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

piles, let me ask him, what do you propose to do?
There is not the smallest chance for the election
of Mr.. Gardner, and even if you could elect him,
what would such a triumph be worth, achieved at
the sacrifice of your integrity, and your honor,
and what would you be,even then ?-the isolated
fragment of party, without nationality, and
with no hope of achieving position as national
party until the cause of freedom is first made tri~
umphant.
Mr. Wright said that he had taken great pains
to inform himself of the state of parties, and he
felt as certain of the election of Mr.. Rockwell as
he did that the sun went down to night. Mr..
Wright closed his eloquent and peculiarly appro-
pirate address by terventappeal to the mechan-
les and workingmen of Worcester, by all that
was sacred in the history Of Massachusetts,, by all
their love for the principles Of the Declaration of
Independence, by all tn ,ir hopes of the final tri
umph of Freedoms cause, to stand firm and I'M
shaken, mindful of the duties they owed to them
selves and their country so that liberty and
peace should be established upon firm basis for
ever.
We have given only mere skeleton of Mr..
Wright's able address. 1t most rapturously
applauded at intervals throughout, and he took
his seat amid the most defening manifestations
of popular regard
The Hon. Robert B Hall, of Plymouth, mem
Der elect in the next Congress from the first Dis
trict, was then introduced, and on rising was
greeted with great applause He alluded, in COM
mencing, to the relations of the American party
of Massachusetts to the Republican movement.
He felt greatly encouraged by the responses which
came up from the good people ofthe city of Wor-
cester, to the noble sentiments inspired by the
holy cause which we were assembled to consider
and advance. The sun never rose on a betterrac
of men than the trainers of our government,
which was instituted to promulgate the great
principles of Liberty. 1t was their intention to
have slavery eventually abolished in the country,
but that purpose having been thwartcd, that in
stitution has increased to giant stature, and be-
come the pervading and all-controlling element
in the goyernment-sacrifcing without limit the
treasure and blood of the nation to serve its be-
hests. This corrupting influence had diffused
itself throughout the politics Of the country, and
annihilated all parties. For this reason now was
the grand period for the formation of a new con-
stitutiontl republican party of the Union, recog
nzing the principle of Liberty for its basis of
ton, and as its object, the overthrow of this
gigantic power of Slavery. Slavery must first be
put down, before true American principles can
prevail.
Mr.. Hall spoke of the result of the Philadel-
phia Convention, as showing the utter impossible
ity of regulating any other interest of the coun-
try, or trying to make any other question para
mount or even co-equal in any party of the day,
so long as the slave power maintains its present
predominance. Therefore the American party of
the State, in obedience to the recommendations
of the seccders from their National Convection,
had gone into the Republican movement with all
the other parties opposed to the administration,
without the necessity of at all abandoning its
views on other issues. He spoke of the result
of the Republican State Convention as a cement
ing together, on fair and equitable terms, of all
the friends of Freedom in the Old Bay State, on
the paramount principle of Liberty, and urged
the binding obligation of all Americans to abide
by it action In acting with the Republican or
ganization, he was acting faithfully and honora-
bly, for American principles. The great cause of
Liberty was the noblest phase of American
ism.
He then paid his respects to the Wing party,
of which he was once member, and said it had
oegenerated, firstly, from being once national
Wing party, to Massachusetts Wing party. and
lastly, as the acts of its late State Convention
here showed, from a Massachusetts party to a
Boston party!
Mr.. Halls speech was very able and eloquent
throughout and his sales of wit elected the
loudest applause of the audience.
Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire, was
next introduced to the audience, and upon COM
ing forward to speak, he was greeted with the
most vehement demonstrations of enthusiastic
regard. Cheer followed cheer, aud it was some
moments before he could be heard Mr. Hale
commenced by abiding to the state of parties, and
expressed much satisfaction at the course of re-
cent events.
Herejoiced in what the American party had done
in Massachusetts, by breaking the bonds of party,
and releasing men from the thraldom of old or
CARNATIONS, so that they could stand up in
the dignity of their manhood, and labor for the
cause of Freedom to some purpose. FL rejoiced
also, in what that party had done in N Hampshire,
where it had unrolled the stone from the door
of the sepulchre, where the spirit of Freedom
had so long been buried, and permitted her to
walk the earth untrammeled and unconfned.
81 come here TO speak to men," said Mr..
Hale, 8" and not to politicians. When 1
speak to men I know who I am talking to-
When / speak to politicians 1 don't know who
am talking to-" Mr.. Hale alluded in eloquent
terms to the part Massachusetts, had borne in the
struggle of the Revolution 1t needed no monu-
ment upon Bunker Hill to commemorate the
services of the men of that day. 81 appreci-
ate, said he, "as fully as any man, their lofty
patriotism, their valiant acts and their noble pur
poses but deep, permanent, all pervading as is
my regard for the men and the principles of that
day, may assert without fear of contradiction.
that we OF the present day are engaged in
more glorious struggle than that of 1776."-
Our fathers rebelled against wrongs upon the
rights of property-against stamp acts and Bos-
ton port bills and the tea tax but that principle
that calls to action is our sacred regard for the
man himself-for the right to possess his own
body, and the freedom of his immortal soul.
We are in the midst of great contest; Karzas
is the Bunker Hill of this new Revolution, and
II Slavery is to triumph there, it would be to the
everlasting shame Of Massachusetts, that she,
through the divided councils of her politicians,
should withhold her powerful aid and give her
vote and her influence TO the friends and
abetfers of Franklin Piorna ,ybo bo,d. al,