Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-13
WASHINGTON. d. c.
WILLIAM NJ. BURwELL, Editor.
Massa c usel IT'S, Look at Herl
MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1856.

Massachusetts, Look at Herr
This little State, respectable for having shed
the first blood of revolution, in which she
was backed and protected by the more power
full States of the South, seems inspired with
determination to REFORM according to her own
sense Of right, the erroneous opinions of the
Union.
Accordingly, her leading men and women
have entered upon that task, and, like the Papal
authorities, thunder anathemas against all who
differ with them.
But the thunders Of this New England Vati-
can roll unheeded over the heads of the obsti
nate heretics who persist in their heresies and
defy the hierarchy of Faneuil Hall.
We do not think Massachusetts, is exactly
qualified for the task of governing this Union
She has but thirteen electoral votes; she has a
territory not larger than the single counties of
some other States. But more than this. Mas
sachusetts is small nation Of shop-keepers,
manufacturers, and seamen. She depends upon
the productions of other countries for the sup
port of her own people. She has sugar refine
res and cotton mills, which employ thousands
of slaves She has shipping that has been
paid for by fetching and carrying for the other
States of the Union.
In the first place, then, when she dispatches
the incendary Wilson to denounce the character
and institutions Of other States, she ought to
reflect that she has not the moral nor physical
power to overthrow governments 50 much
more powerful than her own. In the next
place, she should observe that, if Mr.. Wilson
succeeds in breaking down that covenant
with He'll" the Constitution, his very pure fe-
low-citizens will be compelled to abandon all
commercial intercourse with the hostile States,
or pay a revenue duty for admission to that
market which is now their own, against for
eign competition.
We do not doubt Mr. Wilson knows all this,
but assures his fellow citizens it is better to
cast off all connection with wicked people,
than to profit by dealing with them.
1t is true this wicked people aided in obtain
ing for Massachusetts the freedom she now
in the walls of Massachusetts,, or dollar in the
pockets of her citizens, which has not been, in
some manner, the result Of this intercourse
but what does this matter to a fanatic or an
ungrateful and ambitious man?
We observe that Massachusetts has taken
the field with fusion party, which is under
stood to comprehend a large majority of her
people. The most prominent principle of this
combination seems to be to protect herself
from the aggressons of the slave States and
this is to be done by excluding any new States
which recognise this institution. We presume
that Mr. Wilson, with his eleven Congressional
followers, will make every effort to distract the
country and excite mutual prejudices amongst
the people of both sections. But we must pro-
test against single Misrepresentation upon
which this crusade is based.
Ofwhat aggressions" Massachusetts can
complain, we are ignorant She preserves all
her institutions unmolested; she has never
been invaded by the opinions Of other States
Massachusetts has sent her sons, her wares,
her opinions, into other quarters of the Union !;
they have never retalated by sending their
opinions or commodities amongst her citizens.
Yet she says that there is determination to
crush out the the spirit ofliberty" from amongst
her citizens, land subject the free States to
relentless dcspotism." When we consider that
under Van Buren,, Fillmore, and Pierce, the
free States have held the Federal Executive for
sixteen out Of the last twenty years, when we
are told Of the unexampled progress by which
free States are added to the Northern system,
we cannot see how freedom is or has been
/" crushed out" by aggression, or how . the
free States have been subjected to relentless
despotism;" still less can we admit that the
platform adopted at Philadelphia - made abb
ject and accomplishing submission to pro-saye-
~ legislation fundamental article in the creed
of the American party"
That platform recommended obedience TO
the laws Of the Territory. How were these
laws passed? In accordance with the consti-
tuition, majority Of the people Of these States,
and the approval Of the Executive elected by
the whole people, sanctioned them. But Massa-
chusetts, with her eleven members Of Congress,
insists that this legislation is aggressive and
unjust. Remind her that these measures origi-
mated with and received the support Of many
Northern men, and she will begin TO rave
about doughfacesl We really think the other
States have some voice in this matter, and
will not acquiesce in the dictatorial and fanati-
cal position occupied by this little old terma.
CANT Of the Union, who, subsisting upon the
indiscrimnatc labor Of others, insists that they
arc not worthy to associate with her.
We think the people are becoming tired Of
this hypocritical clamor, and that Mr.. Wilson
will be compelled to sell his brogans in some
other market.
American Platform adopted at Columbus.
Whilst we cannot claim that the American
Convention which lately assembled at Column
bus endorses fully the Philadelphia Platform,
we are yet gratiRed to perceive that it protests
against the disunion designs Of the Black Re-
publicans We commend the pcrusal Of their