New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-15
FROM BOSTON

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| CIV to an absard rsmor that Acurished and faded
! in private conversation here some weeks ago. to
the effe ct that Mr. Damrell, Nj. G. from the lid
District, intends TO resign he seat before he has
taken it, and that Gov. Gardner will also resign
bis governorship ana be nominated in place Of
Mr. Damrell. Mr.. D.smrell is undoubtedly in
I'LL ealtb, but he is not so far gone as to think
Of retgDing. If his own word is to be trusted
he has no such intention, lie is an old Adolf
ticnist, and belongs therefore to tough race,
hard to kill, bocily or POLITICALLY. Their de-
cease is often predicted and recorded, bat they
WON'T sqg dead
Mr.. Gardner hardly belongs to the Hid Dis
tric., for, although he lives there IN Summer, be
lives in Boston tae rest Of the year, or at least
has done so until lately. Only last Falt he was
q candidate for the nomination to Congress in
the Yth District. lie may, TO be sure, have
fully changed his residence, and if he has done
iudieiousy, for the Hid is the strongest Hunker
acknowledging District in the State, and there
if anywhere his Excenency would be likely to
stand chance Of going TO Congress in case any
thing should happen to produce vacancy in our
! delegation.
There is to be political convention 10 Chap
man Hall, in this city, on Thursday next, " for
the purpose then and there after free and fall dis
cussion and consultation Ofdevising the best mode
81 of concentrating and giving expression to the al
" most universal opposition of Massachusetts, to
" the repeal of the Great Ordinance Of Freedom,
and to the more recent aggressOns Of the Slave
Power, in its invasion Of Kansas and the over
throw Of the rights Of the free settlers Of that
Territory. One important question to be con
sidered at this meeting will be the expediency Of
calling Convention of the people OF the state,
without distinction of party, with the view OF
placing Massachusetts, in sympathy and cOnnec-
&" ton with the great republican movement now in
progress"
I quOte from circular which has been sent to
gentlemen Of all parties who are supposed to look
with favor OF at least with interest the Flu
sion movement The first signature to it is that
of Samuel BOwles editor of The Springfield Repub-
Gcan, the leading Wing paper Of Western Nlassa-
chusetts Another signature is that of John A.
Goodwin, editor of The LO,edi Courier, also an in
fluential Wing paper. The Know Nothing Sherlts
of Suffolk and Of Franklin Counties also sign it.
Both Of them were Wings last year; and the
Sheriff Of Suffolk, John NJ. Clark, is the bosom
friend and confidential adviser of Gov. Gardner
T. Emory Aldrich also signs it. lie is chief of the
Know Something's is District-Attorney of WOr
cester County, and was one of the orators
at the Wing State Convention last year
lvers Phillips Democrat of Fitchburg
signs it; and Of the two remaining signatures
one is that Of Ant-Slavery Know Nothing
Mr.. jerks of South Adams, and the other that of
the Hon. GershOm b Weston, who was last year
and for several years before the Free Soil candidate
for Congress in the Plymouth District So you
see that all parties are fairly represented on the
Committee by whom this Convention is called.
This Committee is a Know Something Committee
in substance. The X. 8. Convention at Worcester
some weeks ago appointed a Committee to take
steps for a fusion. That Committee held a meet
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the Committee whose names ! have given you
above. Their movement / think is premature,
and may be mischieyiOus to the cause of Fusion.
They would have done better TO have waited to
hear what the Known Othng Committee has 70 say
and propose. The men | have named are honest
and respectable persOnages, but they are not the
men 10 whom the people habtualy look for lead
ership. Still, good may result from their move
ment, and perhaps the Republican party so much
needed and so ardently wished for may be born
within the obscure walls of Chapman Hall Who
knOwsl Let us wait and zee.
A large body of the Know. NOthings are averse to
fusion for various reasons. The office holders OF
course don't like il because they are well aware
that if existing arrangements are broken up and
the cards shuffed for new deal the chances are
that they will not get 80 good hands as they now
hold. 1t is thought by many that the American
party are stronger than they seem, and that thee can
carry the State on their own hook, without or in
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in this city of gentlemen holding this opinion for
the purpose of discussing the expedency of calling
a Faneuil Hall meeting of the Known Othlngs-ot
having rOusDg gathering on the pure Springfield
platform | am not sure that these gentlemen are
not right politically speaking, though | wish with
all my heart the case were otherwise. But as dl-
fculties and obstacles gather around the Fuslen
movement the prospects of the American party
brighten Men who would run from it with alacrity
if they saw safe resting place elsewhere will cling
to il rather than plunge into chaos Sill gle step,
il seems 10 me, would place the American party IN
position to defy all assaults from fusion or any
thing else. The chief motive now among the inlu-
entail men of the party in seeking fusion u.s. that
under its present name the party is isolated. 1t
belongs to the State alone The Southern Know
Noihings of course, disclsm all fellowship with It,
In other States the Republican party prevails, and
with that Americanism in Massachusetts,, though
sympathetic is not in line The Members of Con-
gress feel this difficulty keenly. At Washington
as things n wv stand, they win find themselves in
an anomalous position They will not belong
strictly speaking, to any national party, aud their
weight and influence will be proportiOnately dlmin-
ished And if a National Convention OF the Repub-
lican party should, as is probable be held next
year Massachusetts will be entitled to no voice in
that council, SO far at least as her dominant party
is concerned.
Now mere change of name-a partial change of
name-would remedy all this. Ii the Americans
of Massachusetts, were simply 10 call themselves
American Republicans, they would get ahead of the
Fusonists and place themselves in line with
a great National party. Their representatives at
Washington would take their places unquestioned
in the ranks of the majority in the House OF kep-
resentatiyes and Senator Wilson would not be sep
arated from the other Anti-Slayery Senators on the
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