The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-12-16
From The Boston Pos,
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.


srnrise Modification and even Indignation are freely
EXPRESSED here BY hs friends Of Mr. Banks at the turn
,hnys are taking ia Congress on the speakershlp In
thr oninou II ever politician earned place, be has earned
m snkers chair and his services ought 10 have prompt
~ placed him in IL The feeling is growing TOO mat y
Messs Sumner and Wilson, to say nothing Of others ma
sisharged 1.-THE Of the debt OF gratitude they owe g Mr.
banks he would have occupied with bis accustomed grace
the high position aad be packing up bis sixteen dol
lars a day. -.
well NAV Mr. Dankss friends remember the obligations
~ the Massachusetts, senators the eloquent champion OF
the coaionl How could Wilson IA 1851 have gone up 70
the presidency of the Massachusetts Senate and Sumner
have gone TO the United States Senate, Banks had rot
rged Il might and main? Are these the to be cold
indifferent or inefficient now2 The eyes OF Mr. Bdnkss
friends here are turned these senator's to Say nothing Of
h other ree-so representatives in Congress and expect
N see Them crown their labors with success
They look also his efforts in the freesol cause Did
he NOT stand up square Congress against the Nebraska
hin? Did he not follow mp the matter at homer Has he
not struck blows for freedom Has he not lately been IN
fusion meetings led in the OF the republican hosts,
ana been acknowledged true aud faithful worker
onst the ageressons OF the slave power2 Could any
body do taller business in this line than he has done
Ought not this consideration, they ask, secure the free
soil support?
They next put in the know-nothing claim. Who has
dome more work for this than E-s Mr. Banks! Do
be not take The oaths2 Did not the order find IN hin
pyt6er on the floor OF Congress2 Who better than he,
they saw portrayed 10 whole country the enormous
danger 10 it Of the papacy Who better than he defend
ed the wisdom and rights Of the builders OF that secret;
subterranean alow-browed cayernous avenue his own
words-through which in three mouths eighty thou
sand men went to vote for Gardner? Has any speech
ceeded this speech? Was ii not perfect rouser Did
not the secret councils hail it with glory shout? Did II
not make it their secrecy hgh-toned repuh-
licausn2 Ought such able and extraordinary ser
vice to secure the know-nothiugs2
Once more Mr. Bankss friends say, take the two ele-
ents of know -nohpgsm and sectionalism and who
persony them better Can anybody put foot further
into sectionasm than Mr.. Banks has put his from the
time Of his first pronunciamiento against the black
hearse" down to the crowning glory Of the let the
Union slide Maine speech? Can know-nohingism 60
deeper than TO defend the policy of secrecy Of political
ton Is all this TO be like split upon he sand II
such fidelity to party and principle does not command
success in the of all that constitutes fidelity, wha
will
We repeat, Mr.. Bankss friends do not hesitate to ex
press their feelings. They deeply and justly moved
They say that he has done all that ought in con
science to be asked to do; and great is their modification
and poignant is their grief his non-eecton What way
they will take to manifest their feelings time only car
show. They are unanimous in the opinion that some
thing must DO done, that abolitionsm now-nohing
ism must arise and protect their children they will be
lost forever