Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-02-01
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FEBRUARY 1. 1855.
The New Senator.

The New Senator.
On Wednesday the Senate elected Hon.
Henry Wilson to a seat in the q. S. Senate
: BY majority of one vote, and thus by the
concurrent action of both houses, the vacan-
CIV which existed in the Massachusetts, dele
CATION in that august body is filed. We lave
taken no active part in the canvass but we
have not been uninterested spectators to the
struggle between the friends of Gen. Wilson
on the one side and his bunker opponents on
the other, and the result has confirmed our
opinion, formed at the commencement of the
session, that Hon. Henry Wilson would re-
ceive this high honor al the hands of the pres
ent Legislatures. His capacity for fulfilling
the duties of the office was so UNNECESSARILY
superior to that of any of the candidates of
the opposition and his hold upon the popular
regard, especially among the members ofthe
new order, was such that we never consider
ed his chance of an election at all doubtful, ex-
cept during few days, when we had some
reason to suppose that Mr.. Banks's friends
meant to press his claims as a candidate for
the Office. He was the only man from whom
we supposed Gen. Wilson's friends had any
thing to fear.
Within a twelve month, through the opera.
ton of various causes, a change has come over
the popular mind of the State The Burns
outrage i'll Boston cured may decent Union
savers of that distemper and the reaction of
that triumph of hunkerism whereby the
amended constitution was defeated by all al
lance between cotton Whiggery and the papal
priests has had its perfect work, through
out the State and this is one of its results.
When the amended constitution was re-
jected by means of the coalition we have al
luded to, and the ancient regime of Wing
gerry was established, with Gov. Washburn
at its head, there were those in this com
munity who thought that the divine right of
hunk erd ON to rule Massachusetts was fixed
for least quarter of century, and there
was more than one editorial written to insult
the candidate of the Free Democracy in his
defeat, the burden of which was this, "cob-
bier stick to your last" But-now all this is
changed. The vanquished candidate of the
Free Soil party, is elevated to position to
which at that time he did not aspire, and by
the votes of the very men who were his most
bitter opponents. And the party, then so jubi-
liant over its temporary success, has ceased to
be power in the State Massachusetts has
now to represent her in the highest branch of
the National councils, two men who were
Free Sellers from the start" Mr.. Summers
reputation as an uncompromising opponent of
the slavery propagandists is fully established,
and Mr.. Wilson's antecedents furnish good
grounds for us to hope that he also will lie
true to the great principles of civil liberty
which the people of Massachusetts cherish as
above all price.
Whatever occasion Mr.. Wilson may have
given for the censures he has recently received
from his former friends, and constant oppo-
nents, by reason of his connection with two
political parties of antagonistic views. at the
same time, we hope that, in his new position,
he will ever bear in.mind the vows that he has
made at the shrine Of Freedom, and that his
future course will so cement him to the liber-
ty loving people of the State, that none will
ever have occasion to regret the choice which
their representatives have made, in sending
him to the Senate of the United States.