Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-03
Massachusetts wings.

We omit our editorial matter prepared for this
mornings paper, in order to give place to the
following excel lent and timely article from the
". Y. Tribune of yesterday. No man ever de.
voted himself more earnestly to sustain party
than did Mr.. Greeley to uphold the whig Organi-
cation as long as it had the fragment of plank
to stand upon or even the pretenoe of principle
worth preserving, and no man can speak to his
brother Wings who are following the black
flag of the Buchanneers or fraternizing with the
candidate of the South Americans in the support
of Willard Fillmore, with more force ofreasoning,
andof more propriety, by reason of his position
thanIhe can. We commend the article which fol-
lows, TO the attention OF all our readers, but
especially to those of our wing friends who delude
themselves with the idea that in voting for FIJI,
more that they are not sustaining James Buchan.
sn,and the Cincinnati Convention, the ontrages in
Kanzas, and the party that justifes and approve
them.
What is left of Boston Whiggery-to use a
Cromwellian phrase, the runp of the old Wing
party-had a meeting there the other night in
q small upper chamber, called Chapman Hall.
The object was to appoint delegates to con-
vention for the nomination of State Officers
The most observable thing that was said in the
speeches which enlivened the occasion, was
uttered by Mr. George 5. Hillard, when he
said that, though he should 90 for Fillmore,
sill he hoped g no man would bereAd cut Of
he Wing party merely because he should vote
for Fremont or Buchanan z" We have heard
great deal about the Romanism of Col. FIRE.
mont /; but surely, were he member of the
PrnnaGarNds Uasloueny oil Mr.. Hillard. tits
certainly no reason why man should be read
out Of the Wing party for voting tor Col FIRE.
mont; because the principles he represents
so far as they regard the extension of slavery
are precisely and identically those of the Wing
party when it had something more than q
name to live. But the idea Of a Wing re.
naming Wing and voting for Buchanan is
perhaps the most distinctly and unequivocally
original one that has appeared since Homer
invented the Iliad. Of course this was a mere
feeler to try and see whether out of the wreck
Of the party could still be made a raft suffic
lent to keep Mr.. Choate's head above water,
and those of the quondam Wings than to 20
with him.
AS large proportion of the Wings of the
brand ofithis Mr.. Hillard 1--WE know nothing
OF his own course in the premises) Were de-
vised by Mr.. Webster his death bed to
Frank Pierce, and were passed over to him
like flock OF sheep, whereby the old Wing
City OF Boston gave him plurality of votes
IN 1852, it IS not strange perhaps, that such
an obfuscation of intellect should posses them
as should hinde= their seeing that there is
any inconsistency in Wings voting the Border
Rufian ticket, and yet remaining good Wings
all the time. Ana, III point OF TACT, there is
no difference between this wing Vi Fillmore
Wings and Tie Bucnaaan Democrats Ii is
not difference OF service, but OF uniform
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preserve the status quo OF 5. avery as the dom
inant power IA the nation. If Benedict Ar
neld had conunued to ear his buff and blue
uniform alter he had taken service with the
British, we apprehend 1t would not have made
him any the less traitor. Aud we conceive
il would have been thought rather cool in
Count Rumford's regiment Of Tories to have
christened themselves by the name of Wings,
especially if they had ever professed the prin-
ciples of the Revolution they were engaged
in trying to put down. 1t is no more a de-
sertion of Wing principles TO vote Tor Buchan-
an than for fillmore, only it is greater HUI
initiation, nastier business, to fawn upon
a deserter who has kicked them as he turn
ed his back upon them, than upon one who has
always opposed TO them an open front Of un-
qualified hostility.
The Wing party of Massachusetts was once
ty. To none more than to leading Wings
there is it owing that that party has come to
an ignominious end. The Wings protested
principles respecting slavery and its extension,
in no respect differing from those of the Re-
publicans. Many of these very Boston Fill.
more Wings accepted and reiterated the doc.
trines, since incorporated with the Philadel-
phia platform, in Faneuil Hall, at the meeting
TO protest against the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise. presided over by Mr.. Samuel A.
Eliot, and addressed by Mr.. billiard and Mr..
Winthrop, and which passed Resolutions very
plainly implying the alternative Of the disso-
luton of the Union, should slavery be per.
mitted to cross the line of 1920. Had the
leading Wings been honest in their profess
sion OF faith, and had they been willing 10
put themselves at the head of the national
movement against the extension of sh, cry,
the Wing party might have been at this mo-
ment in vigorous life, with the prospect of
obtaining the power OF putting their princi.
rles into practice. But, unhaplily for them,
their denial Of their faith throughout the
country, and nowhere more than in Massa-
chusetta, in 1850, aud thsir blind sacrifice of
themselves and their principles 10 the empty
hope OF Mr.. Webster's presidency, had eaten
out the core Of their hearts, and left nothing
pet an empty shell, which could not make
oiooa enough 10 give them the needful
suength ana courage. II must be bitter
snln6 ~ men like Mr.. Everett, and Nj,
use, sna Mr.. winthrop, to reflect where
head Of the great national party. and then ~
reflect Whore they are, with no hone but ~,
tripping II up, that slavery may work ~ will
on themselves and ON ms all.
That there are honorable man vot ol;,s,,,