The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-01
Election OF United States Senator.

BosroN Jan. 80 The house of representatives this
to the United States Senate for the short ending the
4th of March next
The question now u.s. will Mr. Rantoul accept this tenn
porary appointment! There is strong doubt entertained
about it, He was, at the last accounts, at Indianapolis
BY the time he returns to Boston, he may not have more
than two or three weeks to serve in the Senate. Will
he accept that feetng and futile honor And will he risk
the brilliant reputation of whole life by proftng from
an odious coalition, to which alone he will be indebted
for his election Mr.. Rantou must know that the free
soers would have voted for him unless they had
expected votes enough from the democratic party elect
Mr.. Sumner for the full term Of six years Nous per
ronsl
We are happy to find scruples strongly confirmed
by that independent and hghmnded journal the Boston
Post, whose independent editor Charles Gordon Green,
is entitled to the thanks OF the democracy not only
Massachusetts but of the whole Union He treats this
point as follows:
THE UNITED STATES sKsAroK.-The
Massachusetts senate, having tailed produce any
fuse TO sanction the election OF wing aboltonist the
Senate as we stated yesterday, are attempting another
process by The election OF Mr. Rantou for the four cesks
The purpose Of the free-soers and the Sumner in
this movement is obvious They design, by voting this
empty honor upon Mr. Ran,oul, claim a pensation
by from national democrats for Mr. Sumner Now,
u
mpregnsbe They have refused from the beginning 40
into any coalition with the aboonss national cleo
tons measures The State of reform and
State offices the only subjects tked of openly,
any way brought forward before the election The
attempt force Mr. Sumner in the six
the result of arrangement unknown the
cy, and which total surprise pom the party and il
tae ee-solers attempt take advantage of tho pre-
disposition nslaveIy OF the members they allow ed the
democrats 10 put upon the coalition county and town
tickets 10 drive through the legislature the obnoxious
man, next TO George Thompson whom they could have
found in their ranks they but rghy served If they
find Independent national democrats enough defeat such
design, and the honor OF the Stat and country
Hence, the election OF Governor Bouwe and
ton OF tho council, which is about all the national
raey got in the State concerns the oiies
had quite their share, and the democrats who voted for
these tickets incurred possible DBL give
soil six years sensto IN return
"And now comes the question Of coalition in national
concerns aside from State affairs and here the
say will you Ranou for the shortest month the
year, II viii give Sumner for six long years blow
his blast against the Union
There is recp pretty here; and ii would bs better
have nothing ihan get little that 10 merely nothing
and then have made the slightest for much
return We rust therefore, that the sterling democrats
who have gained the applause OF the whole Union by
manly the election OF Summer will take
part ia the election for the short term, make know
that they stand Independent ground throughout in
all the coalitions affecting national men measures"