Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-14
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TUESDAY, JULY IA, 1857.


his coadiutors in the Inauguration ceremonies oil
June IL last, was one Of the most humiliatins
speetacles ever witnessed. In what fawning
and syeophantic manner did Mr.. Winthrop crawl
upon his belly, at the feet Of the slave power
and 90 out of his way to exhibit his compliment
ary Aunkeyism' toward the author of the Fugi-
tive Slave Law, who disgraced the sacred soil of
Bunker Hill by his presence, on that occasion
the latter seizing the opportunity to lecture the
people of Massachusetts, upon their duties under
the Constitution of the United States, toward
her sister States of the South"l
Senator Mason OF Virginia said, among other
like slaye-dEiEing stuff
al invoke, here on Bunker Hill, coming from
nay own honored State in the far Soulful in
woke of you all, that you shall require OF those
who represent you, that they administer the gov
eminent as it was formed by our fathers, under
the Constitution, and not otherwise | would
ask the spirit of that patriot who has departed
from us--if he can look down again upon the
earth which he once honored-to inspire you all
with that feeling which would require that the
government should be administered under the
Constitution, in honor and in good faith"
Thus did the originator of that barbarous and
inhuman enactment, the Fugitive Slave Law,
seize the occasion Of the Inauguration of astatue
to General Warren, to lecture the freedom-loving
people Of Massachusetts on their duty to permit
without molestation, the soil of the old Bay
State to be made hunting ground for the pant
ing fugitive from Southern despOtism, and the
obligation we under, according to has under
standing of the requirements of the Constitution,
to join in the chase with slavery's bloodhOunds,
over the graves of our revolutionary ancestors,
and on the hallowed soil of Bunker Hill ITSELF il
called upon so to do in order to return some
Shadrach, Sims, Burns, William and Ellen
Crafts or others of our colored brethren, into the
woes of worse than heathenish bondage, with
out trial before legal tribunal. and the mere
ipse aizt OF slave commissioner, bribed to de-
eide in favor of slavery.
The,Rev. Mr.. Alger, in the following para
graph in his excellent Fourth of July grafton at
Boston, which makes the hunkers vince SO ter.
ribly, gives vivid picture Of the hunkeyism ex-
hibited on Bunker Hill on the 18th ut.
'sWhen we are lifting our marble martyr to his
niche on Bunker Hill, the STAKEHOLDER VINO forced
the Fugitive Slave Bill down threats, is in
troduced, with complimentary funkeyism in the
very shadow of the awful place, and we listen 10
his haughty-toned commonplace with respectful
patience; they will not permit harmless pri
vate abolitonist, known to be such, to enter one
Of their villages, except at the imminent risk of
outrage and death; and VIGOROUSLY there is
hardly slaveholding community in the country
where word in public on this subject will not
raise mob to hang the speaker to the nearest
tee
The Newburyport Herald, which has always
been noted for its heightened conservatism on the
''agitating" questions of the day. says, in refer
ence to this matter
q 1t is true, Mr. Alger says, that Senator
Mason was introduced with complimentary
fnnkeysm; ) for everybody must hold that opin-
ion. when consider how careful thew 1.-THE
managers of the celebration were to keep back
the Senator and Representatives of Massachu-
sets, and fawned about and fattered the Virgin
ian who had especially and Intentionally insulted
Massachusetts, By saying in the Senate, Of
CHARLES SUMNER with whose political opin-
ions we have nothing to do, but who is still the
true representative Of Massachusetts) as fol-
lows"
The Herald then quotes the following extract
from the speech OF Senator Mason, in allusion 10
the honored Senator who is the pride and boast
Of his constituents, and who, more than all other
men, a. this crisis, represents the views, feelings,
and principles, Of Massachusetts, in out Of the
national councils:
"Tse necessities Of our political position bring
us into relations and associations which, beyond
the walls OF this chamber, we are enabled to
avoid associates here aoose presence elsewhere Is
diSbonor, and the touch of aOhose hand is disgrace
:" must listen, because it is necessity of my
position under common government, to recog
nize an equal, politically, one, whom to SCI
elsewhere Is to shsns and despise"
It was to introduce the author Of such express
ions as these to the constituents of the honoret
Representative of Massachusetts, in the nationa
councils, thus malgned, who has been reelected
to his post for another term of six years, by tn,
almost unanimous vote of the Legislature of hi
State that Robert C. Winthrop condescended
upon that occasion, to get down upon all four
aud perform so mental service to that distin
guished embodiment Of the slavery propagand
lists and slaTe-drivers of the South. Plainly, il
reward for so marked an act of humiliation be
fo7e the slave power, Mr.. Winthrop should bt
entitled TO the Gubernatorial nomination by tn,
proposed bunker coalition in this State, should
Gov. Gardner surrender his present claims fol
that honor.
As an act of justice, in this connection, we give
the following extract from the Inauguration
speech of Hon. Edward Everett, which exhibits
that distinguished gentleman in wide contrast
with Mr.. Winthrop and other speakers on the oc-
casion. Right thankful are we that Mr.. Everett
was so far truthful to the spirit of the occasion
which called for the erection of a statue to Gen.
Warren, as to uttera paragraph bearing such no.
bic testimony to the merits of class of revolu.
tionary patriots and heroes, whom the Supreme
Court ofthe United States, through Chief Justice
fancy, have recently pronounced to possess no
rights which white men are bound to respect
Said Mr. Everett -
81 Nor let it be thought, sir, that in erecting
she statue Of General Joseph Warren, and be.
slowing the honOrs Of this day exclusively upon
him, we forget the services OF the brave men, of
whatever rank, who partook, with like courage
and patriotic devotion, the perils of the ever
memorable 18th June. l775; whether with him
they gave their lives to the country, or survived
Tor other fields of danger and other calls Of duty
To honor, without attempting to enumerate or
compare their names--tO mark to the latest gen.
GRAFTON the spot where they stood side BY side
through the hye-long hours of that anxious toll
some night and that tremendous day-and brayed
IN their most terrible form, and most Of them for
the nrst time, the perils Of the batte-is the OBJ
lect OF the time-defyng work, which crowns the
" ~ nil on which we stand Ii commemorative M
individual man or State. It stands indeed an Tho
soil Of Massachusetts, where the hattie was
fought tut there it stands equally for Connecti.
x cnt, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. ana tbe
younger sisters Of the New England familv vey.
mont, and Maine, whose troops shared win onrs
the dangers and the honors of the day Itstandc
I'D. for Prescott and warren, but not less far Pnt
nam, and Stark, and Green. No name adorn,
the shaft; but ages hence, though our alphabet
may become as obscure as those which cover tbs
monuments Of Nineyah and Babylon, its unin
scribed BaFface ION which monarchs might b.
L. --ax.. 49, A.