Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-11

Meeting at Fitchburg, was received on Friday
morning.
SENATE CHAMBER, Aug. 4, 1856.
GEO. H. HoYT, Esq.
Dear Sir Your very kind note, inviting
me to attend 'sThe Convention of the Young
Men of Massachusetts, to be holden at Fitch
burg, on Thursday, the It'll Of August has
been received. Nothing would give me more
pleasure thar to meet tie young men of the
old Bay State in council on that day, and to
unite my voice with thelis in the endorsement
of the platform of principles and the candi-
dates presented to the country by the Peoples
Convention, assembled in Philadelphia on the
18th of June last, but l find 1t impossible to
leave my post of duty here at this tlme as
the important business presses upon US in the
closing hours of the session.
The enforced absence of my colleague,
whose seat was never vacant for single day
before-has now been vacant seventy-fve
days, imposes upon me additional duties. AS
his voice was never silent when liberty was in
peril. and his vote never wanting when the
interests of his State were i'll issue, am sure
the young men, who will assemble in Con-
vention on the 18th inst, will prefer that
should remain at my post of duty here, and
endeavor to perform the additional duties i'm
posed upon me by the bludgeon of Slavery by
the hand of South Carolina.
trust, my dear sir, that the young men Of
our Commonwealth, in this critical moment,
which is to decide the policy of the Republic,
perhaps for years, will act with all the unsen-
ish zeal and generous magnanimity of youth.
l.. voung man Of Massachusetts re-
snlye, that if three steps are to be taken to
complete the union Of all the friends Of free
Kanzas, that he will take two OF them, and
let him act up to this resolution All that is
wanting to win glorious victory to pros
trate forever in America the slave power, and
enthrone the principles of the ordinance of
1887 in the National Government, is union
among the people of the free States who hate
slavery and love liberty. The young men of
Massachusetts, should show to their friends in
other States that they have closed their ranks,
that they mean to make good the declaration
of Louis Kossuth, that "Yictory clings to
Unity"
The hopes of the slavery propaganda rest
wholly upon the Fillmore diversion which
they hope is to divide the North and thus
give them four years more of power. The Ad-
ministration has hunted down for months
Deputy Postmasters and even mechanics and
laboring men, for supposed sympathy with
Americanism. Now these men fawn upon
men they have prescribed, hoping to use them
to defeat the friends of Free Territory. l re-
greet to say that they find men with American
ism upon their lips-but slavery extension in
their hearts-not unwilling to be their instru-
ments. Only few days ago, a leading South
American, member of the Convention that
nominated Mr.. Fillmore, and placed him up
on pro.slavery platform, avowed TO a leading
supporter Of Mr.. Buchanan in the House, that
sail the 0otes QiUen to Mr.. Fillmore IN the free
States increased Mr.. Baekanaa's chances" 1t
is indeed sad to see men in tile free States
thus deuded by the artful cunning of the
slave propagandists into the indirect support
OF their unhallowed schemes for the extension
OF slavery over the continent. | hope, at
least the young men-the laboring nen--of
Massachusetts,, whose hopes and interests are
involved in the struggle for free Kanzas, will
not be deluded by the tactics of the leaders of
the slave power, or deceived by the weakness
OF respectable gentlemen, who write letters of
coincidence to each other over the present cri-
Sis, the philosophy Of which they do not COM
prehend, and the Issues of, which they have
not the nerve to meet.
Already the public press teens with the old
catch phrases about the dissolution of the
Union. The Halls of Congress echo with i'm
potent threats to dissolve the Union, If Col.
John G. Fremont is elected by the American
people, Within few days, leading Sena-
tor from the South, who was ready in l849 to
'tet aiscord reign .torerer," has declared, in
letter, that ''the election Of Fremont aoouid be
the end Of the Union, and ought to be-" Mr.
Fillmore, fresh from his foreign tour, is ready
to defend these threats against the govern
ment, for he declared, that the South would
be justified in dissolving the Union, If Col.
Fremont should be chosen. This declaration
OF candidate for the Presidency should meet
the stern condemnation of every Union loving
citizen of the United States, North and South.
The man who would utter such a sentiment,
"has,' in the language of John Quincy Adj
ans, "bm one more step 10 take, and that Is
natural and easy one--sjoin the enemies of tie
Union IN destroying IT,
hope the young men of Massachusetts
young mon who cherish the glorious words of
Daniel Webster, "Liberty and U1tion--aow
and toreUer--Ono and iiSepar05ie," will rebuke
these tratorous threats, come they from
Southern secessonisls or Northern services,
sustain "Liberty and Unioa," by placing in
the Presidential chair John @. Fremont, who
has taken the Declaration of Independence,
and the Constitution OF the United States as
his political chart, and who will lead his
countrymen, if need be- to the maintenance
OF the declaration of Andrew Jackson, "1He
Onion--H must be prescyDod," with the same
heroic devotion he displayed with his little
band Of explorers amid the SHOWS of the
Rocky Mountains.
Yours truly, IL. WILSON.