Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-01
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largest proprietary interest IN tae establishment
having, in the above paragraph, defined his own
position and the position Of the Spy, in the pres
ent political canvass, the junior editor feels called
upon, in this connection, briefly to say, that he
disclaims all intention OF supporting Mr.. Banks,
as the Republican candidate for Governor, and
shat he desires here and now 10 wash his hands
Of all suspicion Of aiding in the elevation OF that
gentleman to the gubernatorisl chair. Not word
can be conscientiously utter, not a line can he
conscipntiously put upon paper, that would tend
to such result, which he believes would be more
disastrous to the Republican cause than hun
dFed defeats. He was memberof the Republi
can Convention which nominated Mr.. Banks, and
which BY unanimous vote adopted the following
resolution -
RssolUsd That the Republican Party Of Massachusetts,
sdheTes with uuwavering fidelity the principles Of the
PHILADELPHIA Patform that it recognizes those principles
the only test OF puiit cal fellow hip and viii support no
candidates Tor public Off who do not heartily, uuequiv
by, and in good faith subscribe % those principles
and acknowledge them as the paramount sct Of po
cal action.
That resolution was fall and explicit-its inten-
tion was, in the uncertainty that prevailed as to
Mr.. Banks's position, to wiring from him, If pos
sibe, fair, manly, candid avowal of his political
sentiments upon all the questions embraced in the
creed of the Republican party, adopted at Phila.
delph,a il june 1856. Butt reply of Mr.. Banks
utterly ignores not only the Republican platform,
but the Republican organization, and standing as
he does upon the platform of another party, ac-
eeptng as he has done the nomination of another
party whose principles upon vital questions are
aiterly antagonistic to the true Republican doc
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in fidelity to his own party, but that he had not
decent regard for his own self-respect. should he
be willing to lend his aid. however small it may
be, to the elevation Of any man to Office who oc
cupes the very equivocal position in which Mr.
Banks places himself by his recent letters to the
officers Of the American and Republican Conven-
tons.
These letters appear to him. as the artfuIly-
framed devices of man who seems to believe that
" language was invented TO conceal ideas, not to
express them,''-they seem to be the missives of
cunning, wire pulling politician, rather than the
manly avowals Of statesman-they suggest to
hi the supple-limbed contortions of the clown
in the circus, who believes more quarters can be
taken at the door, from the fact that he rides taoo
horses rather than one.
No man knows, to this day, to which Of the
two political parties Mr.. Banks belongs They
only know that he accepts the nomination Of one
class of bis fellow citizens who stand upon that
incarnation Of bigotry, the Springfield platform,
and whose control of public affairs in Massachu-
sets for the last three years has impoverished the
State BY its wasteful extravaganza and disgraced
it everywhere by its audacious defiance of the
popular and Legislative will, and they know that
he also accepts the nomination of the Republican
party, without any pledge to its organization, and
without any stronger profession of regard for its
principles than many of the old Wimot proviso
Wings, like Mr.. Winthrop and Mr. Lunt, were
willing to pledge themselves to, years ago, and
would be wiling to pledge themselves to now.
The junior editor Of the Spy was aware Of the
fact, before the appearance of Mr. Banks's letter,
that Mr.. Banks would not take an uneouiyocal
position with the Republican party and upon the
Philadelphia platform, for he had been assured by
one Of his tMr. Banks's) particular friends and
eonhdants that he (Mr. Banks) had said to him
within few days, that be had too great
regard for his national reputation to do that
In conversation which he himself had with
r.
let tall expressions which fully satisfied him that
he did not consider himself member Of the Re
publican party Joined to this, he had the dec.
laration Of Hon. Henry Wilson, made, not to him
alone, but to other gentlemen Of the Republican
party, in divers places and at divers times, that
MT. Banks was personally and politically obnox-
lous to large portion of the Republican mem.
oers Of the last Congress- that, as Speaker of the
House, he was unfair towards the North in his
rulings and decisions; and that at the close of
the last Congress, when the usual resolution of
thanks was offered to the Speaker, had il not
been for the fact that Southern members had
made an organized determined effort to defeat
that resolution, there we're thirty-6ve Republican
members who would have quietly voted nay. Mr..
Wilson had also stated to him, as fact, that the
Southern hre-eaters, such as COBB and Stevens of
Georgia, could always obtain the floor from the
presiding officer, while such was his disregard
OF the rights Of Republicans in thai House. that
ne himself had been obliged to call at Mr. Banks's
lodgings and implore him to afford fair play to
Northern members.
Such facts as these, coupled with Mr.. Banks's
disgraceful conduct at the Republican Convention
last year, when be attempted, singe-hapded to
gag the Republican party Of the State and force
the whole Know Nothing ticket down its throat.
bis insolent, profane and overbearipe demean,r
upon that platform, where he assumed the mart of
dictator, backed up by the hired myrmidons Of the
massachusetts, Catalina, have wrought in him firm
sonvietion that Mr.. B. is not the man for Massa
snnsetts at this hour-that any victory achieved
unoer ms leadership will in the end only prove dis
as'roua ~ the Republican cause, and that any tri
pmpn however great may be the majority. will
only iease with the Republican party
AbAren seeptre in their erin,
Thence 70 be Erenchsd b. AZ anl,neaI h.nd
Noson Of theirs esding
e With this brief, but frank and candid erDres.;or
Of some Of the reasons which have induced hin, !,
dissent from tho views Of the main BODY Of n,
Republican party, and from the position taken i,
this days paper by bis much respected senior, will
whom be has stood shoulder to shoulder in many
gallant fight with the foes Of universal and i'm
partial liberty, the junior editor Of the Spy re
luctantly but voluntarily retires from the field
politics for . season. Should the results Of th
canvass prove 1ess disastrous to the Republican
cause In the future than no now anticipates, n,
one will more heartily rejoice than himself anc
SHOULD The tune ever come when tired and disgust.
Cd with fraitsSs efforts to advance q good cause
~ wire pulling and dieker the Republican marty