Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-22


Some of Governor Gardne1's organs display
great uneasiness because the true position of His
Excellency has been shown up in our columns
They complain that we do not quote from speech
es delivered by himself and his more immediate
supporters in defence of his position. But it is
extremely doubtful whether they would be any
better satisfied should we lumber columns
with report Of the remarks of Gov Gardner,
on a certain evening, in Boston, committing him
self to full support of the Philadelphia Gill
morel platform and nominations made in febru-
airy last, and reports of the speeches of COL
Brewster, B. c. Baker, William ]. Eames and
other right hand men of the Governor, going in
for Fillmore and Donelson, and the platform
they stood on, without vince. II quoting from
the Governor himself will satisfy his present toad
les, let us see what he did say On the evening
Of February 22d last, at an American banquet in
Boston, His Excellency delivered himself in the
following explicit terms, in reference to the do
ings at Philadelphia, the platform of the conyen-
ton which nominated Fillmore having been pub
lished in the Boston papers of that morning, and
everybody expected his nomination upon it as
fifty representing it. Said Gov. Gardner
81 think the omens of to-day are auspicious.-
The news borne here to-day from another city of
e. the Union, of the organization of the American
party of the Union on a platform of principles on
which WE ALL CAN STAND, which requires no one
to give up his principles, and one to assent to
what he does not approve, is happy augury for
the future. OK THIS PLATFORM, l do not hest
tate to say, the American party of the nation will
go forward till its foes shake as Belshazzar did at
the vision"
What stronger commttal than this could come
from any one in favor of the doings of the con
venion which nominated the fugitive slave law
candidate for the presidency. -
But it is said in defence of the Governor, that
he subsequently repudiated Fillmore, and de.
cared for Fremont. Not exactly so he merely
said, in letter, that as Fillmore stood no posi-
BILE chance Of election, the contest lying between
Fremont and Buchanan, he should vote for the
former.
Gov. Gardner has mott yet uttered the first word
of committal in favor of the platform of prnci-
pies on which Fremont was nominated, or in re-
pudiation Of the Fillmore platform. Neither has
he said the first word during the campaign favor
ing the electionof Fremont and Dayton, as the
nominees of the great movement of the people
in opposition to-both Buchanan and Fillmore
On the contrary, on various occasions subsequent
to their nomination, the Governors immediate
friends and supporters, those most correctly rep
resenting hia views, such as Brewster, Baker, and
others, committed themselves fully in favor Of
FILLMORE and Donelson and the platform repre-
scented by them. For instance, at an American
Convention for Congressional District No 5, held
in Boston on the 7th day Of March last, Col
Brewster said
In he ,of elo Il
abide by the principles Of the Springfield resou-
tons, but would never consent to demand that
they shall be engrafted into national platform
by adopting and insisting upon such policy, all
hopes OF national organization would be lost
The Springfield platform we can carry into our
state canvass, and insist that every public man
shall endorseit, but Massachusetts has no right
70 demand that National Convention shall re-
ccgnise it,
This is Gov, Gardner's position, as portrayed
BY his own right-hand man. On Tuesday of the
same week, at the American State Council held
in Boston March 4, Col. Brewster made a similar
emphatic exposition of the Gardner policy;
"The Springfield Platform we can carry into
our state canvass, but you cannot ask national
convention to graft q on their platform. Why
carry his (Starery) question into national poll
This sthe two-legged, doughface policy which
Ely and Brewster aidedin ENGRAVING upon the
party at Philadelphia, and upon which reunion
Of the Gardnerites with the Fillmoreites is about
to be effected by the Bees proposed re organiza-
ton Of the American party. In favor OF it, we
shall soon see quoted with approval in the col.
umns the Bee, more articles from such vile pro
slavery Fillmore sheets as the Washington
American Organ, Albany Statesman, &C., anc
ending with a sidewinder from the New Yorl
Express.