Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-04-02
Gbe 5IalIp Sun.
WEDNESDAY,, APRIL ., 1856.
RepubIican STATE Convention.

Continual inquiries are made, es to when
it is proposed to hold e Republican State
Convention, for the choice of delegates at
large to the National Convention at Philadel-
phia, in June. But two short months will
elapse ere they are to be on their way in pur-
suance of the objects to be assigned them
We're there to be no business of this nature
transacted, recent occurrences and the aus.
pices of the times would Of themselves seem
to be enough to require State Convention of
the masses of the Republican voters in the
Common wealth, to confer together. as to fa-
ture operations, and especially, to congratu-
late each other on the unexampled tri-
umph of their cause. and their principles,
which has come off III the election of Speaker.
We believe that the idea was preached by
the State Committee, soon after the election
of Banks, of holding mass congratulatory
meeting, in Faneuil Hall. to beparticipated in
by the friends of freedom generally, through
out the State, This proposition was favorably
responded to by the Republican press, and
others, at the time, who confidently hoped
that the plan would be carried out, as just the
thing called for.
When, to this circumstance is now added,
the important business to be transacted, the
nomiRation of six delegates at large to the
National Convention, and other matters rela-
tive to the great campaign so near at hand, it
would seem the part of wisdom and propriety,
if not OF urgent necessity, to have call is
sued, soon as may be, for an early assembling
of the Republican voters of the State, in the
old Cradle of Liberty, or in the Heart of the
Commonwealth, to take such action as the
wants of freedom, in the present crisis, de-
mand. Among other States, which have so
done, Michigan has set a noble example, by
holding, on the Goth. one of the largest and
most enthusiastic Conventions which was ever
holden in that Stste, at which six delegates
from the State at large, and three from each
Congressional District, were chosen to go to
Philadelphia, and the following resolutions,
among others, were passed -
Resoleed, That the attitude of the free State
men in Kanzas commands our admiration
LiltAk tuSe ulspA'tg u SpiilI WOEtuy Oh ln6 DeSb
blood of the Revolution; that while the
wrongs they have suffered are less excusable
and more fragrant than those which produced
the revolt of l776; SO they will be justified. if
necessarily to maintain their rights, to re- enact
the scenes of Lexington and Bunker Hill !;
and just posterity, in reviewing the struggle,
viii consign the names of Pierce and Shan
non, to the same infamy that now darkens
the memory of North and Hutchinson.
Resoloed, That we look to the future with
most hopeful anticipations. The rescue of the
government Of this State from the hands of
party which has long perverted it to the sci.
hsh uses of a knot of party peculators; the
election of three such tried and faithful cham
pions Of freedom as Howard, Waldron, and
Walbridge, to represent this State in Congress;
the unparalleled triumph, after sixty days
contest, in tire election of Republican Speak
er; and the jublant shouts of State after State
as they wheel into the Republican line, all
quicken our hearts and nerve our arms for the
great contest of 1856, in which, with LINER
TY for our battle-cry, and the Fathers Of the
Revolution for examples, we must feel assur-
ed that (" there is no such cord as fail
That will do for Gen. Caess State. We
would recommend that worthy response to
those noble sentiments be echoed from the old
Cradle of Liberty, in the Bunker Hill State,
soon as arrangements can be made.