The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-11-29
). SOUTH SIDE VIEWS" OF MAssAcHUsETT,


The Boston Telegraph assures those Sout,
ern men who rejoice at the result of the ele :
/ ton in Massachusetts, that they have real 4
nothing to encourage them. The Party tn t
has succeeded, it says is the one that passta
the Personal Liberty Bill, and voted to remo'e
Judge Loring. True, may the Southerner a +
sver but Governor Gardner, who took co +
servative ground on both those measures, h s
been triumphantly sustained by that san e
Party, evincing that it has come under the a
fuence of a sober second thought.
The Telegraph, quoting the estimate of t c
Springfield Republican, that twenty thousa ID
of the old Free-Soilers voted for Govern Or
Gardner, says:
awe do not now propose to explain why the sc
men did not join the Republican movement.
We only point to the fact that they remain I'd
with the American party, that they gaveSt is
triumph, and that this is the triumph which is
trumpeted through the land as an event teen
ing with good cheer for all 'South-sde pol3ti-
clans. 1t will not surprise us to hear that many
Of them are moved to serious and wholesome
reflection, on observing that what they have
done can be put to such uses. They have not
intended to aid and abet the Northern allies of
the Slave Power by seeming to act on their siae,
| and are not likely to be counted on that side
hereafter.
"The Washington organ also, and other 'na1
tional organs of the Know Nothing party, are
| diligently representing to the Slave Power toat
all those who voted for Gov. Gardner haze de,
clared in its favor, and will henceforth give it
no trouble that they will be plant to its inaus
ence, endorse its platforms, vote for its Prasis
Dental candidate, and quietly allow it to do its.
own will in all things. 1t may be that the T. roc
Slavery conservatives who claim triumplY in
the success of the Know Nothings in this State
| really count on seeing the AntiSlavery mems
l whose votes secured this triumph, undergo aH
I ugly transformation. They know what can be
| done by vigorous party discipline, aided by the
| stimulus of ambition for political successes
| and honors; and, very likely they feel eertais
of seeing these men transformed into faithful
servants of the Black Power, and winning great
reputation for skill in the art of facing Souta
| by North We think they will be sadly disaE-
| pointed AT any rate, we shall not believe If
| the possibility of such a transformation until
| we see it take place
Men in false position will not be apt to act
| like angels. Pray Heaven the confidence Of
| the Telegraph may not be misplaced: The
twenty thousand old FreeSoilers who vlted fer
Gardner are pursuing precisely the Olicy Of
the old Wing Party which they so lang d.
nounced-supporting their Party, bee .use b
| cally Anti-Slavery, when they know tina acting
nationally, if it act at ALL it will be on he size
of Slavery. The South side politicians. hate
abundant reason for rejoicing. They know
that the Republican Party is the only che from
which they have cause to apprehend danger,
and they know that in Massachusetts, it hiss
been defeated by Gardner, with his twenty
thousand Free-Soilers. We commend to their
special attention the following, from the Dasly
Missouri Republican of November Sth. There
is no use in blinking the result. Pro-Slaverv
has obtained a triumph in Massachusetts,, and
the end will prove it. o
"The 14bolaiOnists Smashed Up.-Our f.st
| and greatest hope from Massachusetts was, tLat
| the Abolition and DisuniOn party of that State
| the Summers and Wilson's, the Parkers and Gar
risons, and the three thousand preachers, or her
proportion of them-should be beaten and roslt-
ed in the election which has just terminated.
| We relied great deal upon the sober second
! thought of the people of that State. We thought
| we saw, in the reasonable acts of the Itiss
Legislature, ana In the extraordinary proceed
ings of that body, enough to produce rcv,,lu-
| ton, whenever the people had an opportunity
to decree it. We were right in our conclusion.
Republcanism, with its acts Of treason against
| the Union, and Abolitionism, as it stands nep-
resented in the Senate by Sumner and Wilson,
had been secuted out of Boston and out of the
State. We could not hope that this would be
done by the Wing party, although the presenta-
ton of full ticket, and the rallying of Choate,
Winthrop, billiard, and Chandler, and many
more such men, to the rescue, centrbsted
greatly to the result. All we desired-all That
/ we could ask, under the circumstances-,vas
| the de feat of Abotionism; and it has been done.
| Treason has been rebuked in the very city and
State where it has been preached with more
emphasis than any other city or State in .the
Union. We do not care what party is vicsor-
Gus, so that Abolitionism is vanquished, and
there is prospect of getting rid of Slsver5, as
political question forever. We thsuks the
people Of Massachusetts for having ds'nes the
work so thoroughly and promptly, and repice
in the belief that it will have its effect uoon the
delegation in Congress from that State