Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-20
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1857.
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rather to draw from events the lessons they sug
gest--to hold up timidity to rebuke, stupidity TO
correction, and treachery to scorn to strip from
the demaCogue his thin covering, and thus assist
to raze out rotten opinion, which writes men
down after their seeming" Your other cores
ponden,s give the gossip and news; If can help
vopr readers to look beneath the, surface, l too
shall do them service.
We thought, last November, we had elected
Republican Legislature but, really, we only
elected a 6 Sumner . Legislature. We ought to
have done both; but the traders, who sold US out
at Worcester, made the people believe that un'
less we formed unior with Gadnerism, both
Fremont and Sumner were in danger The re
suit is, the Legislature has ole just what they
were elected TO do-re-elected Charles Sumner
They set about that, like men who knew just
what their constituents expected The moment
that was accomplished, they should have gone
home. They Ehave done nothing else, and
viii do nothing else. That was the only issue
upon which tbev were elected it was the only
point upon which majority were, or are, agreed;
and for every measure of public utility, they
might as well have adjourned the next day.
This is the key to their vacillating, canny-
cauty, Wiley -wonty course. Ask them why they
didn' I elect decent Major General, and they re-
ply, !" Oh that wasn't in the Republican plat
form Z" and SO they back and fll-one branch
electing the Know Nothing, Pierce, and
the other the bunker, Andrews then, both elect
ing the slave-catcher, Wright, and finally back
ing out, leaving custom house official in com
mSnd of Massachusetts, division. Ask them
why they don't remove Loring, and they reply,
" Nothing was said about Loring in The conven- !
ton that nominated US p and straight Repub-
lican senator-Merrick of Norfolk-makes re-
port and speech, in favor of retaining in office
judge who defes legislative authority, by holding
commission in express violation of law Ask
them why they don't ipass the Kanzas appropria
tion, and they say, 't0h, that was not the issue
upon which we were sent here" Tell them to
show their hands on the fourteen years amend
ment, and they say, why, there's difference
of opinion among good Republicans--suppose we
split the differences" and SO they go for tsoo
years, instead of fourteen.
By the way, you should have heard the pomp-
Gus, solemn harangue of Turner of Norfolk, on
the fourteen years proposition. 1t was evidently
the work Of months, committed to memory, and
Tecited with wonderful unction and yet, to save
any eloquent passages, which the occasion might |
inspire, he had secured the attendance of phon-
ographic reporter. | do not know how many
brilliant inspirations Of the divine aiilatus Mr..
Yerrington rescued from oblivion, but there was
one burst which would not willingly let die:
When the aggrarianism and the Fourierism,
and the atheism Of the Old World engrafted
upon the body polite, the downfall of the Com
moRwealth is sure"
I could not perceive that the announcement
created any great alarm in the Senate Chamber.
/ overheard remark, rather irreverent to be
made in that presence, made by the gentleman
who presided over the " Disunion Convention"
in Worcester :--t' Well it won't hurt us much;
the Commonwealth that has had Know Nothing
ism engrafed on it, has not far to fall" q do
not quote the remark as of any particular impor-
tance.) Indeed, it struck me, that such re-
mark came with rather i'll grace from that gen.
tleman, for !" they say" that he either was
Know Nothing, or tried to be, and got black
balled. 1t wouldn't be strange indeed, it would
be good illustration of the fate which should
await double dealing. Amy man, pretending to
be anti slavery. who disgraces himself by turn
ing Know Nothing, ought to be damned (pcliti-
cally) for turning traitor.
There is slight hope that Gardner will have
another opportunity to veto the address for thu
removal Of Loring. Some Of the Know Moth
ings in the Senate are following the lead of their
brethren in the Housekeeping ahead of the Re-
publicans as anti.slavery men. Hence, enough
Of them, in the Senate, voted for the removal o.
Loring, to carry it, while such milk and water
Republicans as Merrick, Mixter, & Co., voted
No Well, if the "Americans' will do, from
policy, what the Republicans will not do from
principle, God be thanked for it.
So we are to have Republican State Conyen-
tion, unless the call is withdrawn. think that
the State COMMITTEES, if they are induced again
by the traders to back down, will do it in season
to save the people the t.Ouble of choosing dele
gates. l think the chances are, that the Conven-
tion will be held on the Oath of June believe
that day is selected, as quasi concession to
dark-aaternism, being ST. Johns Day, the pat
ron saint Of secret societies. Still, we may as
well accept it as fact, and prepare for it.
1t is a sad illustration of the condition of the
Republican party, that its State Committee felt
called upon to accompany its call for State
Convention with labored argument of nearly
newspaper column, to prove the expediency of
the call. lis still more sad. that the burden Of
that argument is, protection to Kanza8 when,
before the Convention meets, the election will
have been held in Kanzas, which determines,
finally, the question of slavery in that territory
50 far as political action can determine it. But
let that pass.
Why should the Committee change
THE BASIS OF REPRESENTATION
in the Conventioni They once attempted 10 get
up Legislative Convention. That was une-
quivocally condemned and abandoned. Why
should they now forsake the uniform rule of the
Wing, Free Soil, and Republican parties, Of
three delegates for one Representative and adopt
two for onei l can tell you why. The man.
agers-I don't mean the Committee, but the men
who manage the Committeeman afraid of a too
popular Convention. They know they can con.
troll a small Convention more easily than large
one. There was a strenuous effort in the Com
mittee to allow but one delegate to Represent.
atiye-Others insisted upon the old rule and
like true Yankees, they compromised ON two'
The Committee, have no doubt had thew bo.r
LEFT alone, would have adhered to the old nlar
but the outsiders feared too large infnsia,, :,
popular feeling in the Convention. ,snoh
semblies (said the leader) as the PhiladeInhi.
National Convention, or our State Convention.
are nothing but mobs'
And, now, having reduced the oonyen,o, !,