Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-25

with us here to-day, and with them we cal
fraternize and act. Close upon the victorie
at Gettysburg have come to us the decisive
successes upon the Mississippi. The grea
river flows with her tribute streams proudly
to the gulf, and no rebel stronghold intercept
the loyal commerce that peacefully vexes heI
free waters. Honor to Grant, the hero o
Vicksburg and to the brave Porter, his adj
mlral and ally, and honor to Banks, the victol
OF Port Hudson. The west and the east have
Joined hands, and shall not be parted forever
more. Victory has followed victory-Chat-
tanooga, Knoxville, Cumberland Gap-Rose-
Grams, and Burnside, and Sherman! What
shall we say Of them? what shall the country
not say eff them and for them and their hero
soldiers! Ard of Gilmore and Dahlgren on
Morris Island, and in the waters near Charles
toni
But while we remember our valiant SOL
diers, let us never forget the heroism at Port
Hudson, and Fernandina, and Fort Wagner,
where the black soldier first fought for the
stars and stripes. All honor to those men,
brothers in arms and fellow fighters for free
dom. Let them fight, and let them conquer.
Who have better right to fight for The Union
iii South Carolina than those men for whose
oppression Sonth Carolina began this war for
slavery?
But all these victories are bringing near to
us some questions which Massachusetts must
discuss and help to answer. After victories
come peace, and with peace comes reunion.
But how? North Carolina and Tennessee,
bone of her bone, will soon seek in some way
to throw off the tyrants yoke and be restored
again, honored and trusted and beloved as
they were of old Louisiana and Florida,
South Carolina and Georgia, Mississippi and
Alabama, Arkansas and Texas, will all in
their turn and in some way seek to come again
under the folds OF the national flag. BY our
recent successes the traitor confederacy has
been deprived Of more than half its territorial
strength and more than half its population
If foreign powers do not intervene for slave
ry, there is no fair room for doubt that in Il
few months the federal government will have
overcome the organized rebellion. Predatory
aud guerrilla war may be for awhile contin-
ued. But when the great armies now in the
field are destroyed, the power of the govern
ment will be confessed and the body of this
this great treason will be controlled.
w hat shall be done then, and how shall it
be done! Our Union must be restored, and
so restored that in no future age can such re-
bellIon be renewed. Our children's children
must not have to fight over again the battles
for freedom in which our brothers and our
sons have fallen. One generation of young
men is enough to ransom nation from slave
ry. We have sinned, and in these years have
expiated our otiense by the best blood of our
most beloved. And now, speaking for myself
having no authority to commit friends or par
ty, but declaring my own deepest convictions,
L say that to secure to this land permanent
peace 1t must be ordained that no slave can
stand upon our soil or breathe the air that
lifts upward our stars and stripes. Then true
resi- will be found and brotherly love; and we
shall have indicated the promises and the
faith OF the fathers.
by wfot Ps0Sooose, iu,'.Ivdi->to grauuaI,
ordered by the state, by president or congress,
this browning work is to be done, must before
long be determined. If military necessity re-
quireS it, it may be done by one great act Of
emancipation, providing compensation to 10y
al owners and securing freedom to all. 1t
may be by second completed proclamation
by the president, which God grant lie may
have faith TO make. 1t may be made as to the
seeded states the condition precedent to a
restoration of forfeited rights. These are
rebel states, and have lifted up their defiant
hand against the life of the nation. They are
traitor states, for they have ''levied war"
against the Unien. They are belligerent
states, and have carried on that war by con.
federate armies, organized and paid from their
common treasury. They may be declared
forfeit of their rights, or conquered enc
mics compelled to submit to terms. | know
not how it will be done; but pray that when
the time for decision comes, the voice of
Massachusetts may give no uncertain sound,
but may speak for that peace which shall en-
dure. We have been compelled to ''take
the sword" Let us ''seek with it peace in
freedom"
Gentlemen of the convention, our especial
work may be quickly performed. We are
here to select suitable candidates to offer to
the voters of Massachusetts, for the state of
fees which the law has made elective by the
people. 1t is not my part to Indicate or to
prophecy what may be your action. know
a man who SO quickly answered the first call
to arms that Massachusetts troops were earli-
est in the field and offered the first sacrifice
Of blood. l know a man who has held the
helm of state so wisely and so well, that the
even keel has kept her course through tenn
pest and through storm; and men say, ''Look
at Massachusetts,! See where she stands ~
Do you know him? If you do, let him be our
governor.
And when fit nominations have been made,
we may. according to our usage, give such
formal expression of our judgment upon the
grave questions of the day, as we believe
shall fairly represent the judgment of our
commonwealth. May the faith Of the fathers
be seen in the work of the sons!
Mr.. Macy of Nantucket, after some com
plimentary allusion to the model governor,
moved the denomination by reclamation of
JOHN A. ANDREW for the Office of gov
ernor of this commonwealth. Hon. A. II.
Bullock seconded the motion, speaking of his
acquaintance with the sterling ability, energy,
industry and volcanic patriotism with which
Mr.. Andrew had performed the arduous du-
ties of his office. He thought it not extrava-
giant to say that Massachusetts may submit
with pride the records of her executive de-
partment by the side of any other state in the
Union. Mr.. Bullock was greeted with hearty
cheers.
The question was put and adopted with an
enthusiastic AYE. When the president asked
for the noes, deep silence reigned through
out the hall, in which a pin dropping to the
floor could have been heard. The silence
was at last broken by the most enthusiastic
cheering.
On motion of Gov. Boutwell,, committee
on resolutions was appointed, consisting OF
Messrs. Boutwell,, w. S. Robinson, James
Richie, Il. &. Pitman, Cakes Ames, Charles
dale, Isaac Livermore, S. IL. Phillips, George
Washington Warren, John Wright, +. w
Bird, Geo. Whitney and L. f. Jenks.i
The following members of the state govern
ment were then unanimously renOminated fol