Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-28
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
WILLIAM l.. DAYTON,
OF NEW JERSEY.
Pariie. and Politics in Massachnsei,..

OF NEW JERSEY.
= Parties and Politics in MassachnseIIs.
The course that has been pursued by the Amer
lean party Of Massachusetts, at the recent Con-
ventions IN Springfield and in Boston, has not
been such as to inspire the people with any great
degree of confidence in its disposition ability to
-ra IN the great political revolution now going on
in the country. With the State organization in
the hands Of the friends and allies of the South
and of the upholders of the institution of slavery
with its leading men pledged to support the su-
thor of the fugitive slave law and the earnest and
open advocate of the worst South Carolina doe
srines Qualification, the people, as whole, seem
to be impressed with the idea that the American
party has done it's work in Massachusetts. and
seem willing to let it slide into the universal
limbo OF useless and efete things that have
subserved their purpose, and accomplished all the
good they were capable of accomplishing.
We are not of the number of those who deny
that tie american party has accomplished much
good to Massachusetts, in its day and generation.
1t gave to the Senate, Henry Wilson, and it filed
the seats of the lower House of Congress with
sentiments of the State, upon the matter of State
rights and slaveholding aggression, than any Of
their predecessors. OF what it did that was dis.
credtabe, or of what it failed to do. we shall not
speak in this connexion, for it is with the present
and the future, and not the past, that we have to
do at this time.
We say, then, that the American party has
done its work, and having done it, like " the silk
worm 4" which "spins its web and dies" it has
by its own voluntary act, ceared to be. No party
ever existed or could exist that was so torn and
divided by its own intestine feuds that has been
and il, and from the time of the bolt upon the
nomination Of Willard Fillmore it was seen by
all discerning that to it g the last Of earth >
had come. AL its efforts to rally its scattered
and divided hosts upon any men or upon any
principle have proved abortive, and to-day it pre-
sents the singular anomaly of being upon both
sides of the only real important issue that is be-
fore the people of the United Sta es. In one
section OF the country the most deadly hostility
10 papal influence, is established as principle Of
tle party, while in another the devotees of pa
pacy, the baptised followers of the Pope of Rome
are among its most active partizans. While in one
section of the party opposition to the principles
o the Nebraska bill is test of political ortho
doxy. another section sustains the worst forms of
slavery aggression, supports the author Of the
Fugitive Slave law as the candidate for the
Presidency, and in Congress sustains the FIRE
eIters of the South and the dough faces of the
North In their efforts to make Kanzas slave
state. The folly and absurdity OF its pretensons
as real united party OF freedom are ever, dsy
revealed in one section of the country
other, and good men are weary of it. They see
as if it were written with pen OF fire across the
armament, that there is no hope for the cause of
Fleedom in that organization now, and the ,evo.
luton that has carried all honest men of other
srties over to the ranks of the peoples party, is
carrying them upon its powerful tide to swell the
ranks the trne party OF Freedom. for the great
battle upon the issue of which depends the only
hope OF the country in this trying hour when it
needs the strength of every patriot arm and the
will of every patriot heart to save it from the
dangers which impend.
With the American party as party, the Peo-
Piles movement, in the present crisis of affairs
can have nothing to do, any more than it can
with the Democratic, or Nhig, or Republican
parties. In this great struggle, all are we come
t. the ranks of the free, bu the distinctive ban
ners and badges of old organizations are to be
laid ASIDE. While we invite all 10 unite in the
crusade for freedom, we can form alliances or
coalitions with none; and he is neither wise
man or q friend to freedom who would counsel
coalition, in an hour like this, with fragment of
any party, or even with any party as a whole
We say again. that in the present state Of parties
in Massachusetts, there is only one course that
will commend itself to the patriotic, high minded,
freedom loving men of the State, and that is for
the Peoples party, whose candidates are Fremont
and Dayton, whose platform of principles was
laid down at Philadelphia, on the 18th of June,
i,56, to go toward in the work that still re-
mains to be done. Nominate its ticket for elect
oral aud State ofhce,s, and strive by all fair and
honorable means to elect it. Let us haveno Goa.
hnoas VITA Americans, Wings or Democrats
Let US nave no more truck and decker of Offices for
votes; let US stand by our principles, which can
not fail to commend themselves to the favor of
all good men, OF whatever party, and ask all men
OF all parties' IN spirit Of harmony, Cancellation
and kindness, to meet US as citizens not AZ nar,;.
sans, in support Of these principles, and v;c,orv
is 'ure. ANY other than this will be suic;.
Ill in the extreme--it will make the chances =,
defeat very probable and it will win ior the Peo.
pies party the contempt Of all honsst-mipded
men now, and the deserved contempt Of DOS.
terity.