Worcester daily spy., 1860-03-08
Hon. JOHN S. C. KHowLToN of Worcester.
For Vice Presidents.

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For Vice Presidents.
District IL. N Luce of Edgartown
District 2-Cassander Gilmore of Raynham
District S-George Rankin of Dorchester.
District ESamuel ID. Crane of Boston.
District 5-Samuel Hooper of Boston
District 6-William +. johnson of Lynn.
District flames II. Duncan of Haverhill.
District S-Chauncey L. Knapp of Lowell.
District 9-W. w. Rice of Worcester
District 10-Lucius Boltwood of Amherst.
District l1-Lansing j. Cole of Cheshire.
At Layge-Abraham Barker of New Bedford; Ger
sham b. Weston of Duxbury; William b. Hale of
Northampton Linus b. Comins of Roxbury; Geo.
Coggswell of Bradford.
For Seaetaries-Robert Treat Paine Jr of Boston;
Henry A. Marsh of Amherst Henry n. Black of
DORCHESTER; Willard D. Phillips Of Salem; Robert
Essex Joseph II. Long of Boston; John N. Vnson
of Edgartown.
The president elect was conducted to the
chair by Messrs. Samuel Hooper of Boston.
and Amasa Walker of North Brookfeld; and
prayer was offered by Rev. Horace James of
Worcester. Mr.. Knowlton addressed the con-
vention as follows
MR.. KNowLToN's SPEECH
He was unafectedly embarrassed by the
kindness of the convention in calling him to
that position, almost without moments time
for thought or reflection. But we were all
minute-men; and he should therefore shrink
from no service which the occasion requires.
Yet at that late hour of the day, with the
whole business of the convention to be per.
formed, he should in no case feel himself iust
fed in occupying more than single moment
The convention, however, would allow him
to say that the occasion was one of the deep
est moment as it had met to sustain the we'll
earned renown of the commonwealth for her
voice had always been one of power among
the states; and what it had been in the past,
we would have it be hereafter And if any
had come to the convention with prejudices or
aspirations unbecoming the high purposes to
be attained by all, he would appeal to them to
lay them all as an ingenious, a magnanmous
offering upon the altar of a noble patriotism.
The convention had also met to sustain the
Integrity of our National Union, resting upon
the opinions that at this day claim supremacy
put upon the principles upon which its
founders placed it, and which bore rule in
tne nrst half century of its progress "a rule
.na. Recognized the federal government as one
VI uelesated powers. IL therefore we would
sustain the Union, we must sustain tho rn,
ee'seu rls'.s OF the states. If the Union is
70 De maintained, the republican marty must
pe It's copservator, by preserving the rights Of
the states. '"e i's"'S vi
1t IS also the purpose of this convention to
prepare to-day TO take apart in the great s,r,,,,
gle to save the territories Of the fin;", r.'l
the grasp oil slavery upon no new issuos
but upon the platform upon which the rcnnS
lican party placed the gallant Fremont in Is5s
and upon which the struggle is now 10 be ro'
newed with the further incentive to effort
however, that the slavery party are now pre
pairing to reopen the African slave trade ius,
as soon as the acquisition or control Of new re
gons Of territory shall create greater demant
for slaves.
These considerations, thus hastily and i'm