The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-25
POLITICAL ITEMS.

Great activity prevails among the Republi
cans of Massachusetts,. Messrs. c. F. Adams
Sumner, Banks;- Boutwell,, Huntington, Hud
son, Wilson, Burlingame, Foster, Upham, Eliot
Goodrich, and other distinguished men, are
now actively engaged in support of the ticket
Know Nothing Councils are disbanding, and
burning their books. Of the newspapers, thir
ty-one are for Rockwell, eighteen for Beach
eleven for Valley, and seven for Gardner. OF
the Rockwell papers, sixteen were formerly
Wing, six Free Soil, five neutral, two Know
Nothing, two Democratic. From this list the
Boston weekly papers are omitted. The rel.
gious ones generally favor Rockwell.
The Springfield Republican says:
"The prospects for Rockwell's election were
never brighter. The friends of Mr.. Beach are
dsspairing some give up his chances and the
magnificent braggadocio with which the parti-
sans OF Gardner opened their campaign, grows
weaker and weaker as it comes in contact with
the people of the country"
The Boston Alias says
"In reply to of-repeated inquiries, we have
the pleasure of stating that our advices from
every part Of the State, at present, indicate a
complete triumph of the Republican ticket at
the next election. We may, of course, be mis-
inforned, and so, of course, mistaken but our
opinion is based upon the most authentic in
formation which we have been able to obtain.
The Know Nothings are Boosting Justify of the
victory which they intend to achieve, but we
cannot really discern any ground for their fond
anticipation"
Letters received by us daily from Massachu.
sets abound in similar assurances.
In New YORK, the Straight-out Wings and
Know Nothings are making the most desperate
efforts to defeat the Republicans. The former
were to hold State Convention last Tuesday.
The action of the Washington Hunt men at
Buffalo, last week, probably foreshadowed their
platform. The Kansas doings were denounced,
and the President was arraigned for not pro-
tecting the actual settlers against violence
pretty much after the fashion of the Soft Shell
Convention. The resolutions then proceeded
to denounce fusion and sectonalsm, to glorify
nationality and the Union, and take generally
the Hunker ground of the Straight-out Wings
of Massachusetts.
We trust the large accession of liberal Dem
ocrats to the Republican movement will enable
it to overcome the combination formed against
it. The following is a list of Democratic papers
that have come out in support of the Republi-
can ticket:
The 81. Laurence Republican.
The 50. laurence Democrat
The Saratoga County Helper.
The OtSego County Democrat.
The OleGn (Cattaraugus county, Journal.
The lion (I1erkimer county, Independent.
The Cdyuga County Chief.
The Fulton (Oswego county, Patriot
The Chautauqme County Democrat.
The Northern Essex county, Standard.
The LeWis County Republican,.
The CObleskW (Scoharie county, Journal
The Oneida County Sachem.
The New York EUening Post, without form
ally advocating the ticket, favors it, while it
keeps up an incessent fire upon the Admins
tration and Administration Party. The AL
bany Atlas, which still supports the Soft ticket,
is at war with the Pro-Slavery policy of the
Administration, denounces Slavery and Slave
ry extension in the severest terms, and has
been read out of the party by the Administra-
ton and its organ, the Washington Union The
Albany Ecening Journal says:
"What has become of the cry that the Re-
publican is nothing but the old Wing Party
under a new name?' We do not hear it any
more from Soft-Shell orators. We do not see
it any more in the Atlas. Is it possible that
they have come to a realizing sense of the fact
that James S. Wadsworth, Henry B. Stanton,
General Nye, Peter Dorsheimer. John p. Hale,
David Wilmot, Henry Wilson, Preston King,
Kingsley s. Bingham, Abijah Mann, Zenas
Clark, Sias NJ Burroughs, Benjamin f. But
Ter, Daniel H. Bissell, Bradford X. Wood,
and dozens of other leading Democrats, Join
heartily in the Republican movement? Every
one of these names is an earnest Of thousands
of votes. Problem for the Softs if the 'Whig
Party could carry the State last year, without
any Democratic help, what will it do this year,
when it has the whole Free Soil Democratic
Party to back it?"
The Administration victory in Pennsylvania
is not much to boast of. Official returns from
all but seven counties show the following re-
suits:
Arnold plumar Dam