Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-01
The N0-Party Party-COl. DaVis-GeorSe
T. Rice-and Linus Child.


'sPogitscs make strange bed.fe1IomS. This
fact was true long before it was sald and has
remained true ever since; but never did stars
look down on such sudden conglomeration
of iiscordant bed-fellows as make up the
contrarieties of the ''NEw PARTY" Inveter-
ate haters Of each other, queasy at the very
name of @-coalitioN," and, Mortified at the
thought of ''ts-uck AID dickey,,' they nestle
and nuzzle together in the same straw as low
ingly as lambs and lions, bears and calves, in
millenial prophecy.
But how happens all this sudden and thor
ough regeneration, making all things new,
converting kicking into kissing, fell discord
into angelic harmony miracle little short
of bringing the frozen poles of the earth to the
fervent heat ofthe equator? Yes, electors of
Massachusetts,, hOW happens this mysterious
fellowship of iByeterate foes, the welcome
greetings, smiling congratulations, mutual
compliments, and hopeful cooperation of rec
onciled antipathes2
To unlock the philosophy of such phe-
nomenon there Is one key, and but oae-the
hope of CONT scramble for otfice-ofice of
every grade. That key fits the lock, and
turns glibly among all the wards, in all their
intricacies- Try it, open the door, look in,
see what is there, and doubt and mystery will
vanish like Lapand witches at cock-crowing.
But look with your own eyes, and look
straight in. Let uo fear of enemy or favor OF
friend blur your sight or cloud your vision.
In speaking of the ''new party, we mean its
geaders, not their fo!toreSs, except such as
the leaders have cajoled by shaking before
them the oats OF ambition, TO bride and ride
them at their will. Some OF the leaders, it is
true, MAY seem to you to have 0utlired their
ambition, and their beached heads may, to
the simple, be the assurance of disinterested
patriotism and philanthropy. Such trust is
folly; fact and philosophy both warn the IN
wary against such nonsense. The hunger
ings and thirstings Of early life, growing with
the growth and strengthening with the
strength of future years, become habits and
propensities that in most cases are never out
lived, and he who seems to have been surfeit-
ed the longest and the most, and his stomach
for office exhausted by safety, is of all men
the most likely to crave what reason fore
warns him he cannot have Orif, perchance,
the conviction is strong Of impessibility for
himself, he Graves the hereditary enjoyment
of it in his children and his childrens chill
dren, and would fliR substitute his own ante
cedents for their incompetency in themselves
Beware, then, of dreaming that ambition
grows old. or that gray hairs 1nmake the in
durated habits Of many years Time may
modify the form, without wasting the sub
stance Of ambition if it cannot keep the
shape Of power it can assume that of intrigue,
and glory in the success of its wiles.
But in regard to the 4'Aew partg'-the CO.
alition Of truck and dicker-what are its prin-
ciples? what its aims? what its means? who
its leaders? who its candidates? and what the
oc ;te ,,1 81,
To review the whole matter in detail would
be long, tedious, and to a sensible man a
needless waste of time. A true likeness Of
an eye, with no ether feature, often shows the
meaning of its owners whole face, and lets
you into the secrets Of his heart. We will,
then, abbreviate cur work, and picture 10th
eyes, the look Of the H'new party" And what
can BE more thoroughly GyoSS-eyeG, though
squirting in the same direction, intent on
their 'seyen principles leaves and two
ashes"-R@t very small.
The anew party still claims ttoo wiAgS--
one the Democratic party and the other the
peoples party-hoping by the Joint force of
these TIVE wings to flap down the republican
administration Of our state government, and
if not to perch Oh its great platform. I'M
men aa'e Greeted free and equal, and haze cer.-
tain ina1iena5e rights" yet, .what to them is
er and the eln0jNments Of Office.
The hue and cry is raised, and bruited
all abroad that the national administration Is
slow and inefficient, while it is notorious fact
that many of the mostclamorousl leaders of both
wings of the new party" have done their
utmost to paralyze the national arm, aud to
nrge as 1.-THE sOvereignst thing in the WORLD
against rebellious gunpowder, their nostrums
of whining and c0aXing. And how many of
them, when honorable success has attended
our forces by land or water, have looked de-
iected, and run fer consolation to the sympa-
thizing knots of semi-rebels, whose rendez-
vous was their familiar haunt, not emily for
sympathy at the success, but for chuckling at
the discontinue of our arms. Even on our
streets these faces were lighted up by the anx-
ieties of the patriotic, and cast down by their
well-grounded hopes. How many such are
jubilant in the new hope of the +new party
and foremost and loudest in their clamors
against not only the national government for
its delays, but against our state government
for its promptness and energy.
To see more closely how haters of coalition
can coalesce, and strive to boost each other
into unnatural and unfit elevation, look at the
@'new party" candidates for two offices in the
gift of the senatorial and congressional dis
tricts nearest the heart of the commonwealth
Col. Isaac DaviS and Mr.. George r. Rice i;
the latter dead wing and the former dead
democrat so far as the sufrages of these sec
tions Of the state are concerned.
Col. Davis accepts as an opposition candi-
date for congress-a nomination which with
green simplicity he nicknames ''an emanation
from the people in their sovereign capacity,
and not from a party" In the same breath
he breaches that 'all loyal and good men
should sacrifice all party feelings on the altar
of patyiotism," and unite as one man in sus-
tanning the government in all legitimate and
constitutional measures in prosecuting the
war with the utmost vigOr, till rebellion and
secession are crushed forever the constitution
windicated, and the glorious Union restored.
Such words seem very fair; but come they
mot from one who is a technical democrat,
who never was anything but a strict party
democrat, from the start Of his political course
clear through the administrations of Pierce
and Buchanan, and in whose gram party has
been ripened and consolidated, so that moth
ing but the solvent of death can dissolve it g.?
When did Col. Davis ever in his whole politi-
cal life affiliate with any but party men, or
consent to any but party measures, except in
the utter hopelessness of his own party, and
an his aspiration for Office, by the help Of those
he has always Ostracised? Does Col. Davis
differ now one whit from his former self, when
he SO thankfully accepts nomination for con-
press against man who stands upon all that
is substantial of his own platform-against
one who. from first to last, has been an ear
nest and an efficient advocate for crushing the
rebellion and restoring the Union, by all the