Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-07-14

! polst DO they not believe tha Hfy are the rem-
inent persons" and that their gravity is greater
than the gravity Of others2 Non do not mean TO
make great charge against the money lords, but
! il is mems misfortune sometimes 10 mistake the
power of capital for their power, and then,
! because this power gives man a momenary sig
ni6camce, he thinks II is his own strength.
| submit, sir, that we could spare from Boston
alone, hundreds OF men. il they will leave their
capital behind, as they must, could lay them
| down this warm day, in the cool and silence Of
! Mount Auburn, and Massachusetts, would miss
| Them SO much as she would single genius from
whose brain leap forth those beautiful models which
traverse every sea and bring home wealth aud victo
| nv with all the winds OF Heaven. Men OF money
sometimes honestly attach TOO much importance TO
themselves, when, in fact, it is the money alone
which gives them influence.
But, sir, ask again, why those gentlemen who
are so much shocked at the evasion of poor voter
who desires to retain his employment, do not come
out they do in England and give their real
sons for desiring the open ballot and say that prop
erty should speak at the polls. This discussion has
gone on, as the gentleman from Natick remarked,
for twenty years in England, and there the argu-
ment is put fairly, openly, and honestly. The Lon.
don Quarterly says-"Why should Mr.. Coke, with
an Incnme Of ESQ 600 per annum and Mr. Burke
and Mr. Ark wright. be put upon level with the for
ty shilling freebooter, or the El0 pot waoper?'
| might ask the reviewer who was ArkwrIght once,
and who was Burke once--but their merit is that
anu reasons are larry pun, ana tOeV
carry out the doctrine but you taking the same
ground here, while you not willing 10 avow the
real reasons oft DO you say that these gentlemen
were towards? Sir, they are Britons, and their
banner 'tfor thousand years has braved the battle
and the breeze''-their valor has striven in every
land, save own, with successfully are taking
possession Of all the continents aud the isles of the
sea- Well, sir, these Brtons have for twenty years
been led like sheep 10 the polls by their landlords
But braye hearts have attempted 10 resist this Mis-
cradle tyranny, and the landlords have in conse.
quence swept whole streets of their tenants
l see, by the clock, that have but little time left
and hasten on. This thing has been argued out
The gentleman from Natck say 5, for two thousand
years.
Do not shrink from the logical consequences Of
your principles. Go and take your stand with the
tyrants; yes--the thirty yrants OF Athens TO whom
my friend from Rack has made allusion; and we
will take our stand with the fierce Democracy of
Athens. Take your stand with the paricans of
Rome; we take ours with the Grach and the grand
Republicans Of The brave days Of old. Take your
stand with Charles X. Of France, who struck the
ballot down with the freedom of his people; we
stand with the patriots of France, for the ballot,
Robespierre and Dantun Of the revolution alone
dissenting. Go to your affnites The free SwtZer
is with US, the Austrian and all tyrants, are with
you. Take your chance with the Tones Of England,
Who for twenty years, have put this cruel money ar.
gument, and maintained it., though believe that in
the ballot amidst the shouts Of the relormers
II is very true, as the gentleman from Natick said,
that Mr. Bright held up the ballot of Massachusetts
to the hard working men of Manchester, amid their
shouts. Indeed, they may have been surprised TO
have found Massachusetts the most enlightened
State on the globe, going back to the Tories, with
the Earl OF Derby at their head. Why shrink from
your associates? Be brave, and fear not. They
have said all that be said for YOU. Stand up in
line with them; let us have no dodging. Cicero is
is with you. He ground in the prison house Of the
palrcians, and made better aguments for the ballot,
submit, than | have heard here to-day. though
will admit the great eloquence and ability Of the gen
tleman from Salient Laug herl Take the argu.
nents, new and old and use them. You have elo-
qnent men. You have one here more eloquent than
Cicero-mGre profound than Derby; let him cast
over them the splendors Of his own gorgeous imagi-
nation, and still we shall be content TO take our stand
with the fierce democracy OF Athens, and with the
Republicans Of ROME and The Liberals in England
with O'Connell-wilh Grote-wlth Ward-with
Macaulay-Nith Brght-and with Richard Golden,
with The thrty-six thousand men of the West Rid
ing, OF Yorkshire, and indeed ,wilh all Eng land his
back.
| We take our stand with these men, and even more
and better than ALL stand with the republicans OF
this republican land in every State, save with Vr
ginia, and Kentucky, and Missouri, a part of Mis-
souri, only-tor that hardy Democrat who dwells az
the sunset side of the father of floods has been able
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counties. Take your stand with the Virginian, who
| owns his laborers. and with the Kentuckian, who
owns his, and with the Missouran, who believes
that slave has not soul. Take your stand with
these, yoWr dear friends. [Laughter.l
BAT what do gentlemen mean, when they talk
about there being party here? do not like that
| buge sounding truce What does it me M / have
heard it before; but did the noparty men send any
body up here where they had majortes? Not one.
| do not complain.
While admit that upon open questions there
may be no party here, yet Interference TO other mat
tiers, there are parties, there must be; or have we
been dreaming, and have we been staring at phan.
tasIns? fear these fel-footed gentlemen. When,
| pray you, did these change their views2-
When, sir, did the fast anchored fiat beats of con-
servatlsm cease friDg2 Did Legislature ever sit
here-did it ever try by party 10 repeal the Sc
cret ballot, and today its hands a law of the PEG.
pie! But that Legislature has gone to its final ac-
count, under the rising murmurs and the unmitigaed
wrath OF the people. (Laughler.) Nobody has any
constitutional doubt about that. WELL is II true or
not tue, that have been fighting somebodyq-
Have we been coniending with shadows since 1850?
Who, sir, have opposed us in every way, on every
hill, and in every valley, where could get ten
men togeiher2
And, at last sir, when we went out 10 the people
on the seventh Of March, did we see the face Of a
foe? SIR, since the great battle IN the magma
ton OF Milton, between the hosts of Heaven and
the Great Adversary, has here been greater VIC
tory. Sir, ''every stream, and oi an avalanche OF
reiormers is here, "-elected, sir, by the people as
reiormers, and we are here with stout hearts, and
ready 10 take the responsibility am, for one
| Nor would ! approach the Constitution with sicky
ard trembling hands. | would retain hat is good
and reject what is evil. ! would remove the moss,
aud the mould, and cob webs, and the ''rust"wbch
! doth corrupt.
would build, as far as possible, on the old foun-