Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-05
Reception Of CbnrIe. sumn.-.

The reception of Senator Sumner on his re-
turn TO Boston, Monday, was an imposing
popular demonstration. 1t was purely peace
tul and spontaneous celebration. There
was no organization of enthusiasm there
was no military, no fire companies no associ
ated bodies to swell the ranks of the proees
sion or attract attention. Those of his fell
low citizens, simply, who wished to testify
their respect and sympathy went forth to meet
him through the mouth OF one of the most
venerable and honored of their number, wei.
coined hm on his entrance within the limits
OF the city, and the chief executive maeis
trate of the commonwealth greeted him on
his arrival beneath the shadow of the State
capital. In both places, and also before Mr..
Summers residence in Hancock street, there
were vast concourses of citizens, assembled to
do honor to their Senator.
Mr.. Sumner arrived in the vicinity on Sun
day morning. Monday morning he drove
from Professor Longfelows in Cambridge.
where he had been staying, to the house of
Amos A. Lawrence, ESQ.,, at Brookline.-
Soon after one o'clock the invited guests who
had assembled at the State House, proceeded
thence in open carriages to Longwood, where
they were Joined by Mr.. Sumner, who passed
along the line of carriages and was silently
greeted by the gentlemen, rising and removing
Their hats. The carriages then proceeded
across to Roxbury, and thence along WASH
ington street to the Boston line, which was
reached at 8 O'Clock. Here the cayalcade
was assembled, together with vast copcourse
OF citizens. Here Mr.. Sumner was greeted
with cheers often repeated. When silence
was restored, Prof. Huntington presented the
Senator to Hon. Josiah Quincy in the follow
ing REMARKED
Mr.. QUINCY THE committee of arrange
ments for welcoming the Hon. Charles Sum.
ner to his home, present him here to YOU, sir.
venerated representative of the city of his
birth. He comes back from his public post.
where he has bravely advocated the cause of
all freemen, to enjoy q freeman's privilege
and discharge freeman's duty. He comes,
a cheerful and victorious sufferer, out of great
conflicts, of humanity with oppression, of
ideas with ignorance, of scholarship and re-
hnement with barbarian vulgarity, of intel
lectual power with desperate and brutal vio-
lence, OF conscience with selfish expediency,
of right and wrong. Boston does well in
coming out to greet him. For, that ample
and lofty manhood, trained under her educa
ton, and consolidated in her climate, has ad-
ded new dignity to her old renown. 1t has
joined her name more inseparably than ever,
with the aspirations of Christian liberty, and
the honors of disinterested patriotism through
out the earth, and through all time
Mr. Quincy made the address of welcome
as follows:-
Mr. suMNER.-It is with inexpressble
pleasure that l address you this day as the
voice OF the great multitude of your fellow
citizens. In their name and by their author.
ity, welcome you to your home in Massa.
chusetts, expressing their honor and thanks
for the fidelity and power with which von
have fulfilled your duties as their Represe11,s-
tive in the Senate Of the United States. whsra
" mistaken, unseduced, unterri6ed,' Won
kept your love, your zeal, your loyalty to III.
erty; where neither number nor example
threat or sneer, within you wrought to swerye
from truth, or change your constant mind
You return to your country, sir, after hav-
ing given glorious evidences of intellectual
power, which touched, as with spear of
Ithuriel, the evil spirit Of our Union, causing
Il at once 70 develop, in full proportions, its
gigantic deformtyi compelling IT to unveil
TO the Free States, its malgn design to make
this land Of free, the land of slaves.
You have suffered, aud are still suffering