Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-20
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DonEhfaoe winthrop il .ho Field again

DOnghface Winthrop in the Field again.
Robert c. Winthrop, who on one occasion was
in such haste to dodge vote upon the Wilmot
Proviso while in Congress, as to knock over the
inkstand upon his desk in his effort to escape
from his seat into the lobby of the House before
his name was reached in the call for the yeas and
nays, gives the following among other reasons
for supporting Henry J. Gardner in preference to
Mr. Banks, for Governor. In his letter to the
bunker meeting in Boston on Friday evening
last, Mr.. Winthrop says =
~ Nor can l vote for one who places SO low an
estimate on the value Of an independent Judci-
airy, that he would either remove State Judge
or denounce. revile and assail a National bench
OF Judges, for a decision decree, however I'M
pslatable, which may have been given in the
conscientious discharge of duty"
" The labor of the North, certainly, requires
some better encouragement and relief than any
which can result from such wholesale and inham-
matory denuncations of Southern labor as were
heard at the late Republican Convention"
Here is a characteristic thrust by that distin-
guished doughface, at all those who venture to
give expression to the almost unanimous senti-
ment and feeling of New England men, as to the
enormity and unconstitutional character of the
infamous decision of Judge Taney and his four
slayehOldng associates upon the Supreme Bench
OF the United States in the bred Scott case. 1t
seems to crate harshly upon the feelings of Mr..
Winthrop, to have word said in "denunciation"
Of the inhuman g DEGREES" that negroes have no
rights which white men are bound to respect. q
On what ground does Mr.. Winthrop base his
assumption, that the promulgators of such
+" decree" could be g conscientious" in the dis
charge Of SO internal duty
And besides, Mr.. Winthrop's nerves seem to
be also unnecessarily disturbed at the 'denunci.
atoms Of Southern labor" chow delicate
phrase D which were made at the late Republi.
can Convention which nominated Mr.. Banks.
We have only to look at Mr.. Winthrop's antece.
dents, before he had become sufficiently bunker
lied to become fit voter for Henry j. Gardner
and before he had SO far apostatzel from his for
mer professed principles, as to dodge vote upon
them, to find expressions of denunciations Of
slavery, ii. e. what he now delicately STYLES
Southern labor,) as strong as anything which
Republicans have uttered in their State Assem-
blies. But the great fault with him has been,
that he was not honest or sincere in any of his
former professions Of advocacy Of the Wilmot
ProViso, and opposition to some OF the stringent
provisions of the fugitive slave law, and when
the time came (which tried mems souls" he
wayered and caved in before the power of slavery
like the doughiace which he is, by nature and
instinct His latter course, and present position,
are merely in proof that all which was said of
him by Us before he had come out, as he now has,
an open and ayowed bunker, in full unison at
heart, with the Pro-slavery policy Of the national
administration was correct; and as birds Of
feather flock together, it is perfectly consistent
that he should exhibit that sympathy with the
border ruffian caused voting for Henry j. Gard
ner for Governor, now that the latter has become
in more intense degree than ever before, the
embodiment and representative Of hunkerism in
the State. ehNat