Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-09-19
The Republican Convention.

Our readers will bear US witness, that we have
done our part to stem the tide of political cor
ruption and depravity, that floods the old Bay
State. That we have labored in season and CUT
of season, to hurl from the high places of honor
and power in this Commonwealth, the political
cormorants that fatten on the public treasury,
and disgrace her in the eyes Of the whole world
and they can, at least appreciate in part, the
feelings with which we contemplate the impor-
tant interference of some of our members of Con-
gress, both of the House and Senate, in the de-
iberations of the people, in their primary caraci-
ty, to bias their judgments Of what is right, and
to thwart their wishes in regard to the exigencies
of the hour.
We confess ourselves to be of the number of
those who believe without any qualification in
sns 9oeine, that honesty u Is the best policy, in
of Charming, that it is better 10 be poor than
unjust, to beg than to STEAL better to live in the
almshouse or to die, than to trample on the rights
of others, and consign them to the level with
brutes, for mere selfish qualification" and with
these views and feelings, those who know us, can
well appreciate the ideas of disgust and in
dgnation that throbbed within US in view of those
transactions in this city on the 10th instant,
by which the high and patriotic purposes of the
people were attempted to be thwarted, to CRAFTY
the grovelling motives of personal ambition of a
few individuals, and by which great ana holy
cause was sought to be betrayed through the infu-
ence Of men who should have been first and fore
most to defend it.
We have attended many conventions of the
HRQDla n re of all xrba
thought that intrigue and corruption did their
perfect work, bnt we have never, until the as
semblage of the last convention Of the Republi-
can party, in this State seen the Catalines of par
ty so audacious in their plans, and so reckless in
their support of them, we witnessed on that &C.
casion.
The hopes Of the freedom-loving citizens of the
whole North hung upon the decisions of single
hour. The election of Fremont and Dayton was
suspended upon the result of vote upon the
question whether or not to adopt the ticket nomi-
mated by another party, upon platform, the prin-
eiPles and sentiments of which are obnoxious to
thousands and thousands of the supporters of FIRE.
mont and Dayton, of the friends Of free Kanzas,
and the opponents of an administration that has
perverted Democratic institutions to the support
ofthe most corrupt and selfish olgarchy that ever
cursed people.
We say that the whole result of the great bat.
tie now waging between the friends and foes Of
Republican liberty, seemed to us to depend upo1
the result of single vote in the Convention, ant
had majority yielded to the fervid appeal
that were made to them, or to the boisteroul
elsmor Of of a "pr@torian guard" of the favoritel
and retaners of the chief mag istrate of the State
who had forced themselves in front of the tribune
without leave or license, to bully the representa-
tives Of the people into acquiescence to the term
OF a base conspiracy, the cause OF liberty woul,
have been lost, indeed, and james Buchanan
could, by consent Of the American people, hav
stood in a position, for the next four years, T.
carry out the schemes Of internal wickedness ant
depravity that were inaugurated by the mean
small villain who sits in the White House.
Never did brighter ray of hope shine acros
our vision, than when, after the earnest and fer
vent rebuke Of delegate to the Convention, 70
its timidity, and the powerful appeal from one 0
the ycomen of WorcesterCounty, for justice an
fair play the Convention by decisive vote, adopt
ed the substitute motion Of the delegate from
Boston, and spurned from the hall the insolen
RiopVtlblOh Audl was OutIhug Nuc tAiuh VI NhAt
were, that the Republican party should sacrifc
its identity, lis candidates. its organization, eyel
SIC cause itself, before the audacious ambition o
oneman, and his little troop Of retainers.
That was indeed triumph for the friends o
freedom, the results Of which will be felt not on
ly in Massachusetts, but all over this land--tha
announced to the country and TO the world, thai
the incouuptible ireemen OF the old Bay State
would be true TO the men, Of whatever cline
country or condition, who would be true to free.
dom and humanity, in this darkest hour Of our
e)unlry's history. That they wouldnot ostraoise
them because their eyes first opened TO the light
In other snd', ortake 10 their iraternal embrace,
the man, who Of all others, has appealed to the
worst passions Of his counuym.n 20 sustain his
dsnial Of that great Christian doctrine Of the
universal is'herhood Of God and the universal
brotherhood Of man..-who has the widest nation.
a. reputation asA hater Of men, because Of their
blood, or the land Of their bhth; and the black.