Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1824-09-08
PUBLIC MEETING.

meeting of the friends and SUD.
porters of John Quincy Adams for
the Presidency was holden in pursuance
OF previous notice, on the evening OF
the I'd inst. at the Court; House in Wor-
cester' large number of gentlemen
we're present from all parts of the coun-
ty. Hon. Judge STRONG was called to
the chair, and JOHN w. HUBBARD, ESQ.
chosen Secretary.
The meeting then proceeded, on mo-
ton OF MIR. Rogers, 10 choose Commit
lee to draft resolutions, expressive of
the sentiments and feelings of the meet
ing on the subject of the approaching
PRESIDENTIAL Election, and to nominate two
persons TOR Electors at large, and two
other Electors for the two districts in
the County of Worcester The commit.
Tee chosen for this purpose was compos-
ed OF the following gentlemen-CaiUi n
ballard, Esq. of Fitchburgh, Nahum
Harrington, Esq. of Westboroueh, Jo-
seph G. Kendall, Esq. of Leominster-
Lo0eA WGIksr, Esq. of Templeton, Ma
than'eL Houghton, Esq. Of Barre, Col
John ". Lincoln and John w. Hubbard,
Esq Of Worcester. The Committee,
alter consulting together on the sub
Jects committed to them, presented the
following report, which, after animated
discussion, was unanimously accepted
and ordered to be published in the sew
eral newspapers in this town.
REPORT.
The approaching choice of Electors
OF President and Vice-President of the
United States imperjously demands our
attention as, at the present moment. a
subject OF great and paramount impor-
tance,-insomuch as our, national pros
perlty and happiness and honor must be
deeply affected by the result of the
Presidential Election.
The excitement which has been so
prematurely and so deeply and general
~ felt throughout the country on this
SUBJECT has served to bring the charac-
tiers OF the several candidates very fully
before the people and it is difficult to
conceive how any candid man can, at
this time, hesitate to which OF them his
influence and his suffrage shall be Civ
en-. We see among them man whose
qualifications for the highest office in
the Peoples gift, are not inferior 10
those of any Presidential Candidate
since the resignation of the Father OF
his Country. Endowed by nature with
a powerful and splendid intellect, which
has been from his earliest Childhood
called forth and cultivated with the most
ia9orious and indefatigable care-edu-
Gated in American principles and in the
school of American politicks-caIFed in
his youth into public life; and long and
intimately conversani beth with the for
eign and domestic administration of our
government-honoured throughout Eu-
rope as the most able diplomatic repre-
sentative of our nation--dignifed at
home by the express and warm appro-
baton of the lllustrious Washington
long tried and uniformly found true and
faithful to the great interests of the peo-
pie, and 10 the principles of national
liberty on which our government is
founded, he has trodden unchecked the
difficult road of regular preferment till
he has reached that post which is sec
ond only in honour and responsibility
in The national councils. SO laborious
and indefatigabIe has he benin the dis
charge of the multiplied public duties
which have devolved on him, that nc
man can poin: ont neglect of his by
which his country has either suffered
or been dishonoured. So irreproacha-
BILE is his conduct as a man that, amidst
all the violence and asperity Of the pre-
sent electioneering excitement, not an
insihous whisper has been breathed
against his moral character No sus-
picion ct official misconduct rests On