The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-20
"A SENATOR DISGUsTED," AND A SEN
ATOR REELECTED.


The circumstances which have attended the resg-
naiion and then the election, Of Mr. Besn to the
United States Senate, have been among the most
remarkable political phenomena Of the day His
party in the first place determined in CAUCUS to take
up some whig more acceptable to the people Of
Georgia, ard more identified with the existing ,cLig
opinions OF that State, to supply the place of this
talented but capricious senator. The caucus ruled
Mr.. Berrien ont, and nominated another, (Juige
Dousherty) Why was that done The reasons,
il we were to assume the province Of presenting them
are easily collected; and what is more, they are so
strong or should be strong with every anti-tarff
wing in the State Of Georgia, that are much at a
loss account for the reversal of the first decision
against Mr.. Berrien. Why ea, that decision re-
versedi What new claim on the score Of fidelity
what claim on the score Of his present opinions
about the tariff Of l842-can MIR. Berrien have to
the position which a southern and an anti tariff
State has, strangely enough, determined he should
continue to occupy There was time when we
would ioyfully have echoed the praises of Mr.. Ber-
rien. There was time when we did add the trib-
ute Of our praise, and the homage Of our good opn-
ion, whatever il was worth, to that general admra-
ton felt in all the South for Mr.. Berrien. There
was time when the friends Of free trade and of
Sate-righ,s principles hailed him their defender
and as the author of that powerful address in oppo
ston to protective tariff which emanated from
the freetrade convention of Philadelphia. But we
have lived To witness with modification, the aban-
donment by the Georgia senator Of all that once
excited our regard for him as politician. I'M
happily brough, in association with men whom
Mr.. Berrien had In his early manhood and in his
later days opposed, we see the baleful effects
which have ensued.
II is most apparent that the party friends of this
gentleman have been staggered about what course
they were to pursue-whether it was not bounden
duty to throw Judge Berrien overheard, for desert
ing the principles of Georgia in relation to the tariff
as well as to Texas. This was the first impulse; and,
in obedience to il, the preliminary step taken.
But change came over the spirit Of the wing legs-
lsture of Georgia. Mr. Berrien is continued.
Wherefore On account of his talents and their de-
voiion to the wing cause' III they have at the
same time been exerted against the best interests of
the people of his own State.
correspondent, in abiding to the senatorial cleo
ton in Georgia, remarks, that "The wings were
precptated into nomination, and Judge Berrien
was excluded by overwhelming majority Of his
partisans. He Instantly resigned the commission
which he held. Such rebuke he considered most
unkind from his associates in the support Of the
federal cause. II was unknd, but at the same time
severe reflection upon their own want of integrity
They abandoned their former principles with their
eyes open; and is not that he betrayed them into
this course that they have now sacrificed him, but
because success did not attend it." But the wings
seem, upon 'sober second thought" to have come
to the conclusion oour correspondent, and, stricken
with remorse, have determined to hold on to Mr..
Berrien at the sacrifice Of the interests Of the State
of Georgia-at the sacrifice Of principles and meas
ures, which that State will not much longer lend
her influence in resisting.
The wings, then, have once more returned
TO Judge Berrien, whom they had repudiated
and disgusted-to him, who, in moment Of
dignifed resentment, threw up the fragment of
the office which he held; and who, driven out
from their party by the ostracism OF the caucus,
threatened 10 divide its ranks. They relent.
ed in their design, or their conscience became
awakened by their fears; and, with infrmi,y Of
with which they turned him adrih from their party,
they again rallied in caucus upon him, rensminated
him with reclamation, and in the legislature elect
ed him for the remainder Of his term--~the aspira
lions of Judge Dawson and Judge Dougherty to the
contrary notwithstanding. The whole coup de hedire
is strange and amusing. Judge Berrisn now returns
to the Senate of the United States with the scathing
brand upon him ofths original caucus scarcely oblit
Grated He returns under cloud which il il impos-
sbls TO penetrats. No one knows whether hehas the
confidence of the wings Of Georgia or not. No one
knows whether they are anti-tariff and anti-Texss
men, or whether he is. No one knows whether he is
to carry ont his own principles or iheirs--in fact,
what their present principles, and what are not p
whether the wings Of Georgia are tariff or anii-tn-
riff, Texas or anti-Texas; whether they friends
or enemies of MIR. Clay. The whole is mystery.
Mr. Berrien was reelected to the Senate Of the
United States on the l4th, from which he had retired
but a few days before in disgust with his party.
The state Of the ballots was as follows: Mr.. J. M.
Berrien, 80; j. Fl. Howard, 81; blink |.