Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-13

Mr.. ALGBR's ORATIoN.--The refusal Of the
City Council of Boston to pass the usual vote Of
thanks to Mr. Alger, because of its merited re-
buke Of the Jtsgsakeyisn of Robert c. winthrop
and his coHfreres, on the occasion of the inaug-
uration at Bunker Hill, calls forth from all quar-
tiers the seyerest censuFes upon their course, and
Of general sympathy with MIR. Alger, in his
views. By their course, thousands will be led to
look into the matter, that otherwise would have
cared little or nothing about 1t, and thus the
ause Of freedom viii be the gamer BY their
hunkerism and mulshHess. A correspondent of
the Milford Journal, writing from Boston, says
"Ihe Aldermen have helped to stir up mess of
which 1t may be we'll said, the more you stir it,
the worse, &c.-(you know the rest) That
Bunker Hill affair can't bear examination a mo-
ment. II Alger showed bad taste, he neverthe-
less did push the bodkin to the tedder and vital
part hence the squirting and the swearing
The plan OF that celebration was laid in snob-
hishness and fuukeyism and il was carried ont
according TO the plan.
Ihe occasion and the object of the celebration
nave Kept men generally silent as to the manner
IN which 1t was got up and performed. It has
been an unpleasant matter to talk about But
now It will be quite different. People will be at
liberty to say just what they have all along felt
AND DO not hesitate to say that vast majority
less indignation, that the Bunker Hill Monu-
ment AsSociation should have shown SO little Of
the spirit OF which General Warren had so much:
50 little appreciation of their duty to the com
munitY around them SO little love of the senti.
ment that has made Bunker Hill what II is: IN
me, 50 little common sense, and so much snob-
bishness and servility. / heard, at the time. Of
an incident, that Is worth printing and reflects
credit upon one person at least. Mr. Winthrop
an actiye and efficient member Of the
board Of Otacers Tor Executive Committee
no matter OF which, of a certain leading
association in town. Before Senator MAJ
son left the city, Mr.. Winthrop sent a special
invitation to his fellow officers Tor committee
mem TO meet him at a certain time and place. to
lntfoauce them to the Senator. One oil the gen.
uemen called upon Mr.. Winthrop and told him
that ne could comply with his request to be pres.
ent as one of the officers of the society, and was
willing to be introduced to Mr.. Mason-but Re
9houa neither speak to him nor glue him his hand
A is needless 70 say that he was not pressed to
remain. f5 1900
The assiduity displayed by Mr. Winthrop, and
S.neEs q MS stamp, in paying court to Mr.
MASON, has not yet, by any means, been painted
- tuA length. But there has been enough enact.
60 before the public 70 justify the thing, which
M. Alger spoke out in his grafton. -
" am not an admirer Of Mr.. Alger, and know
nothing Of him personally. But he has grit, eyi.
asntly. He may be lacking in judgment, occa.
slonaiiy, but his opponents lack it still more
Read his otation."
N reference to this subject, we are glad to find
the following paragraph in the Traveller Of Sat
urday Mr.. AlseF win make the fur fy worse
than ever, when be takes the matter up again =
~" The silence Of Rev. Mr.. Alger, under the re.
peated assaults upon himself and his Grafton, Il
- be aecohntsd for By the fact that he is absent
~ the White Mountains. whittier he went di.
ectly after the fourth. He proposes to himself
on bis early return, some public defence of the
truth aud taste of his Grafton for he stands b.
its sgsygpord and sentiment"