Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-28
an animated manner, which much interested the


woman and she rejected him, and henever had
had the pluck to make anorher- f. Three cheers
for the woman" were called for and given amid
roars of laughier.1 He defended the Fremont
movement from the charge of sectionalism and
showed that the South, from the first, has been
false to the terms of partnership, into which
she entered with the North. Mr. Brown
made an ADaerican speech of the right stamp
He regarded the slavery question as the one great
issue of the day. (Cheers He acknowledged
that many other evils existed which needed at.
tention, but the great and glarirg evil which he
had spoken Of was the frstin order, and it should
be first met.
He said good American is opposed to oppres-
sion in any shape He, as a true American, felt
that it was right to leave the minor point, and
takehold of the major one-slavery to settle
that first. For if that is not settled, our liber-
ties are gone forever For the present he was
willing to hold Americanism in allegiance He
said he had been recently in New Hampshire,
and found the Democracy disheartened. He saw
a relative of the President, who had recently
seen him, and he reported that the President
felt glad that he was no. renominated, but very
indignat that he had been betrayed by his own
friends, He urged every one to go from here
and make ten converts each before election You
can do it. (Cres-We cannot find so many to
eonvert.) Thus discharging our whole duty,
said he, we shall march on to certain victory
Mr.. Brown, on taking his seat, was cheered as
our next Governor"
Hon. Charles A. Phelps Of Boston, Speaker of
the House, was next introduced. He rejoiced to
see this upheaving of the people for freedom and
equal rights all ouey the free States. The ques-
ton before the country almost too deep for
words it rose far above all ordinary questions Of
the day. 1t was no mere question of bank
tariff, but the destiny and future of great coun-
try, which now was placed before the people of
the North 1t was a cause for which it sweet
either to live or die, and was to be decided by a
contest in which whole strength would be
needed to prevail, and he could not but rejoice to
know that the whole North was alive and earnest
for the issue, and there could be no fears for the
result. In conclusion, the speaker thanked the
getters up of the Barbecue, for the good they had
done the cause by the way thay had carried it out
but would invite his hearers to another barbecue,
larger. grander barbecue-a national one, on
the fifth of November next-a Pennsylvania
buck will then be roasted whole, well basted and
done brown. All are invited. (Great laughter
and cheers.)
The Chairman then read despatch from Hon.
Henry Wilson at Washington, stating that only
his sense of duty to remain at his post, prevented
his presence at the meeting
Nine tremendous cheers were then given for
Hon. Henry Wilson.
Edward G. Parker, Esq., of Boston, an old line
Wing, was the next speaker. He regarded the
| platform of the Republican party as nearly iden-
teal to the Declaration of Independence. All
except those, who can see nothing in the great
Magma Charta of American liberty, but ''sound.
ing and glittering generalitiesl" can in that,
and in ourplatform. the great principes on which
our LID rites were founded and on which, if at
| all, they must be preserved. He held that we're
Webster, Clay, and other brilliant minds of for
mer years now on the carpet, they would be found
on the side of freedom. Even General Jackson,
on the stage, and should he again act as he did in
life, would not now be with those who keep the
name of Democrats. March next we shall place
another man of hickory frmness in the Presiden-
tia chair, who will set Alright all that is now con.
fusion and wrong.
On the call oil the Chairman nine cheers were
here given for the Hon. Arson Burlingame
Hon. E. c. Baker, President of the Senate,
next addressed the assembly in warm and ear
nest manner, exciting great degree of enthusi-
asm.
Hon. John 2. Goodrich, of Stockbridge, was
next called up, and made string campaign
speech, which was frequently and loudly cheered
1t was decidedly the most effective speech of the
1 day, good as the Others were. The speeches were
interspersed with frequent singing of Fremont
songs by Messrs. Trowbridge and Prever, of Bos-
| ton.
Charles G. Davis, Esq, of Plymouth, was then
called out, and made an eloquent speech. He
said that in the county from which he came, they
were almost to man for Fremont There were
no democrats there except Office holders. He
hadn't seen but one Democrat except office-hold-
ers in Plymouth County, for three months. He
addressed a few words to the Democrats, remind
ing them that acquescence in the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise was made the test of Mod
ern Democracy. The real question is, are you
for freedom or slavery? He commended this
question to every Democrat to ponder and well
consider, before he voted for Janice Buchanan
He also dwelt at some length upon the course of
Mr.. Fillmore and his friends, as being sectional
and closed by urging all to be in earnest, and
show their earnestness by meeting the question
firmly and mantully.
Thomas j. Marsh, Esq. of Waltham, the act
ing President, who filled that Office during the
afternoon, with great ability, then asked the
audience to give three cheers for his fellow towns
man, the Hon. N. p Banks Jr Six cheers were
given with hearty good will.
The meeting then, at quarter to six, adjourned
with nine rousing cheers for Fremont, Freedom,
and Victory.
During the afternoon, speaking was also going
on at the other stands, where immense crowds
were addressed by Messrs Haynes of Watham,
Moore and Buffum of Lynn, DR.. Kob and Mr.
Lenkauf, Germans, of Boston, King of Hopkin-
ton, S. I. Cobb of East Boston, and Rev. e.
Thompson of Walpole.
Numerous pic mic parties were also dispersed at
various points in the grove, where the Johns 4"
and 3" Jessies " of Freedom enjoyed themselves
to their hearts content
To convey some idea of the immense throng
who assembled at the grove, coming and going
by thousands by trains, hourly it may be men.
toned that the last train for Boston, which left
at7l2 o'clock, consisted of about thirty long