Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-12

the convention TO the work before them.
Committees were then appointed as follows:
Organizatiou.-Rodney French, New Bedford;
W P Beals, Chicopee; Chas Rowland Plymouth;
G G Parker, Milford; Brown, Pittsfeld.
Credentials.-Charles Almy, New Bedford; A
Pope, Brightonj David Manning Worcester; Sher-
man Adams, Westfed; d Grover, Walpole.
Hon. Rodney French from the committee on or
ganiIation, reported the following for officers of
the convention, which list was adopted by the
convention:
President.-Nathaniel Banks.
Vice Presidents.-F W Bird, Wapole; Hiram
Nash Williamsburg; Henry L Sabin, Williams
town; Smith r Phillips, Springfield James Sum-
Lowell; Rev W Reyes, Webster; Gustayus Fox,
Lowell; HiC Ewing, HOyoke ;IJohn SiFarlow, New
ton; Cook, Northampton; Seymour Rockwell.
Montague; C A Shepard, Geo Curtis, Boston;
Rev A Miner, Boston; John Mason, Worces-
ter; Frank Davis, Lawreuce Erastus Stebb ms,
Chicopee James NJ Freeman, Franklin; Rodney
French, New Bedford; John A Burnett, Salem;
DIR f IL Kelley, Worcester; VIM Fletcher, West
feld james Connors, Fall River; John Mans
ner, Milton; Il Parker, Worcester; Prince Crow
ell, Dennis; Alvah Morrison Braintreei George H
Munroe, Roxbqryi Henry Walker, Boston; J NJ
Usher Medford; Rev Richard Eddy, Gloucester;
Geo Pratt, West Roxbury; Albert A Pope, Bright
on, Geo + Very, Worcester; Daniel Aiken, Green
field; H. Gammel, Pittsfeld; J Rice, Spring
Secretaries.-S Pierce, Boston; R C Durham.
Boston; W Potter, Worcester; B F Winslow, Fall
hlNeft Ii ID FHllllps, AudIust . a NICHOLS, Pitts
field.
Gen. Banks was conducted to the chair by
Gen. Cook of Northampton and DR.. Martin of
Worcester. Upon reaching the platform he was
greeted with loud applause, eliminating in three
cheers. Gen. Banks said that it was with great
pleasure that he accepted the distinguished
honor conferred upon him, for it furnished him
with an opportunity for successful labor with
the liberal republicans. 1t was now sixteen
years since he took any active part in a state
convention. Sixteen years ago, against the ad-
vice and remonstrance of political associates, he
took occasion to condemn and resist the
enroachment of the government at that
time, and spoke in just terms of the attack
made on the floor of the United States senate
on distinguished aud honored senator. This
allusion to Mr.. Sumner provoked loud and
long continued cheering. Mr.. Banks continu-
ing, said he was here for no personal or party
purpose, but animated by the same spirit which
moved him then to forget personal attachments
and prejudices, and join others to defeat the
entertainments of the government of that day
on the people, he was here to-day on the same
mission. Then the assault on our distinguished
senator was made by minion of the slave DOW
er, now it is the act of the government itself.
Our cause, said the speaker, will give us sue
cess. 1t is the course of our opponents, and the
spirit in which they press it, that will prove
their destruction. Our cause represents per-
feet and absolute equality between man and
man, accompanied by that sublime principle
Of absolute peace and fraternal relations be-
tween all parts Of the country. Abiding to the
result in Maine, he said he saw there what he
never saw before, the government of the United
States represented by its chief executive officers,
the governmental party supplied with money to
an extent never seen in any state before. The
government brought an immense concentrated
and united power to operate in the election and
yet their majority has been cut down twenty
five per cent on the vote preceding the last pres-
dental election. He referred TO the administra-
ton work in the Maine canvas, only to say that
it will be remembered for all time as the event
which will be forever after dishonerable. The
people will rise and make it dsreputable for
such interference to be attempted again at
an election.
But, said Mr.. Banks, thisIis day for act ion.
and am here to unite andco-operate with any,
body who is in favor OF the equal rights of man
and OF reconciliation. When forty millions of
people from all sections ask to be received
into fellowship, am in favor of such reconcilia-
ton. Everywhere we see evidences of the oblit-
GRAFTON Of past asperities With peace comes
greater prosperity than ever before to crown
our industries. Amnesty, reconciliation, ana
OBLIVION Will close over all past strifes and the
noble work to which we are welcomed will re-
suit In blessed success. Let us then, said he,
forget everything, and for the few weeks before
us give our whole strength to the cause.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Mr.. Phillips of
Worcester, after which, on motion of Elizur
.aco1,, 4sf,v,a
pointed as follows:
On Resolutions Elizur Wright and George Fl
Monroe n y, of Boston, q LathFop of Springfield;
az nzzy Ss f GSoSS
IL Humphrey of Marblehead
At this point a committee from the demo-
cratic convention made its appearance amid
considerable applause, and made the announce
ment that the democratic convention invited
any communication hich the liberal republican
convention might think proper to make, and
Messrs. F. W. Bird, George Fl. Monroe and Geo.
A. Shaw were appointed committee to visit the
democratic convention and inform that body
that committee would be appointed to confer
with one from that convention. That committee
was subsequently announced as follows:
Committee on Conference Charles 6 Davis, Ply
mouth; Geo H Munroe, Boston; Geo A Shaw, Bos-
ton; DIR J & Forman, Lynn; Francis Proctor, Glou-
e efy Joseph Austin, Lawrenee; VIM Schouler,
Boston; j NJ Usher, Medford; II w Muzzy, Cam.
bridge, Chester Snow, Harwich.
The best method of choosing senatorial, coun.
ty, councillor, and congressional district CON-
mittees was discussed by Messrs. Carpenter of
Foxboro, Davis of Plymouth, Usher of Med
ford, Col. Schouler and others, and was settled
by the convention voting in favor of leaving all
but the senatorial district committees to be desig-
mated by the state central committee. The SEN
atoral district committees were then nominated
nv the TpnrpspOtafiVpS pf tho Il
follows:
Senatorial District Committees Geo Kennedy,
Worcester; Geo G Parker Milford; Edward Sar.
gent Leicester; Ira Bailey, Atho; B w Slmonds,
bins Chicopee; Gen 3 Cook, Northampton: BIZ
.hgs falIner Great harrington; a G Brown, Pitts
field w ii Clements, Lowell; Joseph Eyerdeen,
Chelsea; Walter l. Gardner Boston; John A Bas-
sett, Salem; Geo Colby, Newburyport; DR. S
L Young, Gloucester VIM II DeCosta, Charles
Cambridge; Geo Allen, Newton; John sh1pmaI2'
Marlboro; Nelson Cochrane Melrose; Geo Pratt
West Roxbury; Q Gray, Hyde Park i w Bird,
North Bridgewater; Alvah Morrison, Braintree;
VIM 81 Fisher, Attleboro; VIM Robertson, Fall
river; Howes Norris, Edgsrtown; VIM Tarr,
Westheld; D Bardwell, Shelburne.
Hon. George II. Monroe, from the committee
on resolutions, reported the following, which
were received with applause and adopted:
RESOLUTIONS.
by the Cincinnati convention as thoroughly repub-
ican, democratic and patriotic and the fact that in
its full recognition of the equality of the colored
race it has been accepted along with tried and true
candidates, by an overwhelming majority of the ma
tive white population of the lately seeded states
makes II TREATY OF PEACE, which, If ratified as
it should be by the election of the candidates will
forever and gloriously close the deplorable war
which has devastated the SOUTH openly or coyertly
for the last twelve years,
2. Resolved, that the party now in power has
violated its pledge contained in the inaugural of
President Grant to give their country an honest
currency on specie basis; it has robbed the peo-
pie and wasted the public domain by squandering
1t upon greedy and fraudulent corporations; II has
introduced into the administration the ideas and
practices Of personal government to an extent
without precedent in the history of the country,
and is alike mischteyous in its present results and
alarming in what it threatens for the future, and
that in its policy toward the southern section OF
the country, in place OF promoting that reconeilia-
ton which was its obvious duty 1t has embittered
the hostility between different classes and arrayed
the white and black races against each other IN
manner that is fatal to the best interests of the ma
tion and most of all, pernicous to the welfare of
that coored of which it assumes to be the es-
pecial protector.
8. Resolved, that we cordially endorse Horace
Greeley and Is. GratZ Brown as eminently fit for the
posts assigned them by the two great national con.
yentions, and we pronounce the constantly reite-
rated pretence that the rights of the freedmen will
be less secure under their administration wanton
insult to the intelligent people of the nation and
dishonest attempt TO retain power in bad hands by
imposing upon the ignorant and credulOus.
Resolved, that Hon. Charles Sumner by his efforts
haEd