The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-12
Majority for adoption.

MAJORITY Tor adoption. .................... 1900
All eoalitionists to whom have shown the above
decl are that the majority s put down absurdly low,
and they will not consent TO place it Il less tlan
10 600, while most Of them 90 much higher-es
high, indeed, as fifteen or twenty thousand. Most
Of the counties they say are put down too low for
Suffolk is put much too high. They deny that Nor
folk will 20 against them, or Hamphire either. SUI
folk, they say, is the only county Ia which the
constitution viii not be ratified by the popular voice
Now this sanguine view of the subject is the one
which should have been inclined to adopt few
days since, and 1t only remains t. be seen whether
General Cushing ukasc will be able to turn the tide
OF opinion among democrats in the direction OF that
gentleman's old friends and associates, the Wig
The Generals letter took most people by surprise.
To be sure, the Bosten Post had threatened some.
thing OF the kind for several days previous but as
the writings of its junior editor are sometimes as
crooked as his vision, il was conttived that the
public thought that Secretary Guthrie was about to
appear in the character of Mons. lie BourreEu, aod
not Gen. Gushing in that of an "admonisher." like
the person who so afectionately takes the French
press under his paternal care. II there is one man
In the United States more than all others who should
have been silent on the subject of Massachusetts
dem cras coalesciDg with the free soiers, that
rs Caleb Gushing; for he advised the formation Of
that COALITION, he defended 1t with his pen and his
tongue, be prevented its dissolution when Mr.. Hal-
lett sought 70 effect it, and he prOitted more from
is success, and suffered less from Its defeat in 1882
than any other person in the commonwealth. A
statement OF the facts of his connection with the
coalition VIII show that do not exaggerate in this
matter.
The democratic party OF Massachusetts, run Gen.
Gushing for the Office OF Governor in 1847 and '4s
though he never gave in his adhesion to that party
until after he was nominated In 1s47 he received
upwards of 40 900 votes in lS4s he re se yed about
$4,000, the party breaking down after the defeat Of
Gen. Cas-. In 1s49 he rece we'd, i think. but three
votes for third nomination, in the democratic
State Convention, Mr.. Boutwell, being placed 1t tho
head of the party That year the first attempt at q
coalition was made, and the result was the election
OF thirteen Senator's and large number of Repre-
sentatives opposed to the wings. Among these Rep
reser tstives was Mr.. Frothing han who was chooses
from Cbarlestown, the ticket on which his name was
borne bearing those of two other democrats and of
two free sellers Mr. rockingham IL said to have voted
for abolition resolves in the House of Representa-
tives, my authority being one who was a member Of
she same body. The fact, however, Is not within
my own knowledge. As never considered the
abolition resolves that our Legislature used to pass
In the times Of wing ascendancy az matters of any
consequence, the facts connected with them have
passed from my memory. Let me here mention that
the hrst article that ever appeared in Boston paper
IN iavor OF coalition was published in the Botton
Post, about the middle of July, ls49, come three
months before there was q single coalition ticket
formed in any OF the counties That articles pub-
cation had more to do with the form alton Of The
coalition than any other event. II said know
not how correctly, that Mr.. Rockingham wrote H.
he having for years been the writing editor OF that
journal-one of the chief bricks Ia the ediace OF
Col. Greene's reputation.
Ano cNeh'o !c9s having SAttsue1 Tue Two OBJ
position parties that perfect union ofther forces
would enable them TO carry the State, auch union
was effected The Boston Post supported the Goa
lition Senatorial nomir ations, among them being
such men as Henry Wilson, Joseph I. Buckingham
Edward L. Keyes, John B. Alley, and John T.
Graves all eminent men in o0r free soil party and
certainly much greater "agit4tors" at that time
than now. For once the coalition was united, and
the result NJ that both the Senate and the House
were carried by decisive majorities against ghe
wings. Among the persons chosen to the House
vas Mr.. rockingham, who was elected in Charles
town by a union Of the democratic and free soil
parties on the same ticket On that tick
one of the abest atd mot sincere free so'lers
IN Massachusetts. Cen Cushing WAS also chosel TO
the House 10 Newbury, by a coalition of wings and
democratic. with just enough Of free soilers thrown
sn TO maize what be now calls political bel.