Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-11
Opening Of the Campaign.

Opening of the Campaign
Boston opened the campaign on Monday
evening, by caucus for the choice of dele
gates to the State Convention of the oppo-
nents of the national administration, in this
city, Sept 9th. Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr.,
presided, and the best feeling was manifested.
Upon the list of delegates, which is headed
by Josiah Quincy, IT., are the names of many
gentlemen of distinction. in former political
organizations, as well as prominent Republic
cans in the past, such as Francis Brinley,
George Morey, William Brigham, Jacob Sleep
er, Moses Kimball, Ezra Lincoln, James A.
Dix, William Schouler, John P. Putnam,
Samuel Hooper, Henry B. Rogers. Samuel
A. Bradbury, Thomas Russell, and Charles
B. Hall. Forty-eight delegates only were
selected, the remaining sixty to which Bos-
ton is entitled, being reserved, for the Ward
and County Committees to select.
After the adjournment of the meeting, the
members Joined in procession, under the mar
shalship Of Hon. Francis Brinley, and march.
ed to the front of the Revere House, where
Gov. Chase of Ohio was stopping, land gave him
three rousing cheers, whereupon that distn-
guished gentleman appeared upon the balco-
ny, and addressed the assembled multitude as
follows, as reported in the Boston papers
Fellow citiznns: You have taken me en-
trely by surprise, and find it impossible to
express to you the feelings which agitate my
bosom in being received In so kind manner
by the citizens of Boston. l came here few
days ago on a visit to my native State of New
Hampshire, and l am received here not as a
stranger, but as brother. (Applause am
not, indeed, absolutely stranger in Masach-
usetts, for my ancestors were among those
who shared the early trials of the faith Of the
fathers OF New England, and adhere to those
great principles of civil aud religious liberty
which ever distinguished your Common
wealth in its origin and progress. have be-
come citizen Of State which was then in
the West-but which has now, by its progress
and population, become not a western State,
hardly Central State--but almost an Eastern
State = twin sisters with Massachusetts,.
(Cheers.)
1t is hardly necessary for me to speak to
you of the principles which have made Ohio
what she is-the empire State of the valley
Of the Mississippi. But let me say to you that
some years ago-how many should not care
to say if there were any ladies PRESENT. was
riding along the banks of the Ohio with that
illustrious citizen of Massachusetts, whose re-
mains now repose upon the shores of Marsh
field; and in contrasting one State with the
other. the great progress of Ohio with the slow
progress of Kentucky, Mr.. Webster said to
me: "My young friend. do you know What
has made ell this differences 1t was the or
dinance that made it," Yes, indeed it was
the ordinance, which in his own glorious
language, impressed upon the soil of Ohio an
incapacity to bear up any other than freemen.
1t was that ordinance which did it. And
whence came that ordinances Why, fellow
citizens, it came from Massachusetts, That
ordinance came from Beverly man. 1t was
the work of Nathan Dane-and it was there
fore Massachusetts, wisdom and patriotism
which reached lar forward into the future,
and impressed upon the soil of Ohio that glo-
rious "incapacity." (Cheers.) And now,
what have we to dol Our country expects of
us-the world expects of us-that we shall
never prove faithless to those glorious princi-
Piles which gave to us the Mayhower-a and
which were propagated in the ordinance, and
which in their advancing march have come
to be shared all over the west, even in Califor-
mia, now admitted into the Union, and clothed
(Cheers.)
1t is enough-and l have often expressed
the idea=it is enough if the Constitution as 1t
was understood by the fathers be administer.
ed in its purity in order to attain this. But
in order to do this we must see to it that the
principles of freedom are made to animate
every function of our national government,
and every officer concerned in its administra.
ton. (Cheers.) 10 do that is our our duty.
We must simply disregard all petty difference;
not inquire whether man, yesterday or day
before, was an American, Wing, or Demo-
crat, but whether he is true to the principles
Of '76. Animated by that glorious principle
of democracy which believes in the manhood
of every man, and denies the right Of any
legislature or association of individuals to take
from any man his God given rights-animat-
ed by these great principles, forgetting what
L past, we will press on before us, and achieve
Tor ourselves that great prize which our fathers
propagsted by great principles.
And now, having expressed some views
which regard as important, and thanking
you from the bottom of my heart for your
KINDNESS let me bid you good night-not as
an Ohio man-not as a Massachusetts man
but as an American embracing in its high
est regard American principles, and all the in.
terests Of our whole glorious country. pro
longed cheering.)
We trust, that in the spirit Of the noble
sentiments above expressed, the friends of
freedom in the other cities and towns of the
Common wealth, will assemble in due time.
and select their quota Of delegates.