Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-09-16

mence his march from The Mississippi To paut
| at New Orleans that flag where jackson De.
tended it in 1916 Lold applause The
! brave men Of the northwest, having secured
their harvest, viii rally to his standard.
But Tor US, Tor New York aud New England,
it remains to strengthen the army al Wash
ington and swell the brigades OF Sherman and
Butler along the coast, where they are to win
| other liatierases. You are organizing another
| regiment in Worcester county. | ask you
| who are strong in the vigor and pride of early
manhood to consecrate that manhood to the
cause OF your country Think OF what you
are fighting for Tor the republic, as established
, by great aud good patriots. You are called
| upon to save this broad land of beauty and
| fertility which GGd has given us--to save the
| democratic republic under which toiling mil
| lions have worked out higher civilization
than was ever before possible-called upon to
save this continental empire ct ours against
| rebellion, fOstered and nursed by cause that
is now well understood / ask you leave your
! wives, your children, your fathers, mothers,
sisters-ln leave these beautiful fields and viii
| lagos of old Massachusetts, and follow The flag
| of the country--to do soldiers duty, and, if
| need be, suffer a soldiers death. ask you to
| go with the resolution that so far as any act
of yours is concerned, that act shall be Tor the
| preservation of liberty, and the overthrow of
| ever thing that impers it in the land.
Standing here tonight, | appeal to the young
| men to rise to the magnitude Of the crisis.
| You are fighting not only for the soil, but 10
| preserve the constitution our fathers made to
secure the blessings OF liberty. Renewed
| cheering
He alluded to his regiment and was proud
to say that it was more than full, and that
probably he sh uld raise three regiments.
While he should be glad to have Worcester
IL, HON lye Ia Cd TN
them to enroll their names in the regiment OF
Upton and Sprague He knew them TO be
true and devoted men. He believed they
would toll day aud night for the good of the
I men who should entrust themselves to their
charge, and he hoped the coming week would
see ii organized. He would say to the men
who were to be officers, that their first and
highest duty was TO watch over, to care for
| and nurse as tenderly as they would children,
| the men who trusted their lives to their keep
ing; and to the men he said their first and
highest duty is to obey their officers, and TO
thus secure perfect organization
Col Wilson paid high compliment to Gen.
| Mcclellan, and closed with an earnest appeal
to young men to place their names without
delay upon the muster roll of their regiment.
Hon. A. II. Bullock was next introduced, and
spoke as follows, frequently interrupted by
enthusiastic and generous applause =
SPEECH OF HON. A. II. BULLOCK.
Mr. Mayor and Feiioo Citizens III had
much TO say, or il this were any ordinary oc-
casion, should deem it eXpedient to conGiliate
you by apology. But the able and excellent
remarks OF our friend, the senator,-himselt
the commander Of regiments, lave rendered
my duty absolutely brief one, and the eXer-
| else OF your patience comparatively easy.
The objects Of the meeting appear TO me
half accomplished if we apprehend the mag
] nitude OF the national crisis. This presence
/ is itself an illustration of the exigency which
summons us. This attendance, these cheering
countenances, we have seen here before, when
the hall was lighted, and its arches echoed for
political success and party victories. But
THIS bond and tie of unity, in which all hearts
are as one, palpitatlng with common hope,
melted together with an intensity of patriotism
that comes only from the baptism of blood
this betukehs another era and new consecra'
ton. The contests, successes, defeats, and
illumnatons OF the past are eXtingulshed.
The whole scene, all the thoughts and diver.
stiles of men, have been changed in an hour.
The guns which We're leveled at Fort Sumter,
leyeled all distinctions of party, and loyal men
everywhere are brothers. We are struggling
for national lite. The nation itself is in arms
to maintain lis unity and government. Hith
erto slumbering III our prosperity, we nave at
last been awakened by the shock Of open re-
bellion to contemplate the value of the gov
eminent, and the necessity at all hazards and
| by every conceivable sacrifice, OF rescuing it
from the perlls which are threatening to en-.
gull it.
The meeting is called of call who are in ia
vor OF vigorous prosecution of the war" l
| should like to see a meeting of all who are not
| in favor OF a vigorous prosecution of TIE war.
| Some few such have been attempted in the
state of Connecticut, but they were instantly
| squeched b. an indignant people. And, sir,
| what citizen is not III favor Of his own honor
ard his own existence? What citizen is base
enough to covet Tor himself prematurely
grave SO disgracetul that the worm which
should prey upon his body would be purity
! itself in comparison with the heart of its vic
| tim And yet such a man would be an angel
| of light in comparison with him who is will
| ing that this government should go down to
| An untimel and ignomnious tomb, SO long as
| an arm or dollar is left to defend it. Any
doubt about vigorous prosecution of the
war! Any doubt about preserving our CAPT
tai, oar Union, our liberty, the memories of
the grand and solemn past the glories OF the
present, the inheritance OF our children! Any
doubt about our raising another regiment from
the city and county of Worcester, when the
earth elsewhere is trembling under men who
are uniting their hands aud measuring their
tread for the conflict? Why, sir, at the ex.
preston OF such hesitation methinks the bones
of old jackson are already reinvesting them.
selves with the habiliments of life, ana prepar-
ing TO burst forth from his bed in his own dis
honOred Tennessee and walk forth for revenge
among us. Are we hesitating, when the liv.
ing appeals OF Lincoln and the dying testm0-
ny OF Douglas are stirring up nation OF vol
unteers in the west The blood of the brave
LYON is crying to us from tie ground Our
own SONS and brothers are already in the field,
and from the command of the gallant Ere
mont, and ROsencranz, and Wool and heroic
| young Mcclellan, they are calling to us for
help. They can defend themselves as they
are. But that is not enough. A quarter of a
million more men are wanted, to bear the flag
into every inlet aud plant it upon every cape
from the mouth OF the Chesapeake to the Mis-
| issippl new regiments are wanted to pene.
irate to the launts OF the Union loving people
in Tennessee and North Carolina and Virgin.
ia, to carry our unfolding sympathies to them
at the point Of the bayonet, and to extend
over them the protection of the government
until they can uphold the flag on their own
soil. By our aid they shortly can and will do
it; without our help, timely and abundant, all
may be lost.
If money is wanted it must be had And
let us make the beginning onight by pedgmg
| our faith to the government and our conf
dence in its securities. Sorne of our banks
have already donz largely and well, and | hon
| or their managers for the action. But we have
| yet TO bring this subject to our own individual