Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1850-11-25
WORCESTER DAILY SPY.
MONDAY. NOVEMBER s., 1850.
as GEoRaN TnoMPsoN.

Csreo4 Meeting at the City HaIi-bos1oh ne
huked-Free Discussion triumphant
las, Saturday morning, convened IN the ely |
of Worcester. one of the largest and most enthus-
,stc meetings ever held in this city, for the purpose
ordo,g honor to one of the noblest and ablest de-
tan5srs and advocates fhuman rights that the world
has ever known, MIR. George Thompson, member OF
the British Parliament
II is well known 10 all of our readers, that Mr..
Thomson visited this country some fifteen years
AGO. when the Auti-Slavery movement was IN It's
in its infancy, and that he did most efectual service
TO the cause at that time, by his eloquent peadngs
in behalf of the slave His conduct the occasion
rhis former visit endeared him to the hearts of many
who conceded in his views, and who labored with
him in the same holy cause, and, after his return to
his native land he continued to take the deepest in
tersst in the progress of a movement in which he
had labored and for the success of which he so
deeply interested.
During the fifteen years of his absence Mr..
Thompson has, in his country by his efforts in
behalf of down. rodden humanity, won for himself
the envable position of place in the first rank of
England's reformers and occupying such position
he has of course not been unmindful of the friends
he had left upon this side of the water, but has kept
up constant correspondence with the ''poneers of
progress" in the United States.
Wishing to see with his eyes the indications
of progress, and to exchange CALCULATIONS again with
the friends offormer years, at the close of session
ofParliamen he resolves to visit the United States
again. His personal friends being apprised Of the
matter determined give him, as token of their re-
gard and appreciation Of his valuable services, a
public reception in Faneuil Hall. The meeting had
no particular reference to the antslavery agitation,
and in comiag to this country the second time, Mr..
Thompson had declared before hand to his friends,
that it not his purpose to take any active part
in the Discussions ofthe day
Ofthe disagreeable proceedings in Faneuil Hall,
by which the meeting broken up, our readers
already apprized, and also of the fact, that
finding Free Speech forbidden in Boston, the meet
ing determined to appeal to the heart of the COM
monwealth instead of the head, and adjourned to
Worcester.
The meeting was announced to commence at 10
O'Clock but long before the hour arrived the seats
were filed. special train from Boston with five
long cars brought some two hundred and fifty pas
sengers om the eastern part of the who, were
determined not to be deprived of the pleasure Of
hearing Mr. Thompson speak by the audacity oil
Boston Whiggery the remissness of the city auth
critics to sustain the laws.
AT the appointed hour, the meeting being ar
adjournment, the officers were reinsated
and Edmund Quincy, upon taking the chair, ad
dressed the audience in brief but appropriate terms
After abiding to the circumstances connected witt
the hreakiosrRp az tatP ptfr Of the dGdleace whcl
was engaged in those disorderly proceedings he sa
NBoston having thus dsgraoed herself, it is for thu
heart ofthe commonwealth to administer the rebuke
and we are here to day [cheers1 we have come Il
your homes, knowing that here we shall be saG
from disordery interruption and even if there shout,
be evil disposed riotous persons, Won have
here Mayor and a Police who are able anc
aoattteg to do their duty In the name of tha
meeting thank the citizens of Worcester for the
welcome they have given US. l thank them for
having opened this spacious hall far our accommo-
datlon, and that they are here in such numbers f.
greet u.s."
A series OF resolutions was then offered by Mr.
Garrison, part of which were highly compliment
taryto Mr. Thompson, and a part expressive of the
strongest indignation against the corruption and We
nay OF the Boston press, and the remissness of It's
city authorities in enforcing the laws The oues-
ton being upon the addition of the resolutions
Wendell Phillips of Boston was called for, and came
forward and said:
MIR CHAIRMAN-I do not know that can add
anything to the topics of welcome which the resolp-
tons have suggested. They cover the whole ground
OF the reasons of the call of this meeting, we
are cheered by the presence of an old friend in out
midst, and they express, with becoming Indignation.
the feelings which every lovor of the Commonwealth
must cherish. at the sensation which his presence
has excited in the capital of the State TAppause
do not know, Mr.. Chairman, but that we chose the
time OF our meeting inauspciously in the good CITY
OF Boston; we did not remember the state of mind
In which the conservatism of Massachusetts was
then existing. LApplause.] We had forgotten that
we called meeting to welcome to the shores of
America, one of the most eloquent and efficient Ia
borers IN the dnti-slauery vineyard, at moment
when the spasmS Of recently defeated conservatism,
had hardly passed away; [cheers] THAT Massachu-
sets, too long passive in the hands of its wealth and
It's capital, had arisen at last as if to sweep from the
seaboard the pests that have disgraced the policy of
New England for so many years. (Cheers) Thus
swept by an avalanche of country indignation, we