The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-29
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
nuuRSnAY MAY 40 IAhI

THURSDAY, MAY 10. 1851,

The special elections in Massachusetts have
again given unmistakeable evidences of public
sentiment in that Commonwealth, so revered by
the President, and so gratefully remembered by
his prime minister in his Buffalo speech.
RAHrouL and BIsHoP, both Abolitionists, have
been returned-and PALFREy, If beaten at al has
run his competitor very close.
The Boston Courier, Of Tuesday. thus gives
the returns as far ~ heard from:
aTHE ELEcTIoHs.--The congressional vacan-
cies in the I'd, 4th, and 7th districts, were filled
yesterday under the plurality law. In the I'd
district Mr.. Rantoul, Democratic Aboitionist,
has a plurality Of some LOO over Mr. Upham,
Wing, and is chosen.
In the 4th district, Mr.. Thompson, Wing,
leads Mr. Palfrey, Free-soil, "a votes, in all the
towns of his district except Burlington and
Pepperell, and the returns from these tewns
will probably increase Mr. Thompson's pu-
rality.
In the 7th district, Mr.. Bishop, Democrat,
supported by the Free-soilers, has gained on
Mr.. Goodrich in 80 towns, some 300 votes
the latter had over 400 plurality at the last
election"
The New York Evening Post, the Van Bu-
rem, and now the sole surviving organ of the
DemossasEspf the loyal" and patriotic city Of
New York, thus records these last triumphs
Of it's faction.
Had the PREsIDENT'sresponse to the mayor Of
Utica, and Mr.. WEBsTER's speech ut Buffalo
reached Massachusetts, before the election the
Free-soilers would have been puzzled to choose
between their own especial candidates, and the
professed friendsoft the Administration. TWAS an
oversight that they did not thus skill two birds
with one stone, for neither RANToUL nor BIsHoP,
democrats of unadulteratedf ia IT," in the opinion
ofthe Pos, made stronger sectional" pledges
than Mr.. WEBSTER, who recently said:
II am Northern man. was born at the
North-educated at the North--have lived all
my days at the Ner,h know five hundred
Northern men to one Southern man. My sym
pathies-all my sympatties-my love of liberty
for all mankind, of epery color, are the same as
yours. My affections and hopes in that respect
are exactly like yours. wish to see all men
free--all men happy. | have no associations
out ofthe Northern States. My people are your
people. And yet am told sometimes that
am not liberty man, because am Free.soil
man.
The Post says:
1t is ascertained that at least two men have
been added to the opponents of the present ad-
ministration, in the next Congress, Robert Ran
toul, jr., and Henry Bishop, both of them Demo-
Gratis of the unadulterated faith We are ex-
tremely sorry to add that there are doubts about
the election of Mr.. Palfrey in the fourth district
We do not put faith in the Geographic reports
to the morning papers, which are habitualy in
accurate in political matters, but if Mr.. Palfrey
is elected it must be by an exceedingly close
vote. We shall have the correct result probably
by two o'clock to-day, and if SO, it will be found
in our postscript.
Rantoul's majority is supposed to exceed one
thousand. The people of Massachusetts seem
to be making very slow progress in getting rid
of their prejudces."
Mr.. Palfrey's defeat may he attributed TO the
absence of Mr.. Webster. Had the great ex-
FOUNDER made speech or two in Massachusetts
during the canvass Free-soiler would unques-
tionab'y have been chosen in every district.
The parting sneer at Mr.. WEBSTER is natural,
coming from the source it does. The organ of
the Democratic Free.soilers would naturally de-
sire to defeat his appropriation of the abolition
'thunder," for his own benefit, and that of his
party.
The mute eloquence of the voting, however,
is stronger far than mere words or specuatons
THE BALLOT BOX SPEAKS FOR MAS
SACHUSETTS.