Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-21
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territories the Magma Charta of liberty, of
which they had been robbed and the princi-
pie must be established, also, that henceforth
and forever all the territory now appertaining
to the United States, or which may in future
appertain to them, must be consecratcd to
freedom. If, said he, the people of the North
do their duty in this crisis, then win they be
worthy of the eulogium passed by Lord
Chatham on the barons who wrested Magma
Charta from King John.
Mr.. Boutelle closed very eloquent address
amongst the loud cheers of the Convention.
John L. Swift next addressed the Conven-
ton in very eloquent and able speech and
was followed by Edward L. Reyes, of Ded-
ham, in speech replete with earnest and
manly eloquence.
Hon. Amasa Walker being called upon,
said we did not come here, trust, to be ex-
cited on the question of slavery. We did not
come here to say hard things even against
slavery or shareholders. We came here, as 1
take it, to see what is to be done at this cr-
sis, to prevent the slave power from trampling
out the liberties of this nation. If we do not
meet the question of Freedom versuS Slavery,
| now, we shall not be able, in my opinion, to
meet it for 100 years, The crisis is imminent;
and it will require the union and patriotism
of every true man at the North, to prevent the
South from prosuating the nation at the fact
stool of slavery.
In the first place, men of all political parties
at the North must consent to let by-gones be
by-gones. If we do not consent to this, in the
first place. we cannot have basis upon
which to build the creed of the new organiza-
ton.
In the first place. must have party, that,
to begin with, will rescue Massachusetts from
the dominion of slavery. 1t must be enacted,
that henceforth no man shall be taken from
the soil of Massachusetts, on any pretence,
without due process of law; that is, without
trial by jury. (Cheers.) If we have self
respect as a State, we shall never submit to
anything less than this; we win never consent
to concede to the slave power anything more.
Mr.. Walker paid a well-merited tribute to
the manly bearing of Mr.. Sumner amongst
the congregated slave propaganda at Wash
ington and said that the Northern people
had onlyto confront the South as Mr. Sumner
had confronted the Shareholders, and they
would learn to respect us as they must respect
him.
At the close of Mr.. Walkers remarks,
Judge Morris being compelled to retire, Mr..
Allen, of West Boxbury, one of the Vice
Presidents, took the Chair
Mr.. Seth Webb IT., of Dedham, from the
Committee ON Resolutions, then came forward
and presented the following series Of resolves,
| plaudits of the Convention:
Resolved, That the unquestonabe existence of set
tied purpose the part of the Slave power TO
the Republic which fathers founded principles of
Justice and liberty, into saveloldng despotism, whose
vital and anmatng spirit shall be the preservation prop
agation and perpetuatOn of slavery, calls for the mme
diate union of all men, into party which shall
the question OF freedom paramount to all other po
| litical questions
Resoiusd That in corporation with the friends of free
dom in other States hereby form ourselves into the
Republican Party of Massachusetts, pledged to the ae-
| complshment of the following purposes:
To bring the administration of the General Government
back to its original principles Of liberty;
To repeal the Fugitive Slave Law.
To restore the prohibition of Slavery in Kansas and
Nebraska.
To prohibit Slavery in all the Territories.
To resist the acquisition of any more territory, unless
Slavery therein shall be prohibited.
To refuse admission into the Union Of any Slave
| States.
| To abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia.
To protect the Constitutional rights of all citizens going
| to other States.
Resolued, That Massachusetts has the Constitutional
right and it is her imperative duty, to enact laws which
shall protect the personal freedom of all her citizens.
ResoIUed, That recommend the assembly at some
and t1tap Ofa
with view to the adoption of eectua measures to resist
the encroachments of the Slave power.
ReSotued That this Convention invites the Republicans
of every town and city in the Commonwealth to send del
egates the number of three times their representation
the General Court, State Convention to be held at
------on t HU RSD Y, the 10th of August, 1851,
for the purpose of nominating candidates for the State
Offices, and forming platform of State policy.
1t was voted that the Committee on Reso-
buttons report the the names of provisional
Committee, to take measures for the assem-
bling of State Convention of the Republican
party, which is to take place in some eligible
town or city, on the 10th day of August, the
place to be determined by the officers of this
Convention.
Rev. Edward Beecher. of Boston said that
he had come to this meeting, to testify, by his
presence, his sympathy for the principles
| upon which the call Tor this Convention was
based. 1t was the first political meeting he
had ever attended as such, but he desired that
the emotions of his heart should mingle with
those of the great heart of the people, on this
| question, and SO he had come up to the Con-
| vention.
| Mr.. Beecher reviewed the temptations to
which men in this country were subjected, in
order to make their politics subservient to
their interests. A young Northern man can
not go to the South, to teach, or preach, but
he is tempted to marry a plantation. The
merchant is tempted by the profits of cotton,
and the politician is tempted by the bribery
power vested in the President of the Republic.
Mr.. Beecher said, that, unless the people of
the North have energy and vital morality
enough, at least, to break down tie Pres den
tial power, there is no hope for Liberty. With
this enormous power consecrated to Slavery,
we shall soon have more audacious and po-
tent prescription than that which has been
already exercised. We shall soon have a
muzzled press and trembling pulpit.
1t was easy for the North to abrogate this
power of corruption, now patent in the Presi-
dent The numbers, the wealth, the religion,
and the intelligence Of the nation, were at the