Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-09-10
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THuRsDAY, sEPT. 10. Isa7.
Uuion or the Frssnds OF Freedom.

mon 81 AMb NNED40A VI
The prospect Of the union of all the elements
of opposition 20 the slave power, in this Com
monwealth, in one common organization, never
looked so favorable as it does today. The speech
Of Mr.. Banks, on Tuesday, has operated Ike
seventy.four FOUNDER in demolishing all the snow
Of opposition which was contemplated against
his nomination, either from the Americans or the
"straisht" Republicans. Hereafter, if prudent
and coneiliatory policy is pursued, no obstacle
need be apprehended against the accomplishment
of the great desideratum, the desire to bring
about which state of things has occupied the
thoughts and hopes Of the friends offreedOm all
over the Commonwealth for years.
The incentives to such union we'll stated,
in their relations to similar struggles in other
States, in the following extract fsom the speech
of John L. Swift, Esq, of Boston, in the Young
Mems Convention on Tuesday;
look away from my native State; look to
the banks of the beautiful Ohio, and see with
in the boundaries of that State. which forms SO
fair part of the Empire OF the WesF. that old
champion Of our principles, Salmon r Chase,
rearing aloft the banner under which we love to
6ohf and for the same cause that has brought US
together and because believe that it is of more
value to ourselves and our principles to help him
in the pending contest than to vote for man
because he vetoed bill providing for the publica-
ton Of certain matters in the Boston papers,
shall give Nathaniel P. Banks my vote. look
toward that great central State where God seems
TO have spread almost the charms Of Paradise,
and there see David Wilmot contending against
the hosts of conservatism and hunkeTlsm, and
because | believe it is more important to assist
him IN that struggle for freedom in Pennsylva-
MIA than il is to vote for man because he vetoed
the Idiotic Appropriation Bill, shall give my
vote for Nathaniel P. Banks the next Govern
or Of Massachusetts.
look to the far West, where CLEAN the SHOWS
Of the Russian possessions, where the lordly
Mississippi oozes out from the SHOWS ofthe North,
and there l see the people organizing a new
State under the principles of freedom, and be-
cause believe that it is more important that our
example should be given to encourage che people
Of Minnesota to keep their fair Territory from
the curse Of slavery, than it is to vote for a man
because he vetoed the Hoosac Tunnel Bill-for
that reason shall give my vote for Natnaniel 7.
Banks. I look further to the West, and there l
see, with sad eyes, the heroic people of kanzas-
need not tell you what they have passed through
--ravished by INVASION subiugated by military
despotisn, deprived Of the common boon allowed
to the worst victims of tyranny-l see them ami
mated by the courage Of despair, still swearing
by their affairs and their fires, that human slavery
shall never stain that garden of the world; and
because believe that it will be better Tor those
who are to come alter US to sustain the people OF
Kanzas, than it will be to vote for man because
he vetoed bill that prospectivey looked to the
aiding and assisting Of that people-ior that rea-
son, if for no other, shall vote for Nathaniel P.
Banks. [Loud cheers.
Now, fellow citizens, our candidate appealed to
the young men of the State, and this is our re-
Spouse. Old Worcester filed with the best blood
of the Commonwealth, is our response to his APP
peal to u.s. And it is fitting that we should come
up as young men. We have seen the attempt
made to sunder what God Joined together, during
the last campaign, and we have resolved that it
shall not be done, and we have come up as young
men, like the waves of the sea, with "Ironsdes"
for our hatchery, to shout for Banks and vcto-
ry. I say, all hail to that word Let the farm.
ers of Barnstsble hear it in the rustling of their
harvest corn! Let the shuttles sing it as they
fly through the looms of Lowell Let it ring on
the ltp.stones Of old Plymouth county! Let it
whistle through the rigging Of the fishing smacks
of Essex! IGreat cheering. There is music in
the name, and a propriety in its application
That name stood in English history for the most
invincible band that fought under the banners Of
Cromwell and in American history, that old fri
gate that never struck its flag in the face of an
enemy. comes down to US with the name of
"Ironsides."