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Letter to the State House
Afamiiiar Epistle to Brother Lord, Brother
Bliss, Brother Stevenson and the other Breth-
rem composing the Whig majority Of the House
of Representatives.
LOWELL, March 8, 1853
Brsthrea-'T take my pen in hand'' to in
form you of the blessed workings-of your sop
iional' Ballot Law, in Lowell and the country
| round about You know that when you undertook
to force that Law through the House, you had
Two purposes in view the first was to elect ten
! Wing delegates TO the Convention from this city,
| and the second was to elect majority of Wing
delegates 10 the Convention, or if not to confuse
| and embarrass the elections, so that the time Of
the Convention would be taken up by contested
seats. You will also recoect that you were dis
tinctly warned that you would have your labor
for our pains, for neither Of these results would
take place. But you and Brother Clifford thought
otherwise. The new Law was considered so
sure card that Brother Biiss's utmost ingenuity
aided by the astuteness OF Brother Lord, Brother
Boyd, Brother Stevenson, and Brother Wiggn,
was put in requiston, and some remarkably nov
| ell rulings were issued from the Chair. And that
when these did not suffice, our dearly beloved
| "servant,' the Clerk, was started off upon the
roll-call, when several persons were on the floor
claiming, and having The right TO speak. Even
| with all these appliances the Bill went but slow
| ", aud it was needlul to smugge it off to the
| Senate after a notice hsd been given of a motion
! TO reconsider, or else there was danger ofsuch
delay as would prevent the Law from going into
| operation. The Bill was signed by Brother Cliff
ford, countersigned by Brother Wright Secreta-
ry of State, and published in the newspapers as
an advertisement, and printed in handbs, and
sent of, post haste, 10 the Clerks of the towns
and cities. All diligence was used 10 giving pub
Hctv IN fhn Most naOnla heard of II hut
not by means of the proclamation of our official
| Brother, the Secretary. Our people in Lowell
! had heard of the Law fortnight or three weeks
before its passage, and had kept track of il. They
read the newspapers and go to the caucusses, and
! there, net only was the Law described, but the
process of making it law was very fully gone
into. Brother Bliss's rulings were explained, and
Brother Lords speeches were reported, and the
various Gagging processes by which the minority
were compelled to yield 10 the passage of the bill,
were detailed circumstantiallv Great interest
was felt in the proceedings, and must say that
/ your way of doing business was not generally APP
| proved by our people. AT the new hall, which
| they have named for our worthy brother, the
| Lieut.. Governor, some two thousand people as
sembled on last Saturday evening,to whom BROTH
er Butler related the facts of your conduct, and
Brother Brown and Brother Adams commented
at length upon the proceedings. Candor compels
ME 10 say Tue OF Inc people con-
corning the rulings of Brother Bliss, and the
| speeches of Brother Lord were not compmenta-
! ny to them. 'Hhe Court fool in Archbishop
Laud's time, made a punning toast, something
| like this:
"Great praise to God, and little Laud to the
| DeU3."
! and some of the expressions concerning our
very (not spiritual bnt) temporGryand asappear-
ances Indicate, very temporal political prelale
from Salem,were not more fatterlng. Our speak,
er was spoken ofinssome instances in disres-
| pectiul manner land if he had been before a Low
| ell constituency forre-eection, he would have
Jared worse than he did in Springfield.
| feel bound To explain to Brother Lord partic-
uIarIy the reason why the repeal of the Free Bal.
lot law did not aid the Wings -four city, In The
first place the Law itself was and is popular here;
and, Of course, to destroy a popular law is TO do
an unpopular thing. A great many men of the
Wing party have found the envelope conve-
nient thing, and thoy were loath to part with H.
And when we related how the Lawjwas repealed
principally for the purpose of bringing Lowell
back into the Wing fold, the motive appre-
cated at It's true value. Furthermore, am sor-
| ry TO say that so little regard was paid to the es
gal opinions of Brethren Lord, Choate, and Bartr
lett, that great portion of the voters, including
very large number of Wings believed that it was
not legal to vote except with the envelope, or, in
| other words, that so much Of your law as related
| to the choice Of delegates, which you passed
| through with so much wear and tear of con-
science, and so much battering to pieces and
tearing to tatters of the poor rules and ORDERS
| mere trash-nu and void; that you had no right
to enact such Law and that they could not obey
it. And quite large namber of Wings who be-
lieved you had the right to pass such law, be-
cause they knew nothing about it, were afraid
that they should lose their votes if they did not
put themin the "bag."
Dearly beloved, thus 1t was that your friends,
the Lieut.. Governor and others were beaten in
Lowell. The Wing ticket was eminently ''res-
pectable" One of the Wing Candidates is, |
think, the oldest man in the State--that is to say,
politically. He and Sebastian Cabot were play
fellows together, and he has great, great, great
grand children now in Harvard College. He con-
siders every new thing humbug, and expects to
see the day when the Western Railroad and At
lantic Steam Navigation shall prove to be failures.
He has his doubts about the feasibility Of the
| Mariners Compass, and longs for the return Of
rs cent postage and the whipping post IL he
had been chosen mo new tangled scheme ofrelorm
would have been introduced into the Convention
with his consent you may may depend. But this
person and his colleagues were all defeated. One
Of them, 1 hear, had made an investment in the
PuiOhasu VI Sopy VI lthe tepOileu PtuCeeuhlgs VI
the Convention Of 1920, and was qualifying him
selfto be one Of the most learned men in the Con-
vention. Alas for the vanity ofhuman expecta-
tons! "Ben Butler" leads the playfellow Of
Cabot more than 200 votes, and the lowest on our
ticket beats the popular and worthy Lieut. Gov
ernor by over hundred
see by the newspapers that similar wretched
luck has attended your friends in all parts OF the
| State. The large aud steady Wing moJoriiIes 10
Boston and Salem have saved You, brothers Ste
venson and Lord, from the general wreck but our
Speaker is among those upon whom the Previous
Question has been summarily put. brother Da-
Wis Of Greenfield finds the Wing candidate in his
own town defeated, and Brother Kimball Of
Natick, and and Brother Moore Of Waltham have
the modification of knowing that two such radi-
calls as Wilson and Banks will take their places
in May. The country Wings fare hard indeed,
but they deserve their iate They should have