The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-02-09

The election Of Henry Wilson Senator by the
House Of Representatives may create great as
tenshment, but II ought 10 create no surprise
Ii is an event which has been predicted from the
known predominance OF freesoilism in the lodges
OF this State. 1t was this predominance which
compelled the know-nolhing gubernatorial candi.
date TO write his freesof anti fugitive slave law
letter, and that required of him so much !reesoil-
ism in his inaugural, and it is this element that
now ands the election Of the foremost free.
soiler and auti. Nebraska man 10 the State 10 the
great post Of senator. Freesoilism worked hard
TO get control of the lodges, and it works adroly
in laying hold OF the substantial reward.
Thousands, we have reason TO believe, joined
the order, and worked with it, in the tacit under
standing that the old slavery question was to be
put away, and that the order was to be national
Institution. How much does this election look
like nationality Can there be picked out IN the
whole commonwealth person who has spoken
and written and managed more downright free.
soiIism than Henry Wilson Can there be found
more decided opponent Of the compromise mea-
sures Of 1850? Can there be found politician
who will go further than he will 60 in pushing on
the antl-s!avery cause, and who is more strongy
pledged to this coursef
What, however, has this well known fact avail.
ed 10 check the purposes Of the dominant MAORI
ty in The lodges? This majority deadly hos
is to repeal them, at whatever cost, and no man
who was not with them at heart, no man who they
could not explicitly trust, could have been elected
by The House. The deceived portion of the order
may cry out with astonishne nt-''This Is not the
entertainment TO which we were invIted"-but it
will do no good, They have parted with their
notes. and this is their satisfaction.
The letters published yesterday between Mes
srs. Hall and Wilson, are the most adroit specimens
Of political correspondence we have seen for a
long time. In his letter the senatorial candidate
takes back nothing OF the past, alters not an lOta
his position, but leaves all his abolition vows as
strong and as binding as ever, and if he goes TO
the Senate, he will GO there ready TO fulfil all his
former pledges. Indeed he regards the Know
nothing movement as suspicious TO the friends O!
freedom, namely, the ant-slayery cause.
1t is said that the Senate will undoubtedly con ,
cur in this choice of Gen. Wilson. Then Massa
chusetts will be before the nation in almost
thoroughly sectional attitude as it is possible for
her to be, unless she should in future array her.
self in rebellion against the government. Such
position is to be deeply amented by every friend
TO The constitution and every supporter of the
Union. In the next Congress her delegation in
both branches will be nearly unanimously freeso.
Not therefore to her counsels-not to her nfu
ence-wiIl it be owing that peace will continue TO
prevail throughout our country. Should this ac
ton be inflated in other States, there is nothing
more certain than that our land will be plunged
into the deepest and most deplorabIe agtation.-
For such measures as the freesoilers ready
for-so unconstitutional are they-couId not be
triumphant in Congress without open resistance
being made to them by one half the States Of this
Naturalization Posi-.