The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-01-11

ouiouo, put we dppItHenu tHdt III mas never
been employed to designate any alliance so en-
| tirely shameless and corrupt as that which has
recently been formed in the State of Massa-
chusetts between the Democrats and the Adolf
| tlonists. The excuse which the Democrats
| give for the operation is, that ''they get so
many things by it"-being large number Of
State offices, for which they sell their princi-
pies and their party, and accept thirty days.
Senatorship for Mr.. RANToUL, in lieu of six
years term for Mr. SUMNER A more igno-
| minious abandonment of principles than that
| OF the Massachusetts Democracy is not record
ed In history. As for the Abolitonists, we are
not aware that they have ever possessed any
principles which it would not be for their credit
| to abandon on the first decent opportunity. The
alacrity with which their leaders have Goa
lesced with the Democrats, on the earliest
chance OF obtaining office, clearly indicates the
motives with which they have taken up their
clamorous philanthropy
To demonstrate that we do not misrepre sent
the character of this coalition, we shall cite
Democratic authority to the point. The
Democrats of Salem held meeting on Tues
day evening, at which they recte, in the pre-
amble to their resolutions, that they have
heard, with Indignation and dismay, that il is
the intention of the servants Of the Demo
crazy who have been elected to the Legisla-
ture to betray the trust which has been con
fided to them, and to sell the party, in open
market, for the highest price they can obtain;
and whereas, they have been informed that
part Of this price is to consist in the election
of Free-soil United States Senator to mis-
represent Massachusetts, for six years"
The Democrats of Salem then adopted,
among others, the following resolutions
"Resopsd, That we view with unmitigated dis
gust the unprincipled scramble after Offices, ex-
hibited since the recent election; and we view
with unqualified condemnation the unhesitating
ease with which sacrificed all those principles
which the Democrats have ever held most DEAR
for the sake of temporary enjoyment of few
paltry offices; only to be obtained by very few
wire pullers, and at most ruinous expense.
"Resoved, That we have the highest confidence
in the sound principles and unwavering exertions
of the Hon. CALEB CUSHING, and we hereby
quest him, and such other members of the Legis-
lature as have not lost all honorable feeling, to
vote to the last against any arrangement which
will forward the election of Free soiler to the
United States Senate; and, If possible, by all hon
orable means, to defeat any such plan; and we
hereby declare IL opinion, that no caucus or
convention can bind any any body of men to
roe for any advocate Of principles Numerically
opposed to their oton; and that all tpo resist such
unustfable dictation ,oA deserve the lasting thanks
Of the Democratic party, and tciH most certainly
ceiue their REGARD.
We find in the Boston Post of Thursday a
letter from SAMUEL ID. BRADFORD, esq.,, of
Roxbury, addressed to the Democratic mem
bers of the Legislature of Massachusetts. In
this letter he says that it is announced substan-
TALLY that the Democratic party is to be ''abol-
tioni-ed and merged IN that oftheFree-s oilers."
"Here we see it announced" he continues,
'that at such crisis as this red hot Adolf
ZIONIST is to be SENT like frebrand, for six
years, into the Senate chamber of the United
8 States, and by the aid of Democratic votes"
Mr.. BRADFORD then proceeds to discuss the ma
ture and necessary consequences of the coali-
ton.
Gentlemen, have personal acquaintance
with but very few Of your members, but it seems
to impossible to realize that you have entered
into such monstrous agreement this. Had i
supposed such agreement possible, l would
have addressed you at an earlier period If it be
not too late, conjure you to stop short upon the
abyss which is yawning before you--to consider
your position, standing you do upon the very
brink of political humiliation, and to retracc your
steps. 1t will be too late for when the act
is contaminated you may call yourselves
Democrats, but all who deserve the name will re-
pudiate you throughout our wide extended Mon;
and the Free soilers will look upon you with
contempt and dcrision. Already, even before you
met or counselled together, they have almost
hausted their voluminous dictionary Of vtuperat-
ing terms in characterizng you 'villans,'
- liars, slave catchers,' and friends to the
Union, which they have done all in their power
to destroy and when you have deserted your
principles, and voted with them in the choice OF
Senator, they will say with justice that you have
DESCRIBED the charges made.
"Can you, for the sake of little brief authority,
and few paltry offices, which may be holden by
you for only year at farthest, consent to place
yourselves in such position this? If you hest
tate, turn to the records of the past, full Of po
ltcal regeneration and corruption. Read the
history of William Pulteney, the patriotic Wing,
lin the time of George the First, and Sir Robert
Walpole, who for so many years opposed the cor
ruptions of the court and ministry, but who in an
evil moment accepted peerage, and from that
day sank into insignihcance and contempt so
mortified he,' remarks a faithful historian of
that period, that he is said, in the agony of his
shame and disgust, to have trampled the patent
of his peerage under his feet And, be assured,
you give your votes for Charles Sumner, any
other Free soiler, Abolionist, Dsunionist, the
day will come when you would rejoice to oblite-
rate the memory of the transaction, and when you
will be ready to trample under your feet also the
record of such proceeding
al have not intended, gentlemen, to give offence
to any one by the way have spoken of the Abo
tionsts Free soilers, whom look upon the
same, for they now everywhere considered
as identical have spoken freely, but believe
also justly, of them, perhaps should add, of
those who direct their movements for own, gen.
tlenen, that there are good as well as bad men of
every political denomination. When, however,
see of their leaders, Mr.. Giddings, (their
apostle, as he is sometimes called by them,) rise
in his place in Congress- az he did at the COM
mencemont of the present session, and compare