The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-25
Correspondence of the Gta.
POLITICS IN MASSACHUSETTS-A
REMARKABLE BOOK.
To the Editor of the National Era.

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To the Editor Of the National Era:
The Know Nothing Order is now pretty eff
fectually broken down in all its strongholds
and the election soon to take place will show
| that it has lost its strength and flower of its
army, in losing Henry Wilson, N. p. Banks
John w. Foster, and the large number of young
and talented men who have gone into the
| Know Something movement which is now
merged into the Republican. The Know Moth
ing party in this State is left without competent
leaders, and will henceforth become insigniG
cant in the political history of the Common
wealth. 1t will this fall make its death strug
gle, and find its grave.
The Republican party, with Julius Rockwell
as Its standard-bearer, and such men as Thomas
D: Eliot, of this district, formerly Wing
Richard ID. Dana, jr., Stephen c. Phillips
Charles Hudson, Henry Wilson, John w. Eos
ter, and N. p. Banks, to advocate its cause
supported by the Springfield Republican, the
Boston Alias, and many other Wing papers, as
well as those which were previously devoted to
the movement, combining the strength of the
old Free Soil party, the AntiSlavery portion
of the Know Nothings, the Temperance men,
| and the Liberal and AntiSlavery Wings, will
not fail to carry the State. There is, perhaps
| no State in the Union where the Anti-Nebras
ka sentiment is stronger and deeper than it is
here, and every honest man sees that the sue
| cess of the Republican movement is the only
| way of giving adequate expression to this SEN
timent. Within my own circle of acquaint
| ance, many who have heretofore acted with the
Wing and Know Nothing parties, and some
| who are at present members of Know Nothing
Councils, are going for Julius Rockwell and
the Republican candidates.
The trammels of the Know Nothing party
rQ hrnl- N fhnr nv1r e
Wing party left-a small remnant, who will
| show their last sad respects to the memory O.
an extinct party, at the ensuing election, by
voting for Mr.. Valley for Governor party
which, in the words of its great leader, now
lying in his tomb at Marshfeld, will henceforth
"exist only in history" having missed its
great opportunity of identifying itself with the
cause of Freedom and Humanity; mistaken its
own interests, bowed its neck to the slave pow
er, and died.
wish to say few words of that remarkable
work of Margaret Fuller, " Wonan in the Nine
tenth Century," which has been republished
the past summer, with other miscellaneous
writings of this gifted woman, extracts from
her journal and letters, and valuable preface
and introduction by her brother, Rev. Arthur
B. Fuller, of Boston, and Horace Greeley, of
the New York Tribune. / have read it this
is no man or woman who has written so ably
and so eloquently on the great problems con-
nected with the position, sphere, and civil rights
of woman the means of her elevation and in
creased usefulness, and the kind of education
she needs, to develop her nature and mind in
its full and harmonious proportions, az Margaret
Fuller. Both conservatives and reformers may
learn wisdom from her pages. She was evi.
IDENTITY the most talented woman our country
has produced. Gifted as a classical scholar
and endowed with great conversational pow.
| ers, she was alike instructive and fascinating
| in her discourse, and wrote with strength and
| polish that few writers have attained. Those
| who would become better acquainted with her
| land no one ought to be ignorant of so remark
able and distinguished countrywoman) will
do well to procure this beautiful collection OF
| portion of her works, published by John p.
Jewett & Co., Boston. Add to this, also, the
| excellent Memoir, by James Freeman Clark
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Horace Greeley, and
| William Henry Charming, who all contributed
| portions of the work. and the impression of her
| genius, and the regret that her life was closed
| by so tragic an end, associated with shipwreck
and the stormy sea, will leave strong imprint
| of her memory upon the heart. This volume
| from John =. Jewett 4 Co., of which her I" Wo
man IN the Nineteenth Century" forms the
title, is accompanied by truthful and excel
lent likeness.
With this notice of woman and her works,
who strongly and deeply sympathized with the
Anti-Slavery movement, and has uttered many
noble and beautiful words ia its behalf through
| out her writings, | close this letter.
Yours, truly, F.