The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-11-15
-, MASS, Noo. 5, 1855.
To the Editor ofthe National Era:

! MASS, MOO. D, 1000.
To the Editor ofthe National Era:
Your leader, entitled " Sectionalism> and Re
pubhcanism," is a seasonable and truthful arti
Gle, to be, trust permanent document, and
circulated with your Facts for the People II
is worthy of the special attention of the Hon
u. ID. Barnard, to whose unjust charges against
| the Republican party it has direct reference
and to those other Straight-out Wings" who
like him, are coiling themselves for some sud
den leap, probably into the embrace Of the
bunker Democracy. Such men are too emf
nent In talent and position to withdraw from
the arena of political struggle, or to remain a
fragment OF a once powerful party. In more
than one sense, they must aspire to be national
and where can they now go, with their Hun
kerish attachments, to find more sympathy and
better chances for promotion, than to tn, party
claiming to be the disciples of Jefferson, while
they abandon and war against his doc rines
The whole past policy Of the so-called citation
al Wings is comprehended in one sho sen.
, tence, in your leader of the first of Move aber
They would oppose the aggressions of I. avery
aohen attempted, and acquiesce in them aohen
committed" They did not wish to be ishon-
est, only their opposition was for show, 6 i'd not
for use.
You remark, truly, that the Slave Power
fenced by defeat" But will honest WIFI 8, who
are sincere friends of Freedom, forgive lie pol
icy by which they have been cheated, aid will
they now be misled by the sophistries of D. d.
Barnard and Washington Hunt, who / tigma.
TIE the Republicans as Sectionalsts ala Dis
unionists? Will they be captivated ard con-
founded by the pyrotechnic eloquence o. Rufus
Choate, who, in his speech to "ten thousand
Wings in council in Faneuil Hail." (hov MANY
short of that number were assembled, ard what
proportion were lookers-on, we are not told. !
resorted to rhetoric when he could command
no aid from logic, and substituted splendid dec
lamation for truth and argument? Alas, for
this lofty genius this man so capable of the
higher reason! He decked himself with gar.
lands of flowers, to become holocaust to the
Moloch of Hunkersm.
beg to refer to only one more of tbs many
good articles in that number Of the Efa-the
one entitled "Invidious." / am glad that you
openly counsel the Republican party to Sc true
to civil and religious liberty, the uni Ampro-
missing champion of human rights, witt sut re-
gard to race or religion" The Free d, nocra-
cy, in 1852, was the only party that shov I'D spe-
cial favor to foreigners in its PLATFORM The
| foreign Catholic vote was then given principal
ly against Freedom, and may be in 1856 "Be
Just, and fear not" should be our motto, though
the foreign vote should 60 to support AZ ,errican
despotism and corruption.
The elections in Massachusetts ara New
York come off tomorrow. If Freedom shall
triumph, we will rejoice and give thanks If ad-
verse influences shall disappoint our axpecta-
tons, We will not despair.
"Truth crushed to earth shall rise agair2
The eternal years of God are hers"
Let me cheer you in your labors ans trials,
onH hn tlot II
truly, yours, VT