Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-12
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MONDAY, JULY IL. 1858.
rhe revere House Celebration.

The Revere H0unD
The ten dollar dinner and accompanying
.neeohes at the Revere House, in Boston, on
Monday lass, we're got up, as the tone and char
.c,er Of the latter indicate, to baptize into the
modern SDemocratic'' fsith such old fogy, sris-
tocra,ic opponents Of the Democracy in the past
rs Everett, Winthrop, Appleton, &c, and to al
ford that pyrotechnic orator and consistent expo
zent Of Democratic principles, Rufus Choate' an
opportunity to lay down and exPound the new
creed Of the party, since it has become thus con-
rlomerated by this accession to its ranks OF the
old fOgy Wings. Whether all these objects were
accomplished en- the occasion, perhaps there may
be some difference Of opinion.
But we cannot see how there can be any divis-
ion oasentiment as to the craftsmanship exhibited
the grafton of Mr.. Cnoate. The most that
can be said Of it is, that it was brilliant. pas
siouate display of the dargers of disunion. which
he deemed to be so imminent if the principles of
Liberty incorporated in the Declaration of indie
nsndence, and intended to be carried out by the
constitution subsequently framed, should be
hreathed bv any consderste number of people of
the North, at this day. For this reason, all
though he thinks slavery an evil, and would like
TO have it abolished, Mr.. Choate thinks that the
imm,pence Of disunion is so great, and its horrors
SO terrible, that in order to prevent so calamitous
catastrophe, he would have that Declaration re.
main upon our lips mere embodiment of "glit-
,eriue generaliiies, without any intent or effort
to put them in practice. And upon such plat
form. Invested of every Democratic or popular
material. the Buchanan Office holders and getters
tion in this State are stand and they expect the
honest masses Of the good old Democratic party
Of the past in the country portions of the State,
who don't believe in giving ten dollars for the
privilege of being baptized into such a concern,
will follow. We opine they will not all be
.there," when the day Of election arrives, espe-
cially, it, as is now intended, Rufus Choate is to
be the candidate for governor.
Mr.. Everett, in his speech, which was as hun
kersh as it was eloquent, fully endorsed the SEN
timents contained in the GRAFTON of Mr. Choate,
in the following manner, addressing the Presi-
dent Of the Democratic Club, Who presided at
the festival:
,If the pure and exalted principles of ma.
tionality which he has this day uDfoded and IL
Illustrated; under your auspices, are faithful ex-
DOSltiOn oil DEmocratlc QOculnes lnSu iuust oe
permitted to share the satisfaction Of the worthy
gentleman in Moliere's play, at finding, greatly to
his astonishment and delight, that he had been
speaking prose all his life. The great founder OF
the Democratic PARTY, Mr.. Jefferson, in his inau-
Rural address on the 4th Of March d8Ol, said, we
have called by different names brethren Of one
principle We are all federalsts we are all repub'
lcans.' II the orator of the day, to whom we
have all listened with such admiration, has truly
expounded the principles OF your association and
your party, l think we must say with still
stronger emphasis, I'VE have called by different
names brethren Of the same principle we are all
Wings, we are all Democrats.
That soldier Of fortune" Benjamin F. Hal
lett who, as drawer up of the platforms, nation
al and State, Of his party, for years past, has
more than any other man, authority to transfer
the allegiance of its members to any new con
cerl, made characteristic speech at the ten
dollar dinner, in which he knocked under to tn
leadership Of Choate, winthrop, Everett, &C.. il
the future, in the following strain. Being Gale
upon to speak after ChOate and Everett had lie
the way in expopnding the new Democrat
creed, Mr.. Hallctt said
II would like to know why you have called G
Apollo. And yet, sir, as useless as it is for ar
one who has tongue, or even If he had the fee
t0hButo khah trtl Al Tue udy OF EentecOSts 10 a
tempt to compete with the orator to whom v
have just listened, in addressing an audience,
would be willing to beat a rub a dub upon TIL
old kettle drum from years end to years end,
could rally the young men of Massachuset
around the banner of that nationality which ht
besn borne so gioriously today. (Good, good
It is said that we are here today with no part
and with 10 politics. Well, if the Union is n
party, if Democracy is no party, then we are her
without party. (Applause) But If national
ty, If the Union, if thes Constitution be party
then we are brethren here together, because til
Democracy are all friends of the Union. GOOD
and applause)
Sir, il we re.to have a nation, we must hav
acknowledgements and guards to protect that ma
ton. Who have defended it? Who have up
held it, and borne alofl IT'S banners The Dem
ocratic party in this country (Goud good !
from the days Of Jefferson to the hour Of Bu
ehanan, and honor1he names of those men VII
have helped us bear up the standard of thi
Union. In every act they did for the countr
they were upon the creed of the Democratic pal
ty; and therefore it is that we are all Wings an
all Democrats, because zoe are all Democrat.
Great cheering")
Modelled after such ideas, and based exclusive
ly upon them, is to be the platform of principle
Of the new party calling itself democratic" (al
though Invested Of every democratic pecnliarity,
which is to make trial of its strength before tn
people, at the ensuing canvass.