Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-10-07

An ADJOURNED meeting Of the opponents OF the
national administration, and friends Of the pres
ent State administration, assembled at the City
Hall, last evening. to hear the report of the
committee chosen at the former meeting. Judge
w. w. Rice presided, and Charles E. Stevens,
Esq, was chosen Secretary.
p Emory Aldrich, Esq. from the committee
selected on Saturday evening, made the following
report of names to constitute the delegation to
the County and District Conventions in this city
today:
| To the County Conventon-At large. J. s. C.
6nowlton, P Emory Aldrieh, f. B. stoddard,
| George Nj. Rice, Elbridge Boyden Ward L
David Hitchcock, ]. E. Wood 2-W. W Rice.
| 0. K. Earle; 81 H. Fitch, Hiram Barrett
Al S. Clarke. 6. W Elkins 5-H. H, Hough
ton, John F, Gleason 6-Edwin Draper. George
II. Harlow; Thomas Sutton, ]. b. Wheeler !;
o-P L. Moen, g. F. Thompson.
To the Congressional Conventon-At large,
Ira NJ Barton, W. W. Rice. Geo. f. Hoar, Dex-
ter F. Parker, Geo. Chandler.
Ward L, d d. Keyes, Alexander Thsyer; 2,
5. A. Knox, Jason Chaplin; 8, Thomas Tucker,
James Britain +, Joseph Pratt, D. McFar-
land; 8, William B. Fox, T. Marble 6, JH.
Walker, B. F. Otis; Z, Chas White, Clark Jill
5on; O. A. l.. Rogers, E. Collier.
The report was adopted.
Mr.. George F. Thompson offered series of
resolutions, which he supported as containing
the substance of those offered by Mr.. Aldrch on
Saturday evening. and at the same time, went
great deal farther than those did, in opposition to
slavery.
Mr. Thomas Drew moved to add to them the
resolutions of Mr.. Aldrich and advocated the
passage of both series conformity.
An animated and protraeted discussion ensued,
in which Messrs Aldrich Drew, DR.. ] H. Mar
tin, ]. H. Walker, D. F. Parker, aud others par
ticipated.
The lateness of the hour, and the great press
of other matter, prevent any extended abstract Of
their remarks at this time
Mr.. Aldrch expressed himself warmly in favor
of the nomination of Mr.. Thayer, and said he un
derstood him as standing square on the Phila-
delphia platform, and as opposed to the admis-
sion of any more slave States.
Mr. j. S. Brown of Fitchburg stated that he
had been told personally by Mr.. Thayer that he
would not, under any circumstances, vote for the
admission of another slave State.
Hon. Dwight Foster, being called for, took the
platform, and read the resolutions of MI Thomp.
SON. commenting upon them seriatim, and while
0'NN'"'"S mem hCoitiif, heCIoteu IneH TO con-
tain substantial reiteraton of all the sentiments
contained in the resolutions of Mr.. Aldrich and
other past doctrines of the party.
Col. Foster said that he understood Mr. Thayer
to declare that he had no objections to the sent-
ments of the resolutions offered by Mr.. Aldrich,
nor to the resolution offered by Mr.. Walker OH
Saturday evening, which endorsed the Philadel-
phia platform, that the resolutions offered by
Mr.. Thompson, which he held in his hand, seem
ed to him substantially Of same meaning
They affirmed that we could use call legal means
for the prohibition of slavery and was not tex
clusion by legislation" illegal means ?" They de
clared that we would "desert no ancient barriers
against the encroachments Of slavery"
What the ancient barriers, except such leg.
islation as the ordinance of 1887?
For himself. if he understood Mr. Thayer to give
in mis- adhesion to the Douglas Democracy, he
would lock his office door and stump the district.
from now till election, to ensure his defeat. If
Mr.. Thayer stood on what he understood
to be the doctrines of the Republican party.
he would do the same to procure his re election.
Mr.. Thayer willing to support and employ
be barrier of legislation against slavery, wher
ever possible. But at the present time he relied
chiefly on his own'policY qf organized emigration.
Whatever expressions he might have uttered,
heretofore, or whatever may have been imputed
to him, such was his position now.
He did not care to scrutinze with extreme
care the precise language Mr.. Thayer had used,
heretofore. Upon his present language. as quail
fed by his answers to the inquiries addressed to
him from the audience, he could support Mr..
Thayer, and he could also support the present
resolutions, as he understood them.
The motion of MI. Drew then put and vo-
ted down by very large aority. and the reso-
lutions of Mr.. Thompson. after a few verbal
amendments, at the suggestion of Col. Foster
which we're accepted by the mover, were adopted
with great unanimity, as follows
Resolved That slavery 10 a curse, morally socially
politically, and economically, hostile the will of God,
and the conscience of cyised man. aud has no moral
right to exist anywhere, and that is the duty all men
everywhere, iu Office aud of Office to oppose cir
cumscbe, and annihilae by the of all honorable
and legal means.
Resolved, That the system OF organized emigration OF
which Mr.. Thayer is the author and advocate has
rescued from slavery the vgio soil OF Kapzas in spite
of the combined fraud and violence Of the slave power
supported by two successive national Administrations
and that we confidently anticipate equally brilliant tr
umphs OF freedom to resdlt from that system in the
future and while orsake ancient barriers against
the entertainments Of slavery, shall hasten tc avail
ourselves Of any mode of resistance which may be
discovered applied
Resolved, That do not to specify any particular
weapons the only be in this warfare but
recommend the most effective legs ones to be employed
whether taken from armory, captured from the
enemy.
Resolved That the opponents Of the National Admin
straton in this city, have 10 Hon. Eli Thayer our rep
resenative from the Ninth Congressional District an
able and fearless opponent Of slavery. whose congress
siOnal course receives unqualified approval We
have listened with much pleasure his address, to his
constituents, Saturday evening last the sentiments Of
which endorse, and recommend him as our hrst and
only choice for election.
The meeting then adjourned amid the utmost
good feeling.
SHREwsBURY.-Delegates to the Worcester
County Republican Convention in this city, to-
day Thomas W. Ward, Esq. John D God.
daTd, Erastus Wheelock. Substitutes-S. I.