The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-01-12

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bers. many OF whom will yield their opposition even
though IN minority IN the convention Hon Caleb
Gushing was hnst nominated ior senator, and upon his
declining Mr. Rantoul received 90 out OF IS votes
1 Prom the Boston Courier
| LEGISLATIVE pRocEEDlNGs-Ye esterday the general
cour transacted some real business The two houses
met IN convention and filled The vacancies in the senate
by the election OF three wings and five members OF the
day. past eleven the forenoon for the choice OF
candidates Tor governor and Lieutenant governor TO be
sent up 10 the senate
An attempt was made in the house to assign to-day
also for the election of United States senator This
was movement, of the leaders OF the free soil party, who
are now filled with ne,voas apprehension that their
game, and snatch at every trick and device which the
chance Of the moment may offer them The project OF
eecng senator to Congress from Massachusetts before
the Stale government is organzed we think, entirely
Without aprecedeni The house neither saw the necessity
for hu'ryRg the matter a, all were they convinced
that the proceeding not legislative irregularty
They therefore, refused 10 accede the proposal and
the time for electng senator remains undetermined.
These proceedings show that the soers feel most
unpleasantly in the critical condition in which the
OF The last few days have placed them They
now stand upon The sharpsl edge Of life and death in
respect to gaining their share oi the bargain struck with
the democrats. Loss of time with them Is loss Of every
thing They must hurry matters so fast that men cannot
think what they about; otherwise they will go too
straightforward for the of the plot they have
cocted All their hopes are now in stealing march
upon their opponents, and upon their allies. too!
Meantime, there are tones OF indignation arising from
very harsh music in the OF those members OF the
party who dipped so far in the coalition as to have
pledged themselves 10 vote for ree-soer for United
States senator We do no, at all wonder at this The
consdeaie and thinking men among the democrats see
at once that such an ACT must strip man OF that party
naked of all reputation and character with the democracy
BY such act he osweas every principle OF nationality
recognised by his party 1t must surprise one, there
fore to hear the language OF indignant 5emontIsnce and
emphatic denunclaion rising from the democratic ranks
at the spectacle which the coalition manGuvres exhibit
at this moment
From Boston Times
Mr. SUMMERS FANEuIL HALL sPEEcH-We have
placed first page the speech made in Faneuil Hall
by Mr. Sumner the 9th of last November, mainly de-
that Mr. Sumner, ii sent to the United States Senate,
go there, if honest his views-and no one has
accused him OF dsnonesiy.for the purpose OF 70.
newng the abolition agitation This speech was revised
and corrected by Mr. Sumner himself, and contains his
deliberate opinions Those opinions are the opinions OF
an aboonist of the garrison school, No democrat who
is not prepared to give the lie TO all his past actno
democrat who is not prepared to admit that his whole
course the slavery question has been hyPocrics and
almost as wicked that of the wings, from Webster
downward, who blowed up the fires of abolition until
they threatened 10 involve the whole country IN vast
conagation-can give his vote for Mr. Sumner to M
the office of senator. We hope that every Democratic
member Of the legislature will read the speech OF the
man for whom they asked to vote and then consider
whether il not their duty TO vote Tor some o'nel Per
SON. For a democrat TO support Mr.. Sumner 10 10 place
himself in direct hostility to The entire democracy OF inc
land
From the Boston Psst
The COALITION AND THE UNITED STATES sEsAroA.-
1t would that majority OF the members elected to
the Massachusetts legislature democrats are resolved
upon carrying out the suicidal experiment OF sacnnctnx
their nationality, by sending to the Senate OF the United
States OF the most ultra OF the hgner
law who could be found in the whole ranks OF the abo-
toniss Ia the pledge which they are about to give to
the democracy OF the nation OF their devotion to the
Union, and their sincerity IN the resolutions which DEM
have voted for in the national and State conven.
fort tee IN he
States Senate for six years man who with the oath OF
magistrate and OF United States commissioner upon
him. has avowed to excited assernblsge in Faneu
Hall. within few weeks that be will disregard law OF
the United States. and that it s the duty Of citizens to
arocous sentiments uttered by Charles Sumner in Fam
eul Hall, at the moment when mobs OF excited blacks
filling streets and threatening violence to any
officer or magistrate who should dare to perform his on
ca duty. surely ought put him out OF the pale OF sup
port any party that respects the constitution or values
the Union How. then, can democrats give their votes
for such TO represent them years IN the Senate
| of the United States Fl.
We have no, deemed il our business to denouncs TO
indvidnalize for il is in deep sonow not - angel that
view the terrible calamity which this illconsidered
ac OF few is about 10 bring upon the forty thousand
democrats of this State. and by its baleful influence
abroad upon the peace and integrity OF the Union But
there is solemn duty which hose democrats, who have
not stricken hands in this monsous bargain, havs 70
perform TO themselves and TO the country IN repudhunf
this surrender OF national principles and. few or many
they may be, TO 10 IL that they are not indivdu'
ally implicated in such transaction. There 10 no tins
for the people 10 instruct their representatives on tn euo
lect and therefore those who about to commit them
contract OF surrender to the free soers, which
never contemplated by the people in their primary
meetings conventions, cannot be made TO realize tne
force OF that reaction which must come, at home and
abroad. if the election 10 the United States Senate oil
such asilator Charles Sumner is consummated oy
1 the votes of democrats.
Even Il politics game OF hazard to play at,
would not be cbIds play TO stake six years OF out and
out abolionsm in the Senate tay, and whg abolition
ISM too for Sumner only dsunion whg) Tor fAyee
four iuis trscs the short session Is il anything but
an insult TO n democrat to throw TO him such bone
hatihe honor OF keeping seat warm thirty days to
be next occupied by disunlonist MOI If the thing il
to be done let democrat be plaster for the Sumner
sore-et democrat enter the United States Senate on
such degrading terms Let him "spurn the bnbe" and
lei the soers take the hle end with the big one
And but effort is left and that the last that
can be made TO the State and the Union from the
disaster with which they are threaiened-we may add,
too the democratic members themselves IRON the
i'll act in which they have embarked-that s
for those members who understood the coalition ~ ex-
tending only TO State affairs to refuse to atify the COM
proping Of the democracy national concerns II will
the time when the Jackson party numbered less than
thousand votes Massachusetts, and thence went on
ward 10 fifty six thousand defeat the election OF
abolition. wing senator. They are not committed, and
no member be committed by any surrender
OF great principle. Let them, in Heavens name, and
in the OF The country and the Union, stand by their
national coors in this crisis, and nail them to the mast
| The present vigilance" committeeman OF Boston
determined TO keep up the agitation seems They
have put in circulation three petons-one to Congress-
asking for the immediate repeal OF the fugihye-hsve
law, and two addressed TO the legislature OF Massacou
in If ok thp