The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-11

remember that from every defeat they have
gathered strength, until from nine thousand in
1910, they have swelled to host in 1855, which
enters upon the campaign of SO with fair pros
poets of signal triumph. Possibly, defeat yet
awaits them, but final victory will be theirs, so
sure as God reigns, and Liberty is the birth
right of man.
THE OLD GAME.
The Straightout Wings in Maine last year
cast near $4,000 votes but, the Pierce De-
mocracy being divided, they failed in the at
tempt to place the State under the control of
that corrupt party. This year, they cast not
quite eleven thousand votes, the other four
thousand having probably been given outright
for Wells, the Pierce candidate. Although they
failed to elect that candidate, they succeeded in
preventing any choice of Governor by the Peo
pie, and, by coalitions throughout the State, Sc
cured Legislature which will reject Morrill,,
who received ffty-one thousand votes, and elect
Wells, who received only forty weight thousand
A similar attempt had been made in Yer
mont, but it proved a miserable failure.
In Massachusetts, the Straight-out Wings,
encouraged by the example of their brethren
in Maine, are pursuing similar policy, with a
view to like results. They cannot dream of
carrying their own nominations, but they con-
template with complacency the election of
Beach, the candidate of the Rum and Admins
tration Party. On the I'd, seven hundred and
fifty delegates, chiefly from the eastern part
a.
and, with great unanimity, nominated full
ticket for State offices, headed by SAMUEL FL.
VALLEY, for Governor Letters against flu
sion were read from Mr.. Winthrop and Mr..
Choate. That of Mr.. Choate is full of those
stilted nothings in which certain Boston rhetori-
the politics of the new Party. "And what are
its polticsP 1t has none. Who knows them?
Even on the topic of Slavery, nobody knows,
that l am aware of, what in certain it seeks to
do, or how much or how little will content it."
Is Mr.. Rufus Choate quite sure of his own
politics Did he understand them clearly when,
in the Senate of the United States, he quail
ed before the eye of McDuffie. Did he stand
up to them, when he skunk, abashed, under the
frown and rebuke of Henry Clay? The sum
and substance of his politics has always been,
submission to a Master. Such man cannot
comprehend the politics of Republicanism, be-
cause its elemental idea is, resistance to Mas
terdom. We can tell him of one thing A." in GER
tain the Republican Party seeks to do, and
that is, to consign to the walks of private life
all that tribe of emasculate politicians who
deem submission to Slavery necessary to main
tain the Union and opposition to Slavery, rank
sectionaism, if not treason.
George S. Hillard made speech, in which,
aiming to rival the ponderous sarcasm of his
great model, Daniel Webster, he styled the Re-
pubcans the Rag-baby Party!'
The resolutions, as it appears from the tele-
graphic synopsis, denounce the Anti-Slavery
acts of the last Legislature, shrink from the or
ganization of Party opposed to Slavery, as
threatening the stability of the Union, and de-
clare that, if ever union of parties become
necessary, it must be a union of " National pa
triots against the aggressions of fanaticsm."
The recent intolerable outrages of Slavery, and
its schemes of aggression, are overlooked by
this select band of National patriots
Next in order appear the Know Nothings.
Having failed, after all their secret missiles and
packing processes, to make Know Nothingsm
the controlling element in the Republican Con-
vention. and to force upon it the nomination of
Convention, and nominated the Governor al
most unanimously, and he accepted the nomi.
nation in letter which was enthusiastically
applauded. There is such thing said the
Hon. j. W. Foster, as PoLIrIcAL HONOR The
Governor does not appear to have learned this
lesson. After having permitted his friends to
labor for the control of the Republican Con-
vention, to appear there in full force, to submit
his claim to a nomination, and urge it by
every argument; failing to receive the nomina-
ton, he gives his countenance to another State
Convention, and consents to head a ticket
nominated in oppositionl This is Political
Honor!
While the malcontents of Massachusetts
are thus doing what they can to break down
the only party which proposes to unite the
opponents of Slavery against the men. who
repealed the Missouri Compromise. waeed war
against Freedom in Kansas, and are for
ever plotting the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the Slave
Power, and to elect the Administration ticket.
their services are duly appreciated by the
Richmond (Va.) Enquirer. The editor was
doubtless apprized, by some of his National"
friends in Massachusetts, of what the Wings
intended to do, for, in an editorial which ap-
peared before their Convention, entitled, " Il
Clean Of Hope" he says
I'VE are most happy, too, to learn from reli-
able friends OF Massachusetts, that there is some
prospect of reform in the political complex.
ion of that infatuated Commonwealth. d. d.
Beach, ESQ.,, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, Is an eminent lawyer who has adj
hered, through many years Of changing fortune,
to the conservative Democratic principles he
still processes and carries out At the CON-
mencement OF his career, he conducted with
signal ability, for eight years, a journal. which
was the organ of the Democratic party in West.
ern Massachusetts. Subsequently,, he was
almost alone in the Massachusetts Senate. in
opposing the schemes of coalesced Wings and
free-Soilers and tmeserving politicians of his |
own party, who were ready from motives of |
temporary expediency, to yield to the popular |
clamor on the subject of Abolition. Latterly.
ne has not Stunned the unpopuarity of support, |
ing the kansas-Nebraska principles of terrific. |
rial sovereignty, and opposing the demagogues
and dreamers who have converted the Tenn. |
perance question into political ISSUE"
lie proceeds to say, that the fanaticism of
the Abolitionists has awakened disgust:
"The true citizens of Massachusetts,, we are
informed, have been aroused to sense of hu. |
imitation by the insane measures of their rulers |
ihey have become aware of the alienation of |
the sympathy of all other parts of the Union !: |