Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-31
TrSck and DIcker.

of Fremont and JOHNSTON at the mead OF Its col
umns, has, since the last Convention of the
American party, hauled down that flag, and runs
up the names of Fremont and Dayton, in con
nexion with the American State ticket, and in do
ing so, foreshadows its plan of truck and dick
er" with the peoples party. as follows;-
MANY of the Americans OF this State are ready
to follow the example of their brethren in Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, and elsewhere, in
uniting heartily upon Fremont and Dayton, Iooh-
ing forloGTd to similar support for Gardner ana
Benchiey from the other friends of the national
ticket"
The Americans who have supported the New
York ticket have insisted that it was matter of
principle with them 20 support Gov. johnson as
the candidate for the Vice Presidency, that to de.
sert him after he was nominated would be an act
of bad faith, that they could not and would not
be guilty of, and they have all along insisted-we
mean the leaders have insisted-that they could
not by any means act in concert with the Peoples
party unless that party should drop Mr. Dayton
from its ticket, and adopt Mr.. Johnston in his
place.
We have never believed in the sincerity ofthese
professions, and we have warned our friends
against placing any conf fence in them. We
regard for Gov. Johnston as the veriest sham
imaginable, which. sooner or later, would be ex-
posed; and though the exposure has come lit
tie earlier in the canvass than expected, yet it
has come, nevertheless; and the American party
of Massachusetts,, with the hope and expectation
of purchasing votes for Governor Gardner, now
proposes to sacrifice the Pennsylvania Governor
with much alaerity and cheerfulness as Abra
ham of old off led his son Isaac as a sacrifice to
the Lord
Gould any thing show more plainly than the
extract we have quoted what tbs purposes of the
leaders OF one of the factions of the American
party really are. Has Gov Joh' son withdrawn
have any circumstances transpired within week
or ten days, affecting his position and standing
with the party, that should make his quondam
friends SO anxious to cast him aside, and cause
them to send up their loud huzzas for Fremont
and Dayton?
Everybody knows that the relations between
him and the party that nominated him, are the
same, but yet we have here the open, shameless
proposition from one of the presses of the party,
to trade him off of the ticket for votes for Gov
ernor Gardner. We do not know by what au.
thoriry the Lowell Citizen takes upon itself the
task of making such a trade, but we are quite
certain that the honest men of the party, whose
attachments to the nominee for Vice President
are based upon principle, will not have their
opinions raised OF the party managers and wire
pulleTs, by the avowal of such an unprincipled
scheme of truck and dicker. The probabilities
are that thousand who have heretofore adhered to
the party, up to this hour, WILL after such reve.
lation of the heartessness and depravity of their
leaders, conclude to take the honest course" and
enroll themselves with the true party of Freedom,
from high and noble motives, rather than to
subserve the purposes of squad of political ad
venturers, whose only ambition seems to be to
secure the spoils of Office in the State. BY the
statement of the Lowell Citizen, if it speaks by
authority, it becomes perfectly obvious, to every
candid mind, that the boosted loyalty of the
American party to its New York nominee for the
Vice Presidency, has not any foundation, either in
personal or political regard for the man. We
have always maintained that this was the case !;
but here is the evidence Of it, from one of the
presses of that party. The proposition of the
Citizen is, in plain terms, simply this -'' We
have nominated Mr.. Johnston for Vice President,
and we have chosen an electoral ticket, with a
view to secure him the vote of Massachusetts,
and we think we can, but, at the same time,
we are not very strenuous on that point, and if
you, Republicans, viii only vote the State ticket
OF our party all through, put up ticket OF your
own, as the representatives, of your views and prin.
ciples, why we will throw overheard Mr.. Johns
ton, at once, and take Mr.. Dayton as our candi.
date
We will not express any opinion of our own as
to the feelings of Governor Johnston, in finding
himself thus used, by his protested friends, in
Massachusetts,, as mere cat's-paw, TO pull their
ehestnuts out of the fire but, as one of the peo-
pie, we will say, that we do not believe, in such
kind OF dickering as this.
II any of the members of the Peoples party
wish to vote for Gov. Gardner, we would raise no
sort of objection TO their doing SO but for the
Peoples party, as party, TO stop in mid career
oil the progress of this great movement, to con
descend 10 trade upon terms which all honest
mel-Amencans as well as others-must in their
sous aohof' with aiTagment Of a broken and d.
~oeo party Is 10 ask too much, and il will be re-
PEELED with scorn and loathing by the Peonle,s
party, wherever it is proposed.
It should be the desire and aim Of al, e-;oa.
OF freedom to keep the Presdentiol question c,oor
of all other questions 1t is absolutely essential %
the success of Fremont in the State, that tho
PLAN and simple issues presented by the Phua.
delphia platform should not be co-mingled with
Springfield platforms or any other platforms, that
no propositions should be made or received by the
Peoples party to or from any other party, for
buying, selling, or swapping votes. II an appeal
TO the people, id time like this, to stand by the
simple issues Of the crisis and to support the true
and tried candidates Of the party Of Freedom ia
order that the country may be rescued from it,
thraldom to the slave power, is not sufficient tc
unite them. then do we fear that all appeals "a
their cupidity through any arrangements Of truck
and eicker will not add the weight Of feather
towards the triumph Of the cause, or the can
didatec Of the true party Of Freedom.
ATTACK ON An EDIroR.--W. n. Haldeman, o
the Louisville Courier, was assaulted with larg,
hickory cane, on Thursday last, BY Elias Hall be
cause the Courier reported trial in which it wal
proved that Hall had been an inmate Of the Au
burn IN. ~ State Prison for three years. MIR
Haldsman succeeded in knocking his assaan