The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-14

Office under the coalition his language to his assoc
ates was most hostile, not to coalition ideas but to
free soil leaders. When he was endeavoring to &c,
The new justiceship on our Supreme Bench-for
which be was not an applicant, but supplicant-
he was in the daily habit Of denouncng the men By
whose assistance he seeking to get himself con-
fImed. In New ark his iatenton to strike blsw
at the coalition was well understood weeks before the
blowfe A coaltonist If Boston was there some time
since, and was assured by an eminent eater of the
softs, that the administration, though compelled
by circumstances to favor them in New York, would
be found harder than adamant in Massachusetts,
that 1t was watching its opportunity to strike down
Henry Wilson, and would soon attempt to do 1t. Tue
event has proved that this view of the matter was
pert city correct.
The Gushing letter was called for by the Post fac
Of Didymus among US that the Post Is the organ OF
the administration. Ii was claimed both by coal-
tionists and hunkers that the administration was
with them, and the claims OF the former had rather
paus ib!e lock from the abuse which the ultra hun
keis in the habit of heapng upon the President
and Gushing. II was thought necessary that the
ali,ionits should be taught that Greene the
tual Pope in this part of the world and that all other
PoIes we're spurious Anti Popes, as they used to
call them in old days. Mr. rockingham had bis
own peculiar grefs to urge him against the coal-
ton. Every man, says one OF the greatest OF modern
physicians Is stark staring mad on some one parti-
cular subject. Mr.. rockingham is no exception to
this melancholy sweeping rule His pet insanity is
banking. On this he is as crazy as one mad dog and
two March hares He has an idea that a general
banking law is sovereign panacea for all terres-
trial (and perhaps INTERNALLY ills that it is powerful
enough TO cure poverty, govt, corns, intemperance,
tight boots, and badsetting pantaloons. IL Is said
that he goes so far as to hold that under such law
even safetyf bank would approximate to some.
confirmation. Let us but have such q law he hollis
and the golden age would pop in upon US at once.
Bank presidents will stand at the corners Of tle
streets with packages of notes. entreatng beggars
accep. Of loans on their own terms. There would
be an end put to incivility, the steaeg of wspa
pers, and the use of Gull razors in shaving. When
Mr.. Rockingham was elected to our House
OF representatives, for the second time, In 1850 sy
running on the same ticket with two noted coalition
lists, Che would no call them aboltionis 81 he had
an opportunity of reducing his banking theory to
practice. The wings treated it with utter aud I'M
mitgated contempt; but the coaiOnists gave it the
light of Their party's countenance, and d. just so
much toward deluging the world with perfe,t tide
Of happiness The law was passed at the session of
1851 and repealed by the whgs at that Of 1853 Mr..
rockingham was not discouraged at this rough
ar aIcbymist OF the sixteenth century who had failed
to convert old horseshOes into new gold. Not bit
Of it. He saw new way to attain his end-tO make
men happy in spite of themselves. There was con-
stltutiona convention about to assemble, and il he
could contrive to get into that convention he might
be abe to have his beloved project engrafted upon
the new constitution. He did SO contrive. He al.
lowed the coalitionisss to put him in nomination for
the convention, on ticket which had the names Of
two !" agitating" free sellers on it, He neither
cepted nor refused this nomination, but, on being
elected consequence of it, he took seat in the
convention. He had said that he would not
serve if electsd-but he did, and he al
ways meant to do SO, in spite of his coy
rsfusals to permit a chaste embrace from
free soiism. The great object to which he bent
his mighty energies was the incorporation Of his
banking scheme into the new constitution. In this
be would have succeeded but that the reformers
feared that such action would endanger the whole
instrument; and SO tiey made separate article of
the gentlemans scheme, and it can be voted for or
against without endangerng the censt tuition ITSELF
This placing of his plan-his universal cure sll-in
the cellar, instead of allowing it place in the body
Of the mansion, was o sore blow to Mr.. Frothng-
hams egotism, and he has never forgiven the coai-
ton for not uniting in support of bis views. He is
now endeavoring to pay them back. We shall soon
zee how he is to succeed.
II is too late to speculate upon the probable result
Of our election, as sixty hours will see it decided.
The gracious permission received from Gushing,
through the Washington Union, that democrats
ven ont OF their party, may give to that instrument
little support not otherwise to be had; but such
dribets are not likely to have any marked effect on
the main result; There is no reason that can see
for doubling the CORE tness OF the opinion thai /
have here OfOre expressed namely, tbat the State
election is to depend for its result upon the action OF
the temperance free soers in the business Of chOos
ing town representatives. Il they shall choose to
Gushing ukases and all other things to the contrary not
withstanding II they should act they did last year.
then my highly respectable friend, Judge Washburn,
will be our next Governor, and we might have much
woIse man than him. The coalition might have car
red the House last year by l37 maority but it did
not; yet SO formidable margin ought to afford
great deal of boiling without being all lost. As to
the ate there can be but few persons chosen to
there will be no elections out of the counties Of Wor
cester and Suffolk, which is not SO wild assertion
as at st sight it appears to be- as the seven chosen
out of those counties in 1852 did not receive, on
less thar five regular tickets in the great counties Of
Essex and Middlesex, and as some of the coalition
Candidates are on more than one OF these tickets,
hopes, though Of faint kind, are entertained by
their friends, that or two Of them may be CHI sea
by the people in each county. There are, also,
many tickets up in Suffolk audit is possible, though
not very probable, the wings may meet with che OK
there Some wings talk very loudly Of what the in
derstood that they mean to vote their partys whole
ii :ket; but that ticket would have been beaten last
year but for democratic aid.
The Catholics have been, to some extent, arrayed
against the new constitution as body. This is the
worst incident of our present contest bringing the
religious element into it; and the political field is
bad enough without any such maRn intruders ap
pearance in it, In itself the best of all things, rcli
tie political arena. Our present contest is the bit
terest that has been known in Massachusetts for very
many years. ALTOONA.
LAWRENCE, Essex Co., Mass, Nov. IL, 1853.
The Hon. Caleb Gushing at Home What are HIS
Politics-Some Of his Observation-Disclosures
sets Politics, &C., &c.
While the present Attorney General Of the United
States is sending out from Washington his protesta-
tons against the coalition Of democrats and free
soilers and attempting to defend the administration
from the charge Of favoritism towards the latter,
it may be well for the democracy of the ether States
in the Union to more clearly understand what has
been the political influence and late acts of Mr..
Cushing In Massachusetts,.
In 1852 the coalition Legislature Of the State, in
which body Caleb Gushing was the democratic
leader, by a bargain made between the democrats
and free soilers-which bargain Judge Curtis, no Y
of the Supreme Court Of the United States, declared,
in his opinion, ito be an indctable oflence'-di-
yided the Offices Of the State between these parties
L. - HAT Mr.