The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-09-19
ADDRESS OF HON. EDWARD 1. KEYES,

~ Hs CtoSe % Ie W oFCeSteF CoHreni0a, SEPT, lZtH.
Ma. PREsIDENr,-I think it is not an evi.
dence OF taste or Judgement on the part OF this
audience to call upon me at this late hour when
il would require the eloquenoe OF a Summer or
at least a Cicero to speak here with success -
loud and prolonged cheering
By the few feeble attempts which have made
on other occasions, have learned that the flow
ers OF oratory never bloomed Tor NE; and hat |
am willing to appear on this platform al all must
be accepted as proof that disposed to sactI.
fee all, even the grace of modesty ITSELF OIL the
still! Dober affairs OF right and liberty.
rejoice that so much attention was bestowed
upon the remarks Of the gentleman who prece-
ded me, but fear we have not yet paid sufficient
attention to the Taylor party.
We are assembled, Mr.. President, i'll the heart
of the Commonwealth-w are under the guard.
ianship of her laws-w are assailed by no mobs
composed of "genuemen of property and stand
ing"-we feel no danger as we walk the crowd.
ed streets, but we cannot disguise from ourselves
the tact. that large number of persons belong
ing to the two old parties regard US as intruders
in the political field-as poachers upon the ordy
domains OF our beuers-as stragglers and vaga
bonds stalking up the broad aises and disturbing
the stated worship of the Wing and Democratic
Churches. Our first duty is to teach them, as
our fathers taught the RoyaIists and Loyasts OF
suffer no dctalion-that we know our rights and
dare to maintain them; that not uGmlndul of
tie power OF combined wealth, we still have
learned that 'thrice is he armed who hath his
quarrel JUST" aud, what they will regard, per-
haps, OF still greater importance, that like the
youthful Hannibal we have sworn it on our
country's altar, that we will not lay down our
arms until victory is achieved. The despots oil
the old world may succeed III Sitting the aspra,
tsoo. = II L
SONS OF their subjects, but intelligent free born
men,-republican citizens OF a free Common
wealth,-gradaates of the free schools OF -Iew
England, sons of Revolutionary sires, we regard
the threatened indignant irowus oil our ne slave
holding Chief Magistrate, with Indignation, large
ly mingled with contempt.
| am reminded by the presence OF gentleman
before me, that seventy-iour years ago, young
and ardent friend of American indie endence
whose name had been placed on the roll of the
prescribed by the royal!sts officers of Boston,
came to this place and resumed the publication
OF newspaper, which had already been, for sew.
eral years, the organ Of the friends of american
liberty in Boston. The name OF that paper was
the "Massachusetts Spy" Cheers And,
considering the changing and unstable nature of
all earthly things. ii is significant and cheering
circumstance, that after the lapse OF three quar-
tiers OF century,-wth another Of its editors
prescribed, not ouly by the Ioyaist officers, but
by the royal family itself of Worcester,-it is
still the faithful and fearless advocate of the doe
trines OF the declaration of independence.
When we assembled here year ago, we sup
posed that the great crisis, which was to deter
mine the question Of Slavery or Freedom in the
Territories, had arrived. We were not mistak.
en- The crisis had arrived, and as far as human
penetration can detect, the operation of moral
and immaterial forces, it was owing, in some
good part, to that Convention, that the vast Ter
| rtories oil New Mexico and California were pre-
| served to Freedom a short time longer another
! year-and that we have feeble hope that they
! will so be preserved for all time to come
Our proceedings had hardly been recorded be.
fore that genuine Free Soil! Taylor Wing
John M. Clayton, introduced his motion-o on the
| 18th OF Juiy-for the appointment OF that more
than Janus faced committee, composed of two
northern and two southern Democrats, and two
northern and two southern Wings, charged with
the duty OF devising some plan for the settlement
| OF the question. And here it would be proper,
| had time, to trace the progress of the Slave
holding movement through thai, and the succeed
! ing sessions of Congress, that it might be seen
how narrowly we escaped, and how Clayton
Johnson, and Preston-memberso of Gen Tay lor's
cabinet.-uniformy battled on the side of Slavery
! against the principle aud the measure OF the vii
| mot Proviso. But cannot now pursue the en-
| curry. go On. lego on No. The emotions
| which already agltatc you inform me that you
need no labored arguments to arouse you 10
tull comprehension of the Importance of ouI
movement. Your thoughts, mounting upward
in contemplation Of the great end universal prin.
ciples which we seek TO establish, dlsdain even
the letters Of elocution, and would rather cir.
cumnavigae at random the wide empire OF civil
| ization and OF mankind.
Mr.. President, we are told that the Wing par.
ty is the only safeguard against the extension Of
slavery and the encroachments OF the slave pow
err The brazen inpudence of this statement ha.
not been equaled since Satan uttered his blsD-
| phemous counsels to the fallen host The great
gull which leads to destruction lies concealed
under the hypOcrit.cal banners OF Whiggery.-
The plans OF National Locofocoism-o of the Cass
Democracy-are as bold as they are Infamous
They will entrap none but the willing and the
determined, while the Taylor party, with its
slaveholding President and slaveholding Cabinet
fights tor slavery like the pirate, under the dove
like banners OF innocence and peace.
| tell you, Mr.. President, that the TAYLOR par
ty-the administration at Washington-does moi
even promise any assistance against the exten.
sion OF slavery, much less against the encroach-
ments OF the slave power The Washington
Republic-the Taylor organ at the seat OF gov.
ernment-founded, and to great extent am