Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-09-07
Mnnnnchusetts Demoernoy.


To take their yearly fagellaton. The chief
charm of Democratic Convention in Massa-
ehpsetts is. that the members having nothing
To lose by frankness, are exceedingly frank.
Once it was the fashion there to make some
show of Precipitation, to treat with some res
meet the opinions and with some tenderness
the sentiments of the people; but now these
strange children of the Commonwealth ABUSE
their own parentage, turn traitors 10 goou
neighborhoud, and run race Of libel, SIAN
der, and misrepresentation. Foremost in TINS
is BENJAMIN F. Hallet, above named why
this person stays in a State which he so terri
blv dislikes. and which so dishkes him. is
more than we can comprehend. great
many years ago he might have hoped-tor the
dreams of youth are bright-to bring his fell
low citizens to a sense of their political errors,
but then great many years ago, benjamin
happened to be on the other side Still we /
must say that he had worked long, II he has
not worked we'll, in the cause OF patent De- /
mocracy. He has written thousands OF arti- !
Giles, he has made hundreds OF speeches, he !
has been willing TO be considered bore and !
he has been considered q bore but where are
the fruits CT his protracted labor in the poit-
cal vineyard The harder he has worked,
the smaller has been his party, until it is now
the opinion of the few well-informed men in
| it, that nothing but his stern, absolute, and
remorseess suppression can restore 1t 10 any
| thing like responsibility of character-respec-
| liability Of members being out of the question.
| 1t is not therefore wonderful that the tenn
| per of Mr.. Halet has become slightly acldu-
lated lie might besr the contempt of his
opponents, but it must be intolerable to be SO
conloundedly despised by his best iend3-to
do dogs work, and then to be cheated out
OF q dogs wages-to abandon well avowed
| fC
to m SIS even the filthy lucre and to be regarded
as an unmitigated old humbug. Mr.. Haliet
has right to be i'll natured Amy one who
could preserve his equanimity under the cir
| cumstances would Justly labor under Vio-
lent suspicion of idocy. We will do Mr..
Hallett Justice He is as uncomfortable
as his worst enemy could desire He has
even sunk to the depth of envying the Mas
sachusetts negro the little consideration which
he receives-hitle enough, Heaven knows,
vet great enough to provoke the jealousy of
BENJAMIN T. Hallet. In this Convention he
was particularly exercised upon this point,
and bawled and beloved Justify against
amalgamation in Massachusetts, although he
did not say one word about the Southern
States, which in this particular are setting us
such an excellent example. But we think
I that Mr.. HaIlet is unnecessarily alarmed. He
may have horror of associating with ne
groes but on the other hand most negroes
would have horror of assocatng with him
a so that for the present at least, Mr.. Hallet If
e safe from contamination. To be sure they
= owe him debt Of gratitude for his astonish
ing blunders in drawing presentmenls, ano
they Justly consider themselves much safe
q when the Office of United States District At
= torney is filed by an ignoramus, through
whose indictments a coach and six can VIII
u the utmost ease be driven. 1t was Mr.. Hal
let's hard luck to be obliged to witness tina
interesting performance, and to be laughe
n, out of Court But upon that occasion he dl
ID the negroes some service, and they know Il
He might be District Attorney forever, if
> depended upon them.
Iii quite refreshing to find one Massnchu
" sets man who does not consider that Stat
er to be absolutely perfect. That man Is NJ
IN Hallett Here are his own words "Mas'
ot achusetts is a mighty little State when yo
r. get few hundred miles from her. She Is
AZ degraded political Sodom, and all that SAVE
to her is the true and holy men of The DEM
lal cratic party'-'.of which / am one" Benz
min would have added hut modesty forba(
the words. If not the thQgghta anu lMgiet5 Reap b
- promised land" There is q slight confusi,
in this sentence which causes some apprehel
sion that Mr.. Hallett does not read the scri
ZIP lures quite so diligently as he should, or
t., one might think he did from his learned all
H. slons to Ham and Japhet. However. !
re-, fancy that We know what he means. II
idea is certainly curious one. He wan
H. to regenerate Massachusetts,, and to do III
nd he means "to drive OUT more than tw
lr- thirds of the legal voters, including the be,
the wlset, the most patriotic and the most vi
r. tuous OF the population. What beautif
State would it be after Mr. Hallett's nuro,
! There ho i
ne Ben Hallett to draw the resolutions: B1
re Butler TO command the militia, if happily
re found any militia left to command; viii
MT. Gushing might devote himself to ii
x general interests of virtue. The idea is ce
IL fanny striking one and, as it will UNIQUE
by tlonaoly arrest the public attention, we no,
a 1t may not lead to any such unpleasant resu
as the expurgation of Mr.. Hallett and h
ed companions. Ii there is to be any drlvil
out, we fancy they will be, like the dog, g
re leetle ahead Mr. Hallett must certainly
We more cautious in brosehing such incendia
ideas.
os The resolutions passed upon this excee
lngy interesting occasion were prepared by
ne new hand-that of the Reverend Mr.. Low
III JOY, the great clerical gun of the liquor dea
ne ers, and worthy successor of Mr.. Halle
IN the sublime business of resolution MOI
g gering They are very long and we are so
Su ry to say they are very lucid. They deser,
OF the praise of being boldly, Enthusiastically, an
e unqualihedly bad. They are not merely b.
hind this age but behind all ages. They a
~ based upon the wretched and blundering pr
~ sumption, not merely that we should drop Il
slavery question, but that we can drop
d. Men who really think that a great agitatic
y can be silenced and quoted by a resolution
- are tools men who do not think SO, and wi
a yet for their own purposes talk about doir
'i so, are knaves. The Reverend Mr.. Loveic
may accept either of these distinguished no,
70 ors, although we think that he is not def
~ eient in brains, if he could only be persuade
y to use them. But what are we TO think of
~ man having the slightest sense of moral r.
~ sponsihihty who can solemuly resolve that Il
y administration of James Buchanan has bee
cable, upright, and faithful" We shoul
hardly know where to look for evidence
az its ability, for it has done nothing, settle
g. nothing, begun nothing, and flushed moth
o' ing except the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Dem,
10 cratic party. Faithful is word which ma
no mean nothing and mean many things. II
gentlemen composing the administration ms
have been faithful-to themselves But
" that lowest form of fidelity which is blunt
or but expressively denomnated ''honor anon
y, thieves, we fear that they have been fou n
&c sgnally deficient and we are afraid tn
ed Mr. Lovejoy's resolution must have woundt
ar the fine feelings of Mr.. B. +. Hallett. But "
he have talked enough of a very trihing matte
OF Let us only add the following specimen OF nj