Worcester.
For Treasurer-John Sargent of Cambridge
For Auditor-Joseph Mitchell, of Nantucket.
These nominations were accepted without dis
sent
The committee to count votes for a candidate
for Governor, reported as follows
Whole number Of votes 1888
Necessary to choice w
Luther V. Bell of Somerville had .............2I5
Thomas Aspinwall OF Boston. ........... ...-..lO4
Nathaniel Silsbee of Salem. 80
Henry j. Gardner of Boston.
George W. Gordsn, of Boston. .................
Samuel ". Valley of Roxbury. .................
Homer Foote of Springfield. Observation-Disclosures. 4
John H Clifford of New Bedford.
NJ. P. Wilder of Dorchester.
John P. Ellis OF Rozbury. .............-.......
On motion of Mr.. Chickering, the nomination
of Mr. Bell was made unanimous.
A vote then taken for Lieutenant Governor,
when 322 ballots given, Of which Homer
Foote, the candidate of the American party, re
ceived 3O9, and he was declared to be unanimously
nominated.
Mr.. Bell, being present, was called for, anu
responded in a short speech, accepting the nomi-
| nation.
Col. N. A. Thompson of Boston, offered a
resolution, which was adopted, recommending
the appointment by the State Central Committee
of two delegates at large, and one from each
Congressional District, to represent the Wings OF
Massachusetts in the Wing National Convention
to be held at Baltimore, September IT,
Mr.. billiard of Boston, Chairman of the Com
mitee on Resolutions, reported a series, declar
ing the Wings OF Massachusetts, to stand tneir
old ground, and by their old principles, preemi-
nent among which is adherence to the Union
and the Constitution The fourth resolution re-
commended the nomination of Willard Fillmore
for the Presidency
Mr. Lamb of New Bedford, called for the read
ing, again, of the fourth resolution, which was
done, amid great applause. He then moved that
it be stricken out, and that there be inserted in
its place two resolutions which he had prepared,
expressing the sentiments and quoting the exact
language by Webster in reference to the presiden-
tial nomination of lS4S. This was received with
great disfavor The moyer, in his attempt to speak
in favor of his resolutions was frequently inter
rupted with cries of question" and other noisy
demonstrations After long speech from Mr..
Hillard in favor of his resolutions, Mr. Lamb
motion was voted down almost unanimously.
Mr.. N. Hale. Jr, of Worcester, then moved
to strike out the fourth resolution, and substitute
the following
Res0iUed That the wbig party is by its very prn-
cple OF union and vitality opposed to he theories upon
which each of the parties has been formed, which
has made nomination for the presidency cannot,
party, adopt recommend the candidate OF either Of
those parties, But recommend to each
and every whig, that he shall his elective franchise
and all the influence which his character and Judgment
may give hun, for that of those candidates whom he
deems to be the best.
This unanimously voted down, with the
same unanimity as the proceeding.
A delegate whose name we did not learn, then
moved that the resolutions be amended by the ad
dition of the two resolutions offered by Mr. Lamb
of New Bedford, but the nnanimity with which
they were voted down, showed the regard which
a Delegate Convention of Massachusetts Wings
in 1856 have, for the oft repeated declarations Of
the great Statesman they protested SO much to
adore while living.
The question was then put on the resolutions,
as reported by Mr.. Hillard ,and they were adopted
with a few dissenting votes. After the usual vote
of thanks to the officers, he Convention adjourned
sine die, at about half past O'Clock.