Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-08-22
G8s Aalp Spg.
SATURDAY, AUGUST %. 1857.


principles, to make out that there Is sohe
discrepancy between his present avowed prlncl-
pies and some things he may have said IN the
past Now it is very plain to see that ludseo
BY this test, the truest men of today may I'M
measurably fail. But few political men can show
an entirely clean record for many years back
The main point is to have them right now and
"let the dead past bury its dead" And besides,
in new party. like the Republican party, made
M in great measure of those who in the past
have differed widely, as to important questions of
public policy, it should be the last thing thought
Of, to expect of those we may nominate, life
long, unyarying devotion to the principles they
now stand upon, and to which they give pledges
that they will adhere in the future.
Instead of looking back into some remote an
tecedent for the position of Mr.. Banks, when the
influence of old party connections, now dissolved,
might have influenced him, would it not be much
wiser, more satisfactory, and more in accordance
with reason, to examine his record as he aoO
stands, by his own repeated declarations, especi-
ally in his letter accepting the Republican nomi-
nation for Governor, in which he planted himself
unequiyocally and fully on the Republican plat
form, as follows:
al resisted the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, and am still opposed to that measure,
as | an to all acts of the late and the present
administration, whether Of an executive, leglsla-
tive, OF judicial Character, which have been de-
yised to maintain or to perpetuate the original
purpose of that hagitious wrong and l shall
earnestly advocate the admission OF kanzas into
the Union Of States Under it's own ,charter OF
freedom. am opposed to the further extension 81
slavery, or to the increase of its political power
believe that the Constitution co1perS upon cor
gresS sopereqH potoer oUer the Territories OF tae
United States for their government, and thar IN
the exercise of its authority, is ITS duty to pro-
hibit SLAVERY or potygaT1y therein l shsIi sup
port the most energetic measures whlch the IONS
sttntion admits for the development oil the moral
and material interests of the American people
defend the sovereignty of the States against ex-
ecutise or Judicial encroachment, and contribute
all in nv power for the restoration of the general
government to the principles Of the fathers OF
the Constitution and the Union"
What more emphatic or decided committal in
favor Of the principles Of the Philadelphia plat
form, could be desired, or wished, than the
above After reading this, let us turn to Mr..
Banks's speech made in May, S54,Iagainst the
Nebraska bill, and we find the historical fact to
be as stated in his letter. proving on the part of
our candidate clean three years record of con-
sistent advocacy Of Republican doctrine. More
than three years ago, when Mr., Goodrich was
member of the national Wing party which stood
upon the odous pro-slavery Baltimore platform
of 1852, although Mr.. Goodrich and other north
ern Wings co.operated with Mr. Banks in oppo-
stiop to the consummation of the Nebraska per-
hdy,) Mr. Banks said
"But there is species of property, made SO by
la ayist in he Smith exciting
the North that exists by favor, and not Of right;
the extension Of which by the ordinary modes OF
increase, is prohibited by law and denounced as
piracy; that loses its character II found out OF
the pale OF its restricted locality and has no ex-
istence until taken back to the place OF Its origin
this unique species Of possession is to be made
generc il is to be stripped of its local character
and invested with attributes of universally 1t IS
to go where no statute nor the constitution goes,
but by special act it is to be made unit with
the government, neither to be perfect without the
other; it is to follow the flag of our country over
its territorial possessions, if it were the insti
tuition symbolized by the unsigned; as if the
lashes OF the one were the stripes OF the other,
and every wave Of the starry ensign were accom-
panied by the clanking of coffies and chains.
Sir, we resist this claim, and deny its justice.
We will recognise this institution where the con-
stituton covers it; we will give it the protection
that it has by covenant will yield to Its rep.
fesentative power though unjust; we Will do all
that the Constitution requires, but zoe 0tH go no
further. No cords have strength to draw US be-
yond that line, though
THE worms
Were hallowed that did breed the silk
Speaking of these several committals of Mr..
Banks to Republican principles, both in 1854 and
1857, as being sufficient to draw every true Re
publican voter in the Commonwealth in his sup
port, at the ensuing election, the Springfield
Republican well saws:
Here are his declarations to the people of Mas
sachusetts and his declaration representa-
tive of Massachusetts, in Congress. To these SEN
tments and this policy has he committed him
self, before his fellow citizens and before the
country. His friends ask no more. A man may
kiss the Philadelphia platform, may SLEEP whit
under his pillow, may wear it next his heart, fold
it into his neckcloth, roll it into pills and swal
low it, wrap his razor in it, swear by it, and keep
it sacredly folded in the leaves of his Bible, and
It all can make him no more truly republican
than if he had made the declarations which we
have quoted from Mr.. Banks 1t is this and not
any dlsrespeet for Mr. Goodrich, or any general
doubt Of his political honest7, that will make his
long letter very dead letter The people will
care nothing about it and besides, they will ask
some questions which will be awkward they
bear upon Mr.. Goodrich. They will ask by what
ideas'of propriety gentleman can be governed
who, while holding place upon their state COM
mittee, is engineering for their defeat. They
will ask whether it is the legitimate and is to be
the regular thing when two candidates are be-
fore state convention, for the defeated one to
engage in public crusade against his success
fu competitor. There may be pleasant was Of
answering these things privately, where the par
ties are acquaintanees, but the public at large,
with an honest contempt, will query still.
WoRK STOPPED ON THE HoosAc TUNNEL. The
North Adsms transcript says that work upon the
Hoosac Tunnel has been suspended since the 18th
inst, owing to the contractors not having re-
ceived from the Troy and Greenfield Railroad