Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-13

The Republican State Convention will as
semble at Fitchburg on Tuesday of next week.
Tba Rannhlicans of Wornas.-,-. o.
require to be told of the Importance of sending
true representative delegation to that Con-
vention. No desire is openly expressed of a
change in the State ticket, though we hear of
some local and not very formidable move
ments in behalf of possible candidates for the
subordinate posts. The work of greater con-
sequence than candidates or modes of nomina-
ton, which will command the earnest consid-
Grafton of the Convention when it is called to-
gether, will be to give appropriate expression
to the Republican sentiment of Massachusetts,,
and show to the country that it is now as ever
on the side of equal rights, and is hos
tile to oppression everywhere. Here in Massa-
chusetts, where the Republican party COM
mands manifest and undisputed majority of
the popular vote, it can afford to be explicit
and straightforward. 1t cannot afford to be
otherwise.
We are signally gratifed at the indications
that the name of the party, which has been SO
disguised and disfgured by the false issues of
y
ed. Those who have made the worst possible
use Of it have become convinced that it is not
worth while to continue the farce much longer
and it has come to be quite common to see the
word Republican written respectfully where it
used to be accompanied with sneers, and spo-
ken courageously where it has been generally
regarded as high treason. The unmistakeable
impulse of dissatisfaction with the absurd de-
signation given by the state committee, has
partially accomplished the work The good
sense and the correct judgment of the conven-
ton will accomplish the rest. Why should
the free men of Massachusetts, when engaged
in cause for which they cherish the profound
est affection and pride, go to their conventions
under aname which is nothing more than an apol-
ogy to the Democratic party for taking away
their votes, unmanly in its spirit, and awk-
wardly expressed? Why should they consent
to go into a canvas where success is not for a
moment doubtful, shorn of everything which
gives to their party in the nation, its unity its
permanence and its power
The dictates of correct sentiment and of
fined organization, whose principles cannot be
mistaken, and whose triumphs cannot be mis-
understood. On the verge of a national con-
test which will try its strength and fidelity to
the utmost, the Republican party cannot dissi-
pate its energy upon trifles, or quarrel about
issues on which there may be radical differ.
ences Of opinion within its own ranks. Ex-
perience has certainly taught that lesson. To
those Republicans who are now choosing their
delegates under designation which was adopt
ed in difference TO combination Of circumstanc.
es which do not now exist, and which nobody
feels called upon to defend, we commend the
consideration, whether it is profitable, in any
sense, the worst or the best, to ignore in public
facts which they confess to themselves, and to
their neighbors, and to continue to encourage
farce, the responsibility of which, year
hence, no politician or faction will have the
face 10 own.