Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-31

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ham, Cox and the Woods, to represent them
in the congress of the United States? Not a
man of them.
THE OPPOSITION IN MASSACHUSETTS,.
Well, gentlemen, these defeats have en-
couraged movement here in our own COM
monwealth of Massachusetts. The other dav
we had convention assembled in Faneuil
hail, and the next day convention assem-
pied IN the city of Worcester to ratify the do
lngs OF the Faneuil hall convention. Now |
maintain gentlemen, that in object, in purpose,
IN prlnclple and in policy, those two conven-
uons must be taken as one and the same.
MT. John Z. Tucker of Boston, who united
with Mr.. Joel Parker, Mr. Josiah G.. Abbott
the Count johannes (laughter) and Others. in
the Faneuil hall convention, went nm 70 the
city ct Worcester and told that convention at
Worcester, the next day, that the democrats
got the conservative republicans to get nm
that conventions; that they coaxed and forced
and begged them into that convention. and
that if the democratic convention would only
endorse their doings, the next year all these
conservative republicans would come To the
bosom OF the democratic party. And Mr.
Wells, recently from Maine, he too main
tanned in the democratic convention the same
doctrine. And Mr.. Stevens of Boston, in or
der to induce his reluctant democratic friends
to ratify the dongs of this Faneuil hall meet
ing, told them that the resolutions passed at
that meeting, rightly construed, were con-
domination OF the proclamation of the presi-
dent of the United States. Mr. Tucker said
that judge Abbott had scrutinized those reso-
buttons, and had declared that they were good
enough democratic resolutions for him.
THEIR QUALIFIED LOYALTY
We have the 81 tboeo o,,,,a..
tions before us. | want to call your attention
to some of the acts of that Faneuil Hall con-
vention, and of the other convention, too; for
l must treat them, l suppose, as two conven-
tons, although they were one in spirit, one in
purpose, and one in principle This Fanueil
Hall convention was called to sustain the pres
ldent OF the United States against his friends;
against such gentlemen as the senator from
New Hampshire, and Mr.. Sumner and other
senators and representatives who have stood
by the president in sunshine and in storm
during the last eighteen months. But when
tins convention assembled the president of the
United States had sent out that great procla-
nation of freedom, and this convention could
not endorse that proclamation; they could
not endorse that act Of the president; but
they did resolve that they would support the
president in his rightful authority-his giqht-
fW autho9ityl And then they declared that
they should hold the president responsible be.
fore God and the country for the exercise of
his constitutional powers. This was the
qualified support the'Faneuil Hall convention
gave to the president of the United States.
1hey condemned the action of the republican
convention because they simply resolved to
stand by the government of the country; they
thought that was not strong enough, because
1t did not say, explicitly, the president of the
United States, and they met and resolved that
they Will support the president i'll his righffuL
authority; and the whole of that convention,
or nearly every man In it, was against the
proclamation OF the president, and the leaders
had, in pamphlets, in the North American Re-
view, and IN other places, declared their OPP
position to any proclamation. Not content
with taking this position, this convention re-
solved that the government of the country had
involved 1t IN debt Of $4,000, 100000 Now,
the secretary OF the treasury, in a note recent
ly published, says that the debt is $640, 000,-
OOO' and he does not think it patriotic to de-
clare 1t to be S2,0OO,OO0,OOO when it is only
SOiO,OOO,OOO.
MASSACHUSETTS IN CONGRESS.
Not content with that this convention de-
clared that they wanted delegation in con-
greSs that dld not see one thing so clearly that
II saw nothing else; and Judge Abbott declared
tilat we wanted men IN congress OF brains
men VINO mad some knowledge Of manutac-
lures OF commerce, OF the mechanical arts
and OF the fisheries; and Mr.. Linus Child,
who presided over that convention, arraigned
the delegation OF the commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts Tor want OF fidelity to the material
interests OF Massachusetts in the congress of
.he ChlIeu states. NOW, gentlemen, standing
mere oelore you to-nlght say the delegation
VI inns commonwealth IN the congress Of the
ohlCsu olates nave watched with care the ma
teriai interests OF massachusetts, and the ma
Vellai INTERESTS OF New England and the
Lecorus Oh Tie country VIII sustain me IN the
ueclaralloh' (ApplauSe) Did we not take
care OF the interests OF Massachusetts in the
tarlli OF 1921 l)ld we not take care Of them
IN the tariff OF 1861! Did we not take care of
thein in the revision OF the tariff in 1862? In
making TINS great internal tax law, did we not
spend days and nights in watching over the
material interests OF Massachusetts and Now
EhSldnu ana the country! Mr.. Linus Child
himself was one OF the many agents sent by
the business interests OF the country to Wash
ington. to look after the interests of the cotton
manufacturers OF Massachusetts, and at Wash
lngtoh, III the presence OF several members of
the mousse OF representatives, and in the pres
ence OF many others, he declared that the SEN
at0rs OF Massachusetts had carefully watched
over and protected the interests of the state,
and that the cotton manufacturers owed them
debt OF obligation they could never repay.
(Applause.) He said to Mr.. Sumner-aye,
and he put it in writing and sent it in a letter
to Mr.. Sumner-that they owed him great
debt OF obligation, and that he had saved the