Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-07-08

of Arrangements for the celebration on the 4th we 1
have obtained the following for publication, aud would
a the careful attention Of our readers to them, espe
cialIy 10 that from Hon. Joseph T. buckingham. 1t
breathes the true spirit Of liberty which animated our
ancestors. and enabled them to establish the glorious
system of government under which we live. Should it
nerYsde the bosoms Of their descendants, it will pre-
serve and improve those Institutions, to be blessing
to all future ages.
CAMBRIDGE, July |, 1851.
Gentlemen: have before your letter, inviting me /
TO attend mass meeting of the Free Soil citizens Of
Worcester county, Worcester. the 4th day Of the
present month. receive with grateful emotions, this
token of your remembrance, and yon that the in
vation would be joyfully complied with, ifa aneness,
the effect of a rheumatic fever,-did not warn meto
avoid crowded assembly
Though am thus prohibited from uniting with you
and my fellow citizens Of Worcester county, (many of
whom are personal iriends in the festivities and cheer
ing congratulations of the day. and from listening to the
words of patrotism and the encouraging sentiments Of
freedom, which will find utterance the OCCASION yet
be assured gentlemen, that from the secusion my
home there will ascend sincere and ardent aspirations
for the success of the great and holy of human
liberty, in which you are engaged, and for which you
content to endure the reproaches and to bear the
affected of those who claim to be the only con-
servatyes of the age the peculiar supporters of law and
order, the exclusive friends Of peace and the Union.
And, while suffering under this privaon, am cheered
with the belief that The principles of the Free Soil par.
ty will ultimately prevail throughout country; and
by a strong conviction that the time will come, when
the solemn declarations of fathers that all
Il II
privileges, will longer be treated the mockery Of
defamation, but will be invested with power that
not be eyaded overturned by the selfish and ambitious
sophisry of mprincipled demagogues and profgate
politicians. My confidence in the triumphant
of the principles of that religion, whose founder declared
that he ordained and into the world topreach
deyerance the captives, and to at liberty those
that brused,'' and who gave to his followers the
that all power given to him in heaven and
in earth, is mistaken. am ''sustained and soothed
by unfatering rust'' in the instructive humanity Of
race. The struggle between conscience and expe-
dency, between duty and ambition, between God and
maUmon, may be long and painful, but it must end in
victory.
These remarks may be thought the slperfux
OF enthusiasm. Doubtless they will have encounter
the contempuous of some, the language of
feeble misguided, superannuated intellect. 1t
does indeed require something than ordinary
degree of faith in human virtue, anticipate speedy
establishment of the universal liberty and political equal
ity which it the purpose Of the Declaration of In
dependence and Of the Constitution of the United States
to secure. 1t is difficult to Withstand the temptations
acquire political distinction, toresist the passion
for that wealth which it natural for coyet ant
which is almost universal passport to popularity.
is truly fearful enterprise, and requires firm and I'm
terrified nerves. contend against the fashionable admo
ntons of the pulpit and the audacious denunciatons
the press, those omnpotent agents in the formation
public sentiment-the "tools of power, and panders
authority" How different from the great body Of tn
clergy of the days preceding and during the Revolution
some oft present day, who undertake reconcile
the most arbitrary and cruel laws TO the eternal and i'm
mutabe principles of justice and mercy How little d.
some of our modern statesmen who frame laws,-an,
patriot scholars who write for the ess-resembl
Otis and Hancock Quincy and the Adamses Of that pc
Rod! Would the bones Of those patriots of imnor
tai memory rattle with indignation in their tombs,
they could DO sensible Of the per6dy and coldheartet
hypocrisy of those that deceive an honest and condin
people? How unlike TO Samuel Hall, and Benjamin
Edes, and Isaiah Thomas, our editors ant
printers, who egae themselves with the of polt
zeal patronage, feed upon hopes of Obtaining some
thing solid and satisfying! Methinks the dust o.
those once fearless opponents oftanny and injustice
If susceptible of sensation, would invountarily
sink deeper toward the centre of the earh to escape
from atmosphere tainted with the loathsome breath
ings of Press, which bellows for the protection of a
Union that is in danger, and makes mouths at all
who refuse to bow before its golden image, or to wor-
ship the idols it has set up.
Pardon me, gentlemen, for moment more. desire
say, that participate in all your regrets for the pre-
vaence ofinustice cruelty, and oppressonin all your
hopes for the redemption Of the human race from the
mseres Of bondage. The cry has gone FORTH from high
authority, that all who deny doubt the constitutions
atty of the Fugitive Slave law, nullifers and trail
tors. In their application to the action Of the Free Sol
party, notification and treason are words that have in
their sound for me- and they pass by with
as little the oburgation of an idiot Ifihey
have any effect it is to refresh and enliven principles
entertained from childhood, and interviewer with every
fibre of my frame principles that have been confirmed
by the approbaton and nvgorated by the precepts
one, who, for twenty-five years, il my pleasure to
defend and uphold in his political career, when hardly
an editor in the nation and in the city Of his
residence, could afford sentence in his favor,
freedom, and whose example statesman, during the
best part of his life, need be ashamed have
followed. have followed them too long, and with too
serious conviction of their harmony with all that is
right and true, and just, in the disposition and govern