Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-16
CITY AND COUNTY.
Republican County Convention.


convention was called to order byJ. Z. Tuck
er, Esq, chairman of the county committee.
On motion of Col. ARENAS Lee of Tenn
pleton, Il committee of seven were appointed
to select permanent officers of the conven-
ton, who reported as follows;
President-Hon A II Bullock of Worcester.
Vice Presidents-Hon Alyah Croker of Fitch
burg; Hon Asaph Wood of Gardner; Bonum Nye
of North Brookdeld; IL Staples of Milford.
Secretaries-James II Davis Of Milford; Henry j
Lowe of Fitchburgi Henry Goddard of Barre
Col. Bullock, on taking the CHAR briefly
and eloquently addressed the convention,
eliciIing the heartiest applause. He spoke in
substance as follows:
Gentlemen Of the Contention Thanking
you for the confidence implied in your selec-
ton of me as your presiding officer, after a
moment or two | will ask your attention to the
immediate business for which we were chosen.
We have assembled for the discharge of easy
duties, resting upon us in our local relations
as citizens. But while we come together for
a purpose which is so simple in its character
and which may be so briefly accomplished, let
! us feel, in the performance of even the
! lightcst trust, in period like the present, that
we are acting in sympathy, and that our
! ueHTlS anu our COHFlCllDuS are Ill SO Ilpdtlly,
| with loyal and patriotic men everywhere,
| whether preparing for action at the polls or
on the field of war. One tie, one sentiment,
one oath binds us together.
We may well congratulate ourselves that
since the assembling OF our last convention as
| citizens of the ancient and patriotic county of
| Worcester, public affairs have greatly changed
and improved. We have witnessed the arms OF
| the Union advancing to repeated and decisive
| successes; the rebellion, driven from its orig
inal assertion of jurisdiction in eleven states,
and practically cornered into five; the policy
| of the president and of congress sustained
| alike by the citizen voter and the citizen sol
| der; the social and political institution,
which has been the primary and proXimatc
| cause of our woes, surrounded, scOrched, in
| some measure consumed by the blazing fire
| which atree people have lighted on its flank
and in its rear cloud cheers all nationalities
| and races in the country steadily merging in
| the irreversible determination that the cOnsti-
| tuition in the spirit of its trainers, the flag of
the Union as the flag of the free, shall prevail
on every inch of our territory. (Appause.)
Nor let us forget gentlemen, that the day
of peril and of duty is not yet passed. Doubt
less it is in reserve for us,-when, or where,
or how often, it is not permitted us to know
that we shall again be visited with the alter
udllOlIS VI NlClOFl anu uSledts AOuDlleSS our
patience, our firmness, our devotion to the
fortunes appointed by Providence to our af-
flicted nation, our readiness to make any and
every sacrifice in her behalf, may again and
again be summoned to the test. And in all
the unknown future, yes to be opened before
US, | know but one rule or standard of action
and duty,-to stand, TO STAND by the presi-
dent of the United States in all his measures
and policies of war. (Applause.) Massa-
chusetts has stood by him with her resources.
with her hearts, with her arms and she will
continue to give him her supporting shoulder,
through all emergencies, if need be, till the
last reverberation OF victory shall be heard
mingling its melody with the last clank of the
falling manacles of human bondage. (Great
cheerlng.) Worcester county will stand by
him-her citizens will support him with their
ample and consolidated ranks, firm as a wall
of adamant. Here and there possibly, now
and then perhaps, in Massachusetts and in
whisper Of that c5hdhdnar io "a ea W rhf
signs for peace however ignominious, for
compromise however humihating, the
mighty heart of her people as whole will not
at any time falter, and their united voices will
Qverwhelm and drown whatever feeble utter
ances may escape the lips of the timid or the
recreant tor the flesh pots OF Egypt.
And l may congratulate you that the people
| of other states are sending forth their notes of
| hope, and faith, and triumph, in sympathy
with the government With pride and pleas
| ure point you to the illuminations which
have recently flooded the great states of Ohio
and Pennsylvania. (Great cheering.) When
| our convention assembled here last year we
| had 10 this respect far less cause for telicita-
| ton and encouragement. We saw both those
great states just then exhibiting signs Of tedi-
um and reaction III the service Of Union and
Liberty; and we apprehended, what we soon
| after realized, that like dismal shadow was
| about to pass over the Empire State. Quite
possibly it was well that it should be so. For
| in the year that has passed the people of those
states have had an opportunity to put to the
| test the professions of the men who wanted
| to conquer the most stupendOus rebellion re-
| corded in history without hurting any oudy's
| feelings, or damaging anybOdy's property,
| interfering with anybody's chains; they have
| tried the men who wanted quar- ter part Of a
nation, rs rebels in arms and in blood deep as
| HotSpur, to be treated tenderly as "erring
| sisters" or ''miSguided brethren ;" for twelve
months they have been learning the motives
of the men whose policy, when in power, has
| been to compel the president of the United
| States to carry on this colossal war upon
peace principles. As they have tried them,
| so at last they have found them out. And how
| gloriously, day before yesterday, rising to the
majesty of the elective franchise, the people
| of these states repudiated the counselS of
these men and tumbled THEM neck and heels
| into the slough of disgrace and humiliation!
| Vallandgham may now smother or give vent
| to his subliEated treason,-but it must be in
| Canada, or in the Bahamas, or in the West
Indies, or in the Orknevs, or the Lord knows
where,-it cannot be in Ohio. (Vociterous