Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-11-23
WORCESTER DAILY SPY.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1850.
The Boston Riot

The Boston Riot
The F.sis attempts 70 escape from he inevitable
oo,cI,s,n. which The facs IN the case Of the late
Fsneuil Hall not, mas force uPoa eEery nEeaous
mind. tsat !: was, a We truly Characterized 4,
..Webs,er Wing Riot The -F-gis quotes on par
sorsph. and, after pronouncing II "a ssui.iozl MS
representation ssys:
Now, among the cheers are these: s'three cheers
far the Hen Con7eniiOn, . s'three cheers Tor the
limited States ..iEree cheers for Abby Poison,
..tbree cheers for Dou-las'' &c. &c. Al this aP-
pears in the article copied BY the SPY from the Pest
II Is as logical and a equitable 10 assert that 'esers
for Douglas prove that the not proceeded from f.
gtiye slaves, as 10 say that s'cheers for Webster
prove that ii proceeded from Wings, But there Is
no longer any hope for fitness from the Spy, where
unfairness viii answer better purpose.
This, gentle reader, Is all the escape the Egis Is
able to furnish the wing party, from the responsible
ity Of the riot There were cheers given for others
than whig leadars-bu;, mark, there were no cheers
given for any prominent political men except wings
Onthe contrary, groans were given for Lewis Cass
and Horace Mann. We grant the soandness Of the
Esis's logic, that ''cheers for Douglas as much
Prove that the not proceeded from fugitive slaves
as that cheers for Webster prove that ii proceeded
from wings provided that these two facts stood
alone, and disconnected from any others. But il Is
not SO. We are assured by those who were present,
that ''cheers for Webster were repeatedly given al
different times during the whole course Of the dis
turbanee, in all, not less than forty times, and
dry other prominent wings were repeatedly cheered.
The Boston Traveller. a wing paper, says that
cheers were given for ''Webster and Winthrop. and
Miard Fillmore and Briggs This Selection Of
leading wings TO be repeatedly cheered while no
man of either the Democratic or Free Soil parties
was cheered at al-but on the contrary groans were
given for Cass and Hcrace Mann, does most une-
quivocally indicate the political character of the
mob. But we do not rest on this evidence alone =
The wing authorities of Boston were present, refu-
sing any attempt to queH the riot, and connying
it Hamilton Willis, the wealthy whig broker, who
went bail for the Georgia man-huners, was active
in the scene. The ChrOnoype of the next morning
says
'sWe are not mistaken in the origin Of this row.
We know in what wing circles in State street il was
talked up yesterday. W penetrated the crowd OF
disturbers in all directions, and we know who they
were and in whose employ. We know whose well
dressed, downy chinned clerks were there strainng
their lady-like lungs. We saw among others Mr.
Hamilton Willis. lately mixed up with bIr. Web
ster's 'dsagreeable duties,' and one French the
publisher of nauseous lctig sheet, which shall be
nameless, setting the example of hoong and cheer
lng. 1t was Webster Wing row-begnning, mid
die, and end.
And the Boston Courier, Webster's special or
gan, thus expresses Its satisfaction:
'The determination of the persons in the body of
the hall seemed to be to prevent the abolhionists
from being heard, and 10 III 1eie must
on - forbearing and good patured man
sef, though efIectualy.''
We could pile up evidence, all tending the
same way, but it is needless. The Wings of Bos-
ton have disgraced themselves and the city, and
the Egis cannot gansay it Whether the disgrace
Is to attach itself to the State, remains to he decided
60 far as we can avert it, we are determined that it
shall not We concur most fully in opinion with
the Lowell American, when it says
''AIr. Thompson will be gladly welcomed, at least
out OF Boston, by the people of the State, who re-
cognze IN him philanthropst of worldwide re-
nown, and one of the noblest men living. This dis
grace with which Boston has tried to invest Massa-
ehusctts, must be wiped outby the people of the in
terior.'