Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-17

they have not only your admiration and graf
itude for the services they have rendered to
you, but that they can rely upon your cordial
and prompt support, and that they, too, have
their great reserves in the masses of the peo-
pie. Cheers. By this expression the exec
tive will feel assured of an intelligent, harmo-
NOUS, and effective cooperation, and foreign
governments will recognize that we intend to
maintain our historic place in the family of
nations at the head of the great democratic
idea Cheers and that for the sake of liberty
we are resolved to maintain the Union. Loud
cheers
While he was speaking and at the close,
cheer rose above cheer, shout upon shout,
peal upon peal, as if from the cannon's mouth,
and such universal acclanations of welcome
as have rarely been heard. The venerable
Charles King, president OF Columbia college,
made one of the striking speeches of the
occasion.
SPEECH OF HON. CHARLES KING.
FelloW Citizens You see before YOU a
man Of many years, withdrawn by the nature
OF his pursuits from all political affairs, but
yet with II heart that beats as warm toward
the interest, and welfare, and honor of the
country as the youngest in this vast concourse.
We have heretofore lacked
in earnestness Of purpose in the conduct of
the war. We have dealt too mildly with those
whom but little while ago we regarded as
our friends. They are no longer friends, but
deadly enemies. They make war in earnest.
They omit no means of strengthening their
hands and weakening ours. They fight with
no remembrance that we were once brothers.
Why, then, should we remember it? They
fight us like incarnate fiends; let us at least
meet them as our deadliest foes. (Applause)
Let us now go forth and make the war as
fierce and bloody as it is possible for a civil
lied nation to make it. No moderation is
shown to us; let us. show none to them
We are far more powerful in numbers, and
better prepared than our enemies. We have
heretofore acted too much on the defensive;
let us now act on the offensive. (Cheers.)
Let us henceforth strike rapid and constant
blOws-blOws that shall tell. Let us no longer
hear that the Army Of the Potomac is ''sate."
Safe! Great God! The army should be
triumphant Loud applause. We have no
criticism to make | only speak common
sense when l say that war is Il fierce game;
that they only prevail who wage it in earnest
War cannot be waged in silken gloves When
we sendforth our armies, it must be understood
that they go to battle. We have not struck
this rebellion as it ought to have been struck
We ought to have put 1t down with a strong
hand at first. We ought not to have permit
ted rebels to leave their property and go into
the rebel army, and then trust their property
to the magnanimity Of Union soldiers. |
would have confscated their property for the
use of the army. Enthusiastic cheers And
as for the rebel women and children who have
been left to the magnanimity of our troops,
would send them with all tenderness to their
husbands and fathers in rebellion. | would
turn them out of their habtations and place
IN their stead our sick and wounded soldiers.
L would use rebel property, and in every way
possible make those who provoked this war
bear its burdens. Cheers. 1t may be very
magnaninous to spare our enemies but it is
not war. War is fierce and bloody game,
and the tiercer it is the more likely it is TO be
short and decisive. 1t behooyes us to nut
forth such efforts as shall crush this rebellion,
and re-establish the union and the constitu-
ton that our fathers gave us. Loud and
long applause.
SPEECH OF DIR. X. c. HITCHCOCK.
"Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth;
and scourgeth every son whom he receiyeth."
Our reverscs and repulses, one and all, from
Bull Run to the Peninsula have been bles-
sings in disguise. They have turned into
| principles and convictions what before were
only impulses and instincts. They have given
divine temper to our courage. They have
! permitted the people to resolve that this re-
bellion shall be crushed, that the stars in their
courses shall not fight against us but for us.
| Upon the side of the confederacy are six mill
ions of men, or 100000 fighting men, all told.
| Upon our side are twenty millions of men, with
more than two million fighting men, three to
their one, all told. And within their lines
L., -
ny, arms which may be our allies in this
| fight. (Applause) One demand of our
menaced nationality is that we shall put forth
all the strength with which Providence has
clothed us, to put down this rebellion for
once and for all. This is not the counsel of
| our politicians. 1t is not the mad utterance
i OF handful of abolitionists. 1t is as | am
told, to-day by gentleman just from Wash
ington, the almost unanimous demand of our
troops in the field, digging trenches, and stand
ding against those lines belching fire into their
gallant bosoms, that the whole loyal popula-
ton of the country, black, white and gray,
shall fight! This cry comes up from the
ranks Of the army. 1t is coming now in
muttering thunders, but presently will be
heard in full volley. When this cry comes
up from our suffering brothers from the
| trenches in the field, it will be heard and will
be obeyed by the president, by the secretary
of war, by our senate, by our house of re-
personalities, and by the people throughout
the length and breadth of our land, and last
of all-God have mercy on their souls THE
politicians will say "Amen." daughter and
applause.)
Many other speeches were made in the
same temper and excited the highest enthusi-
asm Letters were received and read from
president Lincoln and many distinguished SOL
diers and civilians, among which was the fol-
lowing interesting
LETTER FROM HON. CHARLES SUMNER.
,o oENATE CHAMBER, WASHINGTON, July IA,
loo2'-Dear SRI welcome and honor
your patriotic efforts to arouse the country to
generous, determined, irresistible unity in
support OF our government; but the senate Is
sun IN session, and my present most of dnt,,
morn ei H. a senator cannot leave his post
mo imam soldier But, absent or nres pDf'
'"' cause IN which the people are to assemble