Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-19

proposed, which he, as ono of the committee did
not know all about. Any one who will take the
trouble to look over file of the Commonwealth,
will find State conventions called by the Free
Democratic Committee, signed By every member
OF the committee, ROBERT CARRIERS name in
capitals, Nth the rest. And this$ery convention
at Springfield was called by vote of the State
Committee, Mr.. Garter being present
The records of the State Committee show these
facts. AT a meeting of the committee regularly
called on July Is, con motion of DR.. Swan, it
was voted, that a Free Democratic State Conven-
tion be called at such time and place as the
chairman and Secretary shall hereafter deter
mine" Mr.. Stone and myself were disinclined
to take the responsibility of calling convention
(although authorized to do SOY, after the move
ments relating to the quasi Republican or Fusion
party and at the meeting of the State Commit
tee on September 81, on motion of Mr.. Hinck-
ley of Barnstable, it was voted, that the chair
man and secretary be instructed to call State
Convention at Springfield, at as early dag as
possible, the time to be determined by them" 1t
will be noticed that the vote in July left time
and place at the discretion of the chairman and
secretary; the second vete made it peremptory to
call the convention at Springfield, as early as
possible. Accordingly, as soon as 1t was possible
to make the necessary arrangements, the regular
annual State Convention of the Free Democratic
party was called on October 8, in the usual form,
to meet at Springfield on October II. No "spec-
ial train engaged" by myself or anybody
else. The call contained the usual notice, that
delegates will be carried to and from the Con-
vention over the Western Railroad, at half-price
fare, by the afternoon train on Monday and by
the Tuesday trains" This arrangement. if
recollect right, was negotiated by Robert Garter
So much for the deliberate, wilful, audacious
falsehood, that I called this convention, and en-
gagged speciil train to carry delegates to organ.
ize party in opposition to Rockwell
One of the mendacious specifications of this
wholesale lie, is, that l sent circulars to all the
toacnS," to rally delegates to my anti -Isockwell
sizzle Ineither got up, signed, nor sent cir
cular to all or any towns in 1854 Il had enough of
circulars " in 1920 On the 10th of October.
1854, the Free Democratic Stare Committee issued
circular, urging those to whom it was sent to
rally full attendance of delegates and others
at the Convention" at Springfield. This circular
is signed by every member of the committee,
Robert Carter included! The recklessness of
the mendactY is only equalled by its stupidity:
"'Tis the sport to see the engineer
Hoist with his own petard %
The circular says =" 1t is proper that the old,
tried, and true friends of liberty should meet at
this time and take counsel together; and al
though the Republican Convention has adopted
platform of principles entirely in accordance with
those of the Free Democratic party the Commit.
tee do not think they are authorized to determine
the action of the party by which they were chos.
en-" This was the honest course" to call the
Convention, as they bound to do, and refer
the question, AS to whether nominations should be
made and the organization continued to the peO-
pie.
The Convention was held. and, as l recollect
and from the accounts in the papers of the day |
was respectfully large.
As to opposing Mr.. Rockwell, then, or ever,
Mr.. Carter knows that was " an original Rock
well man i" that advocated his nomination be
fore the Worcester Convention that according
to my ability, no man worked harder than did
TO secure his nomination at Worcester, and no
man worked harder to elect him. He knows that
1 first proposed the " Campaign Republican" re-
ceiving from the Republican State Committee
nothing but their permission to issue it "under
their direction; +" and that edited, published,
and circulated it at my own expense, receiviag
only one hundred dollars from the Trustees Of
the Freedom Fund.-" and some small sums from
other sources, and that amatoday some four to
i've hundred dollars out of pocket in the opera
1t. ~ IL I,o.n
ind yet holds me up to odium as having opposed
Rockwell in an attempt to regain the control
u affairs" And then, having charged me with
conduct which should exclude me from the com
,anionship of all decent and honest men, Carter
,ypocritically adds -" Mr.. Bird is man of tai
mt and generous character, and lis personally
popular with a large circle of acquaintances -
Let oab-I mean Robert Carter-read the fol.
lowing Scripture -" And Joab said to Amos, art
thou in health, my brother And Joab took
Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kass
him. And Amasa took no heed to the asoord that
was in Joab's hand. So he smote him Herewith
in the fifth rib"
have taken more trouble, Messrs. Editors,
than the subject would seem to warrant, in ex-
posing the character Of this ibeler but for years
his vocation has been to poison the public mind
towards the purest men in Massachusetts, and to
SOW the seeds of jealousy and dissension between
prominent anti-slavery men; and having too we'll
succeeded in this vile business, he now pounces
upon smaller game.
But who is this Robert Carter, who sits in iudg-
mont apon the anti-slavery men of Massachu-
sets, and reads out of the Republican party men
who have been for years in the thickest of the
fight, while he, all the while, has been 'skulking
among the wagons in the rear ?" waif thrown
up from some unknown region, he would divert
attention from his peculiar filthiness, by throw
ing mud upon decent men. He first came into
notice as a sort of assistant editor of the Li5era-
tor, out. Garrisoning Garrison in the savageness
Of his anti-savery articles, and now turned Union
saver, and denouncng me "Garrisonian dis
unionist;" literary jackall, with plable and
ready pen which makes him serviceable to certain
men who furnish brains and ideas, but shrink
from the drudgery-the labor lima, in which in
ferior men excel; political harlequin. by turns
Garrisonian Abolitonist, Free Soier Coalitionist
and that most abject of all political hybrids, a
Jack Know Nothing, knocking at the door of a
Know Nothing council. for admission to a .sse.
cret political society,"" which denounced the race
of the mother that bore him. and derided the
creed which inspired the prayers she breathed
over his cradle, and was excluded-not because
every manly instinct revolted from the worse than
paricidal act, but because the rules of the Order