Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-23


| Messrs. Editors so we are to have no Re
! publican State Convention after ALL The State
| Committee and the Executive Committee OF
Republican members of The Legislature" having
Received new light from Washington, since Con-
| gress adjourned, have discovered that the po-
/ ltical sentiment of the State, opposed to the
/ further extension of slavery" does not need
concentrating and organizing . that there is
| no need of choosing State Central Committee
for the present year; " that "retrenchment and
reform in State expenses " may as well be left to
| the Plunl1ett clubs and the managers have
Popped round - again. 1t is of piece with
the management for two years past The fact
! is, there is no Republican party in Masaachu-
setts The organization so called, is only an
| ally and an appendage to Gardnersm. Its ma
chinery is worked BY half dozen demagogues'
/ for their own benefit; but the grand result the
dem'd total, . is-Gardnerism
The calling of such convention was blum
| der; but the withdrawal of the call just on the
eve of its meeting, was still greater blunder. 1t
was changing front under ire-always a blunder.
| It was an indication of vaccilation always con-
| temptible. The reasons for holding the conyen-
ton are quite as urgent, now, as they were on
the day on which the cali issued If those
reasons were sufficient then, in the judgment of
those who called it, they still exist.
Though protested against the policy of legis
lative State conventions; against the right of such
convention to choose State Committee, and
against the ability of the Republicans in the Leg
islature, who alone are responsible for the long:
est and most fruitle5s session ever held, to make
IN aon hna
issued, the occasion might have been improved to
good purpose Some live men would have been
sent, as delegates, from outside; the true men in
the Legislature would have been stirred up, and
some little of the earnestness of the people might
have been infused into the organization.
AS it is, there is but one thing for the State
Committee to do, to save themselves from utter
contempt, and the party from overwhelming de-
feat, next Fall That's, to issue a call, at once,
| for
| POPULAR STATE CONVENTION,
| either delegate or mass, in Worcester or Spring
feld-st any rate, off of the Boston pavements,
to reorganize the party, and let the wire pullers
k'soeo that tae Republican party has policy of
its own. The present State Committee admit, by
the call they issued, that they do not represent
the party. Let them appeal to the people let
us have convention fairly representing the
nest, anti.slavery masses let it be understood
that, wherever the convention is held, it shall
not be held where
KNOW NOTHING CONVENTION
sits across the street, the same delegates sitting
ana voting in both conventions and, depend
upon it. you will have delegates who will not be
moved privately, by the threats Of tfshy polti-
clans, nor publicly by their tears--you will have
a convention which will no longer bind tie lv.
ing spirit of Republicanism TO the dead carcass of
Know Nothingism-you will have party which
will turn its back upon dead issues, will spurn the
dictation of selfish demagogues, and place old
Massachusetts, politically, where, in all her his
tory, and all her convictions, and impulses, she
belongs, "openly, actively, and perpetually" on
the side offreedom.
Alas 1 fear there is no hope. The Philstines
are upon US again. The wire-pulers of the Goa.
lition, referred to in my last at the bottom
of the withdrawal of the call This is the pro-
gramme Of the unholy alliance Banks 10 be
Governor; E. C. Baker to take Bankss place,
from the Seventh District; Damrell to resign,
and Gardner to take the Third District the way
is then clear for Burlingame, from the Fifth Dis
trict, and the Senatorship in 1858 falls as mat
ter OF course, to Gen. Wilson do rot mean to
say that the General is IN the plot, but the Cen
eral is too shrewd not to know, that looking at
political organizations as they now exist, if
Banks and Gardner are out of his way, he has no
dangerous competition.
do not believe Gen. Wilson would join such
an intrigue; but he would not object to reaping
its fruits. He is making mistake. Has strength
lies in the popular conviction that he is an earnest
anti-slayery man. He put that conviction to a
hard test, at Worcester last Fall he tried it still
harder, in some of his speeches, last Winter.
He knows that the people never pardon crimes
against liberty-he may yet learn that they will
not overlook too many blunders.
The election of Wright, by the House, as Ma
jor General,
Il DELIGHTS ALL HUNKERDoM.
Here is what the Boston Post says
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