Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-22
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MONDAY, JANUARY %, 1855.
SENATORIAL EIRcrIox.-We have indeed

SENATORIAL ELRcTIoN.-We have indeed
fallen on evil times, when, by any concurrence
Of circumstances, a large number of the mem
berssof the Legislature can be found, who will
vote for such man as Nahum F. Bryant, as
their first choice for the dignifed, important,
and responsible Office of U. States Senator,
and when an organized minority of that body,
so numerous and efficient as to be able, tenn
porarily, to thwart the majority, with the
hope of eventually defeating it, shall deliber.
ately select such man, as the one on whom
they can most successfully rally, and by the
potency of whose name they hope to defeat
that majority. Yet such things have occur
red, in this year Of our Lord, one thousand,
eight hundred and ffty-6ve, and may well
cause our special wonder.
1t was asked, formerly, " What must that
people be, who have monkey for their god?"
and it may with equal pertinence be asked
What must that party be, which has for its
candidate for Senator, Nahum F. Bryant
In all past time, the Sepstorship of the United
States has been justly considered the reposi-
tory and the representative of the States
character and honor, and no party has dared
70 put forth a man, as the candidate for that
high station, who was not competent to sus-
tain the character, the honor, and the inter-
ests Of the State, when brought in conflict
with the mighty minds that are congregated
in that august body. But, now, we have
set of politicians, in the dominant party of
the State, who propose to fill the seat which
has been occupied by Lloyd, Mills.
Bates, Mason, Webster, Choate, Da-
Wis, and others Of like powers, by Nahum f.
Bryant.
We have no disposition to depreciate the
merits of Mr.. Bryant. We speak not of his
personal character. We leave that to the care
of his friends, and to the Judgment of those
who are acquainted with him, more intimately
than we are But Of his caI acity and quaif-
cations, as statesman and law giyer, when
he is a candidate for such an office, by his own
procurement it is our right and our duty, to
speak freely. Who ever heard of his possess
ing any such qualifications When and where
has he ever exhibited them? As lawyer,
after twenty years practice, has he ever adj
vanced, one step, above that wide and monot-
onous level, occupied by the most ordinary
country attorneys? He was member Of the
State Senate in 1871 and lS4S. The Senates
Of those years were remarkable only for their
mediocrity. Yet even in there, what was
his standing We have always understood
chat he was one of the most inefficient of
their members, SO that his constituents, when
the usual t,OO years had expired, were glad of
that excuse for dropping him.
We have no reason, We suppose, to expect,
or even hope, that the legislature will elect
either Stephen c, Phillips, Judge Allen, R.
H. Dana, Jr., John G. Palfrey, or c. P Hun
tington, because they do not belong to their
party, but we have right to demand of them,
in the name of the people, and in behalf Of
their interests, that they shall elect man,
that Massachusetts men shall not be ashamed
of, man whose talents, experience and po-
litical knowledge, shall to unreasonable extent,
make him fit associate and coadiutor of Chas.
GUNNER, and ut representative OF the Sow
ereignty of the State. We have a right to ask,
deficient as their party confessedly is, in this
respect, that they shall, at least, elect their
best man. We had supposed that they would
do so, as a matter of course, and not take up
with fifth or sixth rate man.
"Pigmies pgmles still, though perched on Alps"
and the placing of small man in the Senate,
makes his smallness only the more conspicu-
Gus. Let them leave it to the sham democra-
cy Of Connecticut to send their Perry Smiths
to the National Senate, but let no Legislature
OF Massachusetts, follow an example so igno-
bic The people of this State require as their
representative, a man Of ability, energy, de-
cision, and fidelity to the principles of liberty,
and they will be satisfied with nothing less.