Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-22
vic shnn be Governor!

journals in Massachusetts, with strong Native
American procivities, seem to have considered it
foregone conclusion, from the first, that Mr..
Banks is to be the next Governor of Massachu-
setls and that he is to receive the nomination to
that Office from the Republican Convention. IN
dorbtedly, the candidate who is nominated by
that Convention will be elected whether it is Mr..
Banks or some other man, but we do not consider
it by any means certain that Mr. Banks will Sc
cure the requisite number Of votes to ensure his
nomination. There are many grave and weighty
reasons in the minds of the people, why he should
not be called from his present post of honor, in.
Auence, and responsibility, as representative
in Congress from the seventh congressional dis
trict Of Massachusetts,, to the gubenatoral chair
of the Commonwealth; not the least Of which is,
that Mr. Banks's peculiar qualifications for the
position which he now occupies will be lost to the
service Of the Republican party for two years, at
least, should he suffer himself to be withdrawn
at this time from the councils of the nation.
Massachusetts has within her borders now, and
the Republican Convention will have no difficulty
in designating who they are, at least twenty men
who can fill the gubernatorial chair with equal
credit 10 themselves, and whose administra ton
will confer equal honor upon the old Bay State
with Mr.. Banks, but the seventh district has not
man within its limits who can fill his place in
Congress.
Let our readers If any there are, who differ
from us upon this point, carefully survey the
ground, and report TO us, in candor and sincerity
if it is not so. While Massachusetts, always pro-
life in great men, and never more determined in
her opposition 10 the encroachments of the slave
power than at the present time, when the decis-
ions of the Supreme Court, controlled and dicta
ted by the Southern oligarchy, threaten us with
an utter subyersion of liberties, once thought
to be secure, under our Constitution and Bill of
Rights, can find in the ranks of her Republican
party Boutwell,, a Goodrich, an Elliott, an Al
len, Knowlton, Chandler, an Adams, and
host of other men of signal ability and tried pa
triotism. to administer her laws protect the hon
or, and guard the interests of the people at home'
and while she has to represent her in Congress,
especially in the lower house. delegation not at
all remarkable either for eloquence, ability, or
craftsmanship, it would seem to be of question:.
BILE policy to remove from the chamber of the
House of Representatives that man of all others
who best speak the voice of Massachusetts in
frat hail. during the great struggle between the
fri nds and foes Of Republican liberty in the next
two years.
During his two years service in Congress, Mr..
Banks has acquired an enviable fame. In one of
the ssyerest Of hard fought fights he rallied the
hosts of freedom to triumphant success, and he
has acquired name and position Speaker of
the House of Representatives calculated to in
sure him the most influential position among his
- b,,&
ers must excuse us if we do not accord to him all
the transcendent qualifications which they claim
for him, Governor of Massachusetts. We be-
lieve that is position in which he is not so well
calculated to shine as the one which he now occu-
pies, and we, have the fullest conviction that the
Republican cause will not be gamer by placing
him in the gubernatorial chair.
When pnblic man is to be removed by
his party from any post of responsibility to
another, other considerations besides such as are
personal to himself should be carefully weighed,
always with reference to the influence upon the
cause which, il is presumed the party whose
servant he is, designs to promote. And no truly
patriotic mind should suffer personal desires to
sway it from the strict and severe line of duty.
With this view of the case, with the Tact
so boldly staring them in the face that Mr.
Banks place in Congress cannot be filled accept
ably by any man in the Republican party of the
Seventh District, at this time that there is very
great danger that an administration Democrat
or what would be equally as unfortunate, "Jack
Know Nothing, like Elihu c. Baker, would
be sent to Washington, there to misrepsent the
State, il not disgrace his constituency for the
next two years, we are certainly at loss for
any good reasons, which should influence any
true Republican, having at heart the triumph Of
his party and his principles, to vote for Mr..
Banks candidate for Governor
We believe that the views that we have ex-
pressed above, are shared in by the Republicans
in this part of the State and, SO far as our know-
edge extends, we do not not know any delegates
that have yet been chosen either from Worcester
or the interior towns of the county, with whom
Mr.. Banks is their first choice.
1t is perfectly obvious to all, that he has
not even been thought of as a candidate until
within the past two or three weeks, and but for
the nomination which he received at the Conven-
ton Of mere fragment of the Know Nothing
party, at the recent State Convention in Boston,
where only quarter of the towns in the State were
represented, he would not be thought of as
candidate now. We must look to the future as
well as to the present,-and we must see to
il well, that the Know Nothing wire-pullers do
not comprise in their scheme for making N. P.
Banks Governor some dirty and underhanded
trick, to send one of the meanest of the miserable
hunkies of the T" Modern Annanias to the Con-
gress Of the United States, in place of the man
they hoped to use as the instrument Of their own
vile purposes.