Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-31
A R ES S
Banks state Central Commute,
PEOPLE on MASSACHUSETTS,.

uherrngly to the triumph, on Tuesday next
OF the purposes for which Mr.. Banks con-
sented to be candidate for Governor and in
whose behalf we have organized and labored.
These purposes were:
l. The union of all men in Massachusetts,
favorable to the interests Of flee labor, as OPP
posed to those of slave labor and preferring
the extension of freedom to the further growth
OF slavery as a national institution.
2. The thorough reform, througha perma-
nent and responsible party of the administra-
ton of the State government.
We accepted the first issue in opposition 10
the policy OF the Pierce and Buchanan ma
tonal administrations, as distinguished by
their devotion to the slavery interest, at the
expense of the peace and prosperity OF the
country, in the repeal of the Missouri com
promise, in the encouragement of injustice,
fraud and tyranny in Kanzas, in the declara-
ton of the party majority of the Supreme
Court and Mr.. Buchanan that the flag of the
United States, wherever it waves, protects
and upholds the system OF slave labor, and
makes it national, and not a local and Sec
tional institution. We take this issue, also,
| in furtherance of the great national aims and
objects of the Fremont movement of last
year, to which Massachusetts, responded by
larger vote than she ever before gave to any
ganization of freemen in Missouri which is
redeeming that State from slavery; in sympa-
Thy with the people Of Kanzas, who, in spite
Of all sorts of opposition, are compelling
degree of justice TO their rights which prom
Uses to give that new State and its government
to freedom and Republicaulsm and in asso-
citation with the only party organization in
other States that now remains to contest the
possession OF the government with that De-
mocracy which, once national and the ally of
free labor, has now become the servant and
tool of the multiplying sectionalism of slavery,
and turns deaf ear to the great interests de-
pendent upon the independent labor of the
North.
The second issue we accept as against the
administration of Governor Gardner, under
which the annual expenses of the State gov
eminent have increased to nearly million
and half of dollars, the length of the legis-a
lative sessions to almost six months, and the
State tax from 100000 to 5000, 900.
The voice of Massachusetts, upon the CUES
tions OF our national politics, is hardly less
important now than last year. We have the
testimony of Caleb Gushing, who has come
forward this week to defend the Pierce and
Buchanan policy, that the pending election
has a high significance in national view.
He appeals for votes for Mr.. Beach, as the rep
resentative of the Pierce and Buchanan poll
CIV, and as opposed to Mr. Banks, the repre-
sentative of the opposition.
Mr.. Winthrop and Mr. billiard, who now
represent Mr.. Gardner more nearly than any
others who have spoken in his behalf, declare
him to stand, substantially, with Mr.. Beach.
Mr.. Gushing taeitly accepted, and openly ar
gued upon this assumption We accept the
same as the true practical view of his position.
a., Ill, l, II
weaken or peryert the declaration of the splen-
did vote Of Massachusetts for Fremont last
year, who would maintain hel stand against
the extension of slavery, against the subjuga-
ton Of the Union by the slave power, against
the prostration Of all the interests Of tree La
| Dor, and at the same time secure to herself a
| government at once dignl6ed, honorable, SIM
| pie, and economical, to vote for n. 2. Banks
| and his associate candidates on the union
| ticket.
We speak this word of explanation and en- :
couragemeHt because Of theindustrious efforts
Of the opposition to the union candidates to
hide the true issues of the canvass in personal
and untrue or immaterial questions, and to
deceive the public of the real prospects of the
result by false calculations. The matter of
the Hoosac Tunnel, upon which false state-
ments of the independent position Of Mr..
Banks, are used to prejudice votes against
him, is not at all likely to be brought before
the next Legislature. The PROSTATE condition
| of our finances. and of the railroad interest
in particular, is better security for the State
treasury on that subject, than the veto power
in the hands of the Governor, least OF all one
whose recorded opinions indicate at least three
radical changes upon it. The friends and Of
fcers of the road propose no application to
the ensuing Legislature, and should they
make one there is nothing in the opinions or
position of Mr.. Banks and his friends to in
duce any doubt Of their fidelity to the pecun-
larry interests of the State, which, in their
present impaired and dilapidated condition,
will challenge their closest consideration.
Just now, particularly, does free Kanzas
need the voice of Massachusetts. A struggle
has arisen there between the ultra border
ruffian party and Gov. Walker, upon the re-
lection by him of the false returns from John.
son County. 1t will be transferred to Wash
ington; and though the issue is, at best,
doubtful, it is not too much to say that the
defeat of Mr.. Banks in Massachusetts, and of
the kindred union in New York against the
Buchanan Democracy, would at once be fol.
lowed by the temporary sacrifice of Kanzas,
and the complete triumph of the border ruff
fan party. This consideration alone should
call together full and united vote of the
friends Of free Kanzas in Massachusetts, such
as would leave no doubt of her continued in
terest in the cause of that unhappy Territory
Assured that the great body of supporters
Of Fremont last Fall viii still manifest their
attachment to the spirit and principles of that
campaign-that Mr.. Banks, their representa-
tive now, will receive majority vote in at
least three fourths of the counties of the
State, and an aggregate poll of not less than
65 ,000 votes, we congratulate our friends on
the prospects Of the election, but urge them
to continued and Increased exertions.-
| The fuller the vote, the more decided
and brilliant the victory. Especially do we re.
mind thom Of the importance ofobteining able
Senators and Representatives, in sympathy
with the double purpose of our efforts in this
campaign. 1t is in the local districts that the
opposition are making their most industrious
and threatening effort. BY union they hope
to carry large proportion of the Legislature
and thus embarrass Mr.. Banks and his asso
ciate State officers in carrying out their reform
policy. Let this effort be counteracted by
doubled exertions. Let this hope Of the enc
my perish and let Mr.. Banks find himsel
surrounded by able, energetic, and sympa
thizing counsellors, through whose combined
labors the government of Massachusetts ma,
again represent the true sentiments of her PEG
pie, and again clothe itself with simplicity
economy, dignity, and honor.
People of Massachusetts With you rest
the responsibility of saying how potentia
shall be the voice Of the ancient Common
wealth on the living issues of the hour w
do not hesitate TO announce. from every indi
cation that reaches us, that the brilliant vic
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