Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-17
T.s american Convention.

rae Americas Convention.
The dying embers ofthe late American par
~ Of Massachusetts, were raked together at
the Meioniun Hall, in Boston, yesterday, and
famed into feeble glow by the breath of
hsggard and wasted few of the once powerful
party that has governed Massachusetts, and
disgraced her while it governed, for the last
three years. There they were, grand sachems,
and chieftains of lesser note, from Psngborn
down to A, P. Bonney, and from George
ordiorne up to J. NJ. Usher, to take sweet
counsel together, by the light of {" the " dark
sslantern dimly burning as to the best
of diving with decency, and having another
grab at the spoils Of the State crib, before their
anal departure to the universal limbo Of the
efste things Of earth.
1t is, perhaps, needless for us to say that the
attendance was small, very small indeed The
Committee on Credentials reported that only
eighty two towns were represented by three
hundred and seventy six delegates; but the
immortal three hundred andseventy did
not make their appearance, and during the
entire session there were never more than
three hundred persons present, including spec
tators and reporters, and many of those look
ed as though they wished q they had advised
at home, pursued the . honest course. and
kept away. The highest vote polled upon
any one nomination was 229, and as Boston
had full delegation of one hundred and
thirty-two members, it is far to assume, that
on every ballot, Suffolk county polled more
than half the votes that were given. The
proceedings, full report Of which Will be
found in our columns, were on the whole
rather harmonious than otherwise, but 1T was
the harmony that bespeaks the torpor OF
death, the ealmness of intense trlgldlty tDat
stills the atmosphere of the polar SKIES ana
freezes the winds in their icy cayerns. Like
the war worn and wasted legions OF Napole
on in the retreat from Moscow, who crouched
under the lee of deserted habit atoms, and
tried 10 warm themselves by the conhagranon
OF wood piles hastily thrown together, from
the depths of snow covered forests and the
fences of the farm enclosures, which they
pa. SO in their painful journey they sat
clouching arc md the poor old Springfield
platform, warped and worm eaten, dilapidated
and rotten, trying to construct a raft of the
fragments, that should bear them once more
out of their present dangers and difficulties,
into more sunny lands, where prospects OF
fuller harvests blooued, and where we'll filed
corn-crbs invited to more copious enjoy
ment of the spoils-trying to get leader who
should conduct them, If not to victory, at
least to position where they could make
good trade in exchanging principles for votes,
and peddling politicians for the paltry pay of
the offices of State.
OF course we are net surprised at the re-
suits. We knew that the Convention would
make Mr.. Banks its standard bearer, and that
Mr.7Banks would accept their nomination
u ION the narrow, illiberal, anti Republican,
and un-christian platform that was hewn out
and dovetailed together at Springfield, by the
most corrupt coterie of politicians that ever
di igraced the soil of Massachusetts by their
presence under one Ioof.-And all that we
now have to say to our readers, is, ''LoOk to
y1ur delegates. See to it well, that the Re-
publican sentiment is truly represented by
your best citizens at the convention Of the
true friends of Freedom, that is to be held here
on the Oath. See TO it that you send no men
to represent you at Worcester on that day,
but such as aIe willing and determined to
ignore all other issues, make the question of
slavery paramount to all other questions,
drive out the plunderers from the State Treas
Ut abolish the regime Of rogues and liars,an
go for the restoration of the Government of
the glorious old Bay State, TO the hands of
men who will neither cheat, steal, or bear false
witness, ard whose love for the Common
wealth is not wholly perverted by their lust
for efice, and love of self.