Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-06-23
[From the n. Y. Evening Postl
John p. Hale's Election to the United
States Senate.

The election of John p Hale as United
States Senator from New Hampshire is one of
the most remarkable events of the day. There
are some very grave objections to him as a
member of the United States Senate, and
these are as well appreciated in New-Hamp-
shire as they are anywhere else. Scarce any
scheme of legislative pilage has been brought
before Congress which did not receive his
support and when not member of the
Senate he has allowed himself to be employed
at Washington as professional borer for pro-
jectors who had designs on the Treasury. A
good humored manner, touch of the Jack
pudding, knack which he has-but which
no really earnest enthusiastic ever had-of
keeping on excellent terms with all who differ
from him in their political views have fitted
him in peculiar manner to act as the instru-
ment of this class. Many who would ON other
accounts have liked to see Mr.. Hale in the
Senate, hoped that the Legislature of New
Hampshire would agree upon some politician
of less easy virtue. There were, however, two
circumstances in his favor, in the first place. he
had been consistent, fearless and unfnching in
his opposition to the extension of Slavery {;
and on the other hand, he had been marked
by the present Administration as a man who
was to be put down and excluded from public
Office.
Our readers will remember that the organ
of the Administration at Washington has,
several times after the elections which have
taken place in New-Hampshire since Mr.. Pierce
took the charge of public affairs, attempted to
demonstrate that things were not as bad in
that State as they seemed, and that there was
no truth in the assertion that Mr.. Pierce, by
the course he had pursued since he was raised
to the Presidency, had ruined the Democratic
party in that State. If the effort of the Ad-
ministration to prevent him from being again
elected to the Senate had been successful, there
would have been some little reason for pretend
ing that the Administration had not lost all
influence in NewHampshire. We may not
have succeeded in electing the man we should
have preferred" they would have said but
we have at least been able to keep out from
the Senate that Abolitionist joker, with his
quips and his gibes, whom we had resolved not
to allow to enter it again"
That there might be no mistake in this
matter, that the Administration might appear
as it is, wholly deprived of influence and power
in New Hampshire, the quarrel of Mr.. Hale
was taken up and the man whom the Admin
who had opposed the Administration when it
was in the right as zealously as when it was in
the wrong, was sent to the senate. If Mr..
Pierce and his friends had selected any other
man as the candidate whom they especially
wished to exclude from the Senate, we suppose
he would have been elected. We wish for our
part they had. We wish that in looking among
the public men Of w-Hampshre they had
lighted upon some man of proved ability, strict
notions on the subject of public expenditures
and incorrigibe honesty, and singing him out
from the rest had proclaimed their determi-
mination that he at least should not be elected
to the United States Senate The result
would have been his election by a triumphant
majority.
Meantime we must content ourselves with
Mr.. Hale. On the Slavery question we
believe we can confidently rely upon him on
other questions we hope he will try to be in
the right as often as his unsettled views of
public policy will allow him. His good humor,
his talent for welding some of the smaller
weapons of debate, his power of raising
laugh in stormy discussion when the members
seem ready to fly at each others throats, make
him, in some respects, desirable acquisition to
the Senate.