The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-05-20
MIR. HALE.

MIR. HALE
The Hon. John p. Hale, of New Hampshire,
Familiarity known as Jack Hale, who now holds
a seat in the Senate of the United States, will
cease to wear his Senatorial mantle with the
expiration of the present Congress. His con-
stituents have decided to send another man to
represent them in the Senate of the United
States Who will be his successor is not yet
known. Rumor says that the mantle will fall
on the Hon. Edmund Burke, gentleman of
education and talent, who has been somewhat
distinguished in parliament and the world of
letters.
We shall witness the retirement Of Mr. Hale
with deep regret; not because Of the political
creed he has advocated but because we enter
tain sincere respect for the man. Since Mr..
Hale has held a seat in the Senate he has dis
tinguished himself as a ready, an able, and a
powerful debater, as well as a humorist, sat
irist, and statesman II will be difficult for
any man to Eli the seat he has occupied, with
the ability that has so justly entitled him to
the respect and good will of the American
people.
1t is not probable that Mr. Hale will long
remain in private life Talents like his cannot
be hid under bushel;" and the people of
New Hampshire are too proud of their favorite
son TO suffer him to be east into political OBJ
livion They place on him the highest esti-
mate. OF this fact we had abundant evidence
some two years ago whilst travelling through
New Hampshire for, wherever We went we
heard his name and talents lauded about by
the sons of the Granite State. Such man
cannot be kept from thecouncils of the nation
by the article of faction or party
New York Sunday Atias.
generous tribute well deserved Mr..
Hale, radical as he is known to be, bold as he
always is in his exposure and denunciaton of
abuses, is one of the most popular men in the
Senate. After the retirement of Thomas Nor
ris of Ohio the North was without champion
in the Senate of its institutions and character
istic sentiments We do not say that it was
always without defender, but there was no
one uniformly vgilant, prompt, and Jealous, in
at once indicating and promulgating its Anti
Slavery Principles, until Mr. Hale took his seat
in that body. From that hour, the stiff Con-
servatism of the Senate began to give way, and
soon the right of Free Discussion became as
firmly established, as it had been in the House
through the heroic efforts of John Quincy
Adams and Joshua r. Giddings
Mr. Hale, during his Senatorial career, has
maintained position independent of party Or
ganization, and has shown what one man can
accomplish simply as an individual, acting
without the force of party associations His
voice has always been heard against wasteful
expenditures; no one has labored more earnest
ly or successfully to secure attention to the
well-founded claims of individuals upon the
justice of the Government; to him, more than
to any single member of the Senate is due the
credit of the abolition of the inhuman punish
ment of fioggng in the navy; and he deserves
tho thanks of all enemies of shams for
the keen satire with which he has turned into
ridicule the artful demagoguism which has so
often sought influence, by hattering popular
passions that needed restraint and by brave
declarations in favor of Liberty abroad, while
betrayng it at home
We agree with the alias that such man
cannot be kept from the councils of the nation
by the artifce of faction or party. He is in
the prime of life, better qualified than ever for
public usefulness. The forces which brought
him into the Senate still exist but their legit-
mate action in the late election in New Hamp-
shire was bafled chiefly by the Intervention of
new disturbing element in poltics-the
Maine Liquor Law The friends of Mr.. Hale
as might have been expected endorsed that law,
and assumed its burden. They failed, simply
because they could not carry double weight
Had the sole issue been, their views on the Sen
atorial course of Mr.. Hale, they would have
trlumphed.
We hope, then, that when he shall retire
from the Senate he will go from one battle
field to another; and we have no doubt that
in the course of a few years, he will return to
the Senate to fill the place of one who has
grossly violated some of the most important
principles he was elected to represent.