Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-05


Massachusetts has at length emerged from her
disgrace In iardy but mighty indignation and
shame, she has risen and hurled from place the
unworthy son whom she confdngly and mistak-
emily houored. The infatuation which placed
Henry ] Gardner in the Governors chair has
never been equalled save by the modification and
humiliation which came result and as punish
ment. His first public letter was moral (though
not poEitieaD suicide. His last public speech was
the harangue from the scaffold Of the sentenced
political criminal. His official career would stir
our detestation, were it not so gnoble as to move
our contempt--a contempt that subsidies into
chaarin for the furnished name of our State. To
deny him so much as the fainiest praise for states
nanship, is TO pay an extravagant compliment to
the man who has no conception Of what states
manship is. To hold up before his face his many
violations Of honor and principle is but to raise
the degisiye laugh Of the political roUe who COM
pletely scorns them both. An intellectual pig
my, compared with his predecessors in Office, he
played fantastic juggleries, which he and his
wauld fain pass of as shrewdness and smartness.
A watchdog at the public crib-'twas to keep
the peoples money from them-'twas to feed
TRAY, Blanche and Sweetheart" who barked
for him at his command With pompous profess
siOns of economy Of three /" years standing mot
''lourteen') his administration has squandered
with recklessness unparalleled in the annals Of
Massachusetts The hand that must from eco
nomical and constitutional scruples thwart
great public work. withhold substantial sympa.
thy from struggling Kansas freemen, shut out
light from the darkened in mind, could sign bills
creating useless and costly places for his favor
ites-men worthy Of membership in smelling
committees" With high sounding professions
of hostility to slavery, he has done work which
has bought for him the votes Of the toadies of
oppression, who dsspised, while, nevertheless, in
hatred to freedom, they supported him. buck
ster in politics, his money and his tIickery mot
his merit or his talents,) brought him temporary
successes ipoor duper duped } thinking his
good luck fixed star, he followed it till it ex-
ploded, meteor in thick darkness. Self sacri-
feing patriot anxious to withdraw from public
service he yet yielded his private wishes to the
peoples good, and kindly consented to serve
them just once more. We almost feared that
his petty shrewdness would rescue him by his sea-
sonable declinaton, from the avalanche of con.
tempt which his State was eager to launch upon
him. But we moderated his infatustion, and,
thank Heaven, the day has come for Massachu-
setts TO say (and she has just said IT'D /" Promise
maker and promise breaker, with freedom-talk'
ing tongue and slavery-ridden back with lips for
rstrenchment aud hands for squandering and ex
trayagance; in public speeches and public acis,
shameful and shameless down, down, with your
loud -mouthed pack into the anihilation whence
never again shall you emerge. Hollow man of
brass give way to the coming man'--the solid
man Of IRON ]" WORCESTER MAN.