The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-12-11
POLITICS IN NEW ENGLAND.

Mr.. EDITOR: To your liberality | am al
ready twice indebted for space in the columns
of your excellent paper, to say word or two
about political facts rs they exist in New Eng
land. and | feel az though ought not to tax
your goodness again for a similar favor but as
| the Free Soil Wings of the Union have no or
gan, through which to make known their views,
| ut the Capital our only chance of obtaining a
| hearing there, is through the widely-read col
umns of the Era The Wings Of the Free
States gave very liberal circulation to the
| Republic at the commencement OF Genera
Taylor's. Administration, and ! doubt not i
has to-day three times as many subscribers IL
the free States IA it has in the slave States, ant
yet its tone is Southern upon all the leadin,
ISSUES wherein there exists difference between
the Wings of the North and the Wings of th,
South The Inieliigenoer is said to have fal
better circulation in the North than the South
| and still it is not a whit North of Maryland
Western Virginia, and Kentucky, in its sympa-
| thies and tone upon the great question of the
day, while the Era is where nine tenths of the
North will be- in less than five years from this
day. The North has been listening to- and
reading, the multitude of Lomer Law Ser
mons which have been delivered and circu-
lated widely in all parts of the Free States,
and she has heard all the sayings of the Union
saving men of the two old parties, and yet the
masses in the North are opposed to the Fugi-
tive Slave Law, and TO slavery itself, in all its
forms, and will go to tho extent of consttu-
tional opposition to the whole system of Amer
lean slavery; and they will not ask Daniel
Webster to cxpound to them the meaning OF
the Constitution in this particular The free
men of the North are not in the leading strings
of Castle Gdrtien Committees nor of LOuer
Lar Ciergymen ~ but the intelligent masses
stand where they stood in the Missouri strug-
gle of 1920 and there they will stand, UNI
moved by the dcsertion Of selfish and amb-
tious asprants after the highest posts Of honor
known to the Constitution. Those who seduce
ambitious and unprincipled men of the North
to betray the rights of man and the interests
and wishes of nm honest constituency shall zee
those men Frustrated, one after another, almost
rs soon as their services in favor OF oppression
shall commence Men seeking place and
power in this country shall yet be made to
know that there il u North IN well M II South
in this Republic Such men ~ Cass, Webster,
Douglas, Fillmore and Buchanan, cannot here
after command the votes Of the intelligent
masses. M can such men IA Scott, Dodge OF
WISCONSIN, mot Dodge of Iowa. Gov Wood Of
Ohio, Judge Mclean Of the same State John
A. Dix of New York, or Gov. Johnston Of Penn
sylyania: such men as Senator Hamlin Of
Maine, Gov. Williams Of Vermont, ex-Goyern-
or Briggs Of Massachusetts, Ex-Governor Cleye-
land OF Connecticut, and George Hunt Of
New York, are the men ut the North who still
command the confidence of their old and long
tried friends while the Elots Of Boston, the
Phelpscs of Vermont the Coopers oil Pennsy[
vania, and the McGaugheys OF Indiana, are
among the men that were popular in other
DAYS The North will not DC much longer
troubled with the influence Of Northern men
Of Southern principles m men Of that charac-
ter are becoming powerless ut the North. Here
we desire public men to be liberal in their
views asking for nothing bot what IL right, and
submitting to nothing that is wrong but ever
doing what they can TO spread free and liberal
principles, and everywhereo opposing slavery and
oppression 10 the utmost extent OF their power,
in accordance with the Constitution Of the
country.
The attempt of the South 10 dictate 10 the
North, that no man can receive the support of
Southern men for the Presidency, unless he IN
an advocate for the eternity of the Fugitive
Slave Law, will be scorned generally ut the
North, and such candidates will be selected for
President and Vice President M will poll II
better vote in the Free States than has ever
yet been pollcd in them. II the South shall
insist upon this point, she will tremble before
next midsummer, should she zee Gen. ScoTT in
nomination for President, and Gen. HENRY
DoDGE Of Wisconsin, or Gov Johnston Of Penn
sylyania for Vice President Two items will
influence many voters hereafter Mt the North
in future elections; both Of which will drive a
Of men into opposition to the Mas
sachusetts Wing candidate for the Presidency,
and 10 the New Hampshire candidate for the
Vice Presidency Tens of thousands OF Wings
and Democrats in New England will not vote
for pro-slayery or anti-tempcrancc men. The
temperance question will hereafter exert great
influence upon all New England elections, from
that of President Of the United States down 10
that Of the humblcst town officer The people
have come 10 the conclusion that drunkenness
has been tolerated in high places, and in the
halls Of Legislation, In this country, long enough;
and hereafter, il men will not keep sober, they
cannot receive the votes of men who do keep