Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-06
FUsION-BLACK REPUBLICANS-THE
HON. RUFUS CHOATE, &c.

lnelr names VIII ne stricken from the list
FUsION-BLACK REPUBLICANs-THE
HON. RUFUS CHOATE, &c.
The disciples of Daniel Webster, with the
Hon. Rufus Choate as the organ and expound,
er Of their views, have lately held meeting at
Fanueil Hall, in Boston, at which Mr.. Choate
made an eloquent and lucid exposition of the
views, purposes, and intents of the fusion lead.
ers; and also of the views and purposes of
himself and of those who stood with him on
what, he considered, national platform.
The Fusion party he demonstrated to be,
what in fact its leaders avowed it to be- melt.
ing Of all parties into one, Black Republican
party-a commixture of all parties, by which
each party should abandon every principle
hitherto avowed by it, and which had been pro.
fessedy deemed essential to the best interests of
the country and of society. Every one of these
parties was to bring its principles as a sacri
fee on the altar of this Black Republican party,
which was to be created on the ruins of all
which each ofthese parties protessed to consider
vitality essential to the general well being. On
down their hostility and agree to elect that
man to Office, State or National, regardless
whether he be freetrade or tariff, so that he
only be Black Republican. The temper.
ance man so completely abandons his con-
scientious convictions, that he will support
distiller, liquor dealer, and drunkard, if all
these be combined in one candidate. if only he
be Black Republican, and will give him his
preference to a genuine, consistent temperance
man, who adheres TO his conscience, and will
not sacrifice all principle on this new altar of
Black Repubicanism. The Know.iothing
throws into this boiling caldron, on this new
and black altar, his antagonism to popery and
to foreign influence, and will prefer bigoted
Catholic and foreigner, TO a genuine native
candidate OF his own conviction, If the first be
only devotee to the Black Republican altar,
and the other not. The foreign Catholic will
vote for the rankest Know-nothing in prefer
ence to his warmest democratic advocate, if he
does not worship at the Black Republican altar,
and 50 with every party. Every heresy is
deemed virtue if found kneeling at this altar
while whole galaxy Of principles, hitherto
deemed cardinal, are now stigmatized if found
kneeling at the altar Of National Patriotism
and not at the altar Of this Black Republican
ism-this moloch vulture which, devouring
every virtue, converts them into filthy vice.
The sesame to this party, and the only one, is
fealty to Black Republicanism. No watchword
r - -
doors there is but one magic password
negrodom; that watchword will admit every
hue and shade-free.lovers and freedrinkers
the Catholic foreigner and the American Know.
nothing.
Mr.. Cboate well puts the question. What
vital good is to be obtained-by this UNIVERSAL
sacrifice, by all parties, OF every principle hith-
erto deemed 50 essential This great and gem
eral ignoring Of all other principles and all
other interests purports to arise, from the re
peal Of the Missouri Compromise. But as
Mr.. Cboate observes, the very parties who avow
this repeal to be the motive for this wanton
and general abandonment Of the principles
hitherto honestly and warmly cherished, do
only end and aim Of this conglomerate party
which is avowed by its leaders, is hatred to the
Southland in order to render this as wide
spread and bitter as possible, that no man shall
be elected or appointed to any Office, national,
State, municipal, or corporate, who will not
deem it his paramount duty in bis official, as
well as personal capacity, TO exhibit hostility
to the South, and TO take autagonistc action
aginst il in all cases, and in every manner
and 10 this career Of hostility they must be
pledged to disregard alike the Constitution OF
the United States, the laws Of Congress, the
rights OF States, all comfy and any and every
dictate, which shall conflict with the EXTREMIST
hate and hostility to the South, while aggres-
sion in every aggravated form is to be pressed
to the extreme.
As Mr.. Choate well asks, what is the North
to gain by this proceeding. Let every man in
the North ask himself this question Let
every man Of them answer it to himself, and
say if he can, that il will prove either wise or
beneficial.
To our mind, and we believe il will so ap.
pear to every rejecting mind, which will Judge
without passion, and without bias, the true and
only cause Of this whole movement is plainly
discernible, and is simply this
That ifthere beanything clear as thenoon day
sun, il is that no Freesoiler, volator Of the Con-