Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-29


so comprehensively-"If wanted to 20 back,
sir, why am l here:" l felt my courage re-
newed. 1t was plea that none of you could
resist. See to it, every man of you that loves
Boston, that you watch these things so closely
that you can look into that mans eyes. Gap
plause.) When he comes up for his trial, get
a sight of him. (Great Applause.) When
he comes out of his trial, get sight OF him.
(Great cheering.) Wherever he stands in the
streets of Boston, don't lose sight of him-I
don't mean to. Enthusiastic cheers.) l tell
you, fellow citizens, there is nothing like the
mute eloquence of suffering man, to stir
your hearts to do your duty as children of
Faneuil Hall. (Applause.) l want you to
see him-every man of you. / want you to
be wherever he is, and will trus. the result
(Cheers) When you adjourn, be like our
friend who has Just addressed you, q. l..
Swift on perpetual guard. What l mean is,
that If this great sacrament of slavery or hber
ty is to be celebrated, let us see it-let us
watch it. If, fellow citizens, the streets of
Boston are to be SO often desecrated by the
sight of returning slave, let us have it to tell
to our children, that we actually stood and
saw it done-if it is to be DONE (Cries of
" Never Neverl')
Fellow citizens, will not detain you any
longer. (Cries Of g Go on Go on ~ But
Hall is not here l do not know these pic
lures l do not know these walls Faneuil
| Hall is up in the purlieus of that Court House,
where tomorrow, the children of Otis and
Hancock are to prove that they are not bas-
| tards. (Applause.) saw a young Virgini-
an this afternoon, and he said, "Why, you
| could not do such thing as this in Virginia
| For Gods sake, let US make Boston worth
living in. (Cheers) My FRIEND the Chair
man, says he hopes to live and die in land
of liberty. If he lives over tomorrow, and
| slave warrant is executed in State Street, l
advise him to change his domicile, for he will
be no longer in land of liberty.
Fellow citizens, my resolution is this. We
have no right to the noble language of those
resolutions. We have no right to say that
this thing is an insult to the city of Boston.
1t is not. 1t is no insult. The quiet and
tame submission of the city of Boston to the
kidnapping of Thomas Sims, forfeits the right
to call this an insult. My resolution is, for
me, that will try so to behave in this case,
that we shall wipe off the stain Of Thomas
Sims, SO that no kidnapper shall again dare
to show his face in the city of Boston. (Cries
! of g Good,' and cheers.) Make your resolu-
ton, as do. See that man for yourselves;
and never lose sight Of him, so long as his
feet rest on Massachusetts, soil. Who says
|
aye" and enthusiastic applause.)
When Mr.. Phillips had concluded his elo-
quent speech, Rev. Theodore Parker, being
loudly called for, came forward to address the
assembled multitude.
"Fellow subjects of Virginia" said Mr..
Parker, and then there went up from the au-
dience loud cries of No No ! and Yes Yes!
True AS soon as quiet had been restored,
Mr.. P. went ON with his discourse, which was
one of unusual eloquence and power. He
sketched in powerful language the encroach-
ments of the slave power, and showed how,
step by step, the rights of Massachusetts men
had been stricken down, until Boston had be-
come a mere suburb of Virginia.
Eight years ago, said he, merchant of
| Boston kidnapped a man at noon, on the road
| to Quincy, and Boston mechanics showed the
| golden eagles they Received for doing it. If
we had done our duty then, apd Faueuil Hall
! had spoken then, he would not have been
| speaking here tonight. We are to blame
There is no North. The South goes c eur up
! to the Canada line. Boston is suburb of the
city of Alexandria, "fellow subjects of Yir-
ginia;'' l will take that back when l see
The first time they arrested slave here,
they put the Court House i'll chains, but now
they are so confident that you are subjects of
Virginia, that they do not put the Court House
in chains, or gather the military in Faneuil
Hail. He said that one OF the officers of the
city government told twenty policemen to-day
not to lift a finger III support of the slave
catchers, and the order was received with
cheers. Mayor Smith was invited to preside
at this meeting. and he said he regretted that
his time was all engaged this evening. Had
he been invited earlier, it would have given
him pleasure to be here.
We have photographic report of Mr.. Par
ker's speech, but want of space obliges US to
defer its publication until tomorrow. In
conclusion. he proposed that when the meet
ing adjourn, it adjourn to meet in Court
Square, Saturday morning at nine o'clock
A hundred voices cried out, "No, tonight"
a. Let us take him out % Let US go now!"
"Come on"
A proposition was made to adjourn to the
Revere house, Others said 'Nol No! to the
Court House!" "Down with TIE kidnappersn'
ITO the rescued" "Now is the time, Mr.
Parker said, "my advice is, wait until to-
morrow, but you know best
Great excitement followed, and the multi
tude seemed undecided how to act, when Mr.
Phillips arose, and, with that matclless elo-
quence of his that has given him the reputa-
ton of the first of New England orators, he
Gained the excited multitude = Mr.. Phillips
said:-
Fellow citizens; Let us remember where we
are, and what we are going to do. You have
said, to- night, that you are going to vindicate
the fair fame of Boston. You do not do it by
going to groan before the Court House [Give
them coat of tar and feathers. You do not
do it, fellow citizens, by attempting the i'm
possible feat of insulting kidnapper. (Great
cheering.) We are not wanted at the Revere
House. We do not help Anthony Burns by
going to the Court House. If there is any
man here who has got an arm ready in the
cause of justice; if there is any man here
who is ready to sacrifice anything for the lib
erty Of an oppressed man, he is to do it to-
morrow. (Great applause.) No, fellow citi-
zens, 1 pledge you that if thought it would
be done tonight, would go first to the Court
House, or the Revere House.
do not profess, fellow citizens, any amount
of courage, but have always protested this,
and think | shall not be found wanting-I
trust in God l shall not be-that whenever
there is fair probability of saving slave from