Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-08

Troable In the Know Nothing Camp
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tors RePudinted at HoWes
Our Know Nothing friends are in trouble Inc
two.Forty boys who edit the Bee, and who, by rea'
son Of their position. claim the exclusive privilege
ofkeepine the dalk-lantern candles trimmed ana
bnrpino. spnear to have been a little too fast for
the slow coaches Of the party and IN view q tue
Imminent peril which seems to impend over oain'
the venerable old fogies Of the party nave com
menced, within day or two past, singing at the
TOP Of ,her voices, the pOpulariefrain, :" Wait Tor
tbs Wagon" The Governor is powerfully exer-
cised in his own mind as to his chances for anoth-
or election; Major Cobb, the Chairman OF the
American State Committee, finds himself sudden.
" exposed to a FIRE in the rear; the Bee sharpen
eth its little sting against its quondam friends
and associates and, altogether, there are indica-
tions Of coming political n'ass," the like Of
which has not been seen, since Gov. Gardner be-
came tetotellei, a period of ''fourteen years"
at least.
The first indications of the coming storm were
visible at an American meeting in Dorchester,
on Thursday evening of last week, at which the
following resolutions were passed, repudiating the
call-of the Convention of the 18th, and pitching
into the authors oft in the most vehement man
ner. The resolutions are as follows =
Rssoived, That we view with regret the call for an
American state Convention the 10th instant because
such convention is premature.
Bclnse 1t does not em4nste from the recognized and
proper authority
ferestal the action Of another convention.
Because m any gentlemen Of knOwa Americdn PriHci-
piss1Fged TO sign aid call, refused to 90 30
Because in judgment, it contrary to the desires
Of very large majority OF our paryi and
Because we fear it is instgate by other OiiUss than
Wish-to promote tn the dduaaetment' Of American
principles or the vsfare Of me iComn,onsoealtA
Resoi0sd, That resp cuily request the promoters
Of said callto withdraw the same ,..
Resolved That 10 any event will not send delegates
to said Convention recognize its action asn the
That the proceedings Of this meeting be published in
the Boston Journal and Bee; = SWAN Chairman.
ISAAC SWAN, OhSir"@n'
E. J. BrsPHAS, Secretary
Our readers must bear in mind that Dorchester
is Governor Gardner's own town, and these reso-
luton, which, under other circumstances, might
be considered only as " cloud not bigger than
mans hand" assume a more ominous signi6-
canoe when connected with the following ukase
from headquarters, which was issued at about
the same time;--
HsADquARrERs AMERICAN PARTT,(
June 3, 1857
Tear sit.You will peasetake notice Of the foregoing,
and the attention Of American fisnds TO the
game Some fotyhve gentlemen, thirty-eight OF whom
are members the Legislature, called Convention
Of the Am rcans of tAe state the 10Th of June inst
10 Boston nominate State ofic srs, &C This call is
wholly unauthorized BY the Executive Committee OF the
American party Of Massachusetts,, and is deemed by
them most njudicous and premature, and is got up to
suit the private ends Of Of ambitious brethren
Please caution all Americans against any part in the
Al proper time State Convention will be called,
Whish will be legitimate.
Chairman Am. State Ex. Committee.
Csc. 7, sTEARNs, Secretary
This missive is signed, as will be seen by the
proper officers, and although the Bee, with char
actertistc mendacity, charges that It's "bogus
document" got up by the enemies of the party,
and warns Americans to beware of the trick"
there is no reason to doubt that the letter is gen
uiue.
Thus early in the campaign do our Know Moth.
ing friends light the flames of dscord in their
council chambers, and the editors of the Bee and
the members Of the State Committee assume the
attitude Of the renowned cats Of Kilkenny, for
the purpose of deyouring each other. The great
political questions Of the day are swallowed up in
the one greater and more momentous which has
and Moses G. Cobb Pangborn insists that the
American Convention shall be held on the 10th,
for the nomination Of Banks, and the preservation
of the Springfield platform, while the gallant
Major cautions his American brethren not to at.
tend, " as it is got up to suit the private ends of
our ambitious brethren"
We most sincerely sympathize with our Amer
caa friends WHO find themselves SO suddenly in
the quandary Of the little gTl in the ballad =
For while papa said so she may,
MdnmG said, she shant,'
and trust that they will seriously consider wheth-
er the Know Nothing humbug, having been fair
ly run into the ground at the commencement of
the campaign, ii is really worth while to follow it
any farther, and whether any more convenenS
opportunity is likely to occur for taking the
honest course and breaking the bonds of an al
lance, forever with party whose only bond of
union, is the expectation of public plumber.
AS another indication Of the increasing disaf-
lection of the American party with the dictatoral
managers who have summoned the Convention
of the 10TH we learn from the TraUeller of Satur-
day evening that an informal meeting of the ac-
tive members of both wings of the American
party of Roxbury was held on Friday evening
About thirty persons were present Thomas
Farmer presided, and Charles W. Bryant was
chosen Secretary. After full discussion, it was
voted unanimously to appointa committee to call
public meeting on Thursday evening next, to
re-organize and unite the party upon the Spring.
fsld platform, The subject Of the June ConUea-
ton soas fully considered, sohen IL toas unanimous
ly decided, by rising vote, that At loas iaezpedi-
e,t to hare anything to do 10Th that n.oUen,e,a--
The Convention was called ,oithout authority, and
they should prefer to await the regular and au-
thonzed call Of the organs of the party.
The Traveller also states that the Fall River
Monitor, edited by Joseph E. Dawley, Of the
Alien Commission, thinks the Convention Of the
18th is premature and the Gloucester Telegyaph,
another Know Nothing paper of the straightest of
that sect, thinks that in the nomination of Banks
and the call for the Convention of the 10Th " the
cloyen foot has been projected little too far"
and "that, notwithstanding Henry J. Gardner
his said he should not again be a candidate for
re-slection, he is the man the American marty
should place at the head of their ticket falln
In all these movements and counter move
ments Of the leaders Of the American party of
this State, which the week just past has brought
tolight, may be seen the most unerrino indica.
tons OF Us weakness and decay. Its vitality. as
apermanent political Organization, has been onIv
anspparent one for more than a year past. and il
has been kept alive during that time, only through