Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1852-06-29


Gcnlemen-My first words--he first words
prompted by my heart are to express my joy to meet
you hereby to meet many Of my old chosen
friends and acquantances pledged to our Just cause.
Such gathering is well aIcuated give us all en-
enlargement, and hope and joyny far crater than
can he gained by pandering1 to corruption in high
places. Aud my friends, let me say, thai new
chapter is abon TO be written in history. In other
and past times, YOU have struggled and srugg led,
earnestly and manuIIy, for the declaration and sus-
tena'iun of The great principles of human freedom,
the beneficial Influences Of which to be felt and
realized by class different from those whom our
laws and institutions had crushed and borne down
to the earth, And this Well. Ii well for
yonrst Ives that your generous sympathy went out
from your hears;-there comfort to the objects
Of that sympathy in your devotion TO the cause OF
liberty even though they did not Immediately re-
ceive the benefits Of that devotion. 1t WELL in
other times, that your hearts should be stirred to
action by such noble impulses aud generous motives
yours we're then, but here is new chapter about
to commence; there is another class now appealing
for your sympathy--ihey stand stricken and bound
looking up IL you and asking you it ir other times
and under other circumstances, you have striven to-
gether like men, when nobody but the boud slave Of
the South, upon whose complexion southern sun
has imprinted dusky hues--has awakened your SYM
paihy.- in other times and under other circum-
stances Aos.sLave ioed and striven Tor these thev
Aud who are they that ask you to-day to stand up
ike men for them? They are the bond staues Of the
two great political parties, (anghter) whose lead.
ers have put the yoke upon them. They are the
men who tell you they have chosen and trusted lead.
efs and champions and that those leaders and cham.
piuns. taking advantage OF the trust and confidence
bestowed upon them, have betrayed their parties,
have turned their backs upon their former preten-
sions, and sold themselves into the hands of those
who would make universal and wide spread the
bonds OF human slavery. They look with beseech-
inz eyes, and tell you that the position they occupy
is doubtful, (laughter) and odious, and hateful
They not content with if, satisfied with it.
There is something in them that revos against it,
and they look to yom to-day, my friends the very
men to stand up, when everybody else is bowling
down, (cheers) they look TO you to stand up and tell
these bowling gentlemen, that declare agitation 10
have ceased, IN manly tones, that shall be heard all
over the republic, that agitation is not dead. (Loud
and prolonged applause) They ask you to strike
one blow, to give utterance to one manly tone, to
proclaim that agitation is not still, and that liberty
is not dead (Cheers.)
They ask you once more to demonstrate to them
that it may be safe to allow the promptings of
their hearts to speak out. They are almost ready;
they have been almost persuaded to the doctrine
which has been thrown out by these leaders and
champions, that the Wilmot Proyiso is dead, and
and its friends buried-that the Free Soil agita-
ton under the whitening influences of their de-
looking, and waiting, and watching, with earnest
and anxious gaze, to know if it indeed be so. Do
you not, my friends, owe much, and very much,
to your friends of the same faith, and kind, and
complexion with yourselves, who are so deeply
interested in the great problem about to be solved.
This is, indeed, a chapter, and it is new
chapter that they have resolved that "agitation
must cease that they will ''reSa8t and oppose 1T,
eohere0er, sohe1e0er and hoaoeoer 1t as ATTEMPTED"
My friends, it seems they have but an imperfect
knowledge of human nature it is exempli6ed
IN their own experience, If they supposed that ag-
itation was to be put down by any such idle fumi-
nations as those. If there is no otherway to make
corrupt carcasses give forth galvanio rnro0 OF
life only say they mast not agitate There is that
in the human heart that would induce them TO try
whether they had the power of agitation or not
(cheers) Find man, tomorrow who has lived
all his life in Worcester County, who has spent
all his days on his farm, to the advanced age
of three score and ten, without ever once passing
beyond the limits of the county OF Worcester,and
tell him that he shall not go over those limits land
he is a miserable man from that very moment, UNI
til he has made the experiment, TO see whether he
can go or not 1t is Just so with agitation and
agtators Tell men they must not agitate, that
they shall not under any circumstances and the
stupid will become active, the silent will speak,
and even the treacherous will begin to think it is
not quite time yet to take the reward of their
treachery. Such is human nature, and so long as
human nature is what it is, it will be extremely
difficult to stop agitation.
Now, my friends, what is this agitation that ex-
cites such tremendous opposition from both of
these two great political parties Is it an ele-
ment of life or of death 1t is an element of
Life, 1t is great law of the Almighty, who has
impressed it upon the whole moral and physical
creation. Such an agitator is the human heart,
whose constant influences are sending the life
current warm through all the limbs and veins of
the body.
We have all read of pool understood in the
holy land at the time of the great mission of
peace-that even the waters of that pool had no
life-giving-power, till an angel came down from
Heaven to agitate them. Then whoever stepped
in was healed. The sluggish pool had no virtues
ofits own-they all consisted in agitation (cheers)
and he who came while the ripple of its waves
was stilled. departed as he came, with his mala-
dies still upon him. | take it for fixed fact, or
60 use phrase that has little Latin in it. for a
fact per Sc, that agitation cannot die, if its
friends may Daughter and applause).