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

AS@A tcu menu VI 1loefty ana ne, with Joyous
alacrlty, obeyed the summons and put himself in
opposition to Horace Mann. But the people of
that district, who so long sustained John Quincy
Adams (cheers), stood by Horace Mann. loud
cheers.l
Now, gentlemen, the slave power demands that
JULIUS ROCKWELL, whose record in Congress
needs no explanation or defence, at home
or abroad IL say the slave power demands
that JULIUS ROCKWELL, who has accept.
ed your platform-accepted your nomination
and refused to be complicated by any other
connections (applause)-I say the slave power
demands that he shall be stricken down in Mas
sachGsetts, and Samuel H. VALLEY is the man
brought out to do it. The experiment, appre-
hend will be very much like the one made by
certain man in the State of New York. He ran
as candidate for Governor, and obtained one
vote. Meeting colored gentleman, he accosted
him with all the consequence that 4 candidate for
Governor in that great State may be supposed to
exhibit but the colored gentleman did not know
him. Why" said he, g don't you know me /?
l was candidate for Governor at the last cleo
ton co. says the colored gentleman, " you
are the gentleman who made small 'speriment
for Governor. l apprehcnd that the result of Nj
Valleys effors will turn out to be a very small
Experiment. of the same kind
Well, gentlemen, have had another Con-
venton. There was convention in this hall the
other day, representing the higher and better
sentiments of Massachusetts. That Convention
of thousand delegates, after an excited, agonz.
ing canvass nominated Julius Rockwell as their
candidate for Governor. (CheerS.) They placed
in nomination Lieut. Gov. Brown, man whom
know, love and honor, for purer Democrat and
truer Anti Slavery man never trod the soil of
Massachusetts, (Cheers.) They placed in nomi-
nation lockwood Hoar, (renewed cheers) gem
tleman of undoubted ca pacity of eminent ability,
man whose devotion to liberty no Massaehu-
sets man ever questions. 1t placed in nomina-
tion ticket all true to liberty, all fully commit
ted to the glorious platform of principles here
enunciated And allow me to say,-although l
do not wish to make any prophecies that ticket
will be elected by the liberty loving freemen of
Old Massachusetts. Enthusiastic cheers)
Well, gentlemen, there has been another Con-
vention since assembled lat Boston, the other day,
and of that convention and its nominees have a
few words 10 say.
ask the particular attention tonight, of gen.
tlemen who have been or are members of the
American Party. | intend to speak frankly to
you and to tell you the precise and exact truth,
and defy the world to show one single error in
anything l shall state to you tonight Gap.
plause.)
Gentlemen, by the kindness of the people of
Massachusetts, l have been assigned a position
in the National councils. When 1 left your city
of Worcester at yonder depot, in response
to your kind greetings l told you that | knew
Massachusetts,, for l had laid my hand up
on her heart and I would be true to her senti.
ments (tumultuouS applause). Gentlemen,
had hardly entered my room at Washington,
when | received the most cordial greetings from
gentlemen of that city. was told on lthe day
my entrance into the Senate, by veteran SEN
atOrs that no man had ever come TO that body
over whom more anxiety and discussion had TIA
ken place, and that no man ever came there with
such power to shape future political events -
Gentlemen, did not beEeUe a cord of it, II
knew those Senators better than they knew me /
But these very kind words were followed by the 4
declaration 1--WE must ganize American ma |
tional party. and must say nothing about
slavery" The demand made upon me at,
morning, noon, and night, to take a position IN
the city of Washington that should sacrifice the
cause Of human liberty in America, to build up a
national Tarty, in which it WIS said could be an
influential leader and director. But l resolved
that upon my soul, the damnino crime of being
false to freedom should never be fastened.-i
CHEERS | made up my mind that would be
true to that principle had followed and advo-
Gated for nineteen years, amid obloquy and re-
proach, and if it was necessary TO do 1t, for the
preservation of the cause of Freedom. l would
SILVER the American party to atoms if l had
the power. Crumultuous and long continued
cheers, mingled with occasional Kisses, which
were again and again drowned with perfect
storm of applause.) Mr.. Chairman and gentle
men, L hope any one who chooses to hiss viii not
be restrained in the exhibition of his feelngs.-
utter against the members OF any pankindness to
chusetts Although myname to- day is denoune-
Gu anu iIOul one emu OF the Dtate to The
other | pass that all by, for l know that am
right and shall triumph in the end. shall trav-
erse the soil Of Massachusetts, with the proud
step of freeman, over all the opposition that
has been or may be placed in my way by the min
ions OF the slave power
| say, sir, l made up my mind at Washington,
that we of the North had one of three things to
do. We must either submit Internationally, to
the slave domination of the country, and sacri-
nee our principles. or we must be true to our
principles, and vote down the slave power, and
let them go off as they would or we must 90
into the conflict with them, be defeated and then
we must fall back upon our principles, and leave
them.
Well, gentlemen came home from Washing
ton. From the fourth of March to this day. [
have visited thirteen States of this Union, and
travelled more than fourteen thousand miles. |
have done what coald to unite the people-the
Whigs-the Anti-Slayery men--the members of
the American party, who love liberty and loathe
slavery-to mite the whole people of the North
IN great harmonious party, to overthrow the
slave power OF the country dethrone slavery, and
enthrone liberty in America. (Applause)
Well, gentlemen, we went to the Philadelphia
Convention. My friend Foster has spoken to you
OF the manner IN which we were received in that
Convention. say to you, that we had men from
Massachusetts, there, who went to vilify and abuse
us before we arrived there. We had men there to
inform that Convention that the delegates from
massachusetts were nothing but abolltlO0ists, land
were false to the American party. Gentlemen,
the delegates from Massachusetts met these as
saults, they performed their duty and when the
hour OF separation came, they turned their backs
upon that Convention, and came home to receive
the appreciation of nearly the whole people of
Massachusetts. (Cheers) But, gentlemen, there
was little narrow, snarng faction in Massa-
chusetts, in the American party-a class of little
men, who have been privileged, during the last
two years, to snarl at and denounce everybody
better than themselYes,-and that comprised
nearly all creation loud laughter and ap-
plause) That class of men, gentlemen, denounc-
ed,-in their secret souls they denounced the ac.
ton of the Northern delegates to the Philalel-
pha Convention; they intended, at the fitting
moment, to renew their connection with that ma
tional organization, and within six months, that
will do il. They think they have got rid of the
gentlemen who have stood faithful to the senti-
ment of Massachusetts, and that now they will
be able TO unite with the slave power of the coun-
try, and
"Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
That thrift may follow fawning"
Now, gentlemen, when we separated at Phila-
delpha, twelve States of the Union were in Coun-
ell two other States came in, but did not go with
us, issuing an address of their own. l say, the
delegates oftwelve States came from Philadelphia
with the expectation and the hope that the Amer.
leans OF the North who had been true to liberty,
would unite in one harmonious Republican party,
for the overthrow of the Slave power
Well, gentlemen, as my friend has stated, Gov.
Gardner drew up the first proposition, and that
he states, for the formation of
the Republican party / say in my letter,
" american Republican party" / had some
doubts upon the subject when penned that let
ter whether the word American was put on by the