The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-04
From the New York Evening Post.
THE RAKE'S PROGRESS.

The Boston Post, the special organ of the
President in New England, has assailed the
proceedings of the late Massachusetts Republi-
can Convention with great bitterness Ii pro-
nounces Mr. ROckwcll's "a sectional nomina-
tion," his party ga sectional party" and its
platform more aggressive than any platform
yet erected" &c.
In reply to these assaults, the Boston Atlas
INDUCES III some "reminiscences, which we
quote for the purpose of showing how soon
prominent politicians may be demoralized and
rendered shameless by Executive patronage
and how important it is To the great interests
of Freedom, that the executive power Of this ma
ton should never again be placed in the hands
of Slavery propagandist.
But six short years ago, Mcssrs. Greene and
Hallett, the editors Of the Boston Post, could
lind TO language strong enough to express
their adherence of Slavery since then, they
have shared the Executives favor so literally,
that they are now ready to insert Slavery in
the place Of Freedom, into every sentence they
ever uttered where that word occurs. The At
las says:
If our memory serves us Alright, not more
than six years ago, an unusually large Dem
ocratic Convention assembled in Springfield
Hon. Benjamin f. IIaliett and the senior editor
of the Post, Col. Charles g. Greene, were among
tleman offered, and is presumed to have been
author OF, series of resolutions, which, in a
convention numbering seven hundred, were
unanimously adopted, as the voice of the De-
mocracy of Massachusetts They are therefore
upon the record, endorsed at least by the silent
acquleScence the actual assent of the re-
sponsibe editor of the Post. The first resolu-
ton reads as follows
"' ResOlred, That we &C.. G.. Greene, b. F.
Hallett, &c., are opposed to Siare,y IN eceyy
.form and cotOr, dHd in Jdcor Of Freedom and
slls~ FREE SOIL, -g1a ,chcrereT man HUes,
throughout COILS heyitoge!'
"1he terribly sectional and aggressive resou-
tons Of 1855 expressly declare that they have
no business or intention to NEEDLE with Slavery
AS State institution; but the Hallett and
Greene resolutions of 1919 would have free
soil wherever man lives, throughout Gods heri-
tage,' of course including South Carolina and
all the other sauctuaries of the peculiar in
stitution'
"The second resolution reads as follows:
60 ReSOtced, That by common law and COM
mon sense, as well as by the decisions Of the
Supreme Court of the United States, tin Prigg
dgt. Pennsylvania, 10 Peters,) 'He state of
SdceTy IS q mere municipal regulation, founded
upon and limited TO the rcryc of tie teyTitoTiGL
tar; that is, the limits of the State creating it,
Perhaps the next time the Post undertakes
to eXpound constitutional law, as laid down by
Judge Kane, it will take the above resolution,
adopted as sound by its senior editor as its text,
10 confirm the right of the South to force its
sectional institutions upon sovereign States,
which exclude them from their borders.
"The third resolution IS a natural sequitur
to the above, and is as follows;
80 ResolUcd, therefore, That Slavery does
not exist by any municipal law in the new Ter
ritories, and Congress has no power to institute
it, the local laws of any State authorizing Sla-
very can never be transported there, nor can
Slavery exist there but by local law of the
Territories, sanctioned by Congress-, or the leg
islatve act OF State in it's sovereign capacity
1.-The fourth resolution, If we are any Judge
of English language, or the significance of Eug-
lish words, goes quite as far as the platform
adopted by the Convention of Thursday. Yet
it is the recorded sentiments of Hallett and
Greene, as well as Of the whole Massachusetts,
Democracy, six years ago. Here it is:
go Resoiced, That we (NIessrs. Greene and
Hallett aforesaid) are opposed TO the ertensiO1i
Of Sldrery 10 free Territories, and an ,fdror Of
the exercise Of ALL CONSTITUTIONAL AND NEcEs,