Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-30
Reasons Why the Republicans of the Ninth
District Should not Return Eli Thayer to Con-

District Should not Return Eli Thayer to Con-
gress.
l. He has failed in his congressional career to
represent the ,cishes OF his constituents.
The ninth district is the most ant-slavery
district in the commonwealth, yet for the last
three years it has had the least antl-savery
representation If Mr.. Thayer had fulfilled
the implied conditions of his election, it could
not now be necessary for him to rush into ev-
erv corner of the district to explain and defend
his votes No other republican representative
of the Old Bay State has been compelled to
Justify his conduct after the same fashion.
q he does not nop propose, if elected again, to
represent the peculiar measures Of the republican
party.
Having failed in the test votes of republican
principles, and having now accepted nomina.
ton without specific platform, he virtually
takes the position that he will represent no
body and nothing but the absolute will or ca
price of Eli Thayer. He could not be in more
direct aniagonism with the faith and order of
the party, if he had received a nomination
from the Douglasites or Belleverett men, If
it be claimed that he stands upon the Chicago
platform, then the Interpretation of said plat
form, as shown by his votes, can be made con
sstent with almost any position in politics
g. Has past record prevents all safe and reliable
calculations upon has maintaining any relation
rchatever to the party in future.
He is in the most Objectionable sense law
unto hinself-a man self-willed and erratic.
If he could vote not to annul the denominations
of the New Mexico code, and thus stand alone
against all his colleagues, when the organiza.
ton of the territory expressly provided that
call the laws passed by the Legislative assem-.
bly, and governor SHALL be submitted 10 the
congress of The United States, and if diSap
proved, shall be null and void" then there is
no style of pro slavery action into which he
may not run, trusting to his unbo unded assur.
ance TO justify himself afterwards TO the peo
, pie
4. lie persistcnty beialed the great issue Of the
t campaign, and the fundamental idea ofhe repubh
can party.
From our noble leader, Abraham Lincoln, to
. the humblest voter in our ranks who maintains
, a consistent relation to our organization, there
is decided unity of sentiment upon SLAVERY
REsTRICrloN being the handspring of our
action. Mr.. Thayer uses over and over again
: such language about the matter as the follow
t ing :-"Quibbling about things which are com.
: parativey unessentiaP' 81 think that this
It slavery question is altogether too small a
IS question to disturb so great people as inhabit
! the United States OF America" "H is said !
called intervention a humbug: l call it so
= now" "What is there in this humbug of con-
gressional intervention that commends itself to
. the people of this country 2" 81 shall first
= speak of class which will denominate the
RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS, who claim that it is not
" enough that state shall exclude slavery from
its limits, but that this act must proceed from
the most exemplary and christian motives"
Now contrast such supercilious contempt
y. of the very basis of the republican cause with
- the tone and sentiment of others =
"AND NOW SAY, THAT MAN is DANGEROUS
WHO DOES NOT SEE DANGER IN TIE SLAVE
POWER" "The COMMANDING question wheth
i er slavery shall be prohibited in the territories
= "1ny doctrine short of this runs into the trick
a of Mr.. Douglas. > Charles Sumner in Worces.
i ter, dug. 20.
"The most dangerous heresy ever taught to
= an enlightened people is that they should give
= up to some supreme court, some squad of
squatters, or to a Jew gentlemen s0ho hold a7aitc
doctrine, incomprehensibe to tie common
mind, the settlement of the questions which
y most vitality affect the country John a. An
" dre,U, at Wdrehdm Oct. 8.
+ "There is but one question before the people
7" in this contest, to wit shall slavery be ex
>, tended into the territories The Breckenridge
'1 party says it shall; the Bell party says i
~ may the Douglas party says it will and the
: republican party says IT SHALL NOT. Between
- "shaH," may" and "wW," there is not
!, farthing of choice. They all lead to the same
= ult."-Daai9 ". GoOch in Boston, Sept. 4
- ut 1.-THE republican party was born to fight
human slavery and the slave power in Ameri
y lea. 1t believes slavery to be a sin against
God "a crime against man. By the life
= of its national candidates, by the life Of
: its candidate for gove1nor-the republican
IL party is pledged to save the territories to the
free laboring men of the country, their chill
= dren and their chdrens children. "-Henry
. Wilson in Boston, Sept. IL.
= "While it--(the republican party seeks to
promote the whole material interests of all
the land in all its parts and sections, states and
: territories, with undecided front it opposes the
u increase of the slavehoding power."-T d.
: Eliot in Net0 Bedford, Oct. 8.
> at is not to be disguised that the question
: OF the extension of slavery is to have greater
" controlling influence in this than in any former
election, and l think | may safely say a
greater influence than all other questions con6in-
=" ed."-John A. Sargent at the Burlingame recep.
ton, July 90
" eff were in congress and avote should come
. whether slavery should be prohibited in a new
territory, in spite of the Dre1 Scott decision,
,oould vote that 1t should. "-Abraharn Lincoln
IN debates Nth Douglas.
E. 8. lie is bent ruling or running the party in
81. the ninth district.
e" There is not town in the entire district,
,rt where the republicans at first were not aston.
n. ished at tho development of the character and
he views of their representative, or now after all
in his sophistical explanations can be made TO
10 unite in approval of his course. What then
b. is tie question before Mr. Thayer, whether ia
i. serve himself or serve the general good to
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