Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-21
Political Notes.

Political Notes.
The Fitchburg Reveille of Saturday said,
"NTr. Geo. w Gill of Worcester was in Fitch
burg, as we are informed, canvassing for Mr..
Thayer," and we copied the article in which
this was said Mr.. Gill says, the statement is
not true. He denies having done any Can
wasting for Mr.. Thayer, and declares that he
feels no special interest in the political for
tunes of that gentleman. He went to Fitch
burg on private business and attended to
nothing else
Hon. Salmon P. Chase is doing excellent
service in Michigan. In his speeches he DIS
cusses the territorial question, crltlclses Inc
position of Mr.. Douglas, and MAINTAINS strong
ly that it would be good and wholesome policy,
TO allow the people of the territories to elect
their own officers and control their own gov
ernments. In a speech at Pontiac, he did
reverence to the ordinance of 1877, in the fol-
lowing strain q feel that we OF Ohio and
you of Michigan are of the same family ; that
we have the same great principles. We have
derived them from the ordinance of 1887,
which lies at the basis of your prosperity and
your institutions, as it does of ours. What
would have been your condition but for that
ordinance Chains and slavery would be
where now are liberty, prosperity, and all the
institutions of civilized society. They tell us
we are free because we chose to be free. But
tell you, that, when we come here, we came
upon soil that had been, before we came here,
rendered by that ordinance incapable of being
diverted from the benign influence of free
DOM" Last Friday. he spoke at 1psllantl,
advocating the same views which he advocat-
ed at Washington, when the proposed repeal
of the Missouri compromise restriction was
under consideration, the authority OF con-
gress, to legisate for the territories, and the
expediency of allowing the people to manage
their own affairs after declaring that slavery
cannot be legalized in the territories. And he
repealed the accusation Of MIR. Douglas, that
Intervention is disunon," maintaining that
congressional legislation for the territories does
not imply "the slightest right to interfere with
any southern state" We quote the following
passage of this speech from the Detroit Daily
Advertiser =
general government had in the territories. He
said it was simple thing. The territories
were the territory OF the United States. The
general government may organize govern
ments for the territories, and they may form
such governments as they please for the terri
tory provided, that they perseyere, and are
consistent with, the liberties of the people
And the most expedient thing, in my opinion,
is to give them the liberty to regulate their
H.. P.,fI
want the real thing and not the sham. | want
it as it was declared at Chicago, -understood
that neither the general government nor the
people of territory have the power to estab-
Iish slavery. ! want you to carry with you
into territory the power OF establishing all
your institutions,-ot erecting such magniti-
cent school houses as you have here-and es
tablishing all the institutions Of free society"
Hon. VIM. A. Howard OF Michigan, who is
so well and SO tavorably known to the coun-
try, spoke at this meeting He followed Mr..
Chase and spoke with much effect. We quote
the following passage
Gle said that to come off victorious in such
warfare as that in which we are now en-
gagged, it is necessary to have long and en-.
during struggle. We might gain a temporary
advantage by some clap-trap like squatter SOW
eregnty, but to conquer III the end, it is ne
cessary to have solid principles to stand on.
He went on to trace the origin of the repnbli-
can party. 1t was first formed by that name
in this congressional district. 1t was at Jack
son, on the 9th of July, 1854. Those who
then united together did not abandon their
opinions on various subjects, They agreed
to resist this one wrong of the Kansas Nebras-
ka bill, whilst they were not necessarily in
sympathy upon other subjects. 1t so happen
ed that the speaker, by the Partially of the
people, was the candidate for congress that
year. so that it might be said he was the first
black republican candidate for congress in
these United States. The republican party,
when first formed, was but a band of allies,
jealous of each other in many points. But
now it is a compact and well organized party,
united upon all points of national policy, with
a glorious prospect of victory. Whilst this
party is ready to resist to the bitter end all at
tempt to trespass upon our rights, we are as
ready to preserve and enforce the rights Of
every section OF the country"
The Ceredo Crescent has letter from a
republican" in Mason county, Va, in which
he says the principles of the republican party
are deepening and widening in old Mason, and
he is satisfied that with the proper effort they
could poll for Lincoln and Hamlin some two
or three hundred votes.
The republicans of the Ashtabula, Ohio,
district have re-nominated John Hutchins for
congress by reclamation. Joshua R. Giddings,
whose name had been used by his warm, per-
sonal friends, wrote letter Withdrawing it
from the convention, when the whole body
united in the support of the present member.
The Washington correspondent of the Tri-
H.,
trustworthiness that letter is in town from
Mr. Breckenridge deprecating his position, but
leaving it to his friends to decide whether the
interests of the temperate party would be
subseryed or not by his withdrawal from thC
canvass"
The Two Horns of MIR. Thayer's DIiemlns
Some people among us are troubled abou