Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-05-28
Official Ifineracv.

The tour Of President Fillmore and his Cabinet
through to western New York. seems to have Afford
ed occasion for grand jubilee of hunkerdom such
as it never before enjoyed. Everywhere upon the
route, there were men ready to shout themselves
hoarse in their welcome and with the friends of the
Compromises fugitive slave law and all, as well
the distinguished guests who lent their official aid
and sanction to those measures of inlamy, call went
merry as marriage bel'' with one or two solitary
exceptions
The city of Utica, however, seems to have been.
blessed with Mayor who would not bow the knee to
the Baals of negro hunting and with population pos.
sessed of too much selErespect to do homage to men
who had taken so conspicuous part Introducing the
Northern States the Union into condition of vas
salage to the South; and here the royal procession
was sadly chagrned at the GOODNESS of its reception
We will let the bunker reporters tell the story in
their own words:
When the train left Utica with the President, at II
CLOCK IN the morning, considerable number OF cti.
zens assembled around the cars, who gave parting
cheer, while the soldiery fired farewell shot But
on the whole, the reception at this place was not 50
cordial as at the other places along the route from Buff
fao' owing to the evil influences Of Bamba1aey Mayo,
"'tD 0tt6
ohtion Wings This influence acted as wet blanket
on the kindling enthusiasm of the people. 1t cas the
worst possible taste for the Mayor to say as he did IN his
address to the President, that the people in the GALLEY oe
1dota,ck, including himself, faUor Of Free Soil
though not an faUor Of resistance to la,g.
1t ,cas treddng On the Presidents corns ard reduced
MN to the awkward dilemma of saying, in replv sstha
SO far as the Free Soil be maintained consistently
with the Constitution, he in favor of it too but the
Constitution and the Laws be supported at all haz
ards.
80 it seems ii was in the sswors possible taste''
for the Mayor to inform the President 'that the peo
pie IN the valley of the Mohawk, including himself,
were in favor of free soil, though not in favor of re-
sistance to law" One would naturally suppose that
such manly declaration of one republican magis-
trate to another, of the loyalty ofhe people in his Vi
entity, to free institutions would have won upon the
regard of the other, and that the simple announce
ment of such fact would have drawn from him the
most cordial expressions of kind feelings and geo
will; and so it would from any other man Or set OF
men less servile than the present executive and his
official advisers. cit was treading upon the Pres-
dents corns," (made tender perhaps, by toeing the
mark defined by the slave power,) and placed Mil
lard Fillmore according to the account of one of his
own toadies, Sin an aUkward dilemma" to be told
that the citizens Of his own state in certain region.
were lovers of Liberty, though not in favor of resist
ance to law. Alas for the institutions of Freedom,
when accident places such an one in the highest Of
hcal station. in the republic, and when men forget
the principles their fathers so much as to honor
him with the homage of their praise.