Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-24
New England.

Our fondest boast;
The sepulchre OF mighty dead,
| The Tuest hearts that ever bled,
| Who sleep on 0lorJ's brightest bed,
| farless host;
| NO SLAVE IS HERE-our unclaimed feet
Walk freely, as the waves that beat
| Our coast.
Our fathers crossed the oceans wave
| To seek tits shorej
| They left behind the coward slave
10 welter in his living grave.
with hearts unbent, and sprs brave,
| They sternly bore
| such tolls as meauer souls had queled
But souls Ike these, such tolls impelled
To soar.
Hail to the morn when first they stood
| On Bunkers height,
| And fearless, stemmed the invading flood
| And wrote our dearest rights ia blood,
And moved in ranks the hireng brood
| 10 desperate fight
| .! twas proud, exulting day,
| For even our fallen fortunes lay
In light.
| There is no other land like thee,
| No dearer shores
| And, rising from thy hardy stock,
Thy sons the tyrants frown asll mock,
| And SaYery's gaining chains unlock,
| Aud free the oppressed;
| ALL who the wreath of Freedom Irvine,
| Beneath the shadow of their vine
Are blessed.
| We love thy rude and rocky shore
| And here stand
| Let foreign navies hasten DER,
And on our heads their fury pour,
| And peal their eannons loudest roar,
| And storm our land;
| They still shall find, our lives are given
| To die for homeland leant on Heaven
| Oar hand.
The above patriotic and exceedingly beautiful
poetic effusion was especially adapted to be sung
al the Bunker Hill celebration, on Wednesday
last on the Inauguration of the statue of General
| Warren, But the references contained in it to
slavery were enough to prescribe it from being
read or sung on the occasion, and very poor ode
| by the pro-slavery attorney, George Lunt, was
substituted Perciyal's piece would have been
exceedingly inappropriate, indeed. to be repeated
in the presence of the author of the fugitive slave
law. Senator Mason could not then have gone
home to :" old Virginia and made to his constit-
uents favorable report of Massachusetts subser
viency, and Mr.. Winthrop would have shaken out
of his very shoes at hearing radical an effusion
as the above sung in the presence of so many of
his "beloved friends and old associates" from the
slave States.
What would Senator Mason and John P. Ken
nedy have thought at the reading on that occas.
ion of the following extract from the grafton de.
livered by General Warren, March G, 1775, at Bos-
ton, the anniversary of the Boston Massacre".-
4" That personal freedom is the natural Yaght
OF every man. and that property, or an exclusive
right to dispose of what he has honestly acquired
by his own labor, necessarily arises therefrom are
truths which common sense has placed beyond
the reach of contradiction. And no man or BODY
OF men can, without being guilty of fragrant in.
justice, claim right to dispose Of the persons or
acquisitions of any other man or body of men,
unless it can be proved that such right has aris-
en- from some compact between the parties, in
which 1t has been explicitly and freely granted
The Grafton throughout was in similar Yein
We think it exhibits sad degeneracy from the
spirit which animated our revolutionary sires, to
ind their descendants, when erecting monu-
ment or statIe to the memory of the foremost man
who distinguished himself and fell in defence of
his country's liberties, Bunker Hill, preierring
slave.driving speech, from the author of the
fugitive slave law to listening to such noble SEN
timents as are embodied in the speeches and ora
tions of the patriot hero whose deeds they were
assembled to commemorate. Inauguratng the
statueof General Warren in the way it was done
the other day, is ike performing the play Of Ham-
let, with the part of Hamlet left out.
DELEGATES TO THE STATE CoNvENr1oN.-
From Winchendon, ]. B. Harris and George
Brown
From Dudley, George N. Perry and Amasa
Davis. Substitutes, Ebenezer Davis and Rev. D
Dorchester.
From Leominster, Arthur Mechan and James
t Joslin. Substitutes. C. W. Carter and George
F. Coburn. The following resolution was
passed
ReSol0ed, That we not in favor of, nor shall
we feel bound to support, any candidates who
stand on any other than the Republican plat
form.
From Concord, William S. Robinson and Ad-
olson G. Fay.
From southbridge, Sylvester Dresser and Oil
yer Plympton. Substitutes, Lucian Marcy and
William Monroe.
From Grafton, William F. Sloeum and iona.
than D, Wheeler Substitutes, H. c. Greenwood
and r. E. Warren.
From Walpole, F. W. Bird and F. o. Lincoln.
From Waltham, N. Banks and S. P. EN-
erson.
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