Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-06
MASSACHUSETTS, POLITICS.

Massachusetts is the great scolastic State OF
the Union. She boasts of her historians, her
professors, her lawyers, her doctors, her poets
and her romance writer's. Her colleges are
distinguished; her other Institutions of learning,
| perhaps, surpass those of any other State, and
her chief city, Boston, claims to be the Athens
Of America. She claims to be the most cult.
waited, the most refined, the most elegant, and
| the most aristocratic city in the Union. She
boasts that her first circles are almost inacces-
sible, and that the decisions of those circles in
all matters of taste are far more binding than
either the common Jaw of England, the statutes
of Massachusetts, or the Constitution of the
United States. The literary man who falls
under the ban of the Massachusetts,, or, rather,
the Boston public, is forever disgraced, and
the actor who is Kissed may consider himself
| e,ernally damned.
But notwithstanding Massachusetts elegance
Massachusetts social exclusiyeness, and Massa-
chusetts' scholarship, the State Of Massachusetts,
is this day politically the most demoralized
! State in the Union. Her scholars are of all
others the most crack-brained her abolitionists
Of all others the most rank, her philanthropists
the most crazy, her religious zcalots the most
ianatical, and her politicians the most unsound
and corrupt of any in this great country.
The dinner tables of her aristocrats are gar
nished with plate of silver and gold. Lovely
women and cultivated men, pious parsons and
learned politicians lend their attractions to the
scene; but all that is refined, all that is ele-
CANT, all that is aristocratc, is marred by in
sane political bigotry. The aristocrat, imbued
with abolition sentiments, places next to the
scholar, next to the parson, or next to the re-
fined and lovely lady, man as black as the
ace of spades, as rough as Hottentot, and as
odorous as skunk.
His object is TO undo what God did-to make
an inferior race equal to those whom God made
their superiors-to make the black man the
peer Of the white man. the black woman equal to
the soft, gentle, and accomplished white woman.
He can only prove the honesty of his political
sentiments by some display of social equality
between the white man and the black man.
No one, east or west, north or south, could
have for the black race kinder feelings than
ourselves. Raised amongst them, we know
their gentleness, and appreciate their fidelity.
When kept in the place for which God designed
them, they are among the most useful Of the
human family; but when lifted above their
proper and natural sphere, they become not
only useless to themselves, but dangerous to
others.
But the Massachusetts statesmen and phi.
anthropist, wiser and better than God, who
denounced against the sons of Ham the curse
of slavery, are determined to transfer the black
man from the position Of a mental to that of
an equal-to make white men and black men
equal in the State, equal at the bar, and equal
in social life. They are determined to make
the lovely, enlightened, and spotless white
virgin Irvine her arms in connubial fondness
around the black and odorous African The
soft red lips of the Caucasian maiden are TO
depressed by the thick and bcstial lips Of the
usty African. This picture is too revolving,
and yet it is this that abolition leads to-
Massachusetts has fallen into degradation.
Her wings and her freesoilers vie with each
other in insulting the white race, and in Gle.
waiting the black race. Her democrats are few,
but they are rs true as steel. We honor them.
They have to resist a great pressure. If they
could influence the State, we would see far
different state Of things. But they are as the
few good men Of Sodom. Let them still
strive and still struggle. Their cause is so
just that ultimately it must succeed.