Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-14

| NNN'NISN hNAhSAi'HA"ANS'
Rev. DR., Allen of Northboro', invoked the
Divine blessing, and was followed by the sing
ing of the following original hymn of Bry-
ants, by the Borough choir:
Two hundred times has June renewed
| Her roses, since the day
When here amid the lonely wood,
Our fathers met to pray.
Beside this gentle stream, that strayed
Through painless woodlands then,
The calm, heroic women prayed,
And grave, undaunted men.
Hymns on the ancient silence broke,
From hearts that faltered not
And understanding lips that spoke
The free and guileless thought
They prayed and thanked the Mighty One,
Who made their hearts so strong,
And led them towards the setting sun,
Beyond the reach of wrong.
For them He made that desert place
pleasant HERITAGE
The cradle of freeborn race
| From peaceful age to age.
The plant they set-a little vine
| Hath stretched its boughs atar,
To distant hills and streams that shine
| Beneath the evening star.
Ours are their fleds,-these fields that smile
| With summers early flowers
Oh, let their fearless scorn of guile,
And love OF truth be ours!
Hon. Charles Hudson was then introduced,
and delivered brief historical address which
was in substance an abstract of his more ella
borate and carefully prepared history of the
town, not yet fully completed.
Mr.. HudsOn's Address.
Mr.. Hudson commenced his address with some
felcitouS remarks upon the incidents OF the day, and
the necessities which compelled him TO abndge his
speech Passing his chief topic, he said 1.-THE sons
and daughters Of Marlboro now resident within her
| hada assembled here day with
the generations that have past and those who nave
gone out from her. return on this joyous occasion to
receive your cordial greetings, and to JON with you
| in holding communion with the departed. lhese
ancestors are with to-day, and i'll their name 1
welcome you TO this goodly heritage, purchased by
their toll and industry sustained BY their forttude
and valor and consecrated by their fefVent prayers
What they sowed i'll tears you are permitted 10 reap
i'll joy. Where they struggled, AK III hand win
dark and dense forests, you are permitted TO put IN
the sickle and gather rich harvest of golden grain.
These hillsides which to them at first but track
less wastes where the wild beasts prowed for prey,
and made night hideous with their dismal howings,
to you green pastures where your gentle herds
Craze in safety, low at the appointed hour to re-
pay your care. And at the house of prayer, where
they knet in devotion with arms in their hands to
protect themselves against the merciess sayages you
permitted to bow in safety, having none to mo-
lest or make you afraid"
The general causes Mr.. Hudson continued, which
led to the settlement OF most of the towns of central
Massachusetts, the love of liberty and the love
OF land. Rev. Mr.. Hooker, who came to New Eng
land with his flock in 1888 left Cambridge i'll 1886,
and performed long and difficult journey through
the wilderness, and commenced settlement ut
Hartford because he deemed it unwise tie have set
Elements near CharestOwn and RoXbury and
WATERFOWL were to Cambridge. The complaint of
"beng Strengthened for the want of more land,n
which put forth by him thus early, appears to
have been adopted by many of the early settlers.
Mr.. Hudson proceeded briefly to sketch the history
of the town from 1898, through the Indian and
French wars, and the troublous times which imme-
diatey followed. He closed his address with some
illusions to his own personal relations to the town.
Ii parents and grand parents residents among
them. His maternal ancestors dated back to the
first settlement of the township. And when, more
than century ago, a black cloud hung over
the community, so that despair was secret com
panion, and of little men afraid, his
paternal ancestor, with two of his sons, took the
held III Marlboro with other stout-heared sons of
Marlboro, to defend the colony against the COM
bned attacks of the French and Indians. And in
the glorious struggle Tor an Independence, the same
ancestor, with six hardy sons, among those
who, like Moses, mot afraid of the kings
commandment" but showed their devotion to lib
erty by arming in its defense He said his parents
were inhabitants of this town, and their remains
rested within its borders. Three sisters, reared I'M
der the same roof with himself, reposed in yonder
| grave yard, and he alone spared to tell the
tale. He had mingled his labor with its soil, and
looked with delight its beautiful hill-sides, its
placid lake, its rich fields of grain and its forest of
fruit trees. All these allied him to the good old
township and made her soil sacred in his eyes. But
her fowery meads and her grassy hills, her fields
with their golden sheaves, and her orchards bending
with their delicious fruits, however pleasing to the
sight less dear his heart than the fond recol
OF revived TINS by cor
| dla1 greetings and generous sympathies. The past
and the present combined to strengthen the ties
| which bound him to the old homestead; and what
ever might be his fortune during the rest of his
journ here below the recollections of Marlborough
would be tondly cherished, and her prosperity and
| happiness would ever cheer and gladden. his heart.
The address of Mr. Hudson occupied scarce
ly three quarters of an hour in the delivery,
but was listened to with marked attention, and
favor. The audience, sung an ode written for
| the occasion by Rev Horatio Alger, Jr., when
the benediction was pronounced, and the pro-
cession was reformed and directed to the din.
ner tables, spread under the direction of j. B.
| Smith of Boston, near the Town Hall. Fiji
teen hundred persons sat at the dinner tables,
and discussed Mr. Smiths fare as well as they
could, which seemed to be very satisfactory to
Mr.. Smith. The after dinner exercises were
prolonged to late hour in the afternoon, and
gave great satisfaction to all who were present.
The usual variety of sentiments were read /;
and eloquent responses were made by Hon.
Mr.. Fay, president of the day, Hon. Edward
Mellen of Worcester, a native of Westboro',
Rev. Mr.. Breed of Southboro', and others, who
revived many personal and municipal reminis-
cences, and remarked upon other topics which
the interesting occasion suggested. The public
exercises of the day were to close in the evening
with grand concert in the pavilion by Gill
more's and Halls Boston bands, and the MARI
boro' Band. The social, friendly, and frater-
nal meetings which took place in many a
household, after recent or remote dispersion,
are of course beyond public notice, but formed
no small part OF the celebration of this interest.
ing anniversary
The school children of the town had separ.
ate and independent celebration of their own
on Boyd's Hill. Their procession moved
through few of the principal streets to the
place of their destination, where entertainment
had been provided for them, and brief speeche:
were made for their edification. The celebra
ton, from the commencement to the end, wa,
creditably conducted, passed without acciden
or disorder, and was worthy of the ancien
town whose third century commences under
circumstances of so much thrift and promise.
THE CONVENTION commenced yesterday
has drawn immense numbers of people into tn,
city, yet the hospitality of our city is equal tc
the emergency. The business committe,
made ample preparations, and free lodgings
were provided for over sixteen hundred nor