Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-21
Mottester Dailp Spp
For the Worcester Daily Spy.
The Unhappy Family PartY.

such transcendent ability as they arrogate to
themselves. Everything is out of joint, and
everybody is all wrong, unless in full conso-
nance with their views and feelings. By the
peculiar whine of their cant and the ugly
scowls of their lugubrious visages they betray
the burden of their souls, which is, ace are ont
Of office and rant to get in.
The signers of the advertisement for the
formation of emo party" in the old common
wealth of Massachusetts were in great meas
ure composed of the members of this unhap-
Ply family, if we may judge of the sentiments
uttered at their late meeting at Faneuil Hall.
Doubtless the men who gave utterance to
those sentiments were very great men, of large
parts and vast understanding, but unfortu-
nately they initiated very small men, who, in
the attempt to increase their lilliputian dimen-
sions, attack men of eminence, talent, and vir-
tue, vainly hoping by such attack to reduce
them to the low level of themselves. The I'M
happy family party in Massachusetts have
long had virulent disease lurking in their
constitution, and as so much time has elapsed
since its contraction, and so many circum-
stances have tended to make it identical with
the system itself, that any serious attempt to
heal the disease would kill the patient The
chronic spleen is sore affection to this family
as every succeeding meeting of its members
attests, whether they meet under the name of
mo party" with the fragmentary odds and
ends and fossil remains of all parties at Bos-
ton, or under the more euphonious name of
democrat at Worcester, as the following
extracts from the speeches and resolutions at
each place will show The first that we quote
is Judge Abbott at Faneul Hall =
81 come here personally with great reoret
For almost twenty years l have not taken
part or been present at any meeting for polit-
lcal purposes; but, sir, l felt that if l did not
sacrifice my own taste, my own wishes, my
own desires, everything, | should be what |
trust no man will ever charge upon me or
mine-a coward (Applause.) 1 came here,
sir, because believe, as this storm lowers, as
the clouds thicken, as the darkness falls
heavy upon us, that now is the time of all
other times when good and true men should
meet together and take counsel for the COM
mon veal. l did not feel that l had right to
absent myself on this occasion. | believe
(permit me to say, sir,) thatit is because such
men as see before me and around me here
have too much neglected these duties here
totore, that we are now called upon in this
hour OF our country's peril most of all to come
together and see II we cannot retrieve the err
rors of the past. (Applause.) l believe,
gentlemen, 1t is because the good and true
men In this community, the men who have an
interest in our institutions have neglected
their duty heretofore-and | take shame to
myself that for one have been guilty of this
neglect-and left it to be performed by mere
hucksters and politicians. (Applause.)"
What a modest, disinterested, self-sacriicing
man the Judge must be, to take shame to himself
that the people of Massachusetts did not elect
him To office What r0atriOtiSr,1 ic boro av
mbited! We do not know which would be
the worse, for Judge Abbott to be ashamed be-
cause he is out of office, or the people to feel
ashamed if he was in one. The sensitive man
soon RECEIVERS sufficiently from his shame, to
make display of his refinement as follows:
''Gentlemen, we want men who, instead of
constantly looking beyond what any man can
accomplish, and neglecting what is before
them, and what they can do, have wisdom
enough, sense enough, sir, just to look before
their noses, and deal with that which they can
accomplish. (Applause.) We want senators
who have brains enough, when th9y are sent
into the senate chamber, instead of getting up
theories as to what they shall do when certain
things are accomplished, to take in the whole
length and breadth, and hight and depth of
this terrible war And here let Inc ask you,
gentlemen, If it has not cost you, the people
OF tins commonwealth, three millions of money
to make up for the lack of brains in your rep
resentatives! (Applause.)
Zone thing more, gentlemen, and have
done upon that head, because l think have
given you some sort of an inkling, practically
of what you are to do. We want senators,
representatives, governors, if you please,
C'YeS, yes, who, instead of being peripatet-
lc, will stay at home and mind their own bust
ness. daughter and applause) know no
nj irf l,,,,
and speak of him with the utmost defer
ence and respect know no warrant in the
constitution for his excellency's holding a con.
gress with other excellencies on the top of the
Allegheny mountains, (laughter) to counsel
the president of the United States, who ought
never to have received their counsels, in my
judgment"
We next quote from Judge Parkers speech
GAS the gubernatoral caucus had the earli-
est inception, will first ask your attention to
that.
''And here, at the outset, desire to express
my emphatic and unqualified condemnation of
that and all similar meetings, whatever may
be their ostensible or real objects, as unwar-
rantable assemblages, tending to disorganiza-
ton and mischief
We might quote other speakers, but space
torbids, as we wish to notice some of the do
lngs OF the second meeting of the Unhappy
Family Party at Worcester, the same week.
And hrst we wish to notice some of the
proceedings of the preliminary meeting held
at the Bay State House the evening prior to
the democratic convention. We quote the
Boston Journals report:
''This evening the delegates present have
been holding meeting in the parlors of the
Bay State. About fifty persons were present
Edward Riddle, Esq, presided. A. r. Brown
of Lowell was the first speaker, and was as
severe as language could be upon Gov An
drew and Charles Sumner both of whom he
styled traitors, and to defeat whom the de-
mocracy should be willing to unite with con-
servative men of other parties.
''Hon. John c. Tucker of Boston followed,
and was as denuncatory as possible in speak
ing of Sumner and Andrew. He called them
boobies, and various other hard names, and
very forcibly insinuated that president Lin
coin was perjurer-in that he violated his
oath to sustain the constitution when he is
sued the emancipation proclamation. He de-
clared he would sustain him only as he sus-
tanned the constitution. He was in favor of
taking the whole ticket nominated at Faneuil
Hall as the only way in which he saw it to be
possible to defeat Sumner and Andrew"
We have not room TO ouote from the
speeches delivered at the democratic conven-
ton; but the following resolutions passed at
that convention will give u clear insight into
the character and designs of their originators
"Resolved That in the name of civilized
humanity, we respectfully but earnestly pro-
test against the emancipation proclamation of