Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-07
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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1857.
Republican state Convention.

Republican state Convention.
It's announced that the Republican State Com
mittee, at a meeting in Boston on Tuesday, re-
solved 10 call State Convention on the oath of
June next, for the nomination Of State ticket,
for'next Fails election. This IS, truly,
usually early opening of the campaign Bat we
should not at all object to going into the fight
thus early, and tugging away however hardin the
service Of the party, for the overthrow of both
border rufianism aud Know Nothngism, all
through the sultry month of July, and dog-days
provided we went into the struggle under good
auspices; but, marshalled under such leaders as
have put the Republican party in a wrong posi-
ton, in the present Legislature, there would not,
we fear, be chance for success in the canvass,
nor, we think, would success be really deserved.
Lstus see how parties win stand, relatively, by
their antecedents.
To commence with, on that great popular ques-
ton, the rights of jures, how sadly have the Re.
publican leaders in he Legislature committed us
on the wong side While the Republican chair
Of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate,
and Republican Senators, aud the Republican
leaders in the House. led off in the attempt to
repeal the law Of 1856, protecting the people in
their rights upon the juries, the American chair.
man of the House Judiciary Committee, and
leading Gardner Americans, in both the House
and the Senate, exeited their utmost to preserve
that wise statute from repesl. But as the jury
law of 1855 was not in issue in the last State
election, we viii not say more on that point, in
this connection
The next point on which leading Republicans
committed themselves on, the wrong side, to the
damage of the party. was, on the matter of the
bred Scott decision, which was referred to COM
mttee composed largely of Republicans, and they
reported an act of the most tame and spiritless
nature, cowardly admitting the constituuonalty
and validity of the Fugitive Slave Law. And
when this bill is attacked, for Its shortcomings
by Gardner Americans, the same Republican
leaders, Hudson, Vose, Wells, and Others, are
found defending the bill, and deprecating such
=" extreme" and ultra action as is proposed
BY the other side, who recommend such a mod
ifcation Of the bill to adapt it to the ideas of
humanity, popular right and strict construc.
ton of the Constitution
The last important thing which has come up,
in which the question of slavery has bearing, is
the removal of Judge Loring The committee
which reported against it is composed most large
ly Of Republicans, and when the vote upon the
matter comes up in the Senate, we find Republi-
cans and Americans promiscuously voting for the
minority report, to remove Loring, Haynes act
ing in concert with Albee in advocating it. And
Of the twelve nays against the removal we find
seven were elected as Republicans, and five as
Americans
But of all this unfaithfulness Of certain Repub.
lican leaders to the true Republican creed in fail
ing to take the lead on the right side on all mat.
tiers in which the question of popular right or per-
sonal freedom is concerned, we would say moth
ing, in connection with the approaching canvass,
provided we could have popular convention un.
trammelled by any of those leaders who have
placed US in such false position in the Legisla-
ture. We hate, we have an utter adherence of
prescription in all its forms, and for that reason
can never be brought to favor or sanction, in the
least degree. Know Nothingism, or the Know
Nothing party in any of its proscriptive features.
And it is for this wish to see party or
ganized, and in power, in old Massachusetts,
which shall be the true representative of the pro-
gressive sentiment of the age, oil all questions in
which personal liberty or slavery is involved
Such party we wish TO see organized on the
4th of June next. For this purpose the conven.
ton should be held away from the pavements of
Boston, away from the purieus of the State House,
in the Heart of the Commonwealth, where the
breezes Of popular freedom and the air of the
country blow fresh and invigorating.