Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-06

matter. L take il ki4lly, for have no wish to
handy words with the chief Magistrate OF Massa.
| chusetts. have no Ish TO say an unkind word
of him, although he hs chosen to attack me most
grossly, for, as God sfny judge, never did him
wrong, in word or act.public or private
Mr. Gardner says that made speech in his favor
in the Convention lat year. Gentlemen, that
statement was made iIthe form off taunt Cover
nor Gardner should h&e stated the whole truth.
| When his name came before that Convention, Mr..
Sweetser, of So. Reamg, rose and denounced
him as nothing but al aristocratc Wing, late a
member of the Wha Ward and County Com
mittee, and such man the American party
ought not to nominate
| Mr.. Ransom, IDw member of his
Council and of the owners of the Bos-
ton Bee, who is now announcing my friends Col.
Foster and Mr.. BurlinIame. and myself, mounted
a settee and assaied Governor Gardner as an in
| tngulng, managing Politician, man who had
| sought the nominatlfn to Congress against An
son Burlingame, and having been defeated was
| now engaged in plots ind schemes to break that
/ gentleman down. While he speaking, he
was pulled from the ssttee by no gentle hand and
even my friend Burliigame aided in the work
Well, gentlemen, [ apse in that COnventio l
| did not like to hear such language applied to any
gentleman present there, and said, q Because
Mr.. Gardner is a whigis no reason why he should
| be prescribed That every man, no matter whether
he had been Wing, Democrat or Free Soiler,
stood upon equal terIis with all others, and de-
| clared in that Convention, that although [ had
| but little Acquaintance with him, he was a mem
Der of the party, andI regretted to hear such re-
marks made" The9, gentlemen, were words
used in defence of l thought I'M
justly assailed. l am sorry to say gentlemen,
that Gov Gardner is proving by his present con-
duct that his friend, Mr.. Ransom, was right then,
| and | was wrong.
l will detain you, fellow citizens, but few
| moments longer Ceres of ego on" ego on,
want to say wordto night to my Anti-Save.
ry friends, and l say to you in all sincerity that
the conduct of some of them pains me to the
heart. l saw men the other day, in attendance
upon that Convention in Boston-men with whom
have fought shoulder to shoulder in the conflicts
OF the past-they were there taking ground
against Sumner and Chase, Giddings, Seward
and Hale. Plafrey, Allen and Adams, and all the
men who have upheld the banner of freedom for
| years, and as God is my judge gentlemen l say
that in all my political experience, have never
| felt so deeply wounded as feel by the conduct of
| the Anti. Slavery men of Massachusetts, who
are striking her from the ranks of the Repub-
| cen States. want to talk plain, gentlemen, and
| If my voice could reach over Massachusetts,, l
would like to speak the heart of every true n
| d'Slayery man. Cast your eye over the country,
and tell me If all the hopes of iberty-all the hopes
| of overthrowing the Slave power-all the hopes Of
| making Kanzas free--all the hopes of protecting
| the sons of Massachusetts who have been made
teons in that territory, for their love of liberty
| say, are not all these hopes centered upon the
| successful organization of the Republican move
| ment When the Slave power triumphed in the
! hanzas Nebraska act the people of Ohio united
! in the great Republican movement in that State,
| and they swept Ohio by eighty-four thousand ma.
| iority, and sent twenty-one REPRESENTATIVES to
| Congress. (Cheers) Indiana organized the Re-
| publican movement and by eight or ten thousand
| majority, ranged herself on the side of Liberty
| Michigan-Lewis Cass' own State, the father of
| squatter sovereignty-that State organized the
| Republican movement and took her position in
| the line of the Free States. Wisconsin, young
| Wisconsin, took her position in the Republican
| ranks, and the Administration went down You
come to the East, and the State of Maine, always
! Democratic, ranged herself under the Republican
banner, land sent delegation to Congress pledged
to the policy of freedom, by twenty-seven thou
sand popular majority. New Hampshire the
| Presidents own State, the anti-slayery men have
carried and she stands today arrayed inthis great
union of the people, So with Vermont; and
New York, the Empire State, has Just organized
Republican movement, and nominated ticket
with Preston King, glorious Democrat, to lead
the column. and she will take her place in the
list of Republican States. (Applause.) State
after State has thus ranged itself under the Re-
publican banner the only hope for the over
throw of the Slave oligarchy in this land
Gentlemen, we oil Massachusetts came here
and organized Republican party. The members
2 yhs AameElean party were not asked to sacrifice
OF freedom paramount, and pledge themselves to
unite undera common banner. That pledge the
members of the American party are bound, by
Che pliSuteu OF Jnelr authorized agents and
leaders, to keep. But, instead of this, we see
some of them, because certain man is not nomi
nated,repudlate that organization, get up boiling
Convention, and take position in opposition to
OF liberty in America. Gentlemen, this is not
political matter. 1t rises above all mere party
considerations. 1t is crime and, as God is my
Judge, would go to the stake to-day, before I
would take part in this guilt. This action on
the part of portion of the Anti-Slayery men of
Massachusetts, will carry grief and sadness to the
h0n re Of ihn-
hlng, and P'H1eroy. and Robinson, and all the
patriotic and noble men who are struggling to or
ganize the freemen of the country, and to make
the great territory of sKanzas, free Common
wealth.
Suppose the American party is triumphant in
massachusetts, this autumn, where is Massachu-
setts to stand? She is stricken out of the line of
Republican States. She cannot meet in council
with the gathering hosts of Northern freemen;
she must take her position with the Hindoosm
OF New York, the hunkerism. of Levin and
BroOme, the hunkerism that in now striving tn
smite down Salmon P. Chase in Ohio,-and with
the slave propagandists OF the South who, at the
Philadelphia Convention, imposed upon the
American party a platform with no Northern
face" ask the Anti-Slavery men here if they
are ready to sacrifice Massachusetts,; if they are
ready to strike her out of the list of Republican
/ States.
gentlemen, single word before l close.
trust that you here in the heart of Massachusetts,
here in this free city-will take your position in
support OF the Republican banner and the Re-
publican nominees. loud cheers.) l believe
JULIUS ROCKWELL will be the next Governor of
MASSACHUSETTS. Enthusiastic applause) be.
lieve Lieut. Governor Brown will be the next
Lieut.. Governor of Massachusetts, Renewed
cheers.) And | believe that RooKwooD HoAR
will be the next Attorney General of Massachu-
setts-( Continued cheers, land that we shall
have a Republican party in Massachusetts,
cloud applause.) But suppose we fail-and
have not the least idea that we shall fail-we shall
triumph in the end We shall fall back, to rise
again. Behind us is the advancing wave of civil.
llzation, christianity, and humanity Behind us
is the arm of Almighty God and every attribute
OF Almighty God is with us in this conflict Ey-
erything pure and holy on earth is with us, and
we shall triumph, gloriously Triumph in the COM
ing future The wave of reaction NAV sweep
over the land; we may be defeated in 1856, and
the Slave power may have another four years
lease OF power: but, gentlemen, the Slave power
cannot stand still. 1t must move, and commit
still another crime and there will come
up one universal expression from the public
heart of the country. The people will rise again
and two, three, or five hundred thousand more
freemen will be banded to the party of Liberty.
And gentlemen we shall go on, and roll IN and
band together the lovers Of human liberty, until
we strike down the Slave power of the country
until we overcome and crush out that power, and
place party in the government of the country
winch will establish true, Democratic, State.
rights, strict construction policy, and we shall
nave one more old Jefersonian Republican party.
God speed the day when we shall have once more
IN America Republican party, that shall main,