Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21
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TUEspAY, JULY d. Is57.


hoh the ONCE OF the boston Dee, OF IeeN. 4ui.
Alger's Fourth of July Grafton, at Faneuil Hall,
being confident that nothing could be more &C.
ceptable to our readers, than the bold and truth
full defence of himself and his Grafton from the
attacks OF the hunkers, which the reverend gen
tleman has given in this document. Mr. Alger
says he was absent among the mountains Of
New Hampshire for a week after the fourth OF
July, and knew not what turmoil had been raised
over his late Grafton, but that the bitter at
tacks It had drawn forth did not disturb his en-.
joyment Of the charm and peace Of nature there
But the abuse heaped on him by an INSCRIPTIONS
press has now become matter Of notoriety and
in yielding to many requests for authorized
pamphlet edition Of the Grafton, few predatory
remarks viii be appropriate" Hear aim;
II was certainly surprised to find that the dete
rioration of sentiment and the inversion of prn
cple IN our country had gone so far that ali ora
ton strictly adapted Tor a celebration of the De-
claEation Of Independence and the legitimate
institutions of the republic, should be unfit for
the Fourth of July, and should prove so distate
full to men who stand high in the community
How far we must have drifted from the principles
which the country publicly processes, when
Fourth of July grafton, in order to be ualatable
aud to win thanks, must be filed with subser-
yieEey to slavery, and with praise or silence to-
wards the nefarious acts Of corrupt administla
ton There men, it seems, by whom an ora
ton, ct to be delivered on the Fourth of July
canuotbe listened to with comfort. Is the fault
IN the Truth, in the utterance of it, or in the men
whose vice and dishonor it smites? E.
To retort the SATIRE falsehood and insult with
which some Of the newspaper attacks IN my ora.
tion are filed, would not be difficult, though it
would be tedious; but the scurrous spirit of
wounded hatred which they betray is beneath the
dignity, as it is contrary to the principles, of
Christian man. To the high minded lovers OF
right, freedom, and humanity, it would be sufH-
Gent reply to those articles 10 state the names OF
the papers in which they were published. What
slight force they have, there is due to their
anonymousness. II the authors names were APP
pended, in most instances they would serve as
discharging conductors, Immediately emptying
the sentences of influence
A person asked to deliver grafton on the
Fourth of July may accept the invitation as Of
feling opportunity either for mere self-display
and selt-advancement or for the utterance of
thoughts and sentiments which he believes to be
true and useful. Had the former been my aim,
l should have launched into an indiscriminate
glorihcation of the country, otice'holding par
tizans understanding demag ogues, slavery, and
ALL The latter being my motive, tried to praise
WHAT'S worthy in the country, censure what is
VICIOUS, recommend what is right, and warn
against what is wrong and ominous. 1t is for
straightforward fulflment of this purpose that
have been so harshly censured Knowing that
have done but my duty, the attacks are harmless
and welcome, and should be, even were they
thousand times as numerous and bitter.
One journal, with characteristic deeency, and
with characteristic manliness, insnuates thatmy
motive IN writing the GRAFTON was a pecunlary
one, and insnuates it anonymously. Let us
have the whole hundred dollars worth, it cries.
That paper is hereby informed that the city gov.
eminent OF Boston do not pay their Fourth of
July orators anything for the three or four weeks
laborrequired of them to prepare for those &C.
casions. In other places such performances are
paid for; but iudicious economy is exercised
here. The reward of the orator here is either in
having earned the approval Of his own conscience
by u%tering patriotic counsels, or in receiving
official vote of thanks from the city authorities.
The former is amply sufficient But it Is rather
hard to attempt to deprive the speaker of both.
Mr.. Wightman said, in reported debate Of
the Board of Aldermen, The orator was invited
TO deliver address carrying out the views of the
Declaration of independence The sequel shows
that was not invited to do any such thing. For
il was precisely that which did. 0, it is sick
ening to hear men eulegize the Declaration Of
Independence, while they tramplng its pro-
positions under their feet; to hear men scream
for liberty and the rights Of man in sonorous
phrases, while in spirit and deed they scoff the
reality; to hear demagogues talk Of patriotism,
while their whole conduct proves that their high
est idea of serving the country is te fawn on the
ruling party for the sake of getting support
from the national treasury
1t is easy on the Fourth of July to praise the
dead heroes Of q past age, and magnify their
whiteRed the sepulchres of the prophets; but it
is nobler to breathe their spirit emulate their
conservation to the great cause of justice
and freedom, and SO to re-enact their parts amidst
the altered emergencies the present age.
1t is easy, on the fourth of July. to indulge in
boasiful generalities which have been in all mems
mouths, and to please the majority with selfish
batteries which need no thought and courage
but it is nobiertU grapple with the subjects be-
longing to the occasion, and to utter the copyic-
tons which are the result of independent refec-
ton. The only defence of my grafton which re-
spectacle minds will ask, is that in the spirit of
the day, in full harmony with the memories ofthe
Revolution, and the genuine principles of the re-
public, expressed those views which, as a Chris
tian and patriot believed to be true and need
fui for the country, and which felt bound in
honor TO express. That is defence enough.
have been abused, repeatedly and foully, for
calling men who stand high in the community
fnnkeys. 1t is falsehood, a mean attempt 10
awaken prejudice and fasten odium The writer
who speaks of my 'ungentlemanly SANDER of Mr..
winthrop ought to be ashamed Of SO disingen-
uons an attempt to turn the popularity of a favor.
lite name into distrust and hatred against me
He is welcome to the honor oft. However rich.
ly large number Of men who stand high in the
community deserve the epithet, turnkey, for
their cowardly silence and contemplate servili-
~ before the slave power OF the South have
not applied it. / did characterize the act of
introducing james M. Mason to a Massachusetts,
audience on Bunker Hill. under the circumstan
ces and IN the peculiar manner in which il was
done. as an act of complimentary iunkeyisn. -
And deliberately maintain that the phrase 6tly
characteriZes the act. | thought the words ought
to be used. They were used and they will stand
Look at the facts. This Shareholder has grossly
llsalted our congressional delegation in priyate
and in public, carrying his insults so far on AZ
least one occasion, that our distinguished SEN
ator, whose fOrhearance is great, was fore open
y % rebuke his plantation manners; he has
deliberately helied and insulted the whole body ~
" q nd odd fYNfr' fha4l,, =
nection with them would contaminate, the cler
gy of the South he wrote letter of admiratior
and love to the Brooks Festival the ovation
given to that saint and hero Of South Carolina. on
his triumphal return from an attempt TO murder
an unarmed and defenceless senator in the nation
al capitol This man, the open approver of one
who proposed that the South should march to
Washington with army, seize the executive
power, and rule the country henceforth-6nds
honorable gentlemen who are proud to intro
duce him where he oughtto have been ashamed
to come-to introduce him with gratutous polite
ness, and with deferential compliments both TO
him and to the State which he represented-a
state particularly celebrated now for four things
rum, bankruptcy, arrogance and slaye-breedinp
ANA ne, TO show his sense Of propriety and good
taste, proceeded to give Massachusetts the most
exquisite insult she ever received telling ber IN
almost so many plain words, not to send to Con.
gTess any more such senators as Charles Snmner
but to send men who would submit to Inc aicta'
tion Of Shareholders 1t aoas an act Of scon0,I;
mentary funkeyism' and ought to be SO stvIea
Is Southern disunionist, who recommends a
miserable minority by force to rend the country
that slavery may be preserved, to be banouetod