Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-04-24

The Fugitive Tea Party.
The Tea Party given by the Ladies of Worcester
on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of raising funds
for the relief of such fugilves from slavery IN TINS
vicinity, as are liable to arrest under the infamous
Fugitive Slave Law, passed off greatly to the sails
faction of all concerned and to the benefit OF that
unfortunate and oppressed class Of our population
for whose benefit it designed
Old Brinley Hall never presented fairer spectacle
unon any occasion than it did upon this, and
could have witnessed the presented within its
walls without having the conviction thrust upon him,
of the utter aiy Of enforcing the provisions of that
statute of denominations, upon population like this.
There is deep significance to a rejecting mind
in such an array Of the moral and social influences
of the community against a law which is commend
ed to the support of the people by ourrulers and leg
isators and in these organized moral crusades, TO
counterfeit Its influences, we can see that the spirit
of the old time has moi yet gone outthat the people
still cherish the love Of freedom which burned in the
hearts of their progentors and that no endorsement
of iniquity by great names, can render sacred in
their eyes, statute which seeks to annul the laws
of Jehovah, and crush with its iron hand the nobest
sentiments and aspirations of the heart and soul.
BY request of tie ladies' Committee of Arrange
ments to Thomas Drew, of Worcester, was called
TO the Chair, and stated in their behalf the objects
contemplated by such assenbage as the one then
and there convened. He said that the order of ex-
ercises would be somewhat varied from the usual
course pursued on similar occasions, nasmuch as it
was designed that the festivities should precede the
Intellectual entertainments that had been provided,
and accordingly, the first hour or two of the evening
was spent IN social intercourse around the well filed
tacles, which were spread with great profuson of
tempting viands by the maidens and nla,rons Of Wor-
cester.
Al the close of these performances, when quiet
was restored the Chairman introduced TO the meet
ing, Thomas Russell Esq of Boston, W no enchanted
the attention of the audience with speech of great
brilllancy and power, in which he held up to the
gaze of the people, the Internal wckedness of the
law, and the foul doings of those great men who had
fastened it upon He described the sad and heart
rendlng scenes which he himself had witnessed, as
the fruit of this unhoy alliance of statesmen to crush
the spirit Of Freedom and nullify the higher law and
concluded with forcible appeal to the audience, to
continue in the good work
William A. White, Esq, of WATERFOWL, next ad.
dressed the assembly, in a forcbIe Speech setting
forth the operations of the law, and the duties of the
citizens in regard to it. He would not council vio-
lence in any case; but reliance upon the power Of
passive resistance. mghtier agency by far than all
the weapons Of those who seek to sustain the author
itY of the tyrannca edict by such bsrbarous means
The remarks of Mr.. White were followed by an
address from Mr.. Hanscomb, Of Boston, who was
welcomed to the platform with great applause He
described in DETAIL the barbarous and inhuman treat
ment which Sims the fugitive had received in Bos.
ton, at the hands of his captors, and narrated the
words OF hendish exultation, which Cephas T. Ames
the mate of the Acorn had used to him, in recount
ing his agency in the attempts to crush by savage
treatment the aspirations of brother man for free
dom. He portrayed the black corruption of the hun
ker presses of the metropolis, swayed as it is by the
money power of the city, and exposed the systematic
knavery by which they combine to misrepresent the
friends of liberty Eand justice. He denied the allie
cations that had been charged upon him again and
again, of having counseled violent and forcble re-
sistance to the law, BY an array Officially weapons.
and said that no fair Interpretation of his words at
The recent convention, could implicate him in coun-
selling such course of proceedings. He believed
there was better way than that, and had the full
est assurance that by such meetings as this the voice
OF which would be confirmed by the omnipoent pow
er OF the ballot, the evil would be removed.
John G. Wyman, of Worcester, followed Mr.. II.
in an eloquent Speech pertinent to the occasion,
which seemed to meet the appreciation of all presents;
and after singing the Repeal song the tune Of Aud
Lang Syne, the meeting adjourned at late hour.
The Great Islander Case.
We publish to-day the first portion Of the proceed
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