Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-30

NORFOLK COUNTY
North Disttct-iIienry / Pierce Of Dorchester.
East Joseph NJ Churchill of Milton.
West Henry Ilildreth Of Dedham
North Distributing B Wheeiwrght Taunton.
South Charles Almy OF New Bedford
West " Blanchard of Pawtucket.
COUNTY.
First District-E T Robinson ofsaugus
Second j Is Osgood of Salem
Third SLB Spear of Bradford.
Fourth j COchranc of Methuen.
Fifth John Baker Of beverly
WORCESTER COUNTY.
Central Dist't-P Emory Aldrch of Worcester
Southeast VIM Kendall of Northbrlpe
Southwest Francis Howe OF Brookaeid.
West Alonzo Bancroft Of Templeton.
Northeast - George Iowne of Fitchburg.
East jonathan ID Wheeler of Grafton
PLYMOUTH COUNTY
CentralDistrct- Gershom Weston Of Duxbury.
South " Horace Scott Of Farhaven.
North " Merritt Nash of Abingdon.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
West District-R W Kellogg Of Westfeld.
East Vacancy.
HAMPSHIRE AND FRANKLIN.
Hampshire Distrct-iienry Gere OF Northampton.
nampshireand Franklin Dstrict-vacancy.
North District-E r Tinker Of North Adams
South Henry Durham of Stockbridge.
ISLAND DISTRICT.
Joseph NJ Day OF Banstable.
The address and resolutions were read by
Mr. Griffin of Charestown. 1t is understood
that the address was prepared by Gov. Bout
well, and it certainly expresses the prevailing
sentiment of the republican party =
The delegates of the republican party of
Massachusetts, in convention assembled, re.
Specuuily present to the people of the com.
monwealth, the following statement of the
principles and purposes OF the republican Or
ganization.
1t Is not necessary to deny or refute the
numerous allegations made by its enen.ies con.
corning its disregard of the constitution and
hostility to the American Union. The re.
publican party is now entering upon its sec.
ond contest for the government of the nation
but in the brief period of its existence il has
furnished no evidence of hostility to the con.
stitution or the Union. Reformation, not de-
struction, is its object and its accession to
power will be marked by an honest regard to
the constitutional rights oil persons and states,
and hrm purpose to suppress at all hazards,
every reasonable attempt 10 destroy the Amer
lean contederacy. The result of the contest
will be accepted by the republicans without
reslstance,and without complaint; but they also
emphatically declare that threats of secession
have no power to arrest the steps of body of
men pledged TO maintain the RIGHTS OF THE
PEOPLE, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY AND UNION
OF THE STATES.
We assert the necessity of the republican
party, and the equality Of all men, while we
rebuke and denounce the threats of disunion
made by democratic members of congress and
other leaders of the democratic party, as well
as the lawlesS invasion of sovereign states by
armed bodies of men. We hold up to public
scorn and execration the policy of the present
and preceding democratic administrations in
| the affairs of Kansas we boldly denounce the
corruphons of office and patronage; the sys-
tematic plumber of the public treasury by ia.
vored partzans; the subjugation of all the
territories of the union, through the interven.
ton of the executive and the courts, to the
domination pf slavery and a.,
opening OF the African slave trade under the
cover OF our national flag, aided by perver-
sions ofJudicial power, a crime against hui
mainly, and burning shame to our country
and aye. We accept the doctrine that the nor
NAL condition of the territories is that of free.
dom, and we deny the authority OF any tribu-
nal, congress, legislature, or individual, TO give
legal existence to slavery therein.
We further demand the admission of Kan
sas INTO the union as free state and depore
the knavery and duplicity of the boosted dem
ocraic principles and practices of non-inter-
ventlon and popular sovereignty we demand
the passage Of a homestead law the improve.
ment Of rivers and harbors that are national
in their character, the revision Of the revenue
laws so as to encourage the development of
the industrial interests of the whole country
the construction OF a railroad to the Pacific
Ocean, and, finally, return of the govern.
ment to an observance of those habits OF econ
omy and principles of justice and freedom that
characterized the early history of the repub.
lie
The republicans of Massachusetts accept
anu support these doctrines and pledge them.
selves 10 their brethren of other states TO labor
unitediy for the redemption of the government
OF the country from the control of those who
are at once the enemies OF justice, of freedom
and the perpetuity of the American union
The decennial period, which is now closing,
has been marked by the destruction of three
national political parties, all pledged, by the
circumstances of their existence, to tile support
OF the institution OF slavery. Their overthrow
Is que to their subserviency to the demands
OF those who teach that chattel slavery is the
corner stone of republican institutions. While
our brethren of the south admitted slavery TO
be an evil, and claimed only the right to deal
with 1t III their own time and way it was no
obstacle to the united action OF those who
agreed III other things but when, in recent
times, they abandoned the doctrines taught bv
Their own patriots OF the revolution, seized the
government OF the country, as by a conspira-
cy, and appropriated all its vast powers for the
overthrow OF freedom in the states and the
establishment OF slavery in the territories, it
was no longer possible for freemen or the in.
heritors OF free institutions to maintain party
by the people and the loss of sovereignty by
the states. The Vaccinations of the slave.
holders, and the base subserviency of their
allies, rendered the organization of the repub-
lean party necessity. Yet this party is not
a fanatlclsm but conservative movement
1t does not even contemplate the overthrow
OF slavery, but only its restriction to the states
where it now, exists 1t does not ask the sui
frages OF the people that it may Cypress or do
any wrong to any section south or north but that
the government may be restored to the ideas
and principles Of its founders, the territories
preserved to freedom, and slavery limited TO
the states where it exists by virtue of long
established usage or under the authority of
positive law.
The perils to which this country is exposed
have arisen from the debased character Of the
controlling public sentiment of the slave states
concerning the intrinsic nature of the in.
slltutlon OF human slavery. The influence
OF this debasement has extended through
out the north, and men are now found.
III each OF the three factions opposed to
the republican party, who either openly
defend slavery, as moral, humane, and
Christian system, or admit the claim that,
under the constitution, it is as dear to the
heart OF the nation as is freedom itself; or else
assert that the millions of free white laboreIs.
and the tens OF millions of free persons in this
republic have no interest in the fortunes of the
territories, which seem to have been designed
by Providence to become the abodes of hun
dreds OF millions of human beings, through all
the coming. centuries of the worlds existence.
The extent and alarming character of this
degradation OF opinion are sufficiently seen
when we contrast these sentiments with the
views entertained and expressed by the states
men me, oil the south during the revolutionary era
When Lord Dunmore invited the negroes Of