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

Mr.. Stanton commenced by stating the great
issue of the campaign to be, the re-establshment
of the policy laid down in the Jeffersonian ordi-
nance of 1887, the power and duty of Congress to
prohibit slavery in the national territories Until
1885, this policy had invariably been pursued in or
ganzing governments for territories in which
slavery did not at the time exist. A still larger
downward step was taken in 1854, in repeating a
barrier against the extension of that curse which
had been set up in 1920. 1t was left for Pierce,
Douglas, &C., to reverse the doctrine established
by the logic of Jefferson, and Jay, of Webster,
and Marshall in favor of the power and duty of
Congress to inhbt slavery in the territories, and
to take the lead In legislation, to promote its
national domain, and for that end to remove all
restrictions standing in the way
Mr.. Stanton wenton in an able, argumentative,
and eloquent manner, to expose the iniquity of
the Nebraska bill conceived, as it was, in the
hypocritical guise of popular sovereignty,
while the political working of that bill had been
to violate every inherent popular right which it
purported to maintain; it deprving the settlers
not only of the right to choose their own exec
uLlNe anu OiuCeIS, Dub even tAeul
the poor privilege of electing their own Legis-
lature, which last work had been done for them
by ruffian marauders from a neighboring State.
The Nebraska bill, he said, had been passed,
feignedly, to ''quiet the country " on the slavery
question, but nothing had SO stirred up the polit
ical and moral elements to their profoundest
depths, as that nefariods act.
Mr.. Stanton proceeded to speak of the Cincin.
natl platform, and its recognition of the right of
SHAREHOLDERS to carry their slave property with
them, and hold it in the territories, in justly re-
prehensible terms. He spoke of the several can
dates in beftting phrases of Mr.. Buchanan, as
losing his identity in the platform he stands on
of Mr.. Fillmore, as the head of the Silver Grey
faction in New York, the most intensely pro-
slavery body of men in the free States and of
Col Fremont. as the embodiment of the rising
and progressive anti slavery spirit of the country.
The glorious consequences which would result to
the of Freedom, from his election he depict
ed in glowing and truthful colors. The conclu-
sion of Mr.. Stanton's speech was an impressive
and urgent call upon the friends of freedom to
come up to work, and do their whole duty in
the emergency, and to labor on in the benevolent
cause, until the contamination Of our efforts, when
the sun, in his course, shall not rise upon
master, nor set upon slave.
Mr. s. P. Hanscom, Secretary of the Kanzas
Commission, was then introduced, and he favored
the audience with some of the results of his ex-
perence aud observations of border rufianism,
not only in Missouri and Kanzas, but in Wash
ington city. His reference to the position of the
gallant Burlingame, since the humiliation, by
him, of the poltroon nephew of his uncle," was
most vociferously received.
Mr.. Hanscom gave graphic picture of Bor-
der Rutian, and said many ofthem, though ready
to rob on the highway, and sack and burn villa
ges, and destroy presses, gentlemen, com
pared with some men in Washington, who moved
in respectable society," and are recognized as
the makers of law They have been arrogant,
and nsultingly bold, until recently met and driv-
a TIE wall hS The s shd dng a Continued cheer
ing.l He has plucked the eagles plume from the
brow of Southern chivalry, and placed the white
feather in the cap of South Carolina TCheers ]
He said Mr.. Burlingame, in the generosity of his
nature, and under the advice of his friends, had
meant by himself was misinterpreted by the public.
His pride was pricked; he was goaded to do an
act which his better nature revolted at. He
withdrew his memorandum, left his speech to in
terpret ITSELF and held himself responsible to any
person taking exceptions to any part thereof, and
like the Roman youth who leaped into the gulf
of the former to save his country, he offered up
his life IN sava thu bonor &c Mossoobrsa+ts I
(Great and enthusiastic applause.)
Mr.. Hanscom gave an interesting and cheering
account of the prospects of Fremont and Dayton
in Pennsylvania and other States.
Mr.. Vim. S. Bailey, editor of the Newport (Ky
NeaoS, was the last speaker. Mr.. Bailey stated
some facts in regard to the state of the cause in
Kentucky and the difficulty and embarrassment
under which he labors, in the effort to publish a
freedom paper in a slave State.
Mr.. Bailey is now in Massachusetts, collecting
funds to procure new font of type, and to re-
deem his house and lot, which were sold to pay
the debts brought upon him by the incendiary s
torch about four years ago. Mr.. B. informs us
that his loss, caused by the fire, was over $4,000,
and that the purchase of new type and presses,
and the building of new printing house, fire.
proof,) so increased his indebtedness, that his
house and lot was sold by regular process of law,
to pay his debts. He has been prosecuted in va
rious ways by the pro slavery element of that
State, and every influence dsheartening to his
labors that could be brought against him, has
been strictly administered. Press after press has
been ariayed against him, until eight have risen
and fallen before him, and he now stands alone
in the city of Newport, without an opponent.-
Neither FIRE, persecution, nor the combined pens
of the slave power, have been able to crush him,
and his paper now rides out, encouraging an in
jured people to throw off the yoke of slavery and
proclaim freedom throughout the land, to all
the inhabitants thereof"
BY the exercise of his own labor, and that of
his ten children, (sx girls and four boys) he has
maintained his ground against the slavery propa-
ganda, and deserves the attention of freemen
throughout the land. He has succeeded in pay
ing part of his Indebtedness, and now only asks
$4,000 to restore him to his home, which is offered
him by rounding the money for which it was Sold
Let Massachusetts do her part in sustaining such
family, now in the sevesth gear of their toi,and
Kentucky will soon be free State, united with
the North in the great cause of human liberty
and equal rights.
AocIDENT-Mr. j. +. Williams, one of the ex-
press men on Fuller's line had one leg severely
wounded at the Station House Of the Norwich
Railroad Saturday afternoon. He was standing
on the steps of one of the cars of the train which