The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-11-19
From the Penn wanna,
NEW ENGLAND AND THE PREsIDEsoT l,''''


NEW ENGLAND AND THE PRESIDENCY.
In the absence OF all other sources Of consolation N
black republicans revert with glowing pride to tbs pnar
nous vote Of New England for Fremont Looking Gll.
history Of the past we are inclined TO consider the uns
nous opposition Of that gon Of country 10 Mr. Buchsn
ans election happy omen Of successful and brIsD,
administration because two of the greatest and best Pp
dents the Union has had elected under sim,
circumstances.
In 1895, when Jefferson and Adams rival capa.
dates for the presidency the latter received the unanm
electoral vote of New England, and in 1900 the entr
electoral vote OF New England cast against Thorn,
jefferson. All Of New England except Vermont vots
against James Madison in 1912 well as In lsle IN
whole of the electoral vote Of New England ags
thrown AGAINST Andrew jackson In 1924 and when BE- VIZ
first elected in 1928 1t against the united oppos
Of New England with the exception OF one OF the nine s
toral votes of Maine At his second election in 1882
New England, except Maine and New Hampshire vosj
against hins.
Twice did New England record unanimous vote against
Thomas Jefferson and twice unanimous vote against An
drew jackson, with the exception stated above She has
now done the same with James Buchanan 1t is common
thing with the black republicans of this to point
Thomas Jefferson as an endorser Of their creed which
an act of characteristic audacity their part because
was most clearly and unequiyocally committed against
and If nythng wanting TO establish the absurd
their assertion the very fact that the New England
now strongly welded TO blackrepubcanism in 1890
bitterly opposed to Thomas Jefferson, would go far sup
ply it, The used against Mr. Jefferson then
were brought into requisiton against Mr. Buchanan ia
1856 Clergymen turned their sacred desks into potie
rostrums and vomted forth bechng game of calumny
and Misrepresentation UNANIMOUSLY false, and mingled viii
il torrent of imprecaton of the most basphemonS chan
acter The same of weapons of abuse and asehoo
were again in 1924 and 1923, brought into requisio
against Gen. jackson, with similar result The mass oil
the clergy of New England could not have bitterly
fought against Satan himself had he been presdendA
candidate in ls0o 1928 and 1885, than they warred ag
Jefferson Jackson, and Buchanan.
Retracinp the administration of the government of The
country from 1901 to ls0s under Jefferson, and from 1891
to 1897 under Jackson who would wipe out the gorous
record those great patriots have left upon the archives
the nation and who will not rejoice that the unanmOu
opposition of New England to their election ine
| fectual
With all the boosted intelligence of that section of M
country with all her alleged superiority over other p
tons of the Union man who ID not dolt can fail To-
perceive that her political action upon great national D.
sues as illustrated by the unerring tests of time and er
rence has exhibited folly and error than that Of
other section of the Union. As whole she is destitute
either of patriotism or of judgment-perhaps Of both
and the history of this country clearly proves this as
ton She has done in politics. those things she ought not
to have done and she has left undone those things She
should have done. She gave us, by unanimous vote
John Adams and John @ Adams as Presidents-both men
of great intellect and both who had rendered impo
taut services the country yet their administrations
most uneouivocally condemned by the American people
and few whatever their predictions, will, at this day
compare them avorably with the administrations of those
whom she unanimously opposed. BY an act of similar
suicidal folly in 1866, she has unanimously voted for
sectional presidential candidate whose star was in the
cendant only in those regions Of the Union where New
England had lett her ootprnts and whose success would
in all probability have been in its ultimate consequence
deeper blow to her welfare and prosperity than to Gy
other portion of the oonfederacy.
In these remarks we aude merely to the dominant 20
ltcal tone of New England-not to all her people be-
cause we recognise in that portion Of her democracy and
in her conservative citizens of other parties who have
sernly set their faces against the surgng tides Of fsns
cal fury which have ragged around them Of the no
blest patriots and best men OF the republic. But let M
infamous organs and orators of sectional crusade wb
taunt Pennsylvan with stupidity and ignorance and
proudly arrogate to themselves supreme intelligence turn
to the record of the past compare her political action with
that of New England from the foundation of the govern
ment to the present time and then tell whether the
diets of Pennsylvania have not been infinitely ad-
vantageous to the welfare Of the nation than those Of Their
Iibellers Had the voice Of New England prevailed upon
the political issues which have divided this country hi
brightest pages Of American history would have Remained
unwrtten the proudet existing monuments Of our pro
gress and greatness would have been unbu and the poo
paluy petty America which New England policy wOut
have made the Union would be but derisive, mise
BILE dwarfsh piamy, compared with the great the pre-
porous the giant republic which every American he'
now contemplate with pride. And, however happily
Pennsylvania triumphs New England policy have re
suited hitherto her victory Of 1856 win be as bsnefo
! in It's results any of its predecessors.