Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-20

outlines of their policy were very positively
defined. If there is any expectation that the
factions will unite on a common electoral tick
ct, perhaps the speech of Mr.. Dickinson will
do something towards dispelling the illusion.
Some combination may be made; but the i'm,
preston which this demonstration will have on
candid readers will be that it was not made in
a conciliatory spirit. We make one or two ex-
tracts from that portion OF his speech which
has personal bearing
PLEASANT Renaissance.
There was never moment in the history
of the democratic party, or a time when the
masses of the people looked to the sitting of Il
national convention with more conhding ex-
pectation than when it was about to assemble
ct Charleston in April last. There was never
time when such confidence was more wick
edly, wantonly, and shamefully betrayed
when reasonable expectations were so madly
blasted-as in the results produced by its ac-
ton. Its proceedings find no parellel in dis
grace and degradation since the empire of the
world was sold at auction for money. APP
pause.) The democratic party, for Its steady
devotion to the principles Of the constitution,
the cathocity of its creeds-for its grand radi-
cal analysis and its just and lofty conservatism
had won the confidence of the masses, and
wrung unwilling admiration from its heredita-
ry opponents, and all good men looked to 1t
in this, the evil day of our country, for delv-
erance and safety. Its convention assembled
at Charleston, and organized for business. a
holy man, arrayed i'll the robes of his sacred
office, with raised hands and tervent suppllca"
ton invokes the favor OF the benefcent being
who has vouchsa'ed to us, as people, somany
blessings. The whisper of beauty Is hushed IN
the galleries-the aged bow their gray hairs IN
sympathetic and deep deyotion-levity is hum
bled in silence and even lurking fraud Is abashed
and covers for a hiding place. Sensation.
But the prayer is over, and a band OF consplr-
ators take possession of the assemblage, and,
instead of national convention, great huck-
STEERING bazaar is erected-a political trade
sales is opened-managemen inaugurates her
Shiny and repusive court and the office of
chief magistrate of this mighty republic is put
up like the board of a public pauper at the
lowest bidoer. Its proceedings bear evidence
of deliberate and long.cherished design, of
combination and conspiracy to tie up minori
ties against them, and leave those free who
were for them, and thus attain by fraud or
force a particular result, regardless of popu-
lar sentiment or of consequences which might
follow. Cheers. The ruling faction had
snuffed up the scent of four hundred millions
vi SpOll, anu lOI lllGlll lile ADMINISTRATION Vi
Douglas was expected to rain milk and honey,
snow powdered sugar, and hail Moffat's vege-
table life pills. Great laughter.
He proceeds to arraign the New York dele
CATION for being the guilty contrivers and au.
thors of the ruin of tile democratic party, and
INDUCES in the most refreshing severity of ex-
preston.
THE POLITICAL GAMBLERS.
Those who ruled, and dictated to, and
welded the vote Of the New York delegation,
through the fraudulent process of a unit vote
a rule forced upon large minority of this del
egation to stitle their sentiments, while small
minoritieS were released from it, in others, to
suit the purposes of the consprators, will
hereafter be known by the name plainly
branded upon their guilty foreheads at Charles
Gamblers !" who hang fester-
ing upon the Hobbies of state and federal leg
isatiou, to purchase chartered privilege and
by corrupt appliances-who thrive
in its tetid atmosphere. and swell to obese
like the vultures upon ofal
office seekers, who crawl and cringe around
the footsteps Of power; and, by false
pretences, procure themselves, or their vile
tools, places OF official trust and emolument,
that they may pack and control caucuses and
at the expense of the people they
detraud and betray, while honest men are en-
gagged in their industrial avocation to earn
their bread. Oh, how has the once noble spir.
it Of the democracy fled from such contami-
mating approaches Rome whose proud BAN
ner once waved triumphant over a conquered
world, degenerated in the pursuit of sensual
delights to a band of fiddlers and dancers, and
the democratic party of New York, founded
in the spirit Of Jefferson, and emuating, for
many years, the noble efforts of a jackson
and a Tomkins, has, i'll the hands of political
gamblers, been degraded by practices which
would dlshonor the resorts Of a Peter Funk in
cast-of clothing cheating the sentiment of
the people OF the state and nation cheating a
great and contiding party, whose principles
they put on as a disguise, for the purpose of
enabling them to cheat cheating the conven-
ton which admitted to seats; cheating dele
cations who trusted them; cheating every body
and everything with which they came in con-
tact, except MIR. Douglas, their nominee, and
then lamenting through their accredited organ
from day to day, that the convention had not
remained together SO that they might finally
have cheated him. (Great laughter.) They
have overthrow the democratic masses, but
"woe to the riders that trampled them
down." Political gamblers you have breath
ed your contagiJn throughout the Dem
ocratic citadel, and protaned and pol
luied its very walls. You have defiled its
holy places by your corrupting influence UNI
clean beasts fold in the area OF its temples, and
filthy reptiles have inhabited the sanctuary of
its gods. Its towering eagle Of liberty has fled,
for a brief season, and foul ravens croak for
prey and whet their bloody beaks and dirty
talons upon its sacred affairs. Political gam
blers you have perpetrated your last cheat
consummated your last fraud upon the demo-
cratic party, for$Sou will never again be trust.
ed. Hencetorth you will be held and treated
as political outlaws and set at defiance. There
is no fox so crafty but his hide finally goes to
the hatters. (Laughter) You will hang upon
Its skirts to regain power, and lie in ambush
for revenge; but as an open enemy you are
powerless, and are only dangerous to those
who trust you. With parties, and especially
ellques, who betray trusts and abuse power as
with individuals, there is a day of reckoning
and retribution, and yours is at hand.
''For time at last sets all things even,
And if we do but watch the hour
There never yet was human power,
Who could eyade, if forgiven,
The patient search and vigil long,
or him who treasures up wrong.n
[Applause.l
Passing to the declaration of his own pur
poses, he refers to his arduous efforts to pro.
mote union of the hards and softs in New
York on an amicabe and just basis, deplores
his failure, and declares war.
WAR DECLARED.
When | threw my whole soul into an effort
to unite the democratic party of this state, ]
determined if it was finally unsuccessful, be.
cause OF the bad conduct of this trading combi
nation, that | would never again make an eff
fort to unite the party with such material in
! it, That effort at union would have been
crowned with complete success but tor them
for the ranks Of the party had closed up, and
the masses hailed deiyerance from internal