Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-03-06


"He was an earnest seceder-a protestant
against the whole affair. The Convention
was purely sectional affair, and that section
alism was anti American. The manner OF
conducting the deliberations was indecent ana
unmanly. He protested against it again, De-
cause it avoided the expression of its senu-
meuts on the two great questions before It
! He specially protested against the hollina-
! tions, because the party did not want a hoinl-
| nation now; because it was unfairly inaue
because he believed Fillmore to De an unnt
| leader for the party; and because os signlrS
| the Fugitive Slave Law he made himsen o.
/ noxious TO the North, which resulted IN the
| Kansas act. which causes all the bother here
! to.nioht; because he regarded his election an
impossibility; and it is contrary to the policy
of Sam to drive dead horses. daughter. J.
He summed up by saying the Convention
only merited scorn and disgust. He could
not go it, and he would not go it. He could
not be an anti slavery American here, and
doughface in Philadelphia. can't do It, and
won't do it. (Laughter.) He proposed 70
stand by the platform, g Americans shall rule
America and there shall be no more encroach->
ments of slavery Before the end of June
man will be up for President on this platform,
and how will Fillmore run against him. He
proposed to remain in the party and to be
/ true to its principles. When better prinel-
| pies were presented he would accept Them
| He was not scared by the cry of black repub-
| licanism. but he should be frightened to see
] the American party throw away the sentt'
| ment of freedom. He did not like to iuse
| with any body, but above all things excuse
| me from fusing with dead people. CGreat
merriment.)
He advised the Council not to ratify the
nominations for if it does, it will lose half the
/ TT No. damn q
/ did not believe we could ignore the slavery
| question and if the party attempts to, the
| people will teach them more severe lesson
! than they taught the Republicans last fall
! If you think you can lake Fillmore and DON
elson and run them, do it, and the Lord be
with you, for l wont. Mr.. Pangborn sat
down amid tumultuous applause.
The resolutions were then introduced. Hon.
/ E. G. Baker of Medford, President of the Sen
ate, spoke at length in favor of them, and in
| opposition to ratification of the nominations.
which he declared were dictated by the slave
power, and antagonistic to Northern senh-
ment. He said =
There are men and States, North as well
South There is a sentiment in New England
as well as in South Carolina. There is Mas
sachusetts as well as a Virginia.
He then referred to the celebrated "bolt" of
last June, when the party in Massachusetts,
declared its final separation from the national
organization, by the adoption of Governor
(. Gardner address, p.nning them TO the Spring
field platform =
"Let us see where we stand. Have any of
you thought of the 2Sth of June last, when
| IF oTiSO n
chusetts Gov. Gardner came here and told
Us the course he pursued in Philadelphia p
4 Have any forgotten the shout of approval
which met him. He was then i'll favor OF the
restoration of the pllghted contract, and the
people ratified it. Again, at Springfield, the
party protested against the admission of any
slave State from the territory covered by the
Missouri Compromise, and again the people
said amen. Again, on the first of February
last. it was resolved that the American party
| of Massachusetts, adheres to tho Springfield
platform. Under this resolve, these men went
to Philadelphia, and they have been and done
i as they have told you. He was not going to
find fault with their action, but would ask if
their action COMFORTS with their instructions,
and what has been asserted three times as their
principles within years So help him God,
that Philadelphia platform viii never receive
tne american party OF 0Tassachusdrrs, ana fe
He did not see how the Americans could
support the Philadelphia nominations. His
right hand should forget its cunning, and his
tongue cleave to the roof of his mouth, before
he would speak or act for them, unless the
candidates avowed themselves in favor of our
principles. Mr.. Baker advised the adoption
of the resolutions and then waiting until time
was had to hear from the nominees to see how
they stand"
Mr.. Dexter F. Parker of Worcester, read an
extract from Donelson's speech in Tammany
Hail. in which he said il was impossible to
restore the Missouri Compromise, and he ask
ed if with that they could endorse the Phila-
delphia nominations. He believed they could
not, as honest men, support them. He OBJ.
jected to the resolutions, because they neither
reject nor endorse the nominations. lie did
not like the evasion. He wanted the question
met fairly, and he hoped they would be voted
down; and if they were, he would introduce
one to repudiate the nomination.
After remarks from several others, and a
hot discussion, in which widely variant con-
struction was put upon the resolutions by the
different speakers, they were finally passed,
with some unimportant amendments, in the
form above printed. - ovl-