Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-23
The Political situation.

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against the rebellion. Their proposition was
rejected in a very summary manner. Inc
democrats met in convention and resolved to
continue their party organization and action.
The Boston conservatives" stood scornfully
aloof But the republicans persevered and
called a union convention, and nominated
union state ticket, although some of them felt
that such a union of the people as was con-
templated had been made impossible by the
action of the other parties. And this feeling
was justified by the result. Those, gentle
men, not republicans, whose names were
placed on the Union ticket, were induced by
their party friends to decline.
The republicans in other states sought to
inaugurate a similar policy of union. In
New York union ticket was nominated and
elected, Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson being one
of the candidates; but the democratic party
leaders opposed this union movement with
desperation, and they carried nearly their
whole party against it; and this year they
have taken the field in the most offensive
partizan style, in advance of the union party.
In Ohio the republicans proposed a union of
all parties. A union convention was called,
and union ticket was nominated with lead
ing Democrat who presided at the national
convention of his party, in Baltimore, as can
didate for governor. This union ticket was
elected but not without a determined parti-
zan opposition from four-fifths of the demo-
VI, nd fbic tho 5o,,,Onro+c in,
that state have made their partizan organiza-
ton more stringent than ever.
These attempts to raise the people into a
great union movement above all partizan con-
tenton have failed because the old Buchan-
anized democrats have obstnately refused to
support them. They would rejoice to destroy
the republican party, but their own party must
be preserved and strengthened. Perhaps it
was not quite reasonable to suppose a political
millennium could be ushered in so suddenly.
Very certain it is that the democratic party
had no desire for it; and in view of what the
political opponents of the republicans have
done to preventit, one would think it impossi-
bic for anybody representing them to attempt
recruiting their hostility to the republican party
by means of false pretenSes of desire to desist
from partizan ways. And yet, in this state,
at the present time, they are doing something
like this.
The conservative" elements around the
Boston Courier office, which steadily support
the worst side of the democratic party have
just started a movement with this pretense.
They have secured the issuing of call for
state convention, signed extensively by the
old veterans of that faction, with many demo-
Gratis and few gentlemen how have voted
with the republicans. OF course most of the
signers are from Boston and vicinity. They
will meet in Faneuil Hall on the seventh day
of next month, and there they will do what
has been agreed on with the leaders of the
democratic party. Personally the signers of
theseall so far as we know them, are respec-
table gentlemen, but nearly all of them,-
those who give tone and coloring to the whole
moyement,-are men who have from the be-
ginning been jealous and determined enemies
to the policy which the republicans have de-
sire to establish.
The present movement of these men, like
all their preceding movements, is fundamen-
tally and radically a party movement, con-
Quoted with plausible pretenses in the interest
OF the democrats. Some who have signed
the call do not mean this, but the managers
mean it. Without raising the issue in ex-
plicit and direct words, they mean opposition
to the present state administration, to the
support Of which republicans, by the action of
their convention, III good faith stand pledged.
They mean partizan opposition to Mr.. Sum-
ner, to whom the republicans of Massachu-
sets have also formally given their conf
dence. They mean intolerance to the declared
policy of that portion of their fellow citizens
in regard to the relations of slavery with the
rebellion. And, in a word, they propose to
accomplish their ends through the agency of
political organization. We do not here
raise the question whether they are right or
wrong. We state the FACT that they are pur-
suing partizan end by means of partizan
machinery, and that the claim of superior
patriotism is pretence and sham.
In starting this new movement it was neces-
sary for its projectors to assume two unwar-
rantable and unjust things list, that the
present state administration is wanting in fidel-
ity to the government; and I'd, that those who
supportit do so at the expense and sacrifice OF
the interests of the country.
l. We shall not now defend the state adj
ministration. 1t has accomplished all its
work with vigor, earnestness and fidelity
fully equal to the just expectations of the PEG.
pie and Of the government. No charge of in
efficiency, incompetency, or dishonesty, hai
ever been whispered against it. Entrusted
with large and Unprecedented responsibilities
it has borne them with manly courage. TIL,
government has asked no tavors which it ha
not granted with alacrity. The government
has exacted no duties which it has not per.
formed cheerfully. Its record, fresh in the
memory of all honest and observing men, is
its own defence.
2. But the assumption that its supporters
are wanting in patriotic and effectua support
ofthe governmental the prosecution ofthe war,
touches the honor Of the great majority of re-
publicans who are the great majority OF
the people of Massachusetts,. If there is any
body Of men in the nation who have worked
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