Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-05-07

My friends, that is what your representatives in
Congress wanna fire in the rear, q little hotter
than the fire in front. (Applsuse.)
And when Slavery irowns, or when il threat
ems or when it bribes, and the faint heart is about
TO YIELD and The treaoherous hand about 10 receive
the reward of dishonesty, they want the convict
ion that there is something al home more terrible
or more difficult 10 be met than anything which
the Government at Washington can bring up 10
their faces. And when they fad that, ny friends,
you will find that there will not be so many faint
ing and ialering as there now.
What has enabled my worthy friend on the
right (Iion. Horace MANN 10 stand up like
true man in his place in Congress 1t is be-
cause he had true men and women at home TO
fall back upon; and why did our Giend (IIon.
john G. PALFREY) stand up at Washington?
It is because he felt in bis heart hat he was the
representative of Bunker Hill and Lexington, ard
it did not become man from Bunker Hill or Lex.
ington to ialter or fail or any occasion. [Cheers
That is the work we have gut to do. We have
col 10 60 to work and relghl The old beacon fires
of liberty. and bring out The old Gre-locks of the
Revolution, bayonets on; and let The trearherous
and f,lteriug and iahess know that The sons and
the sons sous Of The men who proclaimed the
principles Of the Revolution, and sustained them
too, nave got the principles OF The Revolution
still, and that when they fail ard ilter they come
home to constituency that viii hold them TO "A
more terrible reckoning
When we have done that, we will have done
our duty, and when we have an honest, true.
hearted, fearless constituency at home, we will
have faithful, true, and fearless representatives at
Washington. Then, my friends, if you want to
reform the government, do not send missionaries
to Washington; employ your home missionaries
to go and convert little Oses, children, young men;
ouHl 4 ,a. rft,,i.,t
be deeply inbued IN the rising generation, and
then you will have commenced a reformation and
revolution that will never go back; and when yon
have done that, you will have no reason to com.
plain OF dcugh-lace representatives. at Washing
ton, because there will be no douah-face constit-
uency at home.
But did not come here to lecture you, or to
give you instruction, but to enjoy the festivities of
this occasion, for which again return you my
most hearty, and unfeigned thanks. Enthusiastic
cheers.
The eloquent gentleman resumed his seat amid
long proiracted applause.
The President then read the second regular
t0as:--
The Unioa.-hs preservation will be ensured
not by yielding to- the demands of those who
threaten dissolution at everycheck to their schemes
but by adhering to those principles of Justice
and liberty which it was s'ordained and est1blish
ed to maintain.
(.Mu8ic, ''Star spangled Banner.")
The President then renalrked-
1t Is the way with US here, in Massachusetts
when we see brave man set upon by an unequal
force, to look around for his backers.-and moi
long ago, Nfassa chusetts was looking around among
the ranks of her foremost talent, her most thor
ough culture, and her priest patriotism, to fiud
one suited for that place; and she concluded that
she might do worse than 10 sedd Charles Sumner.
Loud cheers. | think he has given her some
reason TO think that she was not wrong in thu
opinion. Enthusiastic cheers | Introduce
you the Hon. CHARLES SUMNER
In response to these remarks, Hon Charles
Sumner rose and was greeted with the iveliest
demonstration of attachment and respect. He
sad:-
ss Mr., President--It is pleasant to be among
friends. [Cheers.] 1t is quickening 10 be where
pulses throb and hearts beat in sympathetic unison
with cause dearer even than friendship. Re-
newed cheers.l For myself, let me say at once,
that, in this thrOnged presence, gIistenlng with
honest faces aud iii this choice companionship of
worth, genius, and eloquence-and beauty, too
by which the occasion is adorned, | behold
more than all things else, auspicious omens for
our cause. [tlearty applause. The well de-
served greetings You freely offer TO our guest, are
all pledges anew to the slave In honoring him
Tor what he has done, we take upon ourselves, in
our proper spheres and according to the measure
OF our abilities the noble vows by which his life is
elevated. [Renewod applause.
Sit, If this occasion were made merely per-
sonal iIlumph if it were to expend itself in the
egosm too often incident to such festival; if il.
We're to pass away without any fnvigoraling in
huence for freedom, should feel that our duty
was lll-periormed to-day, and ! venture 10 say
that no man wonld greet il uore Than our ionored
guest himself [AppIause.]
| Mr. President, you have been pleased to call
upon me TO respond to sentiment commemorate
ing the National Union. As a lover of concord.
and as Jealous parizan of all things that ma Ike
Tor peace, am always glad to express nv at
tachment TO the Union; but, like you, sir, be-
lleve that this bond will be most truly preserved
and most benehcently extended for shrink from
no expansion where Freedom leads he way)
Lheartv and long continued appIausel by firmly
upholding these principles cr liberty and Justice
which were made lis very corner-stones, The
true danger to this Unon proceeds not from any
abandonment Of the ''peculiat institution of the
South, but from the Abandonment of the spiil'
in which the Union formed; not from any
warfare within the limits Of the CONSTIPATION up
on slavery, but from warfare upon Freedom
| (Chetrs)
pui' SIT, the cheap cY Of danger to The Union
has now PASSED, not again to be reviv d. 1t
was never more than a cry. The Union is a ne
cessily which is not merely constitutional, bu
social, commercial, geographical, HISTORICAL
When the Mississippi ceases It's ordly flow TO
the sea, when the AIleghanies lower their ohi
est ridges to the level Of the valley, and Nature
herself, in all her products tesfes change then
the Union may disappear. Meanwhile, it can
gain no strength by any compromise with slavery
by any sacrifice OF Freedom. There is fact,
sir, which the historian, as he chronicles the
events OF our day, cannot forget, and which is
l. worthy Of memory At the very period of al
legged danger 10 the Union, while slavery was
most elamorous and men at the North were most
vehement IN alarm, the national stocks, which
are proverbially sensitive to every National dan
ger, which trenble at every breath Of war or dis
cord, continued to be bought.and odd in the mar
ket, without depreciation Of any kind, This Gu
rious circumstances, which believe was not oh.
served at the time, though it has been amply no.
ticed since, seems like proyldenlal testimony
beNond ali contradiction or response--to thehol-
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