Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-29
lie convention adjourned.
General Butler on the stump.

The Democrats of this city held their first
public rally, for the year, at the City Hall, last
evening The hall was very full, and the an
dience, composed of every shade of political
opinion, was as respectful as the General coald
desire. The meeting was called to order by
Charles B. Pratt Esq, chairman of the city
committee, who submitted the following list of
officers for the appreciation of the meeting:
Presdent-Hon. Isaac Davis
Vice Presidents-Dr. j. A. Andrews, Nathan
Washburn II. w. Conklin, John Healey, Courtland
Newton, Levi Barker, Charles b Pratt, and James
$. Woodwork.
observation-disclosures Melanefy and I. w. Caldwell
Col. Davis, on taking the chair, made brief
Introductory speech, referring to the extrava-
gance of the State Administration and to its
alleged tendency to remove the power which
belongs to the people, to the control of the gov
ernment, and illustrating his position by the
circumstance that when a member of the
Legislature had been charged with filching
$4,000 from the widows and orphans of the
Commonwealth, the speaker of the House of
Representatives, through the columns of his
journal, had informed the public that the Off
GERS of justice had no business to arrest him.
He closed by introducing the democratic can
didate for Governor.
Gen. Butler spoke for nearly two hours, and
his audience listened with very commendable
patience. He commenced in the midst of suit
able applause with an allusion to the local
questions which have troubled the State, and
to the strong party feeling which prevailed in
the Legislature, which was as openly manifest
ed and as well defined, on the question of "the
purity of the liquors TO be drank by law, by
the good people of Massachusetts, as on matters
relating to Kansas or 0ssawatomie Brownr'
He proceeded to define, in his Judgment the
relations of the two parties to the question of
slavery. He could not love the institution,
and was not called on to love it, but as Dem
ocrat he was bound to let it alone. He revived
the floating libels, that Mr.. Seward had re-
commended an irrepressibe conflict between
the North and the South, and that Mr.. Gid
dings had favored servile war, introduce
ing a lively account of John Browns
expedition, as a way of carrying out
their doctrines. Mr.. Butler defended at
length the doctrine of popular sovereignty,
to which the democracy was committed, and
on which they expected to carry the presiden-
tial elections in 1860. The institution of sla-
very was circumscribed, and could not be ex-
tended if we would. The laws of God and of
profit had decided that matter
The last hour, to which the General devoted
his time, was given to the the consideration of
local questions and especially to the peccadiI
loes of the present Legislature, (which ought
to be eternally rewarded in Heaven for its
everlasting services on earth !'-The action
of the Legislature in striking the word "white'
from the statutes its management of the
state charities and its legislation on the school
districts; the late delinquency in the Savings
Bank at Boston, and the suspicion attaching
to the liquor agency furnished his topics and
illustrations. The meeting closed shortly be-
fore ten O'clock with three cheers for General
Butler and the state ticket