The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-01-31
md Induced him to vote with them BY the prom.

and Induced him to vote with them by the prom
Use OF commission as justice of the peace,
suit of clothes, and a promise of loan of $400
in money. Laughter. At that time there was
great cry of Indignation. The only question
was whether it was true, and no living man un-
dertook to claim that such things were right
The gentleman himself would have considered
at that time that it was an outrageous proceed
ing. Where does the gentleman find the dis
tnction between that case and the Massachu-
sets coalition of 1850 and 1851 Does the suit
OF clothes constitute the difference Is It the
commission as Justice of the peace, which he
actually got, which makes the distinction? Here,
in the corruption which the gentleman aided, and
by virtue Of which he holds his seat, it was not
one Justice of the peace, but five hundred JUST
ces, who were bought in open market II was
a clean sweep of governorship, judgeships-in
short of everything that flatters the pride and
ambition of man and twas all to be given, pro.
vided the leaders of the two parties would fall
down and worship the golden calf of coalition.
II wait anxiously for my colleague to point out
to me the distinction between the ethics Of the
Bell purchase and the ethics of the coalition
purchase.
| Now, nobody al distance fran Massachusetts
could explain by The aid Of The treason which God
has giuen him, precisely how IL udS that taoo par
lies that occupied such eracily opposite ground
upon the compromise question, could be brought
up To The mark--the one toheip to send 10 The Sen
ate Of The United States, for sic years, man who
po,ld during that long period profess and enforce
icHh his ,ohole poDer, doctrines tohich hey re-
gdrded as dfmoralizing and disorganizing; and
the other to lend its influence to put into power
in the State Offices of the commonwealth of
Massachusetts, a set Of men utterly and entirely
opposed to them in all those points which they
professed to think most essential. Well, will
tell you how il was. II was party hatred, and
that party hatred leveled ag inst the man whom
We have heard vilifed to. day. Nothing else but
that could am sure, have influenced the Free
soil party of Massachusetts to take the course
they did. From the Boston Commonwealth,
it is my practice to read the papers of the other
side more than my own, for | take it for granted
that my own are always right-from the Bos.
ton Commonwealth, the organ Of the Freesoil
party, clip the following, which was the rally
ing cry for the last campaign, in the year our
Loid 1851:
In the next place there must be UNION aud
EFFORT, CONFIDENCE and CONCESSION. No con-
cession of principle, for none is required. To
our Free-soil friends we say-now that We wish
to rebuke Daniel Webster, 10 sustain Charles
Sumner, and 10 stamp upon The fugitive slape lap,
ITS trainers and apOlegiSiS, The seal of popular
reprobaiion, the Democrat who is lurthest from
us is nearer than any Wing can be. To our
Democratic friends We say--now that you wish
10 sustain Gcrernm BoutioelI, 10 retain the State
administration, 10 preserve and 10 perfect The re-
forms so auspiciously commenced last winter,
the Freesoler that is furthest from you is nearer
than any Wing can be. Let the spirit animate
the allied forces, and yictoryis sure"
And this, Mr.. Chairman, was the way they
whipped us. Oh, glorious defeat? Oh, destruc.
tive and abortive triumph. Need say, that
would rather be defeated fifty times in that way
than have one such success.
Mr.. Venable So had l.
Mr.. Davis. But we are up within seven
thousand of them. We stand shoulder to
shoulder, and, though out-numbered, can tell
my colleague We are not by any means subdued
will state another striking fact in connect on
with this matter. 1t is well known that two
wears ago, before the election of the present
Free-so United States Senator, and after the
election of Mr.. Boutwell,, the Democratic gov.
ernor, there were some twenty or thirty Demo
cratic members Of the House who would have
nothing to do with Mr.. Sumner. What did the
Free-soil paper do then? IL came out the very
next morning after the first failure to elect, and
said that Governor Boutwell, must not make
any changes or appointments 10 Office until the
United States Senatorship was disposed of.
That paper well understood its men, There
was the greatest excitement, and the most anx-
ious expectation until that matter was arrang.
ed, and the doors Of the treasury were thown
open TO the hungry. | remember an engraving
after Landseer, in which a number Of very hun
tgry.looking dogs are squatting or standing on
their hind legs, with watering mouths and ter.
ible anxiety 10 their eyes, watching a meal tray,
over which very porlly looking dog is keeping
guard. Lau liter. The engraving embodies
these lines Of the distch:
each wild with hope and maddening to prevail,
Points the plant ear and wags the expectant tail
Well, there was something Of that sort seen
in Massachusetts, The pottage was savory,
Esau was hungry and the birthni rht and all
went. Laughter. What, then, is the state of
the case Why, that these twenty-six thousand
voters, concentrating their rage and resentme nj
on one grey, silvered head, making that their
cbi'f and leading object, and sacrificing every
principle for the purpose of venting their rage
on that great man, have succeeded, by moves
on the political chess-board, In causing a sur
face expression Of state Of sentiment vastly
different from the state Of sentiment which &C.
tually exists in Massachusetts,