Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-19

shall respect our rights, so we viii respect
theirs also; but we will welcome the day
when in the providence of God they may have
a fight upon that question, upon their own
soil; ard if. as in the case of Missouri, they
win victory for free labor against slave
labor, the heavens shall resound with our
shouts of JOY. (Applause) And if the sue.
cessful contest in Missouri shall hereafter be
extended to other States, and if there the
cause of free labor triumphs, SO much the
better.
We are all interested in free labor. The
commercial man is interested Il is that
which treights his ship. They sail fruitless
voyages, and may as well sink beneath the
waves OF the sea as to sail from one point to
another point Of the globe, unless they are
laden with the products of the free industry
| of the country. The mechanic is interested
| in free labor. 1t is that by which he lives.
| The labor which is bought and sold operates
to destroy.
Where on the face of the earth, in Italy,
France, Germany, or England, can such
| scene be presented as that which meets the
| eye of the spectator from the dome of the
| Capitol on a neighboring eminence, as he
| looks riverward over the twenty or thirty
beautiful villages rising up, representing the
laboring man, and which he has himself
Ion trace its prosperity in the railways that
intersect every part of the country, and cross
| the lsthmus that connects the two continents
4 and brings together the shores of the Atlantic
| and Pacific Oceans. These are the evidences
of our prosperity. l have nothing to say of
the South, or of Southern Institutions of
labor, but if you go South you can see for
| yourselves what it is, and what must be the
contrast between that section and our own. Of
that have nothing to say but l ask you
again-it is the question of the age--are you
content chat these industrial interests of your
own happy portion of the country shall be neg
lected and paralyzed, and accept salts
faction the principle to which have referreds
Enthusiastic cries of no! no y Certainly
not II can never be.
Fellow Citizens-I am sometimes told that
this is State election-I am perfectly aware
of it (appause)-and l need nothing more to
satisfy me that it will be successful one for
our cause than the presence. in which l now
stand, (vehement eheering,) but have to say
to you, that you have an interest in great
questions like those to which l have referred,
and the best way to maintain thatsnterest is.
to stand stesdfastly by it, year by year, cleo
ton by election, beating your opponents
whenever and wherever you can. That is the
way in which you have accomplished your
gigantic industrial achievements. 1t is true
in politics as in commerce, that there is moth
ing gained by losing day, or a year, or in
surrendering a contest without being beaten.
daughter and applause.) Therefore it is,
fellow citizens, that standing before you, l
have felt myself justified in proclaiming my
views on questions concerning the national
government, as well as referring to those more
Immediately affecting u.s.
a marty is a mower II IL n novuer ,1ban u
is of age, and it is the better for keeping the
better for discipline and experience; and if
be party true TO itself and the cause for
which it is organized, it is wiser and stronger
the second year than it was the first. We or
ganlze for instance party like that of last
year. 1t gave the majestic compliment of
100000 votes to the gallant Fremont. IRE
newed shouts and applause.) When occasion
shall offer, it will repeat the compliment for
him or any other man. lYoices-.good
good that's sob But, in the meantime, our
opponents come forward in the blandest
tones imaginable, invite us to lay down our
power this year, because they say it Is of no
particular consequence to us, in regard to ma
tional issues. (Laughter.)
Now there is a time when the advice of an
enemy may be taken. 1t IS when you don't
know what to do yourselves daughter and
applause.) But l yet knew wise man
who understood his own duty and was deter
mined to do 1t, who would forego what his
conscience taught him, and l do not think
the people of Massachusetts will do it this
year. If we desire aud expect to control the
government under which we live, we must of
necessity hold the attention of our people
steadily to all subjects embraced by the gov
ernments, local and general one year by
another.
But do not intend to avoid the discus.
sion of issues interesting to us a people at
home. (Cheers.) l advocate here, as l do
in the general government, the responsibility
OF the government to the people, immediate,
direct, and absolute. l hear it said that gov
ernor is responsible only for two or three acts
out OF twelve or fifteen hundred passed by the
Legislature. daughter and applause,) which
by some accident he has the power ito defeat,
except by vote of two-thirds Of the Legisla-
ture. Now my idea of Governor, represent
ing such people as the people of Massaohu-
sets, is, that he has and ought to have some
political power, that he has the power, he
should have the responsibilities, and if he has
responsibilities, he should answer to the peo-
pie for what is not done. lie is a third pow
or III the government, and can, by assent or
dissent, control every act through which the
representatives of the people may express
their opinions, and which they may present to
him for approval 1fthere be fifteen hundred
acts passed by Legislature in a given year,
It is my opinion that the Governor is respon-
sible for fifteen hundred and une-the last be-
ing his own in which he shall signify to tn
Legislature whether the public service calls
for further action at their hands. (Applause.1
advocate, in regard to the affairs of our
state goyernment-as l have already in regard
to the affairs of our general governmental
strict, immediate, and absolute accountability
Tor the expenditures OF money, and such re-
duction OF expenditures, one year and and an |
other, IN such manner and to such an ex- |
tent, as to make the tax payer smile, even in |
these times. cloud laughter and applause |
The expenditure of 1900, 900 or 81, 4OO, 600 |
a year, is in my judgment public wrong 1t |
is wrong to the people who suffer the influ. |
enee of such unjustifable extravaganza. Gap. |
plause.)
With people like our own-intelligent |
beyond the people of some other States, with |
opportunities, through the press the common |
school, and through associations with each |
other, OF getting at an understanding of what |
is right and what is wrong what is expedient
and what is inexpedient--I think il a dis
credit to the people, that the Legislature of |
this Commonwealth should SIT six months
every year, to attend to the ordinary business
OF the state. think that speak it not with
out some experience, and with perfect will
lngness, II 1 shall be elected to take the re-
sponsibllity of that which l declare, that the /
legislative sessions Of this State ought not
to extend beyond sixty days, except on
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