Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-01
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TUESDAY, APRIL /, 1856.
po.I,iou Of Gov. Gardner.

Some of the admirers of the Governor, who
have manifested dislike to swallowing the
bitter pill which the national organization Of
the party has prepared for them at Philadel-
phia, still labor hard in the endeayor to white
wash HIS ExcelleRcy. and to deny that he has
committed himself at all to the Philadelphia
platform and nominations. Now, let all such
bear in mind the very decisive words uttered
by The Governor himself, on the evening Of
Feb. 22d, in Boston. Recollect that this
platform. as adopted the day previous, was
published in the Boston papers of that day,
and therefore the Governor must have known
what ne was talking about Said Gov Gard
ner:
al think the omens Of to day ere auspi-
cious. The news borne here today from an
other citysofthe Union, of the adoption by
tfe American party Of the nation OF plat
form of nrinciples on which we all can stand,
which requires no one to give up his prefer
ences and no one to assent to what he does
not approve, is happy augnry for the future.
On this platform, do not hesitate to say the
American party of the nation will go FORWARD
till its foes shake as Belshezzar did at the
vision"
This is the position of the Governor to-
day, in regard to the Philadelphia doings; for
does any one suppose that Henry J. Gardner
would retreat from his own position, thus de-
liherately taken, merely because he scas not
nominated for Ttee President. himself! Such
thought is a scandal and an outrage upon
his consistency, which we know can receive
no countenance from any of the real friends
of His Excellency. The Boston Mercury,
whose editor has keen insight into the Sc
cret doings Of the Gardner clique, after as
sorting what every body else knows to be
correct, that !" the Boston Bee is the organ
and Col A. 0. Brewster the chief fugleman
OF the Governor, and that the said paper and
windy orator have both proclaimed, in con-
genial language, the sentiments of their mas
ter" goes on to say;
awe are assured on good authority that
the Governor, and other leaders of the
American party of Massachusetts, are now
earnestly engaged en- the aoork of chipping IN
the boilers, that they are negotiating fusion
with the bunker wings, and with their aid
expect to carry the state for Fillmore next au-
tumn, and place Henry ]. Gardner in the seat
of Charles Sumner"
In connection with this, let it be borne in
mind that all the councils in Boston and the
adjacent cities, Charlestown, Cambridge,
Roxbury, Dorchester, Salem, Lynn, &C., with
whom, of course, Gov. Gardner is in full
unison in sentiment, have ratified the Phila-
delpnia platform and nominations, with great
unanimity. In fact, the nominations per-
feclly represent the views and feelings of the
hunkers who compose the great mass of the
party in those localities, who intend ruling
the party, as State organization, they hav-
ing the money and other wherewiths SO to
do. OF course, the great majority of the
masses of the party. in the State at large, out
of Boston and vicinity, can never be brought
TO endorse the Philadelphia doings, but one
thing is unmistakable, their leaders, from
Gov. Gardner down, are intriguing to coerce
as many of the boilers as they can into a rati-
tcation, and to make up for the loss Of the
intractable by g negotiating fusion with the
bunker wings" BY which operation they hope
to secure an addition of some 1000 votes for
Fillmore and Donelson. Already we see it an
nounced, as if by authority, in the American
Organ, that Edward Everett, Robert G. VIM
throp, with other distinguished wings whose
names it gives, are content with Fillmore
and Doneson." and will take the field in
support Of them under the American banner. .
letthe honest masses Of what once composed
the party, who place too high value upon
their anti-slayery principles to be whipped
into sanction of any such proceedings, ally
themselves with the great anti N ebraska
movement commenced at Washington, in
which all our members of Congress have
Joined, ard we shall be enabled to win the
day, in spite of Fillmore, Pierce, or whoever
else the slave power may set up.