Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-01-05
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WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 5, 1858.
The Boston Courier on the CoaIitionists.

The Boston Courier on the CoalitiOnists.
The Boston Courier, of Monday last, has an
article on the Massachusetts Legislature" in
which special reference is made to the members
of the last coalition Senate
One would have expected from the rigid whig-
odoxy of the Webster organ, and from the pre-
scribed character of whig criticism on the coali-
ton, that the illusions of the Courier to oar SEN
ators would be derogatory and depreciative; we
were agreeably surprised, however, to find the
Courier do justice to the able and honorable men
who conferred lustre and dignity on the Senate
of which they were members.
The Courier says s'the last Board of MaSsacba-
sets Senators of the most able aohich has
eUer been elected and with some few exceptions,
new men are now chosen. The session Of last
year drew out much interesting debate; the liquor
law question: as well as the various political mat
tiers which came up, calling forth the strength
and spirit of every speaker, and the debates were
not only quick in bringing forward question and
reply, but were animating to reporters, and most
interesting to listeners and spectators"
We do not know how to reconcile the statement
Of the Courier, that ethe last Board of Massa-
chusetts Senators was one of the most able which
has ever been elected, with the oft repeated de-
nuncations OF the wings in 1852. The members
of the coalition were then declared to be dest-
tute of ability-exeept that particular species of
ability so hateful to wings, the power of coales-
cling; their incapacity and stupidity, were said to
be disgraceful to the intelligence of Massachu-
sets. The year 1858, however, seems to partake
Of the qualities of the tabled Lethe. The whig
editors, with some inconsiderable exceptions
about Worcester County,no sooner crossed its por-
tails, and look back upon the past, than they be-
gan to see and acknowledge that the coalition was
neither atrocious in its character, nor ruinous
in its action, they protested to believe it was,
when it appeared in its full strength and activity
Of the individual members of the last Senate,
the Courier distinguishes the following, and
says:
.Messrs Lawrence, Wilson, Griswold Rus
sell, heyes, Sewall, Robinson, Hazewell, and
Burlingame, who participated so readily and CON
stantly in the debates of the last Senate are not
among the new members
All of those gentlemen, except two, are coali-
tionists, and we agree with the Courier in the
opinion that it will be difficult to supply the prac-
teal sagacity, the brilliant oratory, and pungent
wit that forsake the Senate Chamber, with their
demission from it.
Again the Courier says :-"Mr Knowlton, of
Worcester, most able, spacious and nfuen-
tial advocate of the double Coalition rep
resents, almost alone, the powerful party with
which he acted last year.
Now, the powerful party" with which Mr..
knowlton acted last year, was composed of evil
son, Griswold, Keyes, Sewall, Robinson, Haze
well, and Burlingame." The poscer of those men
did not consist in money in birth, or it station,
the three equivocal pillars of Massachusetts, wing
gerry, but in intellect and in genuine manhood
They were sagacious, and liberal statesmen,
and able and accomplished debaters The wings
have assumed to be the 'intellect' of Massachu-
SETS They have done so with the air of men
"born to command the herd who are not wings
We are glad to the acknowledgements come
from them, at last, that they have lost the entail
OF this intellectual heritage.
to speak the trItir considers tlesrs It
ant to observe this singular trait of amiabilty in
the Courier. 1t is much better as the Spanish
proyerb says, to improve late than never do well.