Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-06
under the wise administration of its judicious
superintendent, Rev. B. X Pierce.


E.eOmIn~tcr.
The people of the north village had spirit
ed celebration on the fourth, In the forenoon
a new flag was raised amidst the roar Of can.
non and the cheers of the multitude. A pro-
cession was subsequently formed under Capt.
STATIONS company, and proceeded to the will
age school house where a most ample dinner
was provided by the ladies of the village. The
Declaration of Independence, prefaced by some
Introductory remarks, was then read by Benja-
min Dodge. "0ur Country, to the tune of
America, was sung by select choir. Senli-
ments were presented by the toast master, and
responses made by Messrs. Morse, Stratton,
Butler, Dodge, Grout and others. Voluntary
sentiments were also offered, and the af-
ternoon was spent in patriotic speeches and
the singing of national sons, concluding with
grand bonfire on STATIONS Hill
Sterling.
The Home Guards, Capt. Goss, and indie.
pendent Guards, Capt Pratt, were out on the
fourth on parade. They dned at Reeds hotel
AT two O'Clock in the afternoon procession of
citizens was formed, under the chief marshal
ship of J. S. Buttrck, Esq, and escorted by
the military to the Unitarian church, where
the Declaration of independence was read by
Rev. Mr. Carpenter. After singing, remarks
followed by various gentlemen. There was a
very large attendance, and everything passed
off in the most pleasant manner.
Whitinsvine
Had its usual village celebration on the 4th.
The citizens assembled in the morning, in the
village hall, where procession was formed,
and marched. accompanied by the Douglas
band, to the beautiful grove of p. Within G.
Son, under the chief marshalship of Moses
Chaplin. Here tables were spread, on which
was bountiful array of refreshments. VIM.
Kendall, Esq presided, and after the eatabes
were disposed of, prayer was offered, and the
Declaration of Independence read. Speeches
to the occasion where then made
by Rev. Messrs. Clarke of Whitinsve and
Russell of Uxbridge, and Messrs Hanna, Ste.
phen Cole, Jonathan Andrews, and others.
There was excellent singing by the choir.
Over twelve hundred persons sat down to the
tables, and an excellent time was had A ros-
olution was adopted, on motion of Charles E.
Within, to furnish each member of the compa-
ny from that vicinity, now at Camp Scott,
with rubber overcoats.
NGIlIbury.
No regular celebration came off in this town,
but a private party Of about fifty, including
gletary Pond, where the day was most agree
ably spent in social way. At noon they sat
down to regular Rhode Island clam bake,
got up under the direction of Mr.. Penniman,
other refreshments of various kinds. Sing
ing, bathing, and other invigoratlng exercises
occupied large portion OF the time. Music
was furnished by the Quadrille Band from
West Millbury, the bass viol of which was
played by little girl not over II wears of age.
Framinghnm.
The Fourth was celebrated under the au
spices of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery So
ciety, at Harmony Grove, birmingham, in an
exceedingly pleasant manner. Large delega-
ticns OF the liberty loving populations of Wor-
cester, Boston, Milford and other places,
focked thither to spend the day, and many of
the most noted and eloquent of the antslave-
ry orators were present. The grove is an
exceedingly pleasant one, well situated and
fitted up, with the beautiful sheet of water,
called Farm Pond, close at hand, with facilities
for sailing and boating. Every one seemed to
enjoy the occasion, aud to find friends in plen-
ty.
Edmund Quincy presided over the delibera.
items at the speakers stand, opening the meet
ing by short anti-slavery speech. L. H.
Haywood followed in some very animated and
piquant remarks. Rev. james Freeman Clarke
also made an earnest argumentative speech.
The speakers nearly all expressed their conf
dence in the administration, though criticizing
its proceedings quite freely, and sympathized
with the great masses of the north. Mr..
Clarke made feicitous allusion to the great
comet now in the heavens, with the great
northern bear upon one side and the north po-
lar star upon the other
In the afternoon Mr.. Wendell Phillips occu.
pied the stand. There was considerable curl
osity to hear him, to know if he still stood by
his Music Hall speech. He spoke eloquently,
as he always does. He considered that the
end of the slave system had come, that there
was an assured sentiment that the Union
either does or shall mean liberty in the end.
He spoke very bitterly of Mr.. Seward, and
quite lovingly of the New York Tribune
Seward, he said, was not honest enough, and
Lincoln not bold enough for the time. One
needed the spur, the other the curb. With
the divine providence of the hour guiding
events, he looked to the unconquerabe will
of the masses for settlement of this question,
not to the party leaders. He hated war, and
this present civil war would be the bloodiest
stain on the century if it meant only the stars
and stripes; it cannot mean the old Union as
it was. That was built by compromises
armies never compromise. We must crush
the element that causes the COZ fict, either by
emancipation or by division. We can discuss
and urge emancipation, although he acknowl
edged that it would be utter ruin for the ad.
ministration at present to announce such
measure, but it must come some time. He al
luded to remark he once made calling Presi-
dent Lincoln the "slave hound of Illinois,"
Now he considered him an honest man, and
hoped soon TO give him the title of "liberator
Of four million slaves" He thought nothing
could be worse than a long civil war. Either we