The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-18
The Motfolk 2ost
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1865.
Massachusetts, Republication.


Massachusetts, Republicanism.
The Massachusetts Republican Con-
vention met at Worcester, in that State,
on Thursday, and nominated the follow
ing ticket:
For Governor-A. III. BULLOCK, of
Worcester.
Lieutenant Governor-WM. CHAPLIN,
of Newton.
Auditor General-H. S. BRIGGS, of
pittsfield.
State Treasurer--JACoB III. LOUD, of
Plymouth.
Attorney-G eneral-CHEsTER I. REED,
of Taunton.
Secretary of State-OLIvER WARNER,
of Northampton.
For some of the minor offices there
were several candidates, but there was
universal acquiescence in the choice
made for these, while on the candidates
for Governor and Lieutenant-G Governor
there was a foregone determination that
they should be Messrs. Bullock and
Clafin. l,b
Mr.. Charles Sumner was President of
the Convention, and made an elaborate
speech. He closed by saying:
For myself, fellow-citizens, pardon
me If | say that my course is fixed
Others may hesitate; others may turn
away from those great truths, which
make the far reaching brightness of the
republic others may seek a temporary
favor by a temporary surrender. l shall
not. The victory of blood which has
been so.painfully won, must be confirm
ed by a greater victory of ideas, SO that
the renowned words of Abraham Lin
coin may be fulfilled, and this g nation
under God, shall have o new birth q
freedom, and government of the peopl,
by ~the"people, and for the people shal
not perish from the earth" To thi
end l seek no merely formal Unior
seething with smothered curses, but
practical, moral and political unit,
founded on common rights knit togethe
by q common interests, and inspired b.,
acommon faith, where OR constitution
interpreted anew, shall be a covenan
with life and a league with Heaven, ant
liberty shall be everywhere not only
right but aduty. John Brown ON hi
way to the scaffold, where he was Il
atone with life for q deed of self-sacri
flee, stopped to take up a slave child
That closing act the legacy of tn
dying nan to his country & That bene
dictiOn we must continue and fulfil. Th
last shall be first; and so in this new o.
der, equality, long postponed, shall b,
come the master principle of our syf
tenn and the very frontispiece of OF
constitution. The rebellion was to be,
downthis principle hy founding-a 60,
ernment on the alleged "inferiority of
race.n Taking up the gauntlet, / no
insist that the insolent assumption
the conspirators shall not prevail. TIL
is not the.first time that L have battle
with the barbarism of slavery. I bait
still, as the bloody monster retreatsito i
last citadel, and, God willing, l mean
+" fight it out on this line If it takes
what remains to me of life.t
The Resolutions were elaborate, and
careful exposition of the attitude of Ma
sachusetts Republicans on the question
of the day. They pledge their spppo
to President johnson to re-establis
Government among the States recent
in revolt ION the basis of good and exa
Justice to ALL" While they would Wis
those specially guilty of treason vii
condign punishment they would infi
none uponthe great mass of the Rebel
but insist upon such reformation in the
claws and customs" as is indispensab
i to a perfect pacification and union.
r They promulgate no theories in relate
$ to general suffrage, but avow that l
: test shall be made or encouraged tn
! shall admit the late Rebels to the ele
e tive franchise and exclude the 10y
e colored people of the South; and the
! call upon Congress to maintain the pu
lie faith toward the Freedmen. Tn
further declare that the people lately
rebellion cannot safely be trusted wi
9 political power till they have prov
their acceptance of the results of t
war, and have secured by Constitution
provisions to all men (colored), amol
them, their %inalienable rights Ito vot'
!; The Resolutions show unmistakab
that Massachusetts will consent to
reconstruction that does not eradica
1t, all seeds of the Rebellion and establi
n a new condition of society at the Sou
b. as a necessary consequence OF its 81
preston and the abolition of Slavery
as This is a species of dictation from o
State to another, not often ventur
III upon, ar ~ smainst to be SEEM" WI
will COM, Gen. Butler made
elaborate speyvh; but no report of
he has vet come to hand.
The antagonism SO far developed
the reconstruction policy of the Pre-
. don't seems TO be headed by Thadde