Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-18
Rnfus Chea.e.

This distinguished and eloquent embodiment
of the late Wing party, says, in his Maine letter,
announcing his determination to go counter to
all his Wing professions in the past by voting
for the Buchanan and Breckenridge, slavery-ex-
tension ticket, that the highest aim of his old
political associates should now be directed to de-
feating the peoples ticket, nominated at Phila-
delphia! Notwithstanding the fact that the
nominees on that ticket stand on the same iden
tical platform of principles that the the Wings Of
Massachusetts have protested to stand on for
years. and Rufus Choate, himself, used to declare
the carrying Of them out would be the primary
aim of the national organization, if it obtained
power.
Mr.. Choate argued, in lS4s, that the ascendant
cy of the Wings, in the Presidential contest of
that year, would do more towards securing the
triumph of the great Republican principle of
the restriction of slavery from the national terri
tories, and the non-admission of any more slave
States, than would the success of the Van
Buren, and Adams ticket. How he talked, too, in
1874, about the " stock jobbeIs and flesh jobbers"
who were seeking the extension of slavery, by the
annexation of Texas, and ran wild in all manner
of violent phillippics against the slave power,
using the same arguments for the success of Clay
and Frelinghuysen, that Republicans now use for
Fremont and that other noble son of New Jersey,
the successor of Theodore Frelinghuysen on the
floor of the United States Senate, VIM. L. Day
ton, with whom Choate co-operated, during the
latter's term OF service in that booy, in every po
Iitical act Dayton has not changed C2oatehGs,
and ueyy materially.
Asaspecimen of Mr.. Choate's arguments in the
past, and to show that they were akin to what are
now urged by the advocates of the Republican
cause, we quote the following from his great
speech at Salem, in lS4S:-
"In this matter of slavery, zoe haze GltoayS diff
.fered from our friends of the South and in
gard to il we propose, simply, TO VOTE THEM
DOWN."
That is the right doctrine, and we ardently wish
Mr.. Choate could have held on to it a little long
oousnt aid in 1856 AfEs SRs Ss some o. ms Ell
pnn,h,,o.ns aim at eractiy. We propose, sim
ply, IN /" differing from our friends of the South,
to VOTE THEM DOWN. by the election Of
John Charles Fremont southern man, by birth
and education, but national freedom-loving
man, by principle. Mr.. Choate now proposes to
cote soith the South. against the advocates and ex-
ponents of his old PRINCIPLES. He declares it his
purpose to aid in "votirg down " his old politi-
cal associates and friends, in the free States by
joining, in order to defeat them, with the ultra
South, under Buchanan and Breckenridge.
To defend himself in the taking of this antago-
nistic position, Mr. Choate is reduced to the ne.
cessity Of employing the same augmentation re-
sorted to by other apostates and traitors and sd-
vocates Of oppression. Calhoun called the De-
clsration of Indepenpcnce ." mere rhetorical
flourish )" the doughface Petit of Ind, termed
it "a self evident lie" Choate alludes to that
immortal document in this wise "a The glitter
tering and sounding generalities of natural right
which make up the Declaration of Independ.
ence." And the great heinous crime of the Re.
publican party is, in his estimation, its adoption,
FORTS Constitution, the principles of that Declar-
alton
Verify, upon what times have we fallen p
The great Rufus Choate, who has spent all the
best of his days in advocacy Of the principles en-
bodied in the platform Of the present Republican
party, and declared, ever and over again, that not
even Daniel Webster could be returned to his seat
in the Senate, from old Massachusetts,, unless
be proved true to them, now vehemently de-
noances those principles, and adduees, as his prin
cipa ground ofobjection to the party representing
them, the fact that it has adopted as its plat
form the principles Of the Declaration of Ameri-
can Independence. Mr.. chOate gravely expresses
the head and front Of his opposition to the Re-
publican party in these WORDS viz '--Because 'its
mission is to inaugurate freedom and put down
the [slavel obligarchy and its Constitution the
glitlering and sounding generalities of natural
right which make up the Declaration of indie
pendence." He used to announce it the object Of
the party he acted with, to "yote down " this
cbligsrchy. Now he proposes voting to build it
up. If there is doom for traitors, it should be
melted out to Rufus Choste