Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-04
Progress of the Peoples Cause-Fres
mont and Dayton.


mont and Dayton.
E. NJ. Thurston, formerly Secretary of the
Board Of Education, in Maine, and an active
Democrat, has returned from Kanzas, and comes
out strongly for the freedom of that territory, and
in favor of Fremont.
Twenty Democrats, who have never voted any,
thing but the regular ticket. in interior town
of Connecticut fibustier this fall for Fremont
DR. FRANKFORT, the mineralogist, always a Demo-
crat, has abandoned Buchanan and his platform
accepted the Presidency of the Mddletown Ere.
mont Club, and subscribed for one hundred copies
of Fremont campaign paper.
Hon. Ralph Cheney, four years ago Demo-
cratic State Senator in Connecticut, and now a
leading citizen of Madison, Wis, is among the
host who have abandoned Buchanan and declared
for Fremont. The Observation-Disclosures for May
or of the same city, and other men of influence
there have also left the pro slavery party, and are
stumping the State for Fremont.
The Louisville Courier, pro slavery, Buchan-
an print, has the following -
"W We have met, within day or two past,
several of our leading merchants, Just return
ed from the eastern cities-all of them ram
pant Know Nothings, and whose opinions as
to the real prospects ofthe political contest we
have sought to learn. They are unanimous
in expressing very decided apprehension of
the election OF Fremont. His popularity, COM
bined with the intense fanatical feeling of the
anti slavery people, famed and increased by
disturbances at Washington and elsewhere,
are sweeping the entire North-there is an en-
tire revolution of parties, and the success of
the Black Republican nominees is considered
certainty by many persons of different polit-
ical faith and extensive intelligence"
1t also says that Mr.. Fillmore's prospects in
the North are entirely hopeless"
The Vinceunes (Ia.) Gazette. the Maunh
Chunk ia Gazette the Plymouth Qa.) Banner,
and the Philadelphia Daily TIM s, have all haul
ed down the Fillmore flag and run up the FIRE.
mont flag. There is but one ofthe many German
newspapers in Ohio which still adheres to Blu.
chanan, all the rsst go for the Pathfinder
Alexander Kayser, one of the leading Demo-
Gratis, and most influential Germans of Missouri,
has come out in stirring letter to his fellow Ger
mans, in favor of John C. Fremont. He says =
g. confess l am SO constituted that the I'M
punished outrage on Mr.. Sumner has more
deeply shaken my faith in the Democracy of
L.,
an old and true Democrat of sixteen years
standing. as a late Pierce elector, would re-
specially request MIR. Buchanan to make
known his sentiments on parliamentary cudg-
cling, and whether free and enlightened
America is to relinquish the glorious emblem
of the stars and stripes, for an emblazonry of
clubs and slung Shots
TRIBUTE FROM DRMocRAT-In the debate
on the compromise measures of 1885, in the Uni.
ted States Senate, Hon. Isaac Walker, Demo.
cratic senator from Wisconsin, then paid the fol.
lowing eloquent tribute to Fremont -
What would the senator (Mr. Downs of
La } haves Would he have the elastic,
bounding activity of the North to await the
slow and sluggish movemements of the slave
labor machinery OF the South, in settling the
territoriesf Does he expect thiss If So
mark my words-he will expect IN vain, until
the last clod has fallen upon the last coffin of
the last slave whose servile root Imprints the
southern soil. 1t will not wait You cannot
cham the active energtes of the North. You
COULD NOT CHAIN THAT OF FREMONT, He
did nos wait 10 provide transportation for
slaves: but calling about him his hardy coun.
trymen, he braved the perils of want, hunger,
thirst, and mountain SHOWS; nor was he ap.
paiied when death itself strewed victims on his
PAIN AAs hoole I0ftlIuUe ana energy have
been, as they deserved. rewarded by an active,
enterprising people. Though of the sunny
South, he possessed the USEFUL DARING AND
cHAINLEss SOUL OF THE NORTH. He broke
the coils that bound him 10 the corpse of slave.
ry."
Here is Democratic endorsement of the fitness
of Col. Frdmont to occupy the Presidential chair
majority Of the people of the United States will
say amen to it, in November next
@rhomas G. Fl tt, old line Wing United States
snaor from Maryland, has attached himself to
the Cincinnati platform and its candidates. He
advises all the pro-saverY Wings to do the same.
It is appropriate they should.
At Buchanan ratification meeting, in Law.
renee, this State. the postmaster said that Sum.
"eT dad not receiUe the hands of Brooks thou
'0"ath part Of the f'unishnsent he deserved! This
man ought to be promoted. He has talents be-
yond the postmastership of petty Massacbusett.
city.