The North-Carolinian., 1851-11-22


all the de4
convention
in the triumphv
1852; there nOS
have been designa
not be foremost in pf
other who may be selecN
And now, Mr. Chairman
to do here in our own distN
democracy are united in principN
ndivisible. They must regain theN
tion in numbers here IN Boston. N
mbued with democratic principles, tn.
democratic progress in the old world as
the new. coming to the polls. No mS
now play the master over the vote of anothei~
he deposits it in the box. For the first time IN
Massachusetts election. we have free ballot.
and we must secure it, The friends of this free
doom of elections, must see TO it, in every ward,
and in every town meeting, that this free
ballot, the right Of enclosing in envelope the
ticket each voter in his heart and conscience
prefers. and depositng that ballot so enclosed,
that it. can be seen, (not ,chat the ticket is,
bu) that he deposits but envelope. which is
his ballot. This IS what the law means, andit
is plain practical law, just easy to be
cised IN our town meetings. as it was for the
wings in the legislature, upon their own motion,
to use it last winter in the choice of an United
States senator, to secure the purity and freedom
of the ballot. Again | say, see to it that
is deferred or driven from the polls by any OBJ
stacles the opponents of the free ballot will
throw in its way.
The wings threaten to repeal this and other
popular laws of state reform " hich the demo-
Gratis have struggled for for many years. They
the statute book, and trust they
will be kept there. No democrat sympathss
with party which seeks a restoration to power
in this commonwealth for the sole purpose Of
perpet etuating that power by abolIshing all whole
some reforms and restoring all old abuses in
legislation. And especially. no democrat can
pause instant between the re election of Gov
ernor Boutwell, and the election of MIR Winthrop
If that IS the ''Pursan blood the Webster wings
W ouid give Us, want it more In politics than
| would have 1t in relIgious bIGotry and in
tolerance.
Sir, Governor Boutwell, has administered the
affairs of this commonwealth with a modesty and
an ability which have insured the respect of
every manly opponent to his election in the
other pa rites. He IS statesman, without hav-
inS been trained to it as profession, and he is
sound constitutional lawyer without the tech nj
calites of the law books. AS much as I regard
nv own profession, | rejoice that an able man
has been taken directly from the people. fitted
in all proper qualifications for chief mag istrat-.
who is not lawyer. 1t IS for the benefit and
the just popularity of the legal profession that
it should not monopoliZe all the high Offices in
the state l will not pause here to intimate my
dissent to individual acts not affecting great na-
tional prnciple That who expects to be
individually satisfied with every thing done in a
party, can hope to gain his end only by forming
party of one. In Governor Boutwell, see the
first chief magistrate Of Massachusetts for the
last fifteen years. who has not Intera rded his
annual message to the legislature with one word
in favor of the sectional divisions that threaten
the dismemberment of this Union, and who ha.
proclaimed the supremacy OF law as the highest
duty of the citizen. Under the sound advice Of
our pre- sent chief magistrate, fer the first time
| in many years, the leg stature of Massac hnsetts
has ased to utter resolutions OF scorn, defiance,
rebuke and insult against all portions of the
Union that did not adopt their narrow sectional
platform 1t ia only by dscarding all these
sectional view and leaving to eacn new state,
was left to the old states. its own domestic
lations, that the progressive democracy OF this
republic has gone extending the Union of
these states until, within your and my recolec
ton, Mr. Chairman, it has inc reaaed from sixteen
to hirtu-0ne United States from the Atlantic to
the Pacific: aud is ust bring ing the golden trea
sures of our youngest sister, the fruit of demo-
cratic policy alone, to he poured into the veins
Of the rculating medium of commercial life in
all the great marts OF the Union, saving them
now from the paral ysis Of suspension and bank
ruptcy.
1t is this enlarged and liberal view of the pro-
gress -f Institutions which makes " hat
mean by national democrat
Sir, do not forget that there areUnion men in
the whig ranks " no true to the Union as
we are, and who will stand by the constitution
and the laws but they did not make their mark
at the Spring field convention. and in their cand-
date for governor, (whose merits in all but his
political opinions and acts | freely adInit) they
have selected their standard bearer, man
either of wrong opinions or of no settled and