Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-13


of which we have given but an imperfect out
line, was earnest, eloquent and effective.
Hon. Charles Allen then came forward, at
the call of the meeting, and was received with
the most hearty and long continued applause.
He said that owing to recent severe indis-
position, he was not able to make speech,
but he could not forbear to come here, and
bear his testimony against the enormous and
impending danger that now threatens the
country. (Cheers.) He described briefly,
the territories of Nebraska aud Kansas, and
gave an outline Of the history of the Ne
braska BILL of the last session, which was de-
feated in the Senate. Over this fertile and
magnificent territory, it was contemplated to
extend slavery, and not only this, but to en-
cIude freedom forecer. 1t is proposed to shut
forever the gates of that Eden of the West, to
the institutions of freedom. The emigrant to
our shores, the laboring man and the farmer,
are to find the door closed. There is to be
no ingress for them, for its entrance is to be
guarded not by the flaming sword of the an
gel of God, but instead thereof, the demon of
slavery, whose touch is pollution, whose
breath is pestilence, rears his hideous form, to
guard its approach against all that is lovely,
pure, and free (Cheers.) And how is this
to be met How is this territory to be main
tanned to freedom, but by the uprising of the
people, as one man, by a loud expression OF
the voice of the Free States, that cannot be
mistaken, either North or South. Youhave
come here to give such an expression, With
determined hearts, to say, that this iniqulty
shall be straHgled in its birth That the hard
bargain your fathers made, shall not be an
nulled. That slavery shall not appropriate
this territory to its vile purposes, but that it
shall be secured to freedom forever. Gap
plause.]
Ireioice, said Mr. A., to find in the midst of
us, on this occasion, men of different parties,
and especially do rejoice in the presence of
SO many of the ministers of our holy religion.
Who of us can doubt, that it 10 an appropriate
work for them that their master and ours,
their God and our God, looks down with COM
placency upon every effort they make to arrest
the progress of this giant wrong.
The eloquent speaker then passed en- review
the past aggressions of the slave power, and
the vaccilating course which the North had
pursued in resisting them. And then said:
If any one supposes that this last act is to
be the end of the long years of aggressions,
that to resist this will be the final effort of du-
ty required of him, he greatly mistakes the
position of the country, and his own duty. If
any man means to content himself with the
passage of these resolutions and go hence
thinking there is nothing more for him to do,
he has come to this place, on an idle Grand
and his resolutions, will be worthless. But, if
he has came here with full sense Of the evil,
that this is only one step in the march of sla-
very seeking to extend itself over all North
America, if he has come with full under
standing Of this, and prepared to do his duty,
then are we met to some purpose and our ac-
ton and resolves will not be in vain. CHEERS
look not upon the past. came not here to
reproach any one, but come here to ask all
with the evidence before them to go with us
in firm, consistent, united, persevering, I'M
ending opposition to the advancement of the
Slave power. l ask no man to wait until his
ear is panied with the sound of some new
enormity, till the foundations of our political.
fabric are undermined, until the match is APP
Piled that is to scatter us to fragments; but to
watch as the Stakeholder watches not only to
stand firm, but to advance, in united hos
tiity against the enemies of our country
the foe of humanity and of everything good,
just and holy.
To whom shall I appeal If there is any
class more than another, it is to the laborers,
Mechanics and Farmers of the country. The
old States are filling up, with unexampledr a-
pidity. You want homes Tor your sons, when
they shall have arrived to years of manhood.
You want homes for the emigrant, that he
may not starye in our cities, or die in their
dens of vice. You know that your sons will
not work by the side of the slave, for the slave
as well as the slaves master looks down upon
the white man who tolls, and that the institu-
tons of free labor and slave labor cannot CO.
exist. need not appeal to YOU not to forget
the great interests you have at stake. 50 far
as to permit this ini4uity to succeed. TRUST
that none of us will sink into quiet SUM
Der, even if this last encroachment ia consum-
mated. trust that the public men who are
out now, have entered the service of freedom
| for the rest of their lives That no one
now thinks after patriotic efFeryesence of a
few minutes, he may waive the subject until
after another Rip Van Wrinkle sleep, from
which he to be awakened only BY still other
| acts OF aggression; but that we shall strive by
| every means IN ourpower TO make our influence
felt and save the country with its cherished ms
| ttutions which were won by the valor of our
fathers from the dangers that threaten to over
| whelm it.
After the applause which followed Mr.. AL
| lens speech had in some measure subsi dea
Rev. Horace James on heing called for. came
forward and said, Mr.. Chairman and fellow
citizens, could not refuse your call SO heart
lily given, apparently, and doubt not sincere
ly, tonight, to take part in the deliberations
Of this evening.
Fellow citizens, my heart is ii this mat
ter. (Cheers.) | feel, l doubt not, with
every one in this assembly, that we are met to
consider one ofthe greatest and most audacious
outrages that ever was proposed to be commit
ted on the honor and fame of our country
heartily thank the honorable and eloonent
gentleman who has just preceded me for the
encomiums which he has been pleased to be.
stow upon the clergy. We, who are here.
feel it to be the duty of the clergy to come for.
ward and take part with our fellow citizens.
in resisting the passage Of this measure, and
in their name, we say we viii endeavor. God