The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-25

Bosros, Sent. 81. ls4s.

BosToN Sept. 81, lS49
The Locofocos of Massachusetts have had con-
vention at Springfield, and nominated George s.
Boutwell,, of Groton, for governor, and Henry w.
Cushman for lieutenant governor. Their address
abounds in all the old party slang and exploded
catchwords which make much of the political
furniture of Locofocoism. The Wings are always
alluded to as ''the Federal or Wing party" and the
ancient issues of the Adams and Jefferson
gravey disinterred from musty newspapers, and
brought forward as the vital questions lying at the
bottom of the present division of parties. Re
solved, say these solemn humbugs, ''that whatever
side issues temporary impulses may occasionally
arise, the only permanent and natural division of
parties in the United States has BEEN &C.; and that
ever since the contest between Jefferson and Adams
these parties and these principles have been and
still are designated by the Republican or Demo
cratic, and the Federal Wing, parties To all
which every of common sense will say
fudge!
While they shy at the Free Soil tests the conven
ton takes good to avoid any thing that might
be unpleasant to their friends the anxious bench
Indeed they regarded smoothing the way to
a coalition, by resolving "That the assurance of the
reunion of the Democratic party in New York is an
event worthy of national congratulaton, because
it foreshadows the redemption of New York and Of
W.
In other words, the amalgamation is to be hailed,
not because it assures the triumph of any great
principle for which either of the factions has con
tended, but because the spoils-the spoils-glitter
once more before the charmed eyes of Locofocoism,
who cannot endure six months exclusion
from the entire control of them.
Already do the sanity and disinterested Free
Sellers of Massachusetts begin to calculate the
chances of union with the Locofocos proper here,
| and sigh over the arrangement which their sepa.
rate gubernatorial nominations must produce.
"Of one thing we feel assured'-says writer in
| the Free-Soil organ of this city namely, that
Messrs. Preston King, John Van Buren, and their
| friends have taken the course which they have
done from sincere conviction that il will best
subserve the common cause, and establish our
| common principles" These principles, in their
last anal ysis, will be found to leave residuum of
five loaves and two fishes.
Is it not amusing-this charlatanism, that can
prate of principles" after such surrender as
Free-Soiism has made to Old Hunkersm in New
York? But what else could have been expected
Who could suppose that Van Buren, would be SO
| recreant chip of the old block to miss the first
opportunity of re-applyng his organs of suction to
the public treasury? Free-Soilism was, in his
| case, merely little depression to avenge per-
sonal affront against papa. What has Mr. Richie
now to say ofthe "Hotspur' the north The image
of the old market woman by the way side, crying
over her broken eggs, must be replaced by picture
of venerable gentleman in trim attire raternizins
with dashing youth, who puts his finger signif-
| canty to his while he holds his ancient friend
in his strong embrace The story of the poor office
seeker, who applied to General jackson for first
class foreign mission, and finally narrowed down
his opportunities to modest request for cast-off
pair of breeches is outdone by the lame and mpo-
| tent conclusion at which Mr.. Van Buren, has
arrived, in his descent from his high Free Soil posi-
| ton TO an acquescence in the terms dictated by
| Old Hunkerism
| But ] have wandered from my track. 1t was
with the address of yesterdays Locofoco conven-
| ton that / had to do The following resolution,
one would think, would have been rather hard
one for the most nveterate political Pecksniff
| to swallow, in the face of facts
Resolved, That the present Administration has
ranked itself, in the language of the patriot Kos
| suth, with "the rulers who look on our righteous
struggle with coldness and silence and seek 10
close up the sympathies Of their peoples" that by
its indifference Rome its delay to recognise Hum
| gary, its proclamation against Germany and its
ofcious zeal to the despets of Europe of its
friendly offices, by discouraging in Americans that
| devotion to liberty which fathers honored in
Lafayette Rosciusko, and Steilben il has stricken
hands with the unholy alliance of kings and arts
tocrat against the people, and thrown the moral
influence OF this Republic, with that of apostate
France and passive England into the scale of des-
| potism."
After this, resolution that General TAYLOR was
the main of the massacre of the Huguenots
might have gone down with reclamation.
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