Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-12-03

cause for which the Savior died, comes forth
in new and triumphant power, and the cruel
fed takes his place by the right hand of God.
The speaker made graphic and eloquent refer
ence to Wicklife, and Huss of Bohemia, who
bowed before the stake to which their testi-
mony had brought them. Who would say
that they did not more effectively advance the
cause than if they had lived in servile truck
ling to the Church of Rome So has John
Brown borne noble testimony by his death.
From his scatfold the nation is summoned to
Judgment, and every man is called to give his
voice on one side or the other This made the
tolling bells divide our churches, and the min
listers of some of them Tad been made TO feel
that their peace and safety was in their having
no bells to ring The speaker closed by say
ing, that, while he spoke of John Huss, the
thought occurred to him that some Luther was
yet to rise among u.s. and he quoted an appro-
pirate passage from one of his grand old
hymns.
Mr.. Shipper took his seat amidst much ap
plause, which had also frequently interrupted
the course of his address. Hon. Dexter F.
Parker was then introduced and said =
SPEECH OF HON. d. F. PARKER.
If he could have chosen an opportunity to
speak upon that platform, and to an audience
comprising SO many faces as familiar to him
as those of his own household, he would have
taken just such an occasion as this. When
that brave old hero who had that day been
executed was weltering in his blood, it was his
pleasure to bear his testimony in the legislature
to those principles of freedom for which he
struggled and fell, and no power on earth could
make him retract them. He sympathized
not only with the widow and the orphans,
but with the cause in which they suffered,
and urged the obligation, especially of young
men, to contend for human rights, not as
debaters only, not only upon the soil
where freedom exists by law, but to proclaim
everywhere that it is mans duty to give liber
ty to all. He was glad to honor John Brown
because he dared, upon slave soil, to strike the
blow he did Colored men had done some
thing for us. If there was one page brighter
than another in our early history it was that
which recorded the shouldering of muskets by
black men, and then fighting side by side with
the patriots. John Brown had paid back the
debt we owed to them. The speaker denounc-
ed the doctrine of intervention with
wrong as an infamous principle, and justified
his action by the eloquent appeals of Kossuth
which we had applauded, and the example of
Lafayette which history gloritied. Wherever
wrong existed it was our duty to wage war
against it, with peaceful remedies if possible
If not, then with such as our grandsires used
in settling accounts with their oppressors.
Mr.. Parker continued to speak upon the
need of agitation in carrying on the work in
which they engaged. Though the evening
was passing away, the interest of the great
audience remained undated. Mr.. Parker was
followed by Rev. NJ Richardson.
SPEECH OF REV. MIR. RICHARDSON.
he. commenced with pertinent illusions to
some of the central events of the world by
which certain days were marked with bright
letters in the calendar, Luther mailing his
pieces to the door of the Church at Wittem-
burg, Jefferson recording the same ideas,
though working deeper and travelling broader,
in the Declaration of Independence, and 9TH
ers, and said the I'd day of December would
be hereafter another of those memorable days
in our calendar. To-day, John Brown, by
the quick apothess of the gallows, has taken
his place among the heroes of history.
One of the few the immortal names,
That were not born to die
This occasion suggested the broad subject
OF freedom. He would only ask, was John
Brown successful? He says that his whole
object was to free slaves, and he will not le
He had tried it in Missouri, and succeeded
He tried it again in Virginia. Never at the
beginning OF great periods in history was in
surrecton so successful as that. 1t had made
it apparent that slavery can and must be abol-
lshed; 1t had set every press and every tongue
in the land to agitating the question of slavery,
and had made the pillars of that institution to
rock and reel. 1t had diminished the value of
slave stock. Two hundred million dollars,
says southern paper, John Brown destroyed
that Sunday night, and had led how many
families to look for speedy and certain ,,optb.
nat man whom we wrong in calling crazy
was groplng for the pillars of the slave insti-
tuition, and he has been successful. He ac-
complished more than he had dreamed. 1t is
objected that no slaves escaped Three years
before the French Revolution, single man in
one OF the provinces started an Instruction
which was crushed in two days. Forty gal
lows were erected-let it be remembered that
whether the gallows is famous or infamous de-
pehds on the man that hangs on it-but that
day the French despotism was doomed He
could not consider that such instrumentalties
were essential to success, or that such quick
revenge would necessarily end in bloody revo.
lutlons. But something must be learned from
these events. Let 1t be thei. prayer that God
would turn the hearts of their rulers Let it
De the desire OF every northern man that this
threatening question may be settled wisely by
settling it upon the eternal principles of JUS
tlce. (Great applause
rev MIR. Hlgginson took the platform, at
the invitation of the chairman and said:
SPEECH OF REV, MR.. HIGGINsoN.
have been thinking this evening of the
eloquent words of Madame Roland when she
went on her way to the guilotine, and wished
only for pen to record the strange thoughts
which were passing in her mind How little.
one year ago, we expected to hear such words
from men who have been deemed conservative.
words heroic abSOIuta in Haf,npna -
ciple, and have wished the pen to record the
thoughts which lay behind the faces we all
met, the anxious, the determined, the desper-
ate faces, the varied faces that met us. Who
conquers, said he, to-day Virginia 1t is very
well tor us to ridicule and denounce her, but
know that when Virginia wanted fugitive
and sent halfa dozen men for it, the slave was
returned. Virginia conquered then. Today
John Brown died on the scaffold 1t has cost
her millions, but she has done it. She has
carried her point. And we meet here, and,
amid the gathering of silver, pension off
the widow and children of the man whom we
have let die Virginia acts; Massachusetts
talks. We build a monument of words.
If ever man despised words when deeds
were needed, that man was John Brown.
We don't occupy very sublime position The
slow, guarded New England blood takes CEN
fury to move but it is there, and will move at
last. Virginia has killed more than John
Brown. She has sacrificed his two noble sons,
owen and Watson, saying to his young wife,
IF can do one single noble act life is not ali
failure :" Thompson, exclaiming, eff | die,
fifty thousand will follow me; :" Dangertield
ready to fight for his wife and family-her aw-
full hand stretching after them to-day. Vir-
gina has done all this, and what has Massa-
chusetts done? AS Sam Weller says "pass-
resolutions on1 Wnfipnr