Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-26

II il not strange that the secret order at the
south is making the most it out of the refusal
of Gov Gardner to comply with the portion OF
the abolition fanatics who demanded the removal
of Judge Loring. Let il be remembered, how
ever that the most prominent of the abolition
leaders-leaders whose words are law with free
solers-who are ready to go all lengths in sec
tional crusade-such as h. III. Dana and Banks
such presses as the New York Evening Posi- and
the Boston .4ftas-were strongly opposed TO the
removal Of Judge LoriDg. This act, however
praseworthy in itself, therefore, is hardly test
whatever of Governor Gardeners natonalism;
Let other public acts be looked at. when
Gov. Gardner was put in nomination by the
secret order, Judge Allen, of Worchester, IN
speech designed to detach from him abolition
votes and thus defeat his election charged as
follows:
stHe has indicated by speech and vote the
fugitive slave law, and gone as far as any man IN
the commonwealth in support of the compro-
misses" @
Mr.. Gardner, in letter dated Boston, Oct. 30,
1854. and addressed to .Hon. Charles Allen,
vindicates himself from the charges made in Mr..
Allen = speech. He denies them in general and
denies them in particular. Here is sentence:
an is NOT true that am, or hare been, IN fd-
nor Of the fugitive siape bill. nerer rofed for a
man rho favored IT, kno,oing such TO be his rie'cs,
and must rery much change before erer do. \
ntper BY tcord act rote, farored its passage, AND
AM AN ADVOCATE ESSENTIAL MoDIFIcA-
TIoN, or IN LIEU THEREOF IT'S UNCONDl-
TIONAL REPEAL Returning from Canada
last June, read in the cars that there was a
petition for its repeal at the Exchange Mems Room,
and on p,u u,rraf before going TO my place Of
business, 4 fastened 10 the Erchangc and signed the
petition"
Mr.. Gardner goes on infinitely TO defend him
self from the charge of "bei~g .Nsbraska man -
and states how, at a meeting of the wing com
mittee, he made speech and offered resolution
TO the effect, "THAT THE WING ORGANIZATIONS
SHOULD CALL CONVENTION OF THE OPPONENTS
OF THE NEBRASKA BILL, WITHOUT DISTINCTION
or parry. TO NOMINATE FUSION CANDI-
DATES FOR STATE OFFICERS, as ,cas done
in Ohio Vermont, and other states"
Such in October, 1854, was the political status
of the man now held up before the people as an
embodiment of Know nothing nationality Such
were the declarations which IL were absolutely
necessary to make, in order TO take the abolition
vote. Nobody denies that they accomplished
their purpose The abolitionists voted with a
rush for Mr. Gardner; and he led into being the
most thoroughly abolition legislature ever con-
vened in this commonwealth.
From the candidate we pass TO the officer
from the man to the governor. His inaugural
address WINS so completely abolition to raise
peans in the freesoil camp. He again and again
denounced the repeal ofthe Missouri compromise
and he declared that, by every sacred and holy
duty, the country should "MANFULLY DE
MkND THE RESTORATION OF THE
BROKEN COMPACT" He told the Legislature
that "rHE orr-REPEArED CRIT OF DIsUNIoN HER
AIDS NO REAL DANGER TO THEIR EARS; and M
submitted "wHETHER ADDITIONAL LEGISLATION
rs REQUIRED" TO SECURE THE HABEAs CORPUS
AND THE TRIAL By JURY.