Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-19
LOCAL NEWS
GRAND BANKS RALLY At THE CITY
HALL
First Meeting of abe Worcester Iron
sides Club.
GREAT oUTPoURTNa or TIE PEOPLE.

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The first regular meeting Of the Worcester
Irousdes Club, was held at the City Hall, on
Saturday evening last, 10 hear addresses from
those distinguished champions of the cause,
Hon. Henry Wilson, Of the U. S. Senate, and
Hon. Charles A Phelps, Speaker of the Massa.
chusetts House of Representatives. Long be.
fore the hour of calling to ORDER and without the
aid Of band of music, (Which of itself is suffi-
cient to draw an audience large as that convened
by the Gardner on Friday evening, to hear
Messrs. Baker and Brewster,) the hall was filled
to o7erhowing, and every seat wasioccuped, and
the aisles and doorway crowded.
AT IA to O'Clock. the speakers made their
entrance TO the Hall through the crowd, escorted
by the officers OF the Club. and were welcomed
as they made their way to the platform, with the
greatest enthusiasm.
After the adoption of series of resolutions
offered by Chas. E. Stevens, Esq, the President
of the Club, Austin L. Rogers, Esq, introduced
to the meeting the Hon. Charles a. Phelps.
Mr.. Phelps, on rising to address the audience,
was greeted with the liveliest demonstrations of
applause, and proceeded to deliver one of the
most effective and eloquent political addresses
to which we remember to have listened. It
was model campaign speech, both in its Just
exposition of the position occupied by Mr. Banks
in this contest, and in its showing up of the
shallow pretences and invalid claims of Henry J.
Gardner to a reelection, founded especially on
the hue and cry set up by the friends of the lat
ter, of retrenchment" in expenditures, his We.
toes, &c. Want of space alone, ESQ much room
being devoted this morning to the publication of
the admirable speech of Mr.. Banks at Faneuil
Hau) prevents our intended abstract of portion
of Mr. PhelPs's excellent and capital speech, 1t
was eminently conclusive and satisfactory.
When Mr.. Phelps had concluded, the Hon
Henry Wilson was introduced and was received
with the most unbounded enthusiasm, which
showed the confidence reposed by the people in
their distinguished Senator, the noble colleaRe of
the incompatible SUMNER. Senator Wilson'S
speech on this occasion was such an one as he
always makes, able, conclusive, practical, and to
the purpose; and was received with oft repeated
plaudits of appreciation. We had intended Civ
ing this morning, an abstract of his remarks,
particularly that portion in which Senator Will
son refuted the false and malicious statement,
which originated and has been so often repeated
in the columns of the Bay State, and copied into
other Democratic papers, charging him with hay
ing, while in his late visit to Kansas counselled
Gov. Robinson, Col Lane, and the other Free
State men, to let the October elections 90 BY de.
fault for the sake of using that result for capital
in the next presidential election But lack of room
obliges us to defer this to another day, when
we shall give Senator Wilson's remarks on this
point in full, showing that he never gave any
such counsel as alleged, but on the contrary,
while in Kansas, that he uniformly on every oe.
casion, urged the Free State men to an entirely
opposite policy of action, to go into that election
and do all they could to secure free State tri.
umph at the polls.
When Senator Wilson had concluded his
speech, the meeting adjourned at ten o'clock,
amid rousing cheers for Mr.. Banks, after the
announcement from the chair that the next reg
ular meeting Of the Ironsides Club would be on
Saturday evening next, probably at Mechanics
Hall, to hear an address from Hon. Arson Bur-
lingame.