Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-11-15
WORCESTER DAILY SPY.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1850.
NIeeting nd Wnrren Ian.


ator Soue of Louisiana, would hold forth at Warren
Hall, upon the subject of the Fugitive Slave Law,
and the Importance of union of all parties for the
preservation of the Union, the hall was filed at
the appointed hour, andthe meeting was called to Or
der by E. B. Stoddard, Esq, who disclaimed all
sympathy with lis objects, and stated that he con-
scented to do SO, only through motives of personal
friendship for Mr. Soule, who was a fellow student
at the Cambridge Law School. lie Informed the
meeting that it would be necessary to choose
chairman but the honor of presiding not seeming TO
be coveted by any one, and several unsuccessful at
temPts having been made to induce some person to
take the chair, it was finally suggested that Mr.
Soule should go ahead with his remarks without a
chairman, which he did at once, in style which we
think would have done credit to Senator Foote He
alluded TO the contemplated meeting in Boston for
the purpose Of recalling the people of Massachusetts
10 sense of their constitutional obligations, and
read the call for the same with list of some of the
sgners, first among whom in close juxtarpos ion we
noticed the names of VIM. Appleton, Daniel Web
ster. and Charles Gordon Green par mobile fratrua
He said it was the wish of the people of Boston.
that Worcester should send a large delegation, and
that after the meeting any persons present could
have the pficilege of signing the call. Here the
audience broke forth in peals Of hearty laughter bat
Mr.. s, not at all abashed, dashed away into the
middle of his subject, and went with dolefu
story about Northern aggressons upon the rights of
the South. He then hourished the swo. d of his
rhetoric abont the head and shoulders of ETeury
Clay, and shook out the political liver and lights of
that distinguished statesman, as dog would wood
chucks. He thought that Daniel Webster was true
patriot, and deeply regretted that the people of Mas
sachusetts had tnrned such deaf to his councils
lie then invoked the spirits of our ancestors to the
assistance of Mr.. Webster, and assured the audi
eace that the threats against the Union made at the
South, did really mean something, and that if the
ultralsts Of the North persisted ia their course thew
would rend the Union. He then undertook to show
that 1t was necessary, in order to conciliate the
South, always to preserve the equilibrium of slave
and free States. Never would the South submit to
majority No, she had better sit forever under the
sway of Nicholas af Russia. The North had
sv
trampled on the South. daughter long continued
at which the speaker seemed amazed We will
resist, and we will have the consolation, that the
harder the struggle, the more glorious thestriumph
You, have, IN passing the California bill, said he
violated the Constitution and DESTROYED the equality
OF shares. Much laughterl He then quoted from
VII Calhoun and Sam Houston, and wound up this
part Of the speech with the declaration that no civ
lilzed people were ever so oppressed as the South
was by the North, and no other people would have
SO long and so patiently submitted to the indenities
placed upon them What is to be done now Sub
nit No Death were preferable TO such dishon-
or If the fugitive slave law is not enforced do Won
suppose, said he, that the South will submit? If
they do, may they be consumed to ashes before it
shall be said as it was by Cromwell the Lord has
delivered them into our hands,
Here the speaker paid another passing tribute to
the ex-Godllke Senator from Massachusetts. and es
pecially commended the patriotic speech of 9th of
June, and then went off in ADVANTAGEOUS expoda-
ton against Abotionists. Having exhausted. bv
their redundancy in his rhetoric all the figures of
speech he was master of, he next proceeded to omen
the understandings of his audience by the figures of
arithmetic and went into calculation to show the
pecunary value to the South of the slaves who had
run away In the last thirty years He estimated
that forty millions of dollars would be required 10
satisfy the South on this score, as the North had
sheltered the negroes, and not delivered Them in ac-
cordance with the constitution, and they were bound
IN honor and in lalc to pay this Just claim Of the
South The North owed it, it was spoliation and
robbery of the South, and we all knew that the re-
fHsal to render indemnity for spoatons had, in all
ages, been considered just cause for barring the sword
and redressing wrong by that lastresort The North
TAXED about humanity, when the meaning of the
word was utterly unknown among them. Laugh
ter
But we have no time or space TO chronicle all the
foolish and ridiculous things said by this sprig of
chVairy. sufhce 1t to say, that we in common
with all present, felt grateful the gentleman for
las visit AS lad remarked upon the stairs, after it
was over, SIT was better than the theatre and twice
as good as the circus
When the gentleman had relieved himself Of his
pent up magnioquence, upona unanimous call of the
audience, VIM. b. Maxwell, Esq came forward and
IN behalf Of the meeting, thanked Mr. Soue for the
interesting exhibition he had made Of himself sBut
Tor his kindness in coming here, many present might
have never had the opportunity of listening TO real
Southern speech, such as the fre-eatcrs at the
South were in the habit of regang themselves
upon; and it was indeed gratifying to all to hear the
talk of the young gentleman from Cambridge" Mr. |
Maxwell thea took up ihe points of the genteman's
speech serlatim, and in strain of eloquent railery
op1I aa,