Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-30
RG.EsTER DAILY

es, in every part of the State, and we presume
there will be no end to the arrangements" until
the election day is over.
If these arrangement" had no other pur-
pose than the re election of Gov. Gardner, We
should not trouble ourselves greatly concerning
them. For, although we do not agree with our
members of Congress who came home in Septem-
Der, and told us that Governor of State was
of no consequence at ALL we believe the people
can stand another year of misrule, official cor
ruption, and increased taxation. without being
| absolutely ruined But hen we find that the in.
ordinate claims of the party in power pushed
for the undoubted purpose of defeating the re-
election Of Charles Sumner to the Senate, and of
electing PRo-sLAvERY bunker to take his place
for six years. then it is quite time that public at
tention should be called to them. Whence this
extraordinary effort on the part of the partizans
OF His Excellency throughout the State to con-
troll the election in this county Whence the
mission of Middlesex county politicians, candi-
dates for senatorships and the councillorship on
the Gardner side7 Whence the proposition of
the Boston Bee to form auions ,oith the Fillmore
'oing Of the party to defeat the Republicans 3
Saturday, of four out of five OF the senators, and
all the county officers There can be no other
purpose at tie bottom of these movements, ex-
cept the defeat of Charles Sumner For this,
coalitions will be attempted, not only with Fill
more men, but with Buchanan men. No arti-
fee is too low, and no outrage too audaeious, for
the men who have this matter in charge.
We must not be misunderstood. The great
majority of the American party of this county, as
of all the counties ARE honest and upright friends
of Fremont and Sumner. They will not if they
can help it, do aught to defeat the election of Ell
Their. An intrigue to defeat Mr.. Sumner, would
. have no sterner condemnation from any set of
men, than from majority ofthe American voters
But their attachment to party is very strong,
and they are slow to believe evidences Of treach-
cry which are plain before the eyes of other men.
We beg leave to remind these men of these few
leading facts in the present controversy
1. The Republicans agreed to make no nomi
nations against Gov. Gardner and his associates
in the State Government, and thus yielded them
undisturbed possession another year. Nobody
pretends that there is the slightest fear that the
American State Ticket will fail to be reelected.
claim that the present members of Congress
should be e.elected, has been yielded to, except
in the case of Mr.. Irafton. In this district, Mr..
Dewitt withdrew, and therefore has no claim to
consideration By this sacrifice the Republicans
yieldedthe opportunity ofelevating to seats which
they would adorn, such men I. D. Eliot, Elk
Governor Boutwell,, Judge Hoar, Charles w. Up
ham, George R. Russell, Charles F. Adams,
Erastus Hopkins, and others. Was this nothing
in the present scarcity of congressional talent
III. The Republicans everywhere called their
Conventions and Caucuses as the Peoples meet
ings, and invited all Fremont and Dayton men to
attend them, Americans well as Republicans.
They thus made the greatest possible sacrifice,
for which they have suffered ever since, viz: the
Wilderness of their organization, and they did this
with the design of doing away with all causes of
complaint, and of forming one harmonious and
triumphant party.
~. In the counties, they have made the most
liberal concessions not only taking an equal share
of Americans, but Republicans who were accepta-
bic to that party, and in some cases even aban-
doning their own favorite men to conciliate the
other side.
All these things have been done. be it remem-
bered, by the largest and the legitimate branch
of the Fremont party, and done towards men
whose course last year, rendered them just.
ly liable to suspicion of unfriendliness to the
great cause of Republcanism.
Now,we say that since the purpose of the Amer
lean leaders is so clearly to obtain unfair advan-
tage in the Legislature, BY pressing improper and
nadmissabe claims in the county it is the duty of
the Republicans TO STAND BY THEIR NOMINAL
TIoNs, and to work energeticaly, from now until
election day to choose them. Do not lose sight
for one moment of the great and ty-enScendent Ma.
tto'aal issue. Bring cut'every vote for Fremont,
and strike for free Kanzas, and free country.
And remember that duty to Freedom will be but
half performed if an insidious enemy is permit
ted to obtain foothold here at home, and in the
hour of our triumph in the Nation to strike blow
at the honor of old Massachusetts. now involved
as it is, in the REFLECTION OF CHARLES SUM
NER.