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

"S0UTH SIDE VIEWS" OF MASSACHUSETTS.
The Boston Telegraph assures those South
ern men who rejoice at the result of the cleo
ton in Massachusetts, that they have really
nothing to encourage them. The Party that
has succeeded, it says, is the one that passed
the Personal Liberty Bill, and voted to, remove
Judge Loring. True, may the Southerner an
swer, but Governor Gardner, who took con-
servative ground on both those measures, has
been triumphantly sustained by that same.
Party, evincing that it has come under the in
huence of a sober second thought.
The Telegraph, quoting the estimate Of the.
Springfield Republican, that twenty thousand
of the old Free-Soiers voted for Governor
Gardner, says:
ave do not now propose to explain why these
men did not join the Republican movement:
We only point to the fact that they remained
with the American party, that they gave Il its
triumph, and that this is the triumph which is
trumpeted through the land as an event TEEN.
ing with good cheer for all 'South-side politi;
clans. 1t will not surprise us to hear that rianv
Of them are moved to serious and wholesome
reflection, on observing that what they have
intended to aid and abet the Northern allies of
the Slave Power by seeming to act on their side,
and are not likely to be counted on that side
hereafter.
1.-The Washington organ also, and other ma
tional organs of the Know Nothing pafs, are
diligently representing to the Slave Power that
all those who voted for Gov. Gardner haze de-
clared in it's favor, and will henceforth give 1t
no trouble; that they will be plant to its .nfy-
ence, endorse its platforms, vote for its fres,-
Dental candidate, and quietly allow it to 90 its
own will in all things. 1t may be that the Pro
Slavery conservatives who claim a triumph in
the success of the Know Nothings in this State
really count on seeing the Anti-Slavery men,
whose votes secured this triumph, undergo an
ugly transformation. They know what can lie
done by vigorous party discipline, aided by the
stimulus of ambition for political successes
and honors; and, very likely, they feel certain
of seeing these men transformed into faithful
servants of the Black Power, and winning great
reputation for skill in the art of facing Sou1h
by North We think they will be sadly disap-
pointed. AT any rate, We shall not believe in
the possibility of such transformation until
we see it take place"
Men in a 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 Free Sellers who voted for,
Gardner are pursuing precisely the poicy'of
the old Wing Party which they so long de-
nounced-supporting their Party, because 40
cally Anti-Slavery, when they know that acting
nationally, if it act at all, it will be on the side
of Slavery. The South side politicians have
abundant reason for rejoicing. They know
that the Republican Party is the only one from
which they have cause to apprehend danger,
and they know that in Massachusetts, it has
been defeated by Gardner, with his twenty
thousand FreeSoilers. We commend to their
special attention the following, from the Daily
Missouri Republican of November 9Th. There
is no use in blinking the result Pro-Slavisry
has obtained triumph in Massachusetts, ynd
the end will prove it.
The AboLaioniSts Smashed Up-cSlr first
and greatest hope from Massachusetts s, that
the Abolition and Disunion party of that tate
the Summers and Wilson's, the Parkers al d Gar
risons, and the three thousand preachers or her
proportion of them-sbould be beaten al rbut
ed in the election which has just term mated
We relied great deal upon the sober iec2nd
thought of the people Of that State. We fought
Legislature, and in the extraordinary oceed-
ings of that body, enough to produce a,tevolu-
ton, whenever the people had an OPPORTUNITY
to decree it. We were right in our con- ausion.
Republicanism with its acts Of treason against
the Union, and Abolitionism, as it statsls rep
resented in the Senate by Sumner and Wilson,
had been secuted ont of Boston and out of, the
State. We could not hope that this wCAld be
done by the Wing party, although the pyesenta-
ton of full ticket, and the rallying of tjhoate,
Winthrop, billiard, and Chandler, ans, many
more such men, to the rescue, contributed
greatly to the result All we desired--all that
we could ask, under the Observation-Disclosures
the defeat of Abolitionism; 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 il victori-
Gus, so that Abolitionism is vanquis1ed, aud
there is prospect of getting rid of Slavery as
political question forever. We thank the
people Of Massachusetts for having done the
work so thoroughly and promptly, and rejoice
in the belief that it will have its effect apoI the
delegation in Congress from that State,'