Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-13
Another Great Republican Meeting.

AuOtheF Great hePu DlIcun neeJtuSs
The City Hall was again filled last evening to
its utmost capacity with the Republicans of Wor-
cester, FOR the purpose of completing the organ
ization of the party and listening to the argu-
ments of the champions of Republican Freedom.
The meeting was called to order by Mr.. Joseph
D. Daniels; Dwight Foster, Esq, was unani-
mously chosen to preside, and J. D. Daniels,
Secretary.
After the transaction of some preliminary bust
ness, Mr.. Foster, in brief but eloquent terms, in
trudueed the objects and purposes of the assem-.
blage.
He said that he had always, up to the present
time, acted with the Wing party, and that it was
with much reluctance and many regrets that he
had felt constrained to leave. But whatever lin
gering doubts of the propriety of his might
have remained prior to the assemblage of the
last Wing Convention, all had been swept from
his mind by the acts of that assembage.-
In its speeches and resolves, there seemed to be
embodied, a justification of all the charges which
its most bitter opponents had ever heaped upon
the party, and no other course was left for any
man who mad heretofore believed in the profess
sions of its leaders, in its declared policy, again
and again affirmed for long series of years, but
to leave it at once and forever. He read the Wing
resolutions of IS47 and said those resolutions are
as true now as they were then, and fellow citi-
zens that is what am here for tonight. To-
day, said Mr.. Foster, the Wing party of the
tion is extinct A fragment fingers only in three
States but it is only very small and powerless
fragment there. 1t resembles the Wing party of
old about as much as the degenerate Italians of
modern times resemble the brave old Romans from
whom they had their origin, or as the deprayed
and degraded Indians, that we see about our
streets, in tattered garb, shooting arrows at
coppers, resemble the valiant and powerful
tribes, whose hunting grounds were once
the whole broad continent of America -
Yes. continued Mr.. F., the Wing party is not
only dead, but It's worse than dead, for its once
honored name is sulied by the allegiance Of such
men voted for Franklin Pierce, against Gen.
Scott, for VALLEY against Washburn, and who
now willing to vote for Gardner or Beach, against
Rockwell Mr.. Fosters remarks were received
with great applause, and he concluded by intro
ducing to the audience Hon. Albert j. Wright, of
Boston
Upon taking the stand Mr.. Wright was greet.
ed with loud and long continued cheers, and when
the tumult had subsidized, lie proceeded to deliver
ole of the ablest and most truthful political har-
argues that it has ever been our good fortune to
hear. He sketched in brief the history of the
rise and progress of the American party--showed
in the clearest light the relations of that party in
Massachusetts, to the Republican cause, and de-
clared that he stood upon Republican platform,
not only through his own convictions of right
and duty, but because he had been fully commit,
ted to it BY the deliberate action of the American
party, and it position from which he nor any
other member of the American party, could re.
treat, without dishonor to himself and to his as
sDeiates. He described the insolent overbearing
conduct of the Southern delegates of the Amer
lean party at the first National Convention held
in Philadelphia, and showed how impossible it was
to form national party upon the terms there die
tated by the South, without being recreant to
Massachusetts, He said
We refused to yield to the domination Of the
Slave power, and declared our unyielding devotion
to the cause Of Freedom. We came home to
Massachusetts,. Our constituents endorsed our
conduct, and il was then resolved that we would
unite with all parties in the formation of united
party that should make Freedom paramount, for
we felt how impossible il was that the American
principles, so dear to our hearts, should ever be
established in all the length and breadth of the
land, until the Moloch of Slavery that stood in
our path should be overcome. This was our view
of the case, and no man urged the necessity and
Importance Of such a movement with more zeal
and determination than Henry ]. Gardner. He
II was that urged his party and urged me into
H., Ill Al
ings that were held, and which led to the Repub
lican Convention, which nominated Julius Rock.
well Ino man wasI more firmly committed than he.
That was the true state of the case. and now he
wished to know how any man, with the soul of a
man, with the conscience Of a man, with the
honor OF man, could refuse to abide by the acts
Of that Convention. He wished the mechanics
Of Worcester to look at this matter as il is, and
10 refuse to be led by the nose, by designing men
who were only governed by selfish impulses. He
wished them to remember that that Convention
was called together upon the terms of as sacred
compact as ever was made between man and man.
He went to the Convention in good faith, deter
mined to abide by its decisions. 1t made no diff
ference to him what man was nominated, if he
represented the sentiment Of Massa chusetts upon
'e tNesNOh OF freedom IL was enough TO know
that he was committed to its decisions by the ac-
ton oil his party and his own convictions Of
duty.
Mr.. Wright then illustrated, by facts that were
within his personal knowledge. that the treachery
and dishonesty Of the ofhce-holders who had bolt
ed from the nominations, was not approved BY
the great majority of the party to which he be-.
longed, and said that in the Council to which he
belonged, which numbered thousand members
only seventy were present at the last meeting
on Wednesday night, and thirty Of these were
sure 10 vote for Rockwell. ~ say this,n
said Mr. Wright, to tho crediy Of the party, that
you may know that all men are not recreant to
their plghted Faith and their honor. l have been
denounced as a traitor, said Mr.. W. Traitor to
What ITO Henry J Gardneri Yes--but never