Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-30
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THURSDAY. JUNE so. 1859.


conformity of views and will act with none
who differ from them in anything, we suppose
that although they are not numerous enough
to effect their own purposes, they are quite
strong enough to defeat any others. Theirs be
the responsibility the evil will fall upon all of
us.-Pro1idence Journal.
In all this, the Providence journal seems to
us to be pursuing questionable aim by means
otbaseless and inju furious imputations. Wewoud
not misrepresent its purpose; and we hope
that we are mistaken in regard to it. 1t is very
certain, however, that what it says in this par
agraph, in regard to those whom it designates
somewhat Extensively as "the ultra anti-slavery
men in the Republican party" is not true.
The editor of that paper has no warrant or ex-
cuse for such representations. They are gra-
tuitous, unfounded, unjustifiable Those to
whom he refers have never been otherwise
than faithful to the Republican party since its
formation in 1856; and such attacks upon
them are unprovoked, and we repeat it, mex
cusable.
The men who organized the Republican par
ty and nominated Fremont for the Presidency,
came from all the old parties. Those who had
been Wings, Democrats, Freesoilers, and
Americans, met together in that Philadelphia
Convention; and there, those whom the Jour
nal with not the best of motives) calls ultra
anti-sayery men, were among the foremost to
make concessions and construct platform on
which all could stand together. They gave up
their old platform, their old organization, eve
rything, for this Republican party and, from
that day to this, no class of men in the party
have less deserved to be called 'fimpractica-
bles" Therefore, when the Providence Jour
nal represents that "they demand entire con-
formity of views and will act with none who
differ from them in anything" it perpetrates
an outrage of which such man as its ed
itor should not allow himself to be guilty.
If the Journal really desires to deal strongly
with "impracticables," and give them such
handling as they deserve, it cannot do better
than write the history of certain fragment of
the know nothing party which played various
notable antics under the direction of Henry j.
Gardner, among which was the hurried manu-
facture in 1856 of an American convention
at New York, which endeavored to "sail i'm
to the Republican Convention at Philadelphia,
intrude its peculiar creed into its platform, and
be publicly recognized by it as high contract
ing party. Or, the editor of that paper may
paint lively picture of Fillmore American
ism, and the New York Express, as they APP
- aaring the last Presidential Campaign.
We really wish he would 'tifd ef tlnv ,.ls ,,s.~.
work, for the subject is very rich, and he is
capable of doing it justice At any rate we
hope he will be so true to the covenant made
at Philadelphia, that, when emissaries of our
political Satan, from this camp of the old enc.
my, or from any other quarter, seek to destroy
the Republican party or emaeeulate its plat
form, he will do what he can to defeat their
endeavors. Those who mean honestly by the
Republican party will join it in good faith, and
accept now that platform, which so many men
from all the old parties accepted three years
ago, as bond of political union.
We notice that the Providence journal per
sists in ATTRIBUTE ng to the Liberty Party Of
l844 the responsibility of the election of Mr..
Polk, and of the deporabe results which fol-
lowed 1t is simply possible that if the united
vote of that party in New York had been Civ
en- for Mr.. Clay, the electoral vote of that State
would have been changed. But the journal,
with its abundant experience, knows that it is
apolitical impossibity to transfer the votes of
party, however small and insignificant, to
another party acting outside and independent
of the range of its own purposes and activity.
In the case of the Liberty Party, largely con-
stituted with men of Democratic antecedents.
and agreeing with that powerful party on
most questions of internal economy, the
complaint that it did not form an excep-
ton to the nature and order of things.
is both unreasonable and absurd and.
the more especially, because it organized not
for the purpose of electing President in 1910,
or 1874, but to establish the foundation of
new political movement, and to express their
protest against what seemed to them the dis
astrous tendency and policy of both the exist
ing parties. But we refer to the matter here
to remind the Journal that there were in 1874
many incidental causes of defeat to which
the influential leaders of the Wing party were
at the time keenly and bitterly sensitive. To
one of them, since it is an instructive matter
of history, we venture to make passing alIu
sion. From 1884 to 1874 the Native American
Party, chiefly in the large cities of Philadel-
phia and New York, acquired periodical leases
of power. In 1874, the camp fires of that
party were rekindled, and for reasons which it
is not difficult, in these days to understand. it
came into the field under the name of the
American Republican" party. 1t was an ir
regular, fllibustering organization, adopting in
It's creed the most extreme and proscriptive
measures ever recognized in Republic. Some
of the Wing leaders who knew in how even a
scale the battle was likely to hang, desired the
support of this Native American faction
and at the same time to avoid the odium of
making overt proposals for its cooperation.
The american Republican" party anticipated
other parties in 1884 in nominating uunici.
pal tickets in the cities above named together
with New Orleans, st. Louis, Boston, and we
believe some others, in all of which they Sc
cured nominal triumph by the quiet coopera-
ton OF Wings in their respective cities. In
addition to this, Mr. Clay himself at the sug-
gestion of his own party friends, agreed to
attach to the Wing banner, share of the Ma
tive American creed, the ground work of which
after having been submitted to Mr. CLAW was
published as an editorial article in the New
York Courier and Enquirer, few weeks prior
to the election. But the fact that Mr. Clay