Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-09
SPEECH OF non. HENRY WILSON,
YOUNG MEMS RATIFICATION CONVENTION IN
WORCESTER SEPT g. 1877

YOUNG MEMS RATIFICATION CONVENTION IN
WORCESTER, SEPT s, 1851.
Mr.. President and Young Men,--On the
first Tuesday of November last, an hundred
and eight thousand intelligent, patriotic, lib.
erty- loving Massachusetts men, Republicans
and Americans, recognizing the paramount is
sues growing out of the system of human
slavery in America, rallied around the ban
ner of equal, universal, and impartial liberty,
borne by JOHN G. FREMONT. Loud applause. }
On that day, Massachusetts placed herself,
where Massachusetts has right to be, i'll the
van Of free Commonwealth. On that day,
by fifty thousand majority, Massachusetts
placed herself front to front with the slave
power of the republic. The same standard
that then waved in victory over Massachu-
sets, the same flag upon which were written,
in characters of living light, the glorious mot
toes of liberty, is now being entrusted to the
hands of NATHANIEL P. BANKS. loud ap-
| plause.)
Why not, then, men of Massachusetts,, raj
| ly around them, as you rallied in 1856,
around the same old banner in the hands of
brave, true, and gallant leader VIII you
listen to the seductive voice of personal am
bitIon (Voices-"No,' "no.") VIII you
turn your backs upon your old fag-upon its
chosen leader Will you break from the
AduhS VI tLGSQOiu4 duu I6tItdbg dlulldlG anu MS
sociate with those who last autumn scoffed at
your principles, tnaligned your candidate, and
shouted with JOY when the black flag of slave
ry waved victorious in the beams OF the No.
vember sun? GVoices-"No,'' 'no.'')
Gentlemen, am not a young man. and l
do not feel that l am an old one. daughter
and applause.) l have had some little expe-
rience in the political affairs of Massachusetts
and the country. l know, gentlemen, the
men of Massachusetts of all parties l know
how they stand and where they stand who
are to be trusted upon this great question, and
who are not to be trusted Gentlemen, 1 had
no lot or part in bringing N. P. Banks before
Massachusetts as her candidate fo1 Governor
1 studiously kept myself aloof from that move.
ment. But he had been selected by the Re-
publcans of Massachusetts, with whom act,
and by the Americans of Massachusetts, who,
last wear, loving their American principles
with all the devotion Of their hearts, retired
from that convention at Philadelphia when
the nullifiers of the South dictated a platform
in the interests of slavery. went into the con-
vention at New York. and nominated with us
John C. Fremont. These men have also pre-
sented Nathaniel P Banks to their brethren
OF Massachusetts. am here TODAY to sup
mort this nomination made by the Repubii.
cans and Americans of Massachusetts who
last year sustained John G. Fremont cloud
applause
am here TODAY to avow that I am ready "a,
labor from now until the election If Novsm.
her next. to Mace him in the exeentive chair
of Massachusetts Renewed annIanse \ 7
am here to saw To Won and 10 deciare i nnon
INV conscience. that I have tbe fullest conf
dence that Nathaniel P. Ranks will he true
tn the cause of human liberty. (Fntbusias-
tic cbeerinq.1 Gentlemen. he is man who
has nromised little-he has PERFORMED Trncb
cloud applausel do not rropose. TODAY. 10
review or criticise his words I am here IN
sneak Of his DEEDS for human liberty. G,ond
annlause,7
There was time gentlemen. when the men
who in Massachusetts rallied around the old
banner of onnosition 70 slavery believed that
the cause would be promoted nv nlacino Rob-
ert RantouI and Charles Summer in the San.
ate of the United States / wish to saw to
YOU TODAY. that in that long contest of
months. that resulted in placing Charles
Sumner in the Senate Of the United States
no man was truer. none more devoted none
more confident than Nathaniel p, Banks.
Enthusiastic applause.l Gentlemen. less
than two years ago the Congress Of the United
States assembled. The House Of Representa-
tives had been chosen, under the uprising of
the populer sentiment ofthe North. and when
they assembled, they took Young man of