Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-27

est Of mankind, and stand alone, so long as truth
be on my side; let truth be against me- and
though have the world TO back me, am power
less. We alttalk Of believing this, but there is
not one in thousand who believe it for one hour
out of twenty four Mr. May has told us OF that
convention which talked so bravely in this hall.
twelve years ago, about dissolving the Union.
have seen old Faneuil Hall echo, yeare ago, in
response to sentiments as revolutionary as those
have uttered to-day. The difference be
tween US is, then those sentiments did
not mean any thing; now they do. Why
was it, that that band Of energetic and
intellectual men, meeting here, and threatening
SO bravely, effected nothing Every one OF them
drew glittering blade, and waved it until the
whole air seemed 10 fash with enthusiastic resu~
luton, why didn't it come to something Sim
ply because every man of them had neat little
scabbord BY his side, and when he had done way
ing his blade for popular effect he tucked it back
again. and there it has rested ever since. You
know what stir was made when Charles Allen,
in lo4S, undertook to take his out and air it lit
tie the others seemed to have all rusted in. But
give me convention of ten men. who have drawn
the sword for thu right, and Mroucn aaoay the
scabbafd, and l will reyoluiunize the world
cloud appanse)
You say, we traitors fanatics That is
what we came here to be. That is a clear com
pliment. You say we are weak 'powerless'
Are WEI Give us five years, and let us see You
say y, they come together and try to get up
great flame; but some are old lints that won't
strike fire, and some are young steel, that won't
give out sparks the finder is little damp, and
if we only throw little more water upon it, they
won't get any fire.. Well the steel may be bad
and the flint useless, perhaps; all we ask is open
the doors OF your powder magazine, and let US
try. Will you doit?
tell you, friends and fellow citizens, that there
are men on this platform, to whom these thoughts
that are new to many of us to-day, have been the
deliberate purpose of years, and there are other
men here, who have embraced them so earnestly,
that in their hearts the work Of years has been
done in day. How many years is it since, in
the city of Boston, the action of half-a dozen
men lined the streets with bayonets from Court
Square to Long Wharf, and brought the country
to the very verge OF civil war? Unprepared, I'M
premedtated, unpractised, half.a.dozen men did
that; and there has nos been fugitive slave case
in BoStun since. Give us another one another
chance to come face to- face with the United
States government, on such an occasion as that
and see II we have not learned something by the
failure. (Applause)
Mr.. Chairman the difficulty that l find in our
operations thus far is, that all the talk in the
newspapers, and all the bluster in Washington
and out OF 1t, dies away before we have chance
to learn whether it means anything. Talk of
treason Why, l have been trying for ten years
to get the opportunity to commit treason, and
have not found it yet. What brings us here to-
day, is the hope that by the blessing of Provi-
dence, as things are getting further on, some
where or other, here at Boston, in Kanzas or
at Washington, there may be an opening by which
we may come face to face with this slave power,
which calls itself government and see if its
threats mean anything.
The reason why the newspapers do not respect
this movement is, that they have got out of the
habit OF respecting any movement. They know
Their politics don't mean anything they suspect
other men mean no more They know thew wage
war only on paper; they do not know that these
men, non~resistants though some of them are, are
waglng war that may cost mems lives. 1t is an
easy thing to fight in newspapers-to go abroad in
the streets armed only with corrected proof sheet
land we have lately had some pIoofhere in Wor-
cester that needed a great deal of correcting
but when man is in the position of that Portu-
guese soldier at the battle of Goa, bearing bar
rel Of gunpowder in his arms, and lighted torch
In his teeth and crying out at the same time
Make way make way | carry with me the
lives of thousand men';-when men like Garri-
son and Phillips are engaged in such a duty, do
you suppose they will be frightened when Henry
Wilson sends on from Washington, post-haste,
ana says they had better keep still, they will
damage the anti -slayery cause? (Applause.)
No sir; disunion is not desire, merely; it is
destiny. 1t is in vain to talk of difficulties in
efecting the process The laws of human nature
are taking care of those difficulties very rapidly.
II our calculations are correct, it will be
easier to hasten thar to postpone it
The geographical line of division, about which
some OF our correspondents are so anxious, will
determine itself as soon are ready for it.
We used to call Southern Iowa the darkest spot
in the free States. Last Summer I went along
the borders of that State, and laid my hand upon
the earth, everywhere the soil was hot, and hot
ter with the suppressed volcano. 1 tell you, let
another war come in Kanzas, and no power on
earth can prevent border war between Missouri
and Iowa. The line will be drawn for US soon
enough by the passions of men. The calm de-
liberatons of conventions like these only prepare
the way for it. II we cannot bring it about
peaceably it will come forcibly, that is all The
great forces of nature are sufficient. The vast
antagonistc powers are brought into collision the
earthquake comes-and all we disunionists say is,
If it is coming, in Gods name let it come
quickly (Applause.l