The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-29
From the New Hampshire Patriot
III ASSk OuIrC LTIS


more remarkable, and, think full of instruction
than the recent election in Massachusetts,. party
mas sprung into existence it were by enchantmen and
WHICH, without possessing any considerable number OF
newspapers to influence the public mind without public
meetings or addresses any other of the received meth
DDS OF action by which encouraged and called
OUT has swept the State like dsluge breaking down
all the old landmarks of party throwing most of the
accredited politicians, and placing in power set of new
men, very few of whom before heard of of
even within the State The completeness OF their triumph
is not the least striking feature of the 1t is the first
time for many years that has been elected there
by the popular vote the first time many years that the
senate has been nearly filled by popular vote the first time
IN many that the people have the first trial elected
nearly all the members Of the popular branch of the egs-
ature Wings of all classes and conditionsUnon wings
AID reesoi wings freesolers and abetionis republi-
cans and Observation-Disclosures all been overwhelmed
alike in the same common destruction The great MAORI
y OF the people have all at abandoned their po-
htcal anecedents shaken off old party ties amped
der foot existing organizations and deserted their political
standards, with sort OF universal rush of eager
ton and revolution There thus exhibited the spectacle
quite unparalleled of three radical party revolutions in
the short space of some twenty monthsand this in the
stad and obstinate State of Massachusetts
such an extraordinary fact this is deserving of
ul observation and reflections and though may be
able to the whole moral of it once still there
some aspects of it which it is impossible misapprehend
One clear inference is be deduced from tvz that the
act of Congress for organizing the Territories of Kansas
and Nebraska about which much fuss camor have
been made justly regarded by the people altogether
secondary consequence This fact is shown concusiyely
by their votes for members of Congress The present
bers were unanimous in heated opposition that law Of
these only twoBanks and De Witt-have been reelected
or the other nine, eight regular wing candidates for
re-election-vK: Elliot, Croker, Valley Appleton Up
hal WppfW worth DcEi nd
eight wing gentlemen especially Jealous and violent
against Nebraskaso much that the crack speech in
Congress OF such speakers consisted of the ordinary
free-soil abolition defamation the subject nay of
them, Elliot out-eroded Herod in freesoil violence and
went far really embarrass his ee-so associates
by an unreasonable motion repeal the fugtve-save
made in execution of the constitution At the close of the
session, when these free-sozed wings home they
participated in if they did not get up so-caled wing
State convention which opened by an ultra abolition
and disunon speech by the notorious Josiah Quincy and
which, instead of undertaking pretending stand upon
any wing PLATFORM proceeded pass series of anti
constitutional fanatic abolition resolutions quite surprising
in folly thing which had previously enanated from pure
abolition conventions word they threw themselves head
long into the gulf abotonism out-bddng all other fac
tons for the abolition vote they saked their political exist
upon what they bndy supposed overpowering
popular emotion of opposition to Nebraska IT. under
such circumstances the Nebraska issue had predominaed
in mems minds those members ought to and would have
been triumphanty reelected for of them were per-
sonally popular they all upright honorable inte-
gent men they free from any ground of personal ex
cepon; they had long served the wing party faithfully
and had secured its just esteem and in addition to all
this they had done thing which could do to Sc
cure the support of the eesoi faction Besides which,
two OF Them not content with having the cordial nominal
ton of the wing party had also obtained that the free
soiers, under the new name of republican, which they
had mpudeny usurped And yet in the face of all this
Gov Washbun and the eight wing members of Congress
who were candidates for reelection the same time
deserted by their party and scorny rejected by the
most part were tumpany elected in their places by ma
ores OF bOusands if with the and deliberate pur-
pose of the people spit and stamp upon all the stale and
'auseous denunciations Of The Nebraska bill
If we look beyond this obvious and superficial fact into
the mental condition. convictions and opinions of the men
who have thus knocked chaos the dominant abolition
influences in Massachusetts, and the old wing ogarchy by
of dominant thought the very of that which has
so long prevailed in New England The aboltionists and
reesolers have for dozen years been DINING IN our ears
the dogma that all the human beings in these United
statesmen, women and children black, yellow and
wheare absolutely equal possessed of equal political
rights and equally entitled to and be voted for and
10 be raised to all the places of in this
In vain have the sober-minded men in the community
urged that there might be exception to this doctrine
hat possibly raw Africans Africans partially
amed were not quite equal in qualification and fitness for
'fce, to genuine, trpe-blne f-booded Yankees that it
night he quite proper for the Africans to work for living
Americans do and be treated well as their relative
condition and character would allow consistently with
keeping all the political power and all the offices in the
lands of Americans But the who ventured to sug-
rest this greeted in Massachusetts with general howl
If humanitarian rage and phianthropca ferocy on the
'art of the sweet-empered abolitonsts In regard
o the equal rights Of the Africans and the enor-
nifty and sinfulness of Americans preferring to be
governed by Americans rather than by Africans Now
hat has become Of all this superine philanthropy II
vas mighty fine thing for the aboonsts of Massacb-
ets for such kd-glosed improcticebltes as Wendell
phillips, Charles Summer, Edmund Quincy aud all that
chool of vapd decaimers insist that the white Ameri
ans OF Virginia Louisiana should the control
their political affairs to the black Africans and it would
do in Massachusetts itself make the Africans voters
long there only of them to be pet,
81 and paved over and made much Of by the Garrsons
nd the Wfigbts and the foolish women who rendered
themselves odions and unseely and thsr sex ridiculous
y buser and parade at ant-slavery conventions But
Then this doctrine of the absolute equality of races and
heir universal identity of rights be considered by
people of Massachusetts practical question of their
wn, then it is not only rejected by them with sort of
bout of accamation but they go to the other ex
RENE and refuse to admit to equality rights eren The
'hie Eishmen and Germans
We condemn Indignantly and promptly rs any one
an the idea of DISTINGUISHING merely because they
ere born in Europe, and not in America But we accept
nth graduation the verdict Of the people Of Massachusetts
far it repudiatcs il does in the emphatic
erms the disorganizng and preposeros theories of the