Springfield 1636-1886, History of Town and City, by Mason A. Green ...

398 SPRINGFIELD, 1636-1886.
dence that there was a new President. Lombard's successor was
Albert Morgan. A protest, signed by a majority of the business men
of the town, was forwarded to Washington ; but it was useless. It
was the day of Jacksonianism, with all that implies. November,
1829, Charles Howard was appointed paymaster and military store-
keeper at the armory, vice John Chaffee, whicli caused the anti-
administrationists again to cast reflections upon the '' new scheme of
rewards and punishments." Major Howard was said to have been, in
1823, one of tlie only three Jaclvsou men in tlie county.
In 1829 William B. Calhoun was unanimously elected speaker of
the House of Representatives, at Boston, the first time in its history,
which caused the '
' Boston Courier " to remark tliat the Connecticut
valley " may feel proud of its present distinction." Samuel Lathrop,
of West Springfield, it will be remembered, was at this time president
of the Senate.
The Fourth of July of 1830 was celebrated by the colonization
society of the local branch, of which Samuel Bowles was secretar}^
by special contributions taken in the churches, the Fourth falling on
Sunday. On Monday there was the usual celebration on the liill,
managed by the Jacksoniaus, while the Hampden Guards paraded
with Henry Clay banners, and dined at the Springfield hotel. Some
enterprising women of tlie town organized a patriotic tea-party the
day following at Worthington grove, east of the Worthington house.
The Springfield artillery were encamped there under Captain Dwight
a liberty-pole had been put up and hung with evergreens, and sup-
porting astral lamps properly decorated. The tea was followed by
music, dancing, and a gay time generally, participated in by over a
thousand people.
Masonry and politics were becoming wofully mixed. The anti-
masonic party had put up Samuel Lathrop, of West Springfield, as
candidate for governor against Levi Lincoln. Indignant " national
republicans " of the county met at Springfield November 1, 1831,
Festus Foster, of Brimfield, in the chair, and Samuel Bowles secre-
;