Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-30

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s. Ebrdge Boyden and Sumner Pratt.
The committee asked leave to report at
future meeting, which was granted. The reg
ular meeting was organized as follows =
President-Hon. ALEXANDER IL. BULLOCK.
Vice Presdents-Hon. w. W. Rice, Hon. D. S.
Knowlton, Hon. Ira NJ Barton, T. Emory Aldrici
Esq, Hon. Charles White VIM. A. Wheeler, ESQ
John ID. Baldwin. Esq, Hon. Peter c. Bacon, Hon
Dwight Foster Albert rolman ESQ. VIM I Merr
field Esq, lchabod Washburn, Esq. j. Ii. Wake
Esq, Hon George W. Richardson, John c. Masol
Esq, VIM. Dickinson, Esq, and Hon Dexter
Parker.
Secretaries-Messrs VIM r. Hooper, D. A. Co
dard and j. E. Tucker.
On assuming the chair, Mr.. Bullock was r,
ceived with very cordial applause, and az
dressed the meeting in substance as follows
MIR. BULLoCKs SPEECH
Gentlemen:-It is an easy task TO preside
over an assembly where all hearts are as one
Having assembled on the threshold of a sue.
cessful contest it is our first duty TO dispose
of our griefs and disappointmcnts, if we have
any, speedily and once for all.
Our udicous and excellent delegate to the
convention had expressed in that body the gen.
eral wish of his constituency by working Tor
the nomination of the great senator from New
York. (Great applause.) But after faith
full comparison of opinions by all, and with
due respect to the desire of the more evenly
balanced states, that convention has given us
another candidate in whom is centered the high
hopes which inspire the heart of the nation.
The nomination of Mr.. Seward was not ne
cessary for the completion of his own fame, or
for the success of our cause. Contrast with
other men can only make more conspicuous
his high genius and exalted service. While |
had looked for the nomination of this most
I
the choice of the Republican delegates, and
will go with you in the support OF Abraham
Lincoln. Enthusiastic cheers pronounce
it nomination requiring no apology nomi-
nation emnently fit to be made.
Those who heard Mr.. Lincoln in this place
twelve years ago know his cultivated power as
a speaker, his gift as clear, straight, logical
reasoner. His pertinacious devotion TO princi
pie, his blameess life, his benevolent heart, are
appreciated by every one, and to-day we know
that he is equal to all the eXgencies OF the
presidency. He abdes by the early territorial
policy of the government, and has said that if
slavery is to make further colonizations it
shall not be under the national flag.
The nomination comes fresh and spontane-
GUS from the heart Of the people. The men at
Chicago did not have to sit ten days and then
adjourn inglorlously TO another city and anoth-
er season. When the doubtful states had sig.
nlfled their preferences, the men of the west
led off, and without preparation the tall man
of the Mississippi valley was lifted up to the
station spontaneously and enthusiastically.
Mr.. Lincoln is none the worse, in these
times for not having been long in the councils
of the nation. But he has been long in public
life, and his discussions with Douglas i'll the
famous Illinois campaign have established his
reputation as a statesman. He Is all the better
for not having been in Congress at all the past
ten years, when we consider the easy virtue
prevalent there. He has been breathing the
purer air of the prairies. 1t is better in these
times of pleuro pneumonia to get man who
has been isolated-outside the circle of the
charmers, Tor a guide and a leader
We are equally fortunate in our selection
of a vice presidential candidate. Mr. Hamlir
was a democrat of the Silas Wright school
and acted with the democratic party while
they could claim any devotion to the princi
pies enuncated by jefferson or Wright Hi
reputation is rich every way. Such a mar
may be trusted to hold, as he probably will do
the determination of questions of vast momen
and consequence.
In regard to the platform, we can all cor
daily and religiously yield it our approval
On one of the leading ideas contained therein
and which is one of a few of the planks OF
which the election contest will swing, L will
say a few words 1t is that regarding tin
territorial policy of the government. 10 gu
views or those of our opponents the destinie
of our vast territories must be committed
James Buchanan and the democratic majorit.
of the Senate, declare that slave property mus
be protected everywhere under oul flag tn
executive and the judicial department falling
in this respect, that it is the duty of Congress
L. Il
right. That delicate and ingenious instrumen
of the democracy called "squatter sovereignty
was mere thing to be talked about. Th
modern democracy is illustrated in the attemp
made by the administration to force on tn
people Of Kansas that mockery of mockeries-
the Lecompton constitution. That conspiracy
was urged by the aged president with "A cool
ness which belongs to an age which has los
its generous sympathies.
In the Charleston convention, April 30
1860, this ultra pro slavery doctrine OF presi
dent Buchanan, reported by Is slave states
with California and Oregon added, receive,
the votes of six out of the thirteen delegate
from old Massachusetts. Attempts have beel
made to enforce this doctrine, by all the ap
piances of executive influence, and the solem
mites of judicial usurpaton. Secession wa
the last act in the political drama of the south
of which the repeal of the Missouri comprc
mise was the first. Against all these odiou
doctrines, am with you on the principles o
the platform laid down at Chicago, to shar
with you the issue of the contest, under til
gallant leader of the northwest. (Great ap
plause
There is wide difference between stat
sovereignty and the inchoate condition OF
territory Slavery can exist only where tn
local law of state expressly establishes II
and it cannot be legalized by mere territorial
legislation because il is violation of nationa
justice slavery cannot be legalized by Con
gress, because it is in direct opposition to al
principles of natural right, which the consti
tuition is ordained to establish. If the attemp
is made by any body of men to put slavery il
the territories, it is the duty OF Congress Il
prevent it. This should be the true policy o
out government; and whatever sophistrie
g. nay upeWlder It's progress it must be adhered
SILL i we legislative and judiciary department
tha, w w restored TO the landmarks from whicl
longe.t se1ayed. Governments change, tn
years Judges are mortal Tho dos of M
'e.noeI aireauy appear PROMISING We are al
IlBht III lhe east we hear tha 60 e a.,
'oiDeS y, ,he center, and the iubilant nor,I,
west whether the democratis s''s p ~. :, !,
Inond and Baltimore, shall be nni,aI az h,ci
scatter their divided fragrance, ii ma,,ors 9,, .
THE DAY is OURS. Long continued anr,., no'
When the very general expression Of =,
plause subsidized, the following resolutions ,vo,
introduced by JOS IL. Walker, Esq, and we
unanimously adopted;
Resolved, That we heartily approve Of the nj,
form adopted by the Chicago convention, enuiiei
ing, ~ y does IN the clearest and most expressj
terms, the national aud conservative principles
the republican party
Resolved, That we find in ABRAHAM LINGO