Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-11
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SATURDAY, JULY II. 1857.


The Spy Of the Sd, commenting upon his protes
IN The Spy of the LIST inst, against the commit
ment Of the paper, organ of the Republican
party, to the support of Mr.. Banks. But upon a
careful review of the whole matter, he has at
length concluded. though with great reluctance,
once more to reeur to the subject for the purpose
of showing to the readers of the Spy, and to such
Others as feel any interest in the matter, that his
conduct as a journalist has been dictated by the
most sincere regard for the interests and success
of the party, and that the course he has pursued
was the only one which he could take, without do
ing violence to his convictions of honor and of
duty.
From the very first moment of Mr.. Banks's
nomination, as a candidate for Governor, by the
organ or another party, which, until very recent
ly, had been the mouthpiece of the present Elk.
eeatiye the writer Of this article had striven by
all honorable means, to prevent that nomination
from being forced upon the Republican party
Though according to Mr.. Banks the highest cred
it for his congressional services, where the cause
offfeedom was in issue, and glad to bear his will
ing testimony to that gentleman's great abilities,
he could not but feel natural distrust of the
who had been so intimately connected with the
intrigaes of the Know Nothing party for the last
three years. He could not forget the intense
Amercanism that pervaded his speech in Con-
grsss in December, 1854, or the hunkerism of his
speech in Wall street in 1856, where, among many
high-sounding generalties concerning liberty, he
endorsed the squatter sovereignty views of Dou-
glas, urged the reafirmation of the compromises
of 1850, as inality, and the silencing of slave
~ agitation in Congress as grand panacea for
all the ills of the body polite. Neither could he
forget the reprehensible course pursued by Mr..
Banks, last Autumn, when the reins of govern
ment Of Massachusetts, were within the grasp of
the Republican party; in urging its Conventions
in no gentle or dgnifed language, to retire from
the field without striking blow, and give the
government of the State for another year, into the
hands of that party, whose administration of af-
fairs had proved it to be corrupt, and whose Ex-
ecutiye was the incarnation ofpolitical profgacy,
personal meanness, and official dishonor Yet,
for all this, he was willing, if majority of the
party should decide in favor of the nomination of
Mr.. Banks, through its delegates, in convention
assembled, to accord to him his cheerful support
provided that he should either before or after the
nomination, commit himself fully and completely
70 the Republican organization, and fairly and
squarely adopt the declaration of its principles as
embraced in the Philadelphia platform of June,
1856
However much the isolated quotations of my
colleague, in his article Of July Sd, from my edi.
torials during his absence at the West, may have
conveyed the impression to some minds that l
was not unfavorable to the nomination of Mr.
Banks, and that " certain malign Influences had
been brought tobevr upon me after the IConven-
ton which induced me to withhold my acquies
Gene from the nomination of Mr.. Banks, think
that all the constant readers of the Spy will bear
witness to the fact, that never committed my
self to the support of Mr.. Banks's nomination,
except upon fulflment, on his part, of the terms
above mentioned. My whole course was entirely
consistent throughout ;-while commencing Mr.
Banks for his services to the cause Of Freedom,
or denouncing him him for what were believed
to be the justly reprehensible tricks of a poll
clan, the junior editor of the Spy, in public and
in private, in consultation with members of the
party. and through the press, always maintained
this position from the first ito accept him as
the party candidate, if he would confess him
self to be Republican, commit himself to the
Republican organization, and acknowledge the
principles of that party as Of paramount impor-
lance to the principles of all others. With pride
and satisfaction he points to the record of his
views, in these columns, as the record of one who
was governed by one principle, and had one object
in view, from which he never swerved hairs
breadth, before the Convention, and from which
he does not intend to swerye now, even though
he were only one often men, or ten thousand, who
have resolved this Fall conscentiously to support
Republican ticket and no other.
My senior has commented with unjust severity,
as l think, upon my remarks in the article of
July lst, in reference to Mr. Banks expected letter
to the Republican party. Under ordinary circum-
stances, such structures might be just but that arti
clewas written, as believed, with full and cor
rect knowledge of what its purport would be, de-
rived from the friends and confidential advisers
Of Mr.. Banks in the American party, who had
said to me that they were informed by Mr.. Banks
himself as to the nature of his reply and how
ever much others may differ from me in opinion
upon this matter, still believe that the equivo-
ealwOrding Of that reply prOUes that my inform
alton on this matter, as well as on some other
matters connected with the secret history of
u
The junior editor will not deny the gentle i'm
parchment Of his colleague, that she sought and
obtained the appointment as a delegate to the
Republican Convention" Though never an Of
nee seeker before, he cheerfully owns up that he
did desire to have seat in that Convention, but
he believes that his motive was good one. and
that his desire grew of the occurrences of the
last years Convention, when the leading men Of
the Republican party sat like dumb statues and
held their peace, while the little iron man. was
applying the Anterior gag rule to the discussions
Of the Convention, and attempting to bully that
body into a full endorsement Of Governor Gard
nsr and the whole Know Nothing ticket.
The junior editor would not, however have al
luded to this matter at all, had it not very i'm
pottant bearing upon the question in issue. The
caucus at which the Worcester delegates were
chosen adopted the following resolution by
unanimous vote:
hesotCed, That the Republicans Of Worcester
lanntul 70 the platform Of princinles aaontod ~
Philadelphia on the 18th day of lime ISsg 49,. ~
BY pledge ourselves to support any honest $50
Die and truthful candidate for the Office If tiov.
ernor Of the Commonwealth Of Massachnss,+s
who shah stand fairly, squarely and uneouivocsi'
~. upon that platform--and no other. ''S'"i-
A. delegate was bound in honor 70 obsv
the instructions embraced in the above. ana
voted against Mr.. Banks on every ballot, because
there was no evidence, conclusive to my mind.
that he stood in a position to fulfil the require