Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-06
GREAT REPUBLICAN MEETING.
SPEECH OF HON. HENRY WILSON,
AT THE
City Hall, Worcester Oct. 9Th, 1855.

City Hall, Worcester Oct. 9Th, 1855.
One of the largest political meetings ever
held in Worcester, was convened at the City
Hall last evening, to ratify the nominations of
Rockwell & Brown, and to take measures for
Reorganization of the Republican Party in
Worcester. The hall was densely crowded in
every part, and the deepest interest was man.
ifested in the proceedings. The meeting was
organized by the choice of Geo. NJ. Rice, as
Chairman, and Geo. Capron, as Secretary.
Upon taking the chair, Mr. Rice addressed
the audience in a few brief but appropriate re-
marks, and closed by introducing Col John
w. Foster, of Monson, to the people of Wor-
cester. Mr.. Foster stated that he should ad-
dress himself mainly to the members of the
American. Party. for the purpose of showing
the part that organization had in originating
the Republican movement, and the duty that
was encumbent upon the members to sustain
its nominees in good faith. He gave detailed
account of all the meetings and consultations
of the American party, and of that party in
coRnexion with other parties, and showed
that Gov. Gardner was leading spirit IN
the fusion movement up to the hour when
Julius Rockwell was nominated. The state.
ments of Mr.. F. confirmed to the letter the
facts in Gen. Wilson's letter, which we pub
lishe1 yesterday, and seemed to impress the
audience with full sense Of the bad faith of
the Chief Magistrate of the State iu regard to
the fusion movement Mr.. Foster is not
brilliant speaker, but his remarks were listen
ed TO with the closest attention, and he re.
sumed his seat after speaking about three
fourths of an hour, amid great applause.
Hon, Henry Wilson next addressed the as
Sembled multitude, in an able and impressive
manner for something more than an hour,
which was received with the most enthusiastic
manifestations of approval We publish be-
low verbatim report, which was made for
the Spy by MIR. James NJ. Y. Yerrington, ESQ.
of Boston, the accomplished Photographic re-
porter, who is famed for the accuracy and ra-
pidity with which he jots down the sayings of
public speakers, and the proceedings of delib.
erative assemblages.
Er. OnanIhFn add t1rUH citizens of Worces-
ter lin obedience to your kind request, am
here tonight to address you upon the political
aspects OF public affairs in Massachusetts You
have asked me to address you, and 1 shall speak
to you with entire sincerity and frankness |
shall speak of public men and of public measures
hope not uniustly, but candidly and truthfully
have no unkind words to utter here tonight,
against any political party in Massachusetts or
against any public man in Massachusetts, |
wish to present to you the precise and exact no.
siton of public affairs in this Commonwealth.
Gentlemen, we have four parties in the field,
with their candidates. We have four platforms
upon which those candidates stand The Demo.
cratic party, first in the field, has placed in nomi
nation gentleman have long known in the 20
litical affairs of Massachusetts, and | will say
here tonight, that believe he Is qualified TO fill
with ability and honor the office to which he has
been nominated. 1 have no words of condemna.
ton to utter against the nominees of the Demo-
cratic party but say to you, gentlemen, they
stand upon platform that no Massachusetts
man who is true to the sentiments of Massachu-
sets, can maintain or defend in public or pr-
vate life. (Applause.)
Those gentlemen stand before Massachusetts
and the country to-day, committed, fully commit
ted to the extent of all they are and hope to be,
to the support of an administration that has
given four hundred thousand square miles of free
soil to the domination of the slave power of the
country. They stand committed to he support
of an administration that has used the appoint
ing power, used the patronage, used the WHOLE
power of the National Government, not only to
throw Kama and Nebraska open to the inroads
of slavery, but to crush your fellow citizens of
Worcester, and our fellow citizens Of Massachu-
seits and of all the North who have gone out
into those vast territories to carry Freedom and
free institutions for all the children of men,
Those nominees stand before the country to-day,
supporting the Nebraska act, supporting the
acts of the rufians of Missouri, supporting the
acts of Stringfellow and Atchison, the removal
OF Governor Reeder, the appointment of Wilson
Shannon, and in support and iustifca ion of
all those acts which have dsgraced and
dlshonored the age in which we live
l say, then, that no true friend Of liberty-no
who wishes to maintain those great Demo.
era i1eas that have made Massachusetts what
she is to-day, can support those nominees, for |
tell you, in spite Of Wing resolutions. it is the
grand fundamental Democratic idea upon which
onr institutions are founded, which has made
Massachusetts the proudest Commonwealth on
earth, for Massachusetts, is, this day. the most
Democratic Commonwealth that the SUM- in his
course across the heavens, looks down upon and
it is because of the great fundamental Democrat.
&c, Christian, idea that 'all men equal before
the law, that has made Massachusetts, the Com
monwl alth that we love and honor
Our Wing friends assembled here the other day.
Our friend Foster has referred to their resolI.
tions. say to you, gentlemen, the Wing reso-
luton he has read here to night is tho most hon,
esq resolution the Wing party Of Massachusetts
has ever promulgated to the world. rive append
the resolution below.--Reporter.1
tell you here tonight what some of us have
told you SO often for the last ten years. that in
the ranks Of the Wing party Of Massachusetts,
are some OF the purest and nobest Anti-Slayery
men in the country-honest, sincere and truth
iul. But tell you, also, that the men who came
here the other day, who framed those resolutions
never loved Liberty they never loved the cause
Of the bondmen They passed their Anti-Slay-
cry resolutions to win the support OF the peope.
the people have found them out, and now. zen.
tlemen, stripped Of public confidence and support.
they can afford, for once to be honest. iAp.
plause)
Now, let me tell you another thing, and If there
Is a Wing here, ] want him to understand It,
Resolutions were brought to that Convention pre-.
pared BY the Wing State Central Committee, de.
nounclng Franklin Pierce's administration dc.
nouncing the kanzas-Nebraska act, denouncing
Strngiellow and Atchison, and expressing the
voice OF Massachusetts But Mr.. Lord came here
MIR. Newell A. Thompson came here--the men
who were Pierce Wings In 1852 and who arc
Beach Wings in 1855. daughter MIR Iord
wanted real Wing meeting which he had NOT
attended for fifteen years and gentlemen kLose
Yosoiutions pero suppressed, or modified, and the
resolutions passed were dictated to the commit.
tee, and those resolutions were the ones that
cali the honest resolutions Of the Wing managers
and leaders in this Commonwealth. (Applausel
Then, gentlemen, the men who passed those
resolutions, cast about them for candidates and
there was found man in Massachusetts,, pre-em
nent above all Others. when an instrument OF tn,
slave power was WAIVED in this Commonwealth
that man was Samuel II Valley, Jr When tn
.a...n "a .wor Al In 1870 that Horaea Mann