Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-21

party which elected Franklin Pierce does not
represent the principles Of democracy.
Mr.. Judd repudiated the practice of resolv-
ing and re-resolvirg at political meetings in
the north; he said that we had come up here
not to resolve, but simply and emphaticallyt to
grid ourselves for action. Mr.. Judd said that
the time had come for the blending into one
harmonious party of all men who have SINH
larity of purpose, in relation to this Nebraska
perhdy. He was for fusion, in order to rescue
both the State of Massachusetts, and the
country, from the hands of tie slave power.
Some men in times past, had considered it the
grand end of political action in this country,
to consolidate strong government, but he
was for organizing strong people, and for let
ting governments take care of themselves.
If this Convention resolved to do anything,
it should resolve in the first place that there
shall be no more slave-pens in Massachusetts;
no more men dragged from the State of Mas
sachusetts by summary process, and sent into
slavery. The Attorney General of the State
should be made to appear for any one claimed
as a fugitive slave; and the right of personal
replevin should be supported by all the force
of the Commonwealth.
do not, said Mr. Judd, dissociate myself
from any party. I donot unite with any par
ty. / unite with all good men, who are in
favor of maintaining and sustaining, at all
hazards, the principles Of Liberty. Mr.. Judd
was loudly cheered when he sat down.
Gen. Wilson was loudly called for, and was
received with loud cheers by the Convention.
He expressed his satisfaction at the large
numbers which were assembled together to-
day-brought together by their deep and ear
nest sympathies for Freedom. lie was re-
joiced to see the great heart of the people of
Massachusetts beating true on this question,
as the heart OF the people always had done.
Party afinites and party attachments might
have kept the people asunder, IN times past,
when the question of Slavery, in some of its
aspects, was being considered, but still he be-
lieved that, in the depths Of their hearts, they
were warmly attached to the principles ofiber
ty, for which their fathers so nobly commended.
Mr.. Wilson deprecated all illusions to thepast
that might wound the sensibilities of any one
present. Let the past be forgotten, said he,
and let us take care of the future. He be-
lieved that the spirit of freedom was at last
awakened in the North, and that that spirit
would spread abroad, animating and uniting
the friends of freedom everywhere. In the
great Central States the people are moving
In New England the people are moving
Even in Franklin Pierce's own New Hamp-
shire, tie people are moving; and with Gods
help the people will be victorious. Gentlemen,
l have the utmost confidence that the repre-
sentatiyes of the II, 200, 900 of Northern free
men, in the next Congress, will truly repre-
sent the sentiments Of the North. l want
those gentlemen who are Wings, toremember
that they were Americans before they were
Wings. want those gentlemen who are
Democrats, to remember that democracy is
nothing to them, if it is shorn Of its essential
principles. L want us all to remember that
freedom is everything and that party names
are really, after all, of little practical avail.
Mr. Wilson expressed his strong faith in
the people, Independent of the result of this
days proceedings. He believedathat the peo-
pie were ripening for the future struggles CT
Liberty with Slavery, and that they would
render this Republic as free as it deserved to
be. Mr. Wilson's able and argumentative
speech, of which we have given but feeble
outline, was loudly applauded
Rev. w. IL. Beecher, of Reading, Rev.
Daniel Foster, of Princeton, and Rev. John
Pierpont, of Medford, followed, in eloquent
addresses
Three tremendous cheers were taen given
for the Republican party, and three for the
Springfield Republican, after which, at five
o'clock p. NJ, the Convention dissolved.