Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-02-07
FURTHER TRIUMpHs OF ABoLrTIoNIsM.


Henry Wilson, Freesoiler and Abolitionist, has
b elected by the Know Nothing Legislature of
Massachusetts, to the Senate of the United States
The Washington Union thus states who he is:
"The "know- nothing" senate of Massachusetts
have at last confirmed the action of the house by the
election of Henry Wilson TO be United States senator
in place of Hon. EdTa Everett. MIR. Wilson first
appeared in political life as whig member Of the
general court of Massachusetts from the ofNa-
tick, III that State and by the fact of being shoe
maker by profession and education derived the So
briquet of g the Natick cobbler" At the presiden-
tal election of $40 he advocate of Gen. Har
rison and travelled about the country in logcabn,
sitting the window door in conspicuous To-
calty, exercising his craft by lending boots
pairing shoes. When the vehicle stopped in villages
and amid gatherings of the people, he was accustom-
ed to mount the top of the ogcabin and address the
crowd for Tip and Ty." At the wing convention
just preceding the election of 1S44 Mr.. Wilson
an advocate of the nomination of Daniel Webster,
upon the sole ground that in his belief the great
statesman was the author and defender of the Will
mot ProvSo; but when Mr.. Clay nominated
he left the wing organization and allied himself with
the ree-Soll faction of his native State, with which
he has consistently and persstenty acted till this
day. Hehas for the last few years co-operated with
Wendell Phillips and Theodore Parker, and has adj
dressed public meetings company with them,
and applauded their wicked doctrines"
The Boston Post says of him:
" The letters published yesterday between Mr..
Hall and Mr.. Wilson, are the most adroit specimens
while. In his letter. the senatorial candidate takes
back nothing of the past; alters not iota his po
sition but leaves all his abol ion vows strong
and as binding ever and ifhe goes to the senate,
he will go there ready to fulfil all his former pledges
Indeed he regards the know nothing movement
suspicious to the friends of freedom, namely, the
ti-savery cause
1t is said that the senate will undoubtedly concur
in this choice of General Wilson, Then Massachu-
sets will be before the nation in almost thorough
ly sectional attitude it is possible for her to be,
unless she should in future array herself in rebel
lion against the government. Such a position is
deeply to be lamented by every friend to the const
tuition and every supporter of the Union. In the
next congress her delegation, iii both branches, will
be nearly unanimously FREEsOH. Not therefore to
her counsels-nor to her innuence-will it be owing
that peace viii continue to prevail throughout our
country Should this action be initiated in other
States, there is nothing certain than that
land will be plunged into the deepest and most d.
plorable agitation. For such measures the free
soilers ready for-so unconstitutional are they
could not be triumphant in congress without open
resistance being made to them by half the States
of this Union"
The Boston Mail says his election is the &c disgrace
full act Of sending to the United States Senatea shall
Drained illiterate brazen-faced temperance hum
bug and fanatical disunionist, to occupy the seat
heretofore filled by Webster and an Everett; the
Boston Courier says Mr.. Wilson 90 does not renounce
one ota of the ultra abolition principles which he
has been maintaining throughout his political ca
recr''; the Richmond Enquirer says:
"This man Wilson has been conspicuous even a.
mong the Palfreys Parkers and Phillips's of Massa
chusetts, in the crusade of abolition. OF low asso
Cations vulgar instincts and violent temper, his hos
ty to Southern interests is characterized by all the
bitterness and ferocity of personal hate There is
guarantee of slavery that he respects, compact
of the Constitution that he regards, of vio-
lent aggression upon the rights of the South that he
does not encourage. His opposition to slavery is
ofk
fierce fiery and frantic passion of the heart. He is
an dgltdtOT-a restless, active untning fanatic. In
letter written the of his election, he renews
his pledge to abolition, and reveals the secret impulse
of Know othingism in these remarkable words:
"Concurring entirely with you in the opinion
that the highest interests Of freedom identified
acith the supremacy Of the ideas chich undertie this
popular increment, shall cheerfuy labor in public
or in private life for their advancement In so do
ing, shall only be acting in accordance with the
sentiments | have long observation-disclosures
which have been deepcned and strengthened by re-
cent events in our own and other States"
This is one leading triumph of Abolitionism-the
next, and still more dangerous and imposing one is
the nomination of Mr. Seward for reelection by the
Know Nothing Legislature of New York. We shall
know, in day SO, the result of this nomination ;
| but Judging from all we gather from the New
York papers, Stewards reelection is quite certain.
The most noted Abolitionists of the Free States
ter-such as Johnston Pollock and Stevens of Penn
sylvania; Corwin and Ewing of Ohio; Fogg and
Hale of New Hampshirc Gillette and Truman Smith
of Connecticut.
These then, are the fruits thus far ofKnow-Noth-
ngisn- 1t was todestroy, told, the ant-sia-
very sprit-to crush out agitation give the country
repose, and thus preserve the Union. Behold the
result Old party hacks, we were also told, were
to have controlling voice in their councils; but
where can more depraved party hacks be found than
the above referred to
| We have solemny warned our readers against
this secret and dangerous organization We cannot
be mistaken in the view have taken of it all the
material facts and revelations point one way and ii
| is our duty as Southern men, as the advocates OF
the repose of the Union, defenders of the institu
ton of slavery to set faces like nts against the
| further progress Of this order in our midst
My CoURTsHIP AND CoNsEoUENcEs.-Mr Pome-
roy has laid upon table new book of the above
title, handsomely gotten up and containing over SOC
pages. 1t is written by Henry Wicoff, and he and
Miss Gamble, his "lady-love," arc the principal per
! sonages. A more ridiculous book we have not met
with in many day. Each of the parties is repre-
sented to be about forty years old-an age at which
| they ought to have had modicum ofeommon sense
but Of which they totally destitute The here
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