Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-23
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The Coming Election in MassachusetIs.
To The Editor Of the N. Y. Tribune Sir
The Tribune cannot afford to misrepresent
the anti Know Nothing Republicans of Mas
sachusetts, any more than they can afford to
be misrepresented by it, 1 desire, therefore,
the opportunity to say that portion of the
recent regular correspondence Of the Tribune
from Boston contains many incorrect state
ments, among which will specify only the
assertion relative 10 the secret league of ultra
Republicans to put down Wilson, Banks, and
Burllngame. No such league has ever been
formed, and the entire statement is without
foundation in fact.
Why should the Tribune take the side of
the men who for three years past have so sue
cessfully labored to prevent the formation of
National Republican party, in harmony
with the Republican party Of New York and
of the Union The Tribune is not a Know
Nothing paper. 1t has no sympathy with the
doctrines or management of that party. One
of its chief claims to the support of the true
men of the North, consists IN the fact that it
bas' steadily opposed this mischievous politi-
cal heresy. Why should it allow any of its
correspondents to misrepresent the thirty or
forty thousand voters here who are trying to
place Massachusetts alongside of New York
and side with those who are for keeping up
the alliance with the Know Nothings, and
thus maintaining that organization The
men who oppose the nomination of Mr..
Banks are, substantially, those who were in
favor Of making u nomination at Worcester
last year, but were overslaughed by a Know
| Nothing mob from a neighboripg hall. and
undermined and corrupted by another mob,
| OIL congressman, eager for a re- election, head.
| ed by Mr.. N. p. Banks himself. The Tyt-
6~'1e lately styled Governor Gardner of this
State s. scamp. Nobody who knows him
will complain of the accuracy of this descrp-
ton, though l observe that the Boston Court.
er objects to it on the score of good taste.
10 whom are the people of the State indebted
for the present Gubernatorial term of Gov
ernor Gardner? To Mr.. N. 2. Banks, more
than to any other man. He, kept us from
nominating man last year who would have
beaten him out of sight and if he could
have had his way, the Republican nomina-
ton would have been conferred outright M
on Gov. Gardner The pretence for this pol
icy was that it would help Fremont in other
Northern States. l will not argue this mat
ter, for the Tribune has already expressed a
very decided and very inst opinion of the
policy OF Mr.. Banks during the campaign.
His conduct at the Worcester Convention was
OF piece with his temporizing course in the
beginning of the canvass.
If it is desirable to go into the Presidential
contest of 1860, with divided opposition to
the slave Democracy, instead of united OBJ
position, why then let the people and the pol
ltcians encourage the continuance of the
Know Nothing party in the political field
The experiment of 1856 will then be repeated
with probably more disastrous results The
policy, pursued by Mr.. Banks and those who
followed him last year, and who now advo-
| cate his nomination for the office of Governor
of Massachusetts, is calculated, if not intend
ed, to protract the life of that organisation to
whose existence last year Fremont's defeat is
mainly due. 1t is an inducement for them to
maintain their newspapers, their committees,
| their clubs, their folly, and their hummery--
| If they, mere insignificant fraction of the
! people, can be so recognized as political
! power that they can be justified in claiming
half the places in the gift OF the people, they
will, of course, keep themselves in as good
! political condition as possible. The conf
dence OF the people has long ago been with
drawn from them but no party is so wretch
eddy foIsaken that it cannot muster men
enough to receive all the offices which our
State government has to give. The Know
| Nothing psrty in this State has been kent
alive the past year solely by the patronage
which Gov. Gardner has been able to distri-
| have
| dead long ago-Gardner himself would have
FASTENED to abandon it-if it had NOT boen
| kept in being by Mr.. Banks and his followers
Well, perhaps this was a mistake bnt il
Mr.. Banks, who is undeniably popular with
large class OF the community, to suffer from
Its consequences forevers No, not if he ia
in any better position this year than he was
last. The last public declaration Of his nosi.
ton as to party organizations, so far as I
know, came from him on the 9th of Octoba,
last, when he accepted the nomination of the
Fremont Know Nothings for Congress. He
said to them =
| accept the nomination which s so gen.
erously offered me with gratitude My obli-
cations to those with whom you act do not
commence with this new proof of your gener-
GUS confidence nor sOtH my endeauors to sat-
tsty their Just expectations end 10Th the canvass
in which they have given me so prominent
part. The resolutions of the Convention l
have not yet seen, but | refer you TO my de.
claratlons of opinion upon the prominent
| questions at issue between the several great
| political parties Of the day, made by me dur.
ing the last Congress, and also during the ses
sions of the present Congress, for my own
views of public affairs. To those now, az
then, adhere"
This shows sufficiently good understand
ing WIN the hhoW NoVnlhS party, and the
| pledge to cooperate with them is much mora
cordial than that which he gave to the Con.
venton Of Republicans, whose nomination
he accepted at the same time. Nothing has
occurred since Oct. 81 to show that NJ
Banks means to discourage the Know Moth
ing organization. The events of the last tuo
or three weeks, as every intelligent Observes
must have noticed, show that he is stiIl d.
posed to pursue the same policy. / do not
know that he is to blame forit. Having been
chosen to Congress twice, and to the SneaLor