Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-06-29
speech Of Hon. }. G. Palfrey.
Photographic Report for The Spy, by A. J. Marsh

photographic Report for the Spy, by A. J. Marsh.
FELLOW CITIZENS: | apprehend that when
you are doing me this honor, This afternoon, you
are not AWAKE that have already entered upon
the crusade, and made myself hoarse by en-
deavorng to add my small mite on the side of
humanity, in the way Of addressing some of you.
| When | came from Cambridge this morning, with
some six hundred delegates IRON Boston and
along the route, confess | was surprised TO see
any such fragments of the Free Soil party these
| picked up along the road. ICheers When
! | arrived, endeavored with all my little force TO
! get into the Hall where you had assembled, in
| order TO see the place where there end TO
! agitators. [Laughter.l Well fellow citizens,
there was not vacancy even big enough for me
to get into; and that being the case, some of my
too indulgent friends induced me to address them
upon the steps of the building, in which service
have contracted hoarseness, which now inca
pacitates from enabling you to hear me- But,
in word, fellow citizens, | came here you
| did, for one purpose-tha we might declare to
one another, aud that we might encourage our
! selves by declaring that we stand now where we
did on this spot four vars ago--that we have
seen nothing IN the meantime to change our
tlments or our policy, and that standing on that
policy, and adherlng to those sentiments, we
mean to hold our place as firm the everlasting
hills, until the duty is done, and the cause for
which we have enlisted has triumphed. TCheers.
Fellow cit zens, you and have enlisted for the
war; for no shorter time no enemy is TO deter
us-no obstacles are to discourage ns-no per-
plexities are TO weary us. We are bound 10 this
vessel for sink or for swim cheers and swim
she will gracefully over the surface of the waters
Fellow citizens, it may be that some little res
outon may be requisite to enable us TO act well
our part,-it may be that some of US know that
there is something 10 weary and TO pain, in The
hostility of enemies, and still more IN the esrange-
ment and caluHnies even of former friends; hut,
fellow citizens, it pleased Heaven, in making the
various classes Of animated nature, to make some
classes with backbone. Laughter Among
the works of scientific investigation to winch The
liberality of our Commonwealth has given rise,
perhaps some Of you know there is one, very
scientific and erudite work, which is called trea-
tise on the lnvertebrated animals; animals with
out backbone cerebral coIunn-an-
finals that creep in the dust, and get their dirty
living there. Well, it is very fit they should
have place in the books of science; but they
shall moi have place in Office, if we can help it.
| We want no such men at this time. Animals
!, me. NE ce-;n he sIime--that lie at their length
that crGat &c nov,e., are not the men whom Mas
at y - > reared in former days, and they |
s|e'iusVsiiie men whom she will employ hereafter
a her service. [Cheers.
said was struck little, when | came this
morning, to see the multitude of agitators that
survive; for these Impudent partizans have told !
US that we Massachusetts men-sons of the pill
grims, shall agtate no longer upon the doctrines
laid down in their platform.
Mr.. Giddings said the other day in Congress, |
q love to quote the words of that noble man, |
said he, 'sYon have said that we shall no longer
agitate. ! mean to agtate; now what will you
do about it!'' There is the end of the whole |
NATTER the only difficulty is IN meaning to agi-
tate. If we mean to agtate, we shall agate; |
and there is no power in all the cravenhood of
Of the nineteenth century, can put stop to our
agitation. [Cheers.
/ said | was lutte surprised TO see many
agitators, for remember that this is the third
successive day on which you have done no hay
ing; the third day that industrious Massachusetts
men have left their labor in their shops and on
their farms The day before yesterday was
Sunday, yesterday was Independence day, and
how can you spare time to be here on the third
day? You could not, and you would not, if you
did not have an interest here greater than III all
your harvests. You know that there is a harvest
Of knowledge and duty to reap, without which
all the rest is worthless; and the third day you
give to looking after those great public interests
which are deeper and nearer to your hearts than
any Others you could be looking after elsewhere;
and let me tell you that when they who now de.
grade Massachusetts, shall hear what mass Of
men is here this day, aud what spirit anitnates
them, they will quail in their strong holds, and
tnin's the end is about to come. [Cheers.
s Soasae is szzIe Laughter. think they
nor 70 Is te or years ago:-a slzzle, think, Is
III, and soon Toraakses a little noIse-a little re-
looked At Same 6r,ahQ2ut sending forth any
when the powder Of one Of the ;ub, .rd
| touched, perhaps there was some mlstaRe ,.as
accident, bnt heard nothing but sizze; Tile
powder exploded with a little noise and no irrlne-
date result looked but moment longer. and
4 presently the outlines of the fair fabric Of the
I temple of Liberty were lighted up in fame, the
| word Independence was written in starry
sctnuahons upon its front, the eagle Of freedom
| percbed proudly upon It's summit with fierce and
blazing fires all around him. Cheers.1
SO IS 1t with our cause Here Is the FIRST fruits
| of the movement--no, this is the second fruit in
Massachusetts of the movement four years ago.
| What shall be in 1856 | know not; some Of Us
| are not TO live to see the Consequences of what
| you are now doing Many Of the young who
were so ieelingly addressed just now, most as
suredly will see it. But others will only see the
dawn of that glorious day. aFeg q
Yet it is enough for us that when we are gone
to sleep with our fathers, they who have an in-
terest IN the good name we BEAR shall be allie to
read upon our tomb stones, that, in the critical
hour of danger. we served as prlyates in the for
lorn hope of liberty. [Applause.
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APPOINTMENTS By THE GOVERNOR AND
CoUEcIL.-John A. Bodies, of Winchester, Giles
H. Whitney, Of fempeton, and Samuel Hooper, Of
Boston, to I've Commissioners concerning Boston Har-
Dor and the Back Bay. Ne.'
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