Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-06-19
FOR PRESIDENT,
Col. HENRY S. LANE, of Indiana.

Col. HENRY S. LANE, of Indiana.
VICE PRESIDENTS,
Maine .Anson morrill,. Ohio. Rufus P. spaulding,
N Hampshire. Amos Tuck II Swain.
Vt. Heman Carpenter. Kentucky. Geo. D, Bakey.
Mass. Z. f. Adams Indiana. John Beard.
II. /. Jacob Babrock Illinois VIM B, Archer
Conn. C. F. Cleveland Michigan K S. Bingham.
| N York. John A. King. Iowa. Francis Springer.
! N. 81 G. Hornblower- Wis. Walter d. Mcknight.
| Penn. Joseph Rtner Cal. Francis B. Folger.
| Delaware. Samuel Barr. Minnesota. Alex Ramsey
| Md. Francis s. Cochran. Kanzas. IS. @. Pomeroy
Virginia. George Rice Dis. of Col. Jacob Bigelow
Nebraska. H Bennett
/ SECRETARIES
Maine..J. G. Blair Va. j. U Underwood.
| H. L Blaisdell. Kentucky. w. S. Bailey
VT. Levi Understood. Ohio A. ). Tatty
| Mass. c. R. Train Indiana. W. G. Ferrell
| Il L. Henry Howard Illinois,. George Schneider.
| Conn. .E B. Tweedy. Michigan. B johnson.
| New York. L. Dayton. Wisconsin. C Kuntz.
| New Jersey. II Race. Iowa. W Barton.
| Pa. r. P Mcknight, A. S. Kanzas. R Elliott.
Raymond. Minnesota. j B Phillips.
| Delaware. IT, L. Bye. California. G X snson.
Maryland. Jacob RUSSELL. Dist of COL r B French
The report was unanimously adopted. Col
Lane on assuming the chair, was received with
the most enthusiastic applause, and thanked
the Convention for the honor conferred on
him and the young State he represented
His speech was splendid specimen of West
ern oratory, many passages in which brought
half the convention to their feet with most
enthusiastic applause.
Col. LANES SPEECH.
The time, the place, and the occasion, were
most suspicious. Here the cause of free
labor, free speech, and free men may meet
with fitting response. The dav inaugurates
a new era-the reign of freedom, the resur-
rection of the North. (Great applause.
This is the only national party in the nation
There is a terrible significance in these up
heavings Of the masses. Terrible causes have
produced them, and we here forget our love
| OF party for our love of country and the cause
OF freedom. He had as much difficulty in
| laying down his party predictions as any
other. He was follower of Henry Clay
but when the Nebraska bill passed he aban.
| doned that policy. The great issue now be.
lore us is the restriction of slavery and the
admission Of Kanzas as a free State with
free constitution, not by revolutionary means,
but by the restoration of the principles of the
Declaration of Independence. He then al
luded to the Compromise of 1850, by which
peace was restored to the country, and in the
most severe terms condemned Douglas for his
breaking up that peace. The Kanzas out
RACES he eloquently portrayed, and called the
Administration weak and wicked, and he
would have posterity to say whether there
was most of foolishness or knavery in it.
settlers have had perpelutvd against sileiii IS
sanctfed of God and approved by man.
Col. Lane then reviewed the Democratic
platform, saying it exceeded anything ever
before heard of in its pro slavery character.
Mr.. Buchanan's career was then reviewed,
and allusion made to the times when he was
accustomed to lead the federal forces on tn
victory. Now he was a democrat, federal
democrat, an anti-war democrat. From such
democracy good Lord deliver us. We are
told that were Henry Clay living he would
ne no IL
over his grave more deadly than any that had
been breathed against him while living. If
he was now on earth he would be with the
republicans, for his whole coulse has shown
that his great heart revolted at oppression
everywhere, and in every case sympathized
with the down trodden and oppressed. He
rendered an eloquent tribute to the memory
Of Henry Clay.
Webster he defended in like manner. In
regard to the work before them, he urged
harmony and Cancellation in the selection Of a
standard bearer, and when he is chosen. let
us follow him to victory. We follow no sec
tional banner There is no treason, no dis
union in the Republican party. He would
preserve the Union by manly defence of the
rights Of the North, as guaranteed by the
Constitution. The cry of disunion is sense
less. 1t comes from the unhung nullifiers
M
Jackson still around their necks they called
the men of the North Abolitionists. If to
sympathize with the freemen OF Kanzas, and
to oppose the acts of the men from Missouri
who had invaded that territory as Abolition
ism they might write " Abolitionist all
over him, and more, when he had died they
might write " Abolitionst +" on his tomb
stone. To say that to refese adhesion to the
Fugitive Slave Bill was treason, was to say
what he did not believe. If it was, they
might get their Marshals ready, for he in
tended to declare it upon every stump during
the campaign
At the close of Col. Lanes speech, which
was received with the greatest enthusiasm the
Convention rose,and gave him three rousing
cheers. The Vice Presidents and Secretaries
then TOOK their places on the platform amid
the cheers of the Convention.
The committee on credentials reported in
part that there are no contested seats except
in the first, second, third and fourth districts
OF Pennsylvania. They further recommend
that in voting for candidates, the States be
called IN order, and the chairman Of the dele
CATION report the vote no State to cast more
than three lines the number of votes of its
electoral vote; that ON this occasion Kanzas
be allowed TO vote as a State and that no
state shall cast more votes than il has dele
gates present, and tnat the rules of the House
OF Representatives, so far as they are applica-
bic, be adopted for the government Of this
Convention. The report was unanimously
adopted.
Caleb b. smith of Indiana next took the
stand. He made an eloquent speech, claim.
ing that the Republican party is the true ma
tional party, because freedom is national and
slavery sectional Ten years ago the Demo-
cratic party did not deny that Congress has
power to prohibit slavery in the Territories.
but now, the party, with Buchanan at their
head, are occupying the ultra position of John
g. Calhoun. He did not believe the people
of the country would follow them in their
corruption lie hoped the time had come
when the people would rebuke the present
administration-tha the star OF freedom had
arisen to lead to victory.
Mr.. Loyejoy of illinois next spoke on the
mission OF our country What is this misslonf
To chase negroes, 10 60 illibustering, acquire
territory, and then convert it into slavery ;
No. 1t was to maintain the self.eyident
truths embodied in the Declaration OF indie.
pendence. Tho question is, will We maintain
them' lie would go to the very verge of the
Constitution on the slavery issue. lie would
stand by the bond, though hard one, but he
would say to the old jew, slavery, "you may