Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-11-08
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rn.r.Aay Neutrality-suspicious. =, 1888
Mr. Choa.e's Speech in raneuil Hall.


of the patriot to know that amidst the fanatcal
desolation which has overspred the once renown-
ed old Commonwealth Of Massachusetts,, there are
those who still honor 1.-THE flag and keep step with
the music of tho Union" that, amidst the cheer
less political waste which has well nigh enyelop-
ed the whole State, there are occasional spots of
verdare. which are as delightful aud hope-inspir
ing to the soul of the lover of his country, as is
the oasis to the weary traveller of the desert to
know that the sacred flame of patriotism. which
formerly burned SO brightly on its every hearth
and hill top, still CLOVIS in its original brightness
and purity in the hearts of some of its citizens !;
to know that there is yet some good in that polit-
ical Nazareth, q that there where fanatiesm runs
rot& abclitionism is rampant,there are also those
who love the country and the Union with patri-
otto devotion. and who manifest that love by re-
sisting the foul Vaccinations of the Infamous
wretohes who lead in the fanatical and villainous
crusade against the South and the Union. Late
mails bring us additional proof that there are con
servatiye, national, Union loving men even in
Massachusetts,, who still stand up and battle a
ganst the concentrated and detestable isms of the
North. All honor and success to them
"A w HlE NceliIR WIS Htlu III ilhi,
Boston, last week, which furnished a noble demon
stration of the existence of such men, and of their
efforts against the enemies of the Union. "Ail
parts of the old hall were packed with one living
mass of human beings who were stranng to
get within the hearing of the speakers. There
were also great number who were unable to got
even into the entry" Such is the representa-
ton given Of the vast eoncourse present on that
most interesting occasion-ani well was it
worthy of the honor thus shown it--for there
were speakers in attendance whose addresses inn
parted to it charm which only true eloquence,
lighted up by the noble inspirations of patriotism,
can give. ToSering above all, in the grandeur
of his genius and splendor of his appeal, that
eminent statesman and Orator RUFUS CnoATE,
whose name stands forth in magnificent relief
from the eaious surface Of affairs, as now visible
in the disempered and distracted commonwealth
of which he is one of the most gifted sons. The
meeting was opened by Peleg w. Chandler Esq,
in brief but stirring speech fit introduction
and foretaste of what was to follow. The Hon
George s. Hiard next addressed the meeting
in words which breath a spirit of the truest de-
yotion TO the Constitution and the Union, and to
the honor and prosperity of Massachusetts
Mr.. Choate then arose amid the most enthu-
tastio applause and spoke for an hour. When
we say that his speech was one fully worthy of
the man,we pay it as high compliment,as words
can well convey. We regret that we can
not conveniently lay the whole speech before
our readers. In the absence of that privilege
we content ourselves with giving few extracts
from it.
We first insert his exordium
"Mr. President and Fellow citizens, am graf
flied beyond the power of language TO express,
by your kindness. BY this thronged audience
am even more gratifed.' In this alone hope SEQ
the doom of the geographical party. 1t would
have been thing portentous and mournful if
Commercial Boston had not thus poured itself in
to this hall to declare by ten thousand voices a
gainst the first measure tending practically, with
a real menace. 10 n separation of the States ever
yet presented, certainly in our time presented,
to the judgments or the passions of the people of
America. Who should be Of the earliest to dis
Germ and of the wisest TO decide the true great
questions of the day. Did any body suppose that
your intelligence could not see what a PROPOSE
ton to organize the people of this country into
two great geographical parties must come to if
successful dany body suppose that, seeing
this, you would help II on or fail asleep upon it
You. the children of the merchant princes. YOU
whose profession of commerce and arts give YOU
to know and feel with sort of professional con
sciousness and intensity, our Republic to be one
one and undivided, one and indivisibe, let us
say, you, whose hearts, abroad yet untrayeed
have sometimes leaped up when you have seen
the radiant flag burning on the waste sea, along
the ISOLATE and distant coast, beneath unfam-
lar consultations; when you have felt your coun-
try s great arm around you-were you expected to
be Indifferent upon proposition to rend her IN
to two great factions. or TO be cheated into a be
lief that there was no such proposition before the
country at ALI
Speaking of the purposes Of the meeting he
says, amongst other things, abiding to tho sup
position that the old Wing party of Massachusetts
was dead:
We come to declare that, upon trying ourselves
by all the approved tests. are perfectly satis-
fed that we are alive; that we are glad we arc
alive, since there's work 10 do worthy Of
Us; that we prefer to remain, for the pres
emit Wings, Constitutional Wings! Massa-
chusetts Wings. Faneu Hall Wings, Daniel
Webster and Henry Clay Whigs.-that we have
no new party to choose tonight, that when we
have we shall choose any other, aye, any other,
than that which draws the black line of physical
and social geography across the charmed surface
of our native land, and finds a republic on one
side to love and nothing but an aristocracy to be
abborred and avoided the other. Take any
shape but that! We come 10 protest, with all
possible emphasis and solemnity, against the in
auguration, they call it, of the party of the
sections.
Let us follow him through another passage in
which he speaks Of the, Union:
"Why, look att. Hereis lisa stupendous fabric
of Titan architf cture--a castle, a capitol sup
pose the capitol at Washington. 1t is at once
a fortress and temple. The great central dome
swells to heaven. 1t rests grandly on its hill, by
its own weight kent ste II eeminnlu immnya.