Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-10

lion. Charles sumner delivered his lecture
in Concord Wednesday evening, on 'Lafay-
cite" When the lecture was over, the Con
cord wide awakes, with drum and file, march
ed TO the residence of Ralph Waldo Emerson
where Mr.. Sumner was guest, and summon.
ed him to appear. In response to an address
of welcome and congratulation by Hon. j. S.
Keyes, in behalf of the wide awakcs, Mr.
Sumner spoke as follows -
Captain and Wide Awakes You take me
entirely by surprise. l came here to night to
perform an agreeable service, not of a political
character had not anticipated any such OPP,
portunity as this with which you now honor
me, nor did l anticipate any such welcome
Let me thank you most sincerely for the kind
and good words that have fallen from your
captain. They are to me a reward for what
little service | may have been able to render
in the past They will encourage me to what
| hope to do in the tuture join with you in
gladness at what has occurred, at the victory
which we are now to celebrate. Victories are
sometimes won by the cartridge box, some
times by the ballot box, but | doubt whether
any victory won by the cartridge box involves
| higher principles or more important results
than that which has now been won by the bal
| lot box.
| A popt has sail tbat tLo sio+ t;ro5 l,,,, avn,
heard round The worII and JnnLt Mt h",
this victory which we have arhievnI in onr
country will cause reverberaton that W Ii be
| heard throughout the civilized globe. Persons
| everywhere who are struggling for rights, who
are vindicatng liberal ideas, who are seeking
! human improvement, will be encouraged when
they hear OF yesterday. 1t will be good news
to Garibaldi in ItaIv if will he oon5 news IN
the French. who are now su1ari1r nndor doc.
potic power ; and it will be. nv friends oood
news TO all OF us, for it tells a great chanoe
has occurred. Every foul. years wa choose n
lew president. but il very rarely hannens tbat
we choose new government But r4sterdnv
we not only chose n now nresident bur a ,,o,r
government. 4 new order Of thngs was i'm
augurated by the vote of Yesterday which
will put our country under a new directi, n
and lift it up to the platform of prineipes
on which it was originally placed Inv the n.
theirs.
Several things may be considered TO he fair.
| ly established by the vote of Yesterday if we
look at in practical light. First. the Amen.
can people have declared accordin' IN tl,o ,er,.
words of Madison, that it is wropp to admit
into the constitution the idea that there can
be property in man. They have declared that
slavery if it exists anywhere is sectional and
derives all such life as it has from local laws
not from the constitution in other words. that
slavery is sectional and freedom national in
opposition to the idea which has been put for.
waid so often, that freedom was sectional and
slavery national In the second place the
American people have declared by this vote
that all the outlying territories Of the govern.
mcnt, so enormous in extent and destined IN
be inhabited by an immense population sholI
be consecrated to freedom; that the soil shall
never be pressed by the footstep of the slave
In the third place, thay have declared that
the old original policy of the fathers of the
administration of the national oovornment
shall be adopted, in opposition T. the slave moi.
| icy which has been especially pursued for the
last twelve years, and more or less during the
last forty Yeas. They have declared that the
slave trade, which it is now proposed 10 omen