Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-06-14

Straiford, Marlborough and Con-
cord. The insolvency of the person
to whom he had entrusted his earn
ings caused his return to Nattick,
where he resumed his trade in 1888.
Having always been close and
| faithful reader, he had accumulated
much valuable information and
gradually become strong man in
the local affairs of his adopted town.
In 1910 he took an active part in
the Presidential canvass and made
many able and telling speeches in
behalf of Gen. Harrison, the wing
candidate. During the next five
years he was three times elected to
the State Legislature from Nattick,
and twice State Senator from Mid
dlesex county. In the Legislature he
was soon known as n jealous oppo-
nent Of slavery, and has ever since
been known rs its uncompromising
foe. He was 4 delegate to the
Wing National Convention in 1913,
and as the Convention failed to pass
anti-slavery resolutions he with
drew from it and took an active part
in organizing the freesoil party
In order to give wider scope to
his views, he purchased the Boston
Republican, which he edited for
two years. In 1910 he was made
chairman Of the frce-soil State COM
mittee, position he held for four
years. In ls5O-5l he was chosen
State Senator and presided over at
body both terms. In 1850 he was
the frce-soil candidate for Congress
in the Sth Dist. of Massachusetts,
and was defeated by only 93 votes,
while the usual majority Of the
Dist. was 1900. In 1855 he was
elected to succeed Edward Everett
in the L. S. Senate, and has been an
active and influential member of
that body ever since, having been
reelected by the Legislature Of
Massachusetts, almost unanimously.
Being a man of strong ability and
unimpcachabie honesty, of indefati
gable energy and ripe experience,
he has occupied 4 leading position
in the Halls Of Congress and the
councils of the nation; has ever been
identified with the reformation of the
party and has probably done more
to relieve the working classes Of UNI
Just and arduoas cnactmcnts and
practices than any other man in the
United States.
We cannot close this very imper
feet review of this truly great man
without giving the following eX-
tracts from his first speeches made
in the L. ). Senate:
Witness his reply to that famous speech ofGov
enor Hammond. of South Carolina, in which
that denlaSogue characterized working men as
mudsils, asserted that. 1.-The hrelins manual Ia
hO-prS - who lived Iy ulilV toll essential
ly slaves 70 these taunts, Mr. Wilson replied:
Sir, am the son Ola hireling, manual labor
err who, with the frost, of seventy winters on
his brow, lives by daily labor" too have been
Il 'hireling manual laborer Poverty cast its
dark IL d chilling shadow over the house of my
childhood and want sometimes there-an
unbiddcn guest y; the age OF ten years to aid
him who gave me being in keeping the gaunt spec
tire from the hearth OF the mother who bore me-
| left the home of my childhood, and went forth
to earn my bread ly daily labor"
Again, his memorable declaration in his first
speech il the United States Senste on the 10th of
February, in which he announced the uncom-
promising position OF himself and the antislav-
cry band;
I'VE mean, sir, 10 place in the councils of the
Nation, men who, in the words OfJeiferson have
sworn the alter Of God, eternal h ostiliy to
every kind ofoppression over the mind and body
of man."
readyto meet agument with argument, scorn with
scorn and if need be- blow with blow. 1t is
time the champions of slavery in the South should
realize the fact that The past is theirsthe future,
ours''
Whether the declarations made
in this speech have been fulfilled,
we leave to the history of the coun-
try and the intelligence Of our
readers.