Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-04-16


Putting down Agitation--DamieI Webster
Shut out of FameuiI Hall--Sauce for the
Goose is Sauce for the Gander.
When the City Fathers of Boston refused Faneul
Hall to the Free Sellers for their Convention, we had
idea that there was any sincerity in the miserable
apologies which they gave for such an act of inius-
tice and oppression. We had no idea that their
fear of agitation was general one, applicable to
men Of all parties, but only particular, and to be
operative only against Free Sellers and Fanatics
generally. We never doubted but that Satan him
self could have the Hall at any time he asked for it,
provided he could get score or two of Hunkers in
Boston TO endorse his political orthodoxy; but it
seems we were mistaken in our views, and we beg
pardon of the Board of Aldermen for attributng
to their intolerance, an act which was only theresult
of their fears.
At the regular meeting of the Board OF Aldermen
on Monday afternoon, the following petition, signed
by George G. Smith, Peter Harvey, and about a
hundred Of Mr. Webster's ''retainers'' was handed
in, and that immaculate body went into executive
session upon it, acith closed doors
To the Honorable Mayor and aldermen Of the
City Of Boston
The undersigned respectfully ask the use of Far
euil Hall on the seventeenth day of April, for the
purpose Of public reception of the Honorable Dan
lei Webster and TO consult on the public good.
or course what was said upon that memorable
occasion has not transpired, but what was due is a
matter of record and here it is in, the following reso-
luton, which was passed by the Board
ResolUed That, in view Of the recent action of
this Board upon other similar applications, and of
the present excited state of the pnbc mind, it is in
expedient to grant the of the Hall for the pur-
pose asked for.
The Ex-Godlike little dreamed when he came on to
Boston, that he should be called upon again to repeat
with even emphasis than upon former OCCASION
the well known ejaculation of where shall go !''
Or that he would be cassed among those terrible agta
tors, whose destructive propenstes have made it dan
gerous to Faneui Hall, if they should open their lips
within its slcred precincts The service Mr. Webster
has done within the past year in ssayng the nation .
and puttying up the holes in the Unon certainly enti-
tie him to consideration, and ought have been
sufficient guarantee the adermen that the old Cra-
die of Liberty would have been RACED to its founda-
lions, even if the great Jupiter Tonans should illuminate
little at the present time, against rescuers of Shad-
put him off with paluy $4,000, when twenty-five
thousand was their fair proportion of the price for
which he sold himself TO do their work
NE IIlTKrr press EXPRESSES IseIT yer
indignant terms at the snubbng which their idol has
received at the hands Of the great men who take care
OF Boston, and we sympahsc deeply in their Distress
We are willing to do all that can to alleviate their
suferinss, WHICH fear be nolerabe and would
deerenay suggest, that if upon consultations should
be thought expedient for Mr.. Webster to deliver him
self Of that awful load Of political turpitude which he
carries in his breast, a the City Fathers Of Worces
ter, more magnanimous than those of Boston, might
tender If il denied, him and his retaners the
use of the spacious City Hall, of Worcester as they
did to the Free Sellers when the cowardy timidity of
those men who dread agitation, denied them the use Of
the cradle Of Liberty, which up to that time had been
sacred 70 the cause Of Freedom and Free Speech.