Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-19

/ For Governor JOSIAH QUINCY, OF Boston.
/ For Lieutenant Governor-J0HN BRANNING Office.
For Attorney Geueral--JOhn A. Andrew, of bingham.
| For Secretary of sate-Ffancfs Dewitt Of Ware
For treasurer and Receiver General John SARGENT Of
| Cambridge
For Audior-Joseph Mitchell of Nantucket
| worked every moment while the polls were
| open, in distributing the tickets; and our town
of Walpoe gave larger relative vote for the
"Honest Mems Ticket" than any other town in
Eastern Massachusetts,. 1t was glory enough for
one day; but when heard that five thousand
voters Joined in this protest against the treachery
of some of our leaders, the stupidity of Others,
and the timidity of all, and especially against the
meanness and the bgohy of Know Nothingism,
and the hypocrisy and mendacity of Gardner,I
felt there was hope of the old Bay State If ten
righteous men would have saved Sodom, surely
the good Father has purposes of mercy for Mas
sachusetts, for the sake of the five thousand who
would not bow to this beaslly Baal
Fiction No. 5. "Drew to that ticket FIVE thou
sand votes from the Fremont rankse' Miserable
inuendo that i did this, aiming or tending to
weaken the Fremont vote when he knows that
every one of those five thousand voted the FIRE.
mont electoral ticket, some Of us, of course,
scratching George Odiorne, but would not de.
grade our holy cause, or insult our gallant and
true-hearted leader, by assocating his name with
that OF the pro-slavery doughface and hunker'po-
litical gambler, and convicted notorious liar
Henry ]. Gardner.
Fiction No.6, have reserved to the last, be-
cause it is bundle of liesa lie in totalty and
cry detail lie. Here it is 'In 1866. he attempt
ed to organize Free Democratic party, in oppo-
sition to Rockwell, who was then the Republican
candidate for Governor. He accordingly called a
convention at Springfield, sent circulars to all the
towns, and engaged special train 10 convey the
delegates from Boston and the Eastern and cen
trail parts Of the State. The train started from
Boston with Mr.. Bird and one other delegate
both elected by themselves. Nobody joined it on
the way except solitary individual at North
Brookfeld, and the trio arrived at Springfield, and
found nobody Waiting for them. They constituted
the convention" Every single statement of al
legged fact in the above is false, and Carter knew
Il TO be false. There was no attempt to organize
Free Democratic party in 1856, for the Free Demo
cratic party previously organized. expired in 1854
and nobody ever attempted to reorganize it. NJ
convention was called sin Springfield in opposi
ton to Rockwell, . for the only Free Democratic
Convention held in Springfield, and the last tina
that party held anywhere, was in lS54-a yea
before Rockwell was nominated. called no such
convention, sent out no such circulars engaged
no special train, rode in no such train, neithe
elected myself delegate to the convention, mo-
was elected By any man, nor body Of men, anC
not only was not one Of 'the trio who constituted
the convention" but a0as not present otfhe con,
veatioH. With the whole thing, out Of which
Carter has woven such tissue Of lies, had just
as much to do,-no more, no less,-as Robert
Carter himself. There is the authentic history.
The Summer Of 1854 was emphatically the sea.
son Of conventions. Conventions growing out Of
the Burns rendition, anti-Nebraska, Free Demo.
cratic, Free Soil, Republican, to say nothing q
Wing, Democratic, and Dark Lantern conven.
ventions, occurred almost every week The Fre'
Democratic State Committee, elected in the Fal
OF 1853 were actively in the field, and held fire.
quent meetings during all the Spring, Summer
and Fall, kept a standing notice Of their head
quarters in the Commonwealth and Telegraph
and held several State Conventions