Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-01-08
CALLER CUSHING Ac

$500 CALEB CUSHING, &c.
The Representative in Congress from this Con-
gfessional District is employing portion of his
leisure in Washington in Thanking to his constitu-
ents Speech of BESyANIS BARsrow, Of Salem,
Mass. on the abolition propensities of CALEB
CUSHING" He has not fIvored us directly with
one of these documents; but gentleman who re-
ceived copy has handed it to us, envelop and ALL
with the frank OF "F. X ZoLLIcorFER" on the
yeop.
We have read the document with quite as much
interest in learning the sort of matter which the
wings of Congress study and think available
for circulation among the people, in the primo
pies of Gen. CUSHING. This gentleman we well
knew to be almost much distinguished for versa
tty Of politics as Of talent He started in life
wing was afterwards TYLER man, and finally as
all great and good men should DO, abandoned the
heresies of his earlier days, and joined the Great
Democratic Party.
The speech in question shows that Gea CUSHING
prior to 1872 favored national bank protective
tariff, the reception of abolition petitions, and the
other doctrines of northern whiggery. 1t proves
him, in Short to have been aolig, and to have
acted with FILLMORE and WEBSTER He went no
farther in support of these measures than WEBSTER
and FILLMORE while, judging from his subsequent
acts his repentance for these wing hereses especi-
ally free soilism, has been much more thorough
and sincere than that of either of the gentlemen
named 1t needed not pamphlet to prove that
Gen CUsnNG prior to 1912, advocated free-sol
doctrines. 1t is enough to show him to have been
a wing, Of the WEBSTER and FILLMORE stamp, and
l,.l,- l,o,.a ..:.l
their dsapprobation are established and this could
have been done in a much smaller pamphlet than
the one Gen. ZoLIICoFFER is circulating among his
constituents. 1t is waste of words to prove that
wing voted for a national bank protective tar
if, and the Wilmot proviso. All these things, and
more 100, are comprised in that now odous word
of iour letters-lr h-ig.
But in his eagerness to prove Gen. CUSHING once
a lrhig, and therefore a bad politician, Gen ZoLLr-
GOLFER does not seem to have noticed that the docu-
nent TO which he is lending the sanction of his
name most emphatieally contradcts the story he so
often told in the BaR'aerin 1862 about the unsound-
ness of Gen. PIERCE on the slavery question. This
speech which he aiding to circulate is as emphatic
in esablshingt the soundness Of Gen. PIERCE on that
question as it is in establishing the former whiggery
of Gen. CUSHING. And the former editor of the
Banner commits the blunder Of circulating docu-
ment which entirely disproves the main point which
he laborcd to establish in 1852 while it only fur
Their proves, what nobody denies that CALEB CUsH-
ING was once wing. Here is a want of tact in
our former neigbor as a Member of Congress-
which he rarely exhibited as editor of a newspaper
We copy one extract to show how Gen. PIERCE
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close our present notice Of the pamphlet
In the summer or fall of 1850, the Democratic
party of New Hampshire, under the immediate lead
ofFranklin Pierce, assembled in State Convention,
and rejecting John Atwood, the nominee of the
regular annual convention, nominated another gen.
tleman in his place Why? Because John Atwood
and his friends had formed coalition with the
Free Solers of New Hampshire, for the purpose of
electng that gentleman Governor of the State and
of defeating the operation ofthe compromise meas
ures, and the democratic parry BY so doing Gen.
Pierce obtained the confidence of the Union men
of the country, and succeeded eventually in becom-
ing President BY this he pledged himself against
coalitions with FreeSoiers and in favor of the Ma
tiona democracy.
In the spring of 1851 the coalition in Massachu
sets which had been formed the previous fall was
perfected by an agreement made on the 9th day of
January between the Free Soil and democratic re-
representatives. in the Legislature to the effect that
ChaS. Sumner should receive the votes of the de-
mocratic party for United States Senator The de-
mocracy ofthe city of Salem held a meeting on the
9TH day of that month--the ensuing evenng-and
passed series Of resolutions denouncing the bar
gain as fraud upon the democracy, one of which
resolutions was follows:
Res0lcei, That all those who assent to any such
bargain or consent to pay any such price must
bear in mind that any Freeso Senator, if elected,
would be necessarily an opponent of the next ad-
Ininistraon, should that administration be-as it
probably will be-democratic, ana that all those
who class themselves the friends of such a Sena-
tor and who are instrumental in his election must
necessarily also be opponents of the next democrat
ic administration, and OF the distinguished men of
whom it is composed, and by whom it will be sup
ported and must be prepared to take all the neces-
sary consequences Of that position.
These resolutions were published in the Boston
Post the 9th Of January and the mail from Con-
cord next ensuing brought a letter from General
Pierce written with his characteristic mpulsiveness
warmly approving the resolutions and the stand
taken by the Salem democracy sayng-"IIe was
SO pleased lie could not help sitting down to let US
know, ani complimenting US strongly on our de-
mocracy and patriotism.