Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-05

| at the hand of human law. Keep her, if you
| will l only ask OF you that you will never
| tell the tale to any other man. l took you up
in what supposed to be the want and griet
and pain of your poor humanity, Tor the love
| OF God and from sentiment OF human pity.
If l or you should tell that tale to human
ears, and so unbelievable Il thing should get
abroad among our couutrymen, some poor,
| stricken son of sorrow, who may, in his real
affliction ard poverty extend his hand for
| aims and seek the aid of fellow, may be sus-
pected of an imposture like your own; and |
| would not that any human sympathy should
| go unspent, any human want or sorrow so
unreeved, by reason OF your craft and wick
edness weakening the faith Of man i'll his
! brother"
If in any of those who may be candidates
| for your political favor, now or hereafter, you
| shall perceive any evidence of weakness, in
speech or doctrine, or lite, which to your judg.
ment may seem to be blunder or wrong,
judge if you will, but judge, pray you, as
you would preserve the fresh heart of sweet
and fair humanity. Help me not by any as"
sertonS against another-hose evils, if he has
committed any, shall have been Cue to his
intellect, and not to his heart. There are, in
the weary way of this work-day world, in the
hustle and hurry and competitions of a careful
and anxious life-there are temptations enough
u ildhG us lOTp6l WHdJ we owe 10 lllC heart
itself, what we owe to the dear, sweet impulses
of common love. Judge of men, il you will,
by the strctest standard OF intellectual fitness,
but always pardon every thing to the weak
ness, if weakness it be, that one loves humani-
ty too well.
We have, my friends, grand, a beautiful
and glorious heritage, consccrated by our
fathers bloou and our fathers prayers, and by
the fidelity and industry and patriotism of
their children, to you and to Gcd. You have
Sparta; monument it and preserve it. This
is your possession, this broad, fair land, tn Sc
teemlng fields, these heathful airs, these skies
which almost drop down fairness, these institu-
tions where the freedom OF human labor gives
to every man the opportunity, and to every
woman the chance, to every child the promise,
of an independent, honest, free existence.
You have here no man, no power, to hold the
mastery over the heart, vote, judgment or
voice. This is to you your all. This is mine.
Without 1t, what were the PROMISED LAND
itself with 1t, even out of the sands we may
suck our suStenance.
Stand by, friends and fellow citizens, ac-
cordng to the measure of your faith and CON
viction, stand by these grand historic, venera
bic and consecrated institutions of Massachu-
sets Hold all your political parties up to
the principles of your fathers and the institu-
tions which have made you happy, wealthy,
independent, and you and your children free.
We have state, and contederated Union.
You and | are loyal to one and the other. and
to both. We are all, here, lovers of human
liberty We believe in the just and equal
rights of men, as the selfevdent truths our
fathers wrote them down to be- in the immor-
tai Declaration of our National Independence.
(Cheers.) We, one and all, whatever ticket
we may vote at the election of 1860, whether
for officers of the state or of the union, mean
TO preserve, and to work out to ultimate tri
umph, the doctrines of the Declaration and of
the preamble of the constitution of the govern
ment. We mean to preserve and perpetuate
liberty to the latest time, to the last posterity
(Renewed Cheers.) We mean to do it through
the forms, social and political through the
organizations of society and the state, which
we find eXistent-nOt radical, in the sense of
destrnctiveness, but radical in the honest sense
OF preserving, conserving, perpetuating the
good and the trne. Warm applause Other
men, elsewhere, may prophesy evil other
men may torbode evil days and events to come
which shall menace our Institutions, which
shall threaten to weaken our government, or
to weaken our love for it. But we know
better. (Cheers) Our hearts are firmly an
chored here. We believe in the right we
believe in the competence, and we believe in
the success of selt-government-a government
Of the people. We are democrats of the old
school, democrats in the blood in the bone in
the heart, by the convictions of our Judgment
and by the experience of ourselves and of our
fathers, and We cannot be frightened. (Cheers
No matter what shall come, by this govern
ment, by this state, and by this union of
| states, we all shall stand When the fire
wakes hot, still we shall stand to the last
| Where the danger is thickest there we shall
| he and shall ba va fifth tn 81, IL
the old soldier of the revolution, who was
posted at the point of danger, the leadership
OF torlorn hope. He cried out to his COM
mander, Captain, | am shot" "No matter
stand !" Again he cries out, Captain, the
red coats have hit me again p ono matter.
let 'em fire." He cries again, Captain,
they have shot me again !" Stand YOU
are good mark TOR the enemy" Laughter
and applause.) There we will stand and
the manly hearts, the conservative judgments,
ana VIII, the unfalling fidelity, OF people such
as you, republicans, democrats union men of
bingham, in whatever peril in spite of what
ever evil torebodings, will save the nation and
| the state.
! We shall have still, as we have had in the
past, all the conflicts of parties but we shall
perpetuate, as we, and our fathers before us
nave done, the government, because we be-
| lleVe III Tie principles upon which it is found
ed No more political organization, none of
the chances Of politics, none of the propheses
| OF wise men, can save state, preserve peo-
| pie, or perpetuate liberty; it il the intelligent
virtue of the mass of men and the mass of
women, the intelligent faith in the fundamen.
TAI truths on which society is based, upon
which her free institutions must ever stand
care not II you sweep away every republican
technically SO called, from Massachusetts
vii trust 1t Ito the Bell and Everett party to
save the state Sweep them away, and | will
trust the democracy according tn Douglas, to
save Massachusetts. Sweep them off, too
and the Breckenridge men of Massachusetts
will nail the flag TO the mast, and if the old
ship goes down their forms will fall with it,
| beneath or above. (Cheers) And if the native
born citizens of America should ALL by any
sudden providence, be swept from off the face
OF the earth, would trust 1t 10 the naturallz.
ed, adopted citizen of Massachusetts,, to take
up the parable and preserve the institutions of
our fathers. (Renewed applause.)
| tell you, slrs, that although believe in
the principles of the republican party, as the
only sound political faith Of to-day, although
l believe that the republican organization is
the only one adapted to meet the exigencies OF
the time, and although believe that their or.
ganization ought to be sustained, and that
their nominees ought to be- elected daughter
and cheers 1T l didn't wouldn't stand Ire.
newed laughter), vet Ibelieve in the religious
and political education of our people, more
than L believe in all things else. believe in
the fitness Of my fellow citizens to accept the
responsibilities of whatever ho1or il NAV
please Providence to bestow upon them, and
that whosoever may have possession of the
majority of votes, and Of public sentiment in
Massachusetts, will always find hers, at least,
faithful, loyal, independent and patriotic PEG.
pie.
Now, fellow citizens, having wearied you, l